After leaving Pukará, we moved on to the Raqchi ruins. They were so surprisingly cool. Also, our awesome tour guide, Epi, told them that we were students here so we got into the ruins for 5 soles instead of 10 soles. SWEET.
Epi, our awesome tour guide, and one of the obnoxious Italians on our tour bus. I have never encountered grown people act like such immature children.
This adorable little girl was "reading" the newspaper (upside-down).
Then she smoothed it down on the ground and get a better look...
...And almost lost her pants!!
The Incans were brilliant. They stored grain in these big circular buildings and had really neat methods f preserving the grain against mildew and rot. They could keep potatoes for up to 8 years with some of their methods! They layered muña (some kind of preserving herb of sorts) in between the potatoes to keep them fresh.
Here Epi demonstrates why the Incans placed the windows precisely where they did to get maximum air flow and light at certain times of day.
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