ONE DAY TOURS - CUZCO

 

    This tour includes visits to the Sacsayhuaman Fortress, overlooking the city of Cuzco, a pre-Inca architectural masterpiece; Kenko, a rock sanctuary whose main attraction is a monolithic altar representing a puma, the red Fortress of Puca-Pucara and Tambomachay, a beautiful fountain fed by a spring forming a series of basins.

The Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman: The Incas built the huge fortress and religious site of Sacsayhuaman on a hill above Cuzco.  When the Incas built Sacsayhuaman, they shaped massive rocks with great precision.  The construction of sites like Sacsayhuaman is a remarkable achievement for a society that did not have the wheel or iron tools. In 1536, Sacsayhuaman became the scene of a bloody battle in which vastly outnumbered Spanish conquistadors defeated an Inca army and effectively crushed the Inca empire for ever.  Sacsayhuaman is still an impressive site despite widespread destruction by the European conquerors.