These are restorations of the stone portions of a cylindrical houses. These would have been topped with a conical thatched roof, though less is known about the details (e.g. pitch) of such roofs because the thatching (obviously) didn’t survive as well as the stone bases. These were located at an archeological site on the road between Cuzco and Puno.
Taken in the summer of 2010 from the trail to Inti Punku (The Sun Gate.)
There was a lady from Lima, Peru
who had only seen llamas at the Zoo,
and though the trend was big,
she didn’t eat guinea pig.
Such is life on a Miraflores avenue.
Taken around 2010 on the trail to Machu Picchu.
Taken near Pisaq, Peru in around 2010.
Taken in the early 2010’s in Cuzco
Taken in the summer of 2012 in Cuzco.
