The transit app Moovit gave us some very good info on how to catch the Los Leones public bus from near our apartment all the way to the plaza in Tipon, thus negating the need to hire a taxi from the main road to Tipon.
From the Tipon Plaza we walked up the paved road towards the site, then headed up the newly renovated and not officially open (it turns out) trail up to the site. Steep.
Great views down to Tipon.
Whoops. We've made it all the way up to the site so there's no option but to step over the orange net. ;-)
Tipon is a very large site. Lots of irrigated terraces, canals, and other waterworks.
First we followed a university group up to the Intiwatana (ritual calendar stone) and adjoining irrigation canals.
Above the Intiwatana there is an aqueduct with a small channel, and a small reservoir.
The builders of Tipon had not discovered arches so the water flows across this small ravine atop an earthen wall.
Sun-Ling atop the Intiwatana.
View back to Tipon.
Like the terraces in this photo, much of the site has not yet been excavated.
We head down the Inca road to the terraces.
Very elegant terraces with a working irrigation system fed by a 3-tiered ceremonial fountain.
2 x 15 second videos of the irrigation system at work.
The lower part of the site.
We taxied back down to the main road and caught a Urcos-bound bus 10kms west to Pikillaqta a large Huari (Wari) archaeological site was a ceremonial center laid out on a grid with an imposing perimeter wall enclosing hundreds of one and two story buildings.
Walking along an outer wall.
Ceremonial building.
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