Ruins around Cusco

Saturday, June 10.

During our first full day we visited four places with odd-sounding names — Tambomachay, Pukapukara, Q’enko,  and Saqsayhuaman – which after the visits became identified with different Incan purposes, designs, construction styles, and histories.  After a late lunch we then returned to our hotel for a concert by a duo of musicians using ancient and modern Andean instruments.  By late afternoon we were off in the bus again, but this time to a small, rural communities outside Cusco – Lucre – where we will spend two nights with Peruvian Mennonite families.