Visit to Chinchero – same, but different

I know that it sounds like we repeat ourselves: another Sunday, another excursion, another little village, another Inca site, other impressive mountains and more stories about transport in Peru. In this occasion we visited Chinchero, a little town built over the walls of what used to be an Inca town, with a system of terrace for cultivation that extend from the village, a cute church in stone and wood and a colourful market of fruits, vegetables and various handicrafts. Told like this, it sounds identical to all other excursions, but the truth is that every trip, every town, every ruin has something special and different, but difficult to express. Letting aside the most subtle differences, Chinchero is unlike the others because its ruins extend from the town itself, without long walks in the mountains required, which was an advantage since I was recovering from a cold that had me in bed several days (oh, the weather in Cuzco!). Second, the excursion had the rare luxury of being undertaken in a car with only five people…. All advantages!