Ruined Weekend #3

The next thing I knew I was looking up from the dirt floor on the inside of a very strange
building, house or, as I later found out, replica of an ancient Inca home.

The sturcture's trapezoid design enabled it to withstand the many common earthquakes that occurred in the region. As you can see here, that peculiar geometric design was even carried through to the windows.


I would tell you what happened on my magical mystery tour, but I don't know.
What I did know was that the sun was out, the fog had lifted and I felt a compelling desire to inspect the strange constructions that these first masons had built 700 years ago.


While these waiting rock/bricks seemed to be arranged in a staging area of some kind, I suspect there was a deeper, more religious purpose, but really have no idea.

And you thought tight fireplaces were impressive!

On the one hand, I wish more remained to inspect; but on the other it probably would have been too much, sensory overload.

All I can say is you couldn't squeeze a slip of notebook paper it between these rocks if you tried.

In many ways, these were their stairways to heaven.

No mud, adobe, concrete, anything!

Just rocks for ages which even earthquakes couldn't make roll.

Here's the head priest's corner office without a view.

Well, there probably were views at one time, but not today.

Last and least, one of those telling height differential images to put it all in scale.

See ya later, gators...