Waqra Pukara 2 Tage Trekk “abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade”
1. Tag: Cusco to Waiki and to Waqra Pucara
Lunchbox, Abendessen, Picknick - Lunch
2. Tag: Waqra Pucara exploration, return to Cusco
Next day we start exploring the site. In the main upper section between the ?horns? of the Inca fortress there are several buildings and temples covering a narrow platform. Double framed doorways, and even a triple framed niche, suggest important, probably very sacred shrines.
The area was most probably populated by nomadic groups hundreds or even thousands of years before the site was built, as near the trail there are cave paintings with scenes of hunting and llama herders.
On the way back to Cusco there is an interesting optional stop in Acobamba, where on the walls of a colonial chapel, used later as a mill, there are paintings representing the 14 ruling Incas according to the oral traditions, from Manco Capac to Atahuallpa, together with catholic sacred images.
An alternative, optional Inca Trail for the way back would take us straight from Waqra Pukara to the lakes area of Cuatro Lagos, and from there to Cusco, with quite a spectacular view of the lakes and the surrounding mountains.
- Frühstück, Mittagessen
