Just a short entry as I don't have much time, but on Saturday we went to Vilcashuaman which is a small town about 3.5 hours away from Ayacucho. Its a beautiful town because its composed of Incan Ruins.
During the time when the spanish invaded Peru they destroyed most Incan ruins, as they prayed to their sun gods, which isn't what they wanted, as they wanted to spread Catholicism. So it was quite surprising that the town still has as much ruins as it does. In fact its the second biggest site of Incan Ruins, after Macchu Picchu, and the only reason Macchu Picchu is still around is due to the fact that the Spanish didn't know it was there!
So it was great and luckily our tour guide, Carlos, speaks english, because we got so much information and history about the Incan times and also about the influence the spanish have had. There is one picture i took of a catholic church that was literally built straight on top of the incan sun temple.
So in all, it was a wonderful day, very long, but fan
tastic as the Incan times are so interesting. I think the worst part was driving there, as it was long and windy around the Andean mountain ranges.
So we were very precariously driving along cliff edges. At one point we drove over a little bridge made of wooden planks laid on the ground. Very scary when you're thousands of meters high!! Some of the girls had their seatbelts on...but i thought if we fell down that cliff, there would be no hope, regardless of whether we're wearing them or not! Haha
xoxo millie
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