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Cusco Sacsayhuamán 05: the walls of terrace 1 - photo gallery

Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, stone of 10 ends (decagonal), panorama 01

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08, detail 04, flower design, zoom - wall with draining opening - wall with an almost triangular stone

Who did build all this? The walls are quakesafe inclined with giant stones accurate to the millimetre without mortar.

Were these the natives with wooden spoon or with little stone tools without ruler? No, these were beings from another dimension - extraterrestrials.

The wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal stone, 10 ends stone, 10 corners stone) -- A wall with "fat" bellied stones -- A wall with almost rectangular stones - and then a flower design -- Corner area with cut stones -- Another wall with almost rectangular stones -- Wall with a drainage channel -- Wall with poligonal stones -- Walking on the path passing stones -- Another inner corner area of a wall -- The wall with the almost white and almost triangular stone -- The view to the forests - and one more wall -- Wall with rectangular stones

Photo gallery by Michael Palomino (2017)

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Completely conserved walls in Sacsayhuamán: terrace 1

The wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal stone, 10 ends stone, 10 corners stone)

Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal), panorama 01

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal stone) 1+2 - zoom of the decagonal stone


Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal stone) 03


Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal), panorama 02

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the stone of 10 ends (decagonal stone) 3,4 - zoom

A wall with "fat" bellied stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with cut stones 05 (with "fat" bellied stones) - detail 01

A wall with almost rectangular stones - and then a flower design

Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with almost rectangular stones and with a flower design - panorama photo 04

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 06 - detail 02 with poligonal stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 07 - detail 03 with poligonal stones with a flower design

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08 - detail 04, flower design, zoom


Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08, detail 04, flower design, zoom 02

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08, inner corner area 01+02

    
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08, inner corner area, detail 06, zoom, detail 07

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall 08, inner corner area, detail 08 - Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, side wall, detail 09

Corner area with cut stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, corner with cut stones - Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with poligonal stones (again with 10 ends, decagonal stone), detail 10

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, cut stone 01+02 - part of a wall with poligonal stones, zoom

Another wall with almost rectangular stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with many rectangular stones - detail 11

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, poligonal stones, detail 12

Wall with a drainage channel

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with a drainage chiannel opening - zoom, detail 13

Wall with poligonal stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with poligonal stones - corner area, zoom


Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the opening of the drainage water channel, zoom

Walking on the path passing stones

Walking on terrace 1 on the path one is passing the head stones of the basic walls:

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, head stones 1,2

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, head stones 3,4,5

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, head stones 6,7

Another inner corner area of a wall

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, inner corner area 03 with poligonal stones - details 13,14

The wall with the almost white and almost triangular stone

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the wall with the white almost triangular stone - zoom, detail 15

Why this triangular stone is almost white and the others not? It seems for me just a joke of the extraterrestrials.

The view to the forests - and one more wall

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, the view to the exit (stairs downwards) and the view to the meadows, forests and to the toilet house - Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with corner areas with almost squared and rectangular stones

   
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, inner corner area with little stones - poligonal stones, detail 16 - wall with a curvy stone

Wall with rectangular stones

 
Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, terrace 1, wall with mostly rectangular stones - signpost to Muyuqmarka

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