Pisaq is located about 33 km. toward the northwest of Cusco at both sides of the Wilkamayu river, about its name we just have some theories, the first is that maybe it comes from a quechua name “P’isaqa” that is the name of a kind of partridge, (Nothoprocta ornata) that in ancient times lived along this area, also according to some scholars they mention that this complex had the shape of this bird, the second mentions that it comes from Cristobal Pisaq, who was the representative of this area when arrived to Cusco the vice-king Francisco de Toledo and helped him (Toledo) to make the documentation that ordered the vice-king.
At bottom of the mountain there is a town called also as Pisaq, where every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday is carried out on its main square a typical handicraft market where inhabitants sell some souvenirs for tourists, but is recommendable to visit this market on Sunday because this day in the morning come to the town all the VARAYOCs (majors of Andean villages) they go to the church where the priest do mass in quechua language, after the mass all the varayocs go to the plaza meet the authorities and drink chicha (corn beer), at the afternoon all the varayocs return to their own villages in the andes.
To get the archeological complex you can take a taxi from the corner next to the bridge in a colectivo service or in a private one, or you can go walking too, also you can rent a car to do the sacred valley tour, the driver will take you until the higher sector called as Q’antu Raqay, and from this place you can start your tour with or without a tour guide (recommendable a tour guide) after you will visit the big Inka’s cemetery from all the Tawantinsuyo, and near this is the Q’alla Q’asa sector, walking some meters you will pass by a tunnel and by a pukara that protected the main sector and from this place you have a good view of the P’isaqa sector which is the lowest, still walking and visit the most important and sacred sector, the Intiwatana, where there is the finest stonework of all Pisaq.
At bottom of the mountain there is a town called also as Pisaq, where every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday is carried out on its main square a typical handicraft market where inhabitants sell some souvenirs for tourists, but is recommendable to visit this market on Sunday because this day in the morning come to the town all the VARAYOCs (majors of Andean villages) they go to the church where the priest do mass in quechua language, after the mass all the varayocs go to the plaza meet the authorities and drink chicha (corn beer), at the afternoon all the varayocs return to their own villages in the andes.
To get the archeological complex you can take a taxi from the corner next to the bridge in a colectivo service or in a private one, or you can go walking too, also you can rent a car to do the sacred valley tour, the driver will take you until the higher sector called as Q’antu Raqay, and from this place you can start your tour with or without a tour guide (recommendable a tour guide) after you will visit the big Inka’s cemetery from all the Tawantinsuyo, and near this is the Q’alla Q’asa sector, walking some meters you will pass by a tunnel and by a pukara that protected the main sector and from this place you have a good view of the P’isaqa sector which is the lowest, still walking and visit the most important and sacred sector, the Intiwatana, where there is the finest stonework of all Pisaq.
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