SPECIAL ROUTES THROUGH SURROUNDINGS OF CUSCO CITY

We offer many routes through the WACAS (Were natural features of the land such as springs, rock outcrops, caves and lakes; others were constructed sites such as houses, walls and water channels which were associated with events in Inca mithology). Inca Cusco encompassed one of the most extensive and complex ritual systems history has seen. Known as the CEQUE SYSTEM,

its center was the Qorikancha, the hub from which 42 lines, or CEQUES, radiated like the spokes of a wheel, Stretched along these lines lay at least 328 WACAS, the shrines of Cusco s sacred landscape. Many schollars mention the similarity between the ceque system with a quipu. The quipu was a knotted-string recording device used for counting, based in a decimal system.

"...Breathtaking views at altitude makes Cusco and its surroundings a truly unique experience��.unlike any other

ONE DAY OF OUTING: TOWARD PUMAMARCA:The past june our first tourists a friendly coupled: DI & DEBBIE from England visited the untouristic inca shrine of Pumamarca (the place of the called andean lion-puma), they could feel themself as explorers and discoveres inside the abandon half house and inca settlenment, trying to figure out the symbolism and purposes of this unvisited waca. Here some conmentaries of Di:"...

"...Part of a farmer's adobe. One is free to walk wherever one chooses! This is true exploration..... we discovered the magic of the sacred site of Pumamarca as well as many of the Incan shrines in Cusco in true explorer fashion. Eat your heart out Indiana Jones!!'

Most of our information on the ceques comes from a Jesuit priest, Bernabe Cobo, wrinting in 1654, more than one hundred years after the conquest. The record is incomplete, and it is difficult today to understand the full scope of the ceque system and what it meant to the Incas. But, in tipical fashion, it seems to have functioned simultaneously on multiple levels, ranging from mundane matters

such as marking boundaries between local ayllus (families) and the organization of of the irrigation system, to keeping the ritual calendar and making celestial observations. Several of the shrines marked locations on the horizon where the sun would rise or set on important ritual days, such as the june and december solstices.. BOOK YOUR TOURS RIGHT NOW!