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.)
Taken in the summer of 2012 in Cuzco.
Taken on the road from Cuzco to Puno; July 2010
Taken in the Summer of 2010 at Sacsayhuaman, near Cusco
Sacsayhuaman offers some phenomenal examples of Incan masonry, which used no mortar and involved perfect joints that weren’t perfectly on the horizontal or vertical (i.e. the joints had to be matched up on planes of various angles.)
Taken in July of 2011 in Peru
Taken in 2011 on Amantani Island in Lake Titicaca
