Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Salinas with Fritz and Angela

With our Galapagos friends, Angela and Fritz (their blog is here linked) we decided to go trekking a little in the sacred valley. We rented a taxi driver for the day, who took us everywhere and waited us while we trekked.

We made the right decision!

Of course the valley is beautiful. At about 2500 meters sits this beautiful valley with lots to see and to do, and many hidden areas and beautiful views and places.


One beautiful Inca built ruins are at Moray. This is suposingly where they experimented in making different types of maize (corn). These circles are really amazing and the sound inside... we were lucky enough to hear someone play the flute at the bottom. What a sound...

Then we set out to see with the couple (pareja) the Salinas. These are Inca built pools that divert the salty river (yes salty river!) into salt. They are still worked with today using the same technique as they did 500 years ago.

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