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Don at Qenko  
   

Don at Qenko

Quenko (which means zig-zag) is a ceremonial Inca ruin outside of Cusco. It is speculated that these channels were used for ritual sacrifices of chica (fermented corn beer) or blood. We saw pottery like this in the Inca museum in Cusco and a man told us (in Spanish - I think we understood!) that this pottery was used to drink chica and determine whether it would be a lucky or unlucky year (depending on the path that the chica followed).
Cusco and the Sacred Valley

January 13th 2006
From Lima, we flew to the city of Cusco. At 3,326 m (about 11,500 feet), it took us a couple of days to acclimate and get ready for the next phase of our trip. Mate de Coca (coca leaves) is served everywhere to help fight the symptoms of altitude sickness. Cusco (originally called ¨Cosco¨which means ¨belly-button¨in Quechua) was the center of the Inca empire. It is also apparently the cont ... read more
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Peruvian Flag Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more
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