We are walking crossing the amphitheater and the guide is showing the following places:
Again this wall is accurate to the mm, without mortar, inclined and quakesafe, and the stone below has got 13 ends.
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: excavations with Inca walls, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: excavations with Inca walls 1,2
This 13 ended stone I only saw during the photo presentation otherwise I would have taken it more times!
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: the path - groundwork - excavations with Inca walls 03
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: Inca walls
A tunnel
Now we pass a tunnel which connects the amphitheater with the area outside, this seems to be a secret entrance:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: tunnel 01 - raw wall - tunnel roof at the exit
Even more mysteries: area with niches, thrones and cuts
Now is following an area with narrow corridors and niches, thrones and cuts - this is an area without order, and all is in black and red stones:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: geometric niches and a cave, panorama - 1,2
This rock is almost completely red, and this is very rare. Vulcanologues should konw what ha shappened here.
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: cut niches in red rock - zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: red rock with rectangular cuts - zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: red rock with trapezoid cut - zoom
Large corridor with niches, thrones, stairs and columns
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: little square with melt rock in black and red - bench and steps in one block of rock
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red rock walls of the corridor with niches and thrones 01 - zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red rock walls of the corridor with niches and thrones 01- zoom 02
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red rock walls of the corridor with niches and thrones 02 - zoom
At the exit of the corridor this is the scenery of the complete view:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama 02
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama 02, zoom - rock in black and red with column, zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama 03 - zoom taken from the other side
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama 04
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama 05
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock walls of the corridor in black and red with niches and thrones 6,7,8
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: Michael Palomino greeting from a throne - the guide in his bright red clothes
Deformed cuts in the rock
And now there are more black and red rock zones, but now also with deformed gestaucht cuts as after a car accident:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red rock with deformed cut in the rock, it seems to be highly deformed
It seems that this rock has come from a certain height and has fallen to the ground and was so hot so the deformation was provoked. The same one can see on the photos below:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red rock with thrones - with deformed and melt cuts
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: black and red walls with cuts
May be this is a deformed niche.
We are walking on in the end zone of this area with black and red rock:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock, the path - traces of cuts
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock - location with cristinaline forms in black, red, and white - tunnel passage
Long perfect cuts
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with a huge cut crack - the margins of straight cuts in the crack in red and white
In this way it was in the corridor of the rock with it's stairs upside down -
chapter 9-1Now there are cuts in bow form:
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Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with cuts in bow form - and with a gemoetric cut - panorama photo This is like the bowed cuts in the big quarry of Machu Picchu. |
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with the view to another Inca wall
Unfortunately there was no time for an investigation of this big wall, somebody other can do that.
Giant rectangular cuts in black and red rock
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with giant rectangular cuts in the rock, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock: view to a giant rectangular cut in the rock, zooms 1,2,3
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock mit gigantischer, rectangular niche - big photo
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with one more throne - zoom
So, who installed these rectangular cuts in the rock? The natives with wooden spoons and with little stone tools weren't this for sure.
And why the rock is in black and red? Volcanologues should know this.
A cave with a stony table, eventually a sacrifice table, of for private festivities?
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with a stony table in the middle - zoom 01
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with a stone table in the middle - zoom 02
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock, more thrones - sitting corner carved into the rock
Passages with stairs in one piece and tunnel
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock, passway 01 with stairs in one piece - passway 02 with a tunnel
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock with a big rectangular cut - zoom
Volcanologues can inform in this case what happened in Sacsayhuamán precisely.
At the end of all this wild black and red rock area comes this view:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán: view to meadows and forests
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: panorama with meadows and forests
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: meadows and forests 1,2,3
And there is a big black and red rock in the middle of the meadow - this is the rock of stairs "Chinchana grande" which we investigated in
chapter 9-2 alreacy.
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock of stairs and thrones "Chinchana grande" in the meadow - zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more mysteries: rock of stairs and thrones "Chinchana grande" - zoom 02
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, final zone with black and red rock, the view to the exit
The exit of Sacsayhuamán upwardsNow we have reached the end of the fortress, this is the control house at the upper entrance / exit:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, the upper exit, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, the upper exit, panorama 02 with forests
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, the upper exit 1 with the control house - exit 2,3 with meadows and forest
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, even more rocks in the meadow
For an investigation of these rocks was no time left, perhaps another time.
The way back to the big zigzag wall
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, the road to the big parking - with the zigzag wall in the background
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, the view to the final part of the big zigzag wall
Peddlers at the parking with figurines and food
Now there are peddlers selling wonderful art pieces with symbols of the Inca world:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, near the big parking, bench - Cusco Sacsayhuamán, peddlers near the big parking with figurines as a memory
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, near the big parking: peddlers with figurines as memories, zoom 01 - musicians - zoom 02 with sun, moon, snake, tumi knife, Mother Earth Cross, lamas, extraterrestrials with long skull and ball eyes etc.
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, near the big parking, peddlers selling food
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, details of the big zigzag walls near the big parking
I am climbing up again to the big zigzag wall looking for stone formations in the final zone which I did not see yet - all is quakeproof, accurate to the mm, without mortar, and no stone is like another one:
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls near the exit, zoom 1,2
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, zooms 3,4,5
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, a corner zone - a stone of 8 ends at the corner zone - zoom
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, big walls, zoom 07
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, fan like stone formation 8+9, panorama
Cusco Sacsayhuamán, walls of the exit zone, fan like stone formation, zooms 8,9
