We take a taxi from Cusco to the Sunday market at Pisac, an hour drive over narrow mountain roads, with many llamas and natives to see along the way. We stop to look at the fortress of Sachuaman; at an Inca fountain still running; and to take a picture of a native child & woman weaving . The Pisac market is colorful, and we buy a cloth that is later made into a formal skirt.
(Taxis are our favorite means of sightseeing in most of South America and are quite inexpensive at the time we are there. Being able to converse with the drivers in Spanish helps; we settle on a price beforehand, and both we and the driver are satisfied it is a good bargain.)
The stones at Sachuaman are so huge it is hard to imagine how they were cut and fitted in place so precisely that a knife blade cannot be inserted in the joint. We can just hear a foreman saying “take it down again lads, it still needs an eighth of an inch off the side”! The fountain and its water channel speak well of the engineering abilities of the Incas.
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