Time for some exercise after several days of lazing in the sunshine seeing the sights of the cities. Off up to 3500m above sea level to stomp along Inca trails.
The walk started, bizarrely, from the very top of a mountain with a wander along the ridge. Superb views of the huge crater of Maragua, which is about 20 miles in circumference and has either been formed by a massive asteroid crashing into it or it used to contain a lake. After a few km we drop down to the cave paintings, firstly the carbon paintings at Incamachay then the more impresssive doodles at Pumamachay. The Pumamachay ones have been drawn onto the rock using pigments from local plants and either are showing a family with the mother giving birth to a new Inca or are some drawings of aliens that landed near here. We decend on to a dried out river bed for lunch then start back, climbing up to the starting point using the old Inca trail that went all the way from Sucre to Potosi. A well maintained track that is used to this day, indeed we even passed a Bolivian chap moving his bull from one side of the mountain to the other.
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