TIPON & PIQUILLAQTA RUINS.

 TIPON.- Tipon was a centre for the worship of water. The irrigation system was unusual in that it featured deep, vertical channels in the terrace walls. The system  was fed by a natural spring from the sacred mountain known as Pachatusan which flows to this day.

 

PIQUILLACTA.- This is a huge sprawling site, interesting because it is the only ruin of a pre-Inca city in the Cusco region. It is attributed to the Wari culture, which emerged in the central highlands near present-day Ayacucho, flourished around 1000 AD, and may ultimately have been overwhelmed by the Incas.

ANDAHUAYLILLAS.- (Optional Tour) The mayor attraction of this picturesque village is the church, which someone in a fit of hyperbole called the “Sistine Chapel of the Americas” It certainly is a splendid church, with a stunning multicolor and gold leaf ceiling, beautiful murals and some especially fine colonial paintings.