After an early morning, as you recall the wake-up call came at 3:00 am, we headed to the Lima airport only to discover our plane was delayed by 1 hour. We fly into Cusco and immediately were given a cup of cocoa tea, which apparently helps with the altitude sickness, not a great taste; Cusco city is our highest yet at just over 11,000 ft ASL. Fortunately we just pass through and drive to Yucay, a small village in the Sacred Inca Valley. After a quick lunch we went on to Ollantaytambo and visited the ruins there. Much was destroyed after a 2 year war with the Spaniards but what we did see was a great prelude to Machu Picchu. I am going to show you several pictures the first is where the got the big boulders from, the second is the boulders they used to build their temple, the third is the unbelievable craftsmanship . They had to quarry the rocks, get them down a steep mountain, cross a valley, and up a 500 ft to the temple site, my guess 15 KLM. Seems almost impossible to me. Yes, they have moved similar sized stones with 1000 people in the village for approximately one block but still??