Ingapirca, Ecuador

Our first proper hike wat 3 days on a proper Inca trail ending at Ecuadors biggest Inca site, Ingapirca. The Incas built an extensive road system throughout their empire in order to make all the important towns accesible and to speed up communications.& ...

... opponents and the Inca were not able to conquer them.  Instead, they formed an alliance, so the settlement at Ingapirca is half Caņari, half Inca, although there are similarities between them. The ruins were much more impressive than I was ...

FROM Quenca we traveled to the nearby Inca ruin of Ingapirca, the most famous in Ecuador. The complex has a series of shallow terraces, and an impressive oval-shaped stone cut sun temple at the centre.   There is also an interesting ...

... was feeling a little better and so we decided to catch a bus out of the city to the site of Ecuador's most famous Inca ruins at Ingapirca. This is about 3 hours by bus from Cuenca. The journey took us through some beautiful countryside and when we arrived ...