day 2 - dead woman pass

It is high so it has an excuse to be foggy.

This is the dead woman pass, it got it's name because it looks like a dead woman (The mounty thing is her breast? A very erotic imagination.)

It's 4200m high and most people can get sick if they are not accustom to the altitude. Drinking coca tea or chewing it will help. Coca tea is not cocaine, no one get addicted to it.

Here's our guide, JL-. He's the last Inca (well, only at that particular peopleless spot of the trail).

Here is a better view of the dead woman pass.

Two dead women after passing the dead woman pass. Their spirits was carried to the upper world, Hanar Pacha, by the mosquitoes.

Runcu Raccay was also found by Bingham (the guy who found Machu Picchu). He considered it a fortress. But it was probably a tambo, a resting place for travelers. Because the view point form the building doesn't have any military advantage.

People piled up rock to pray for good luck. It was believed that in high places, people felt tired due to altitude, so they pray for god to regain their strength.

Again, Sayac Marca was also found by Bingham (surprised). It was too weak to be a fortress, it doesn't have enough farmland to be a farming post and it's too big to be a tambo so no one has any clue what this place is for. But I am sure it's a perfect place to watch the sunset (if the sun wasn't hidden by the fogs). It was getting dark, we didn't have time to explore it so we came back the next morning.