{"id":1605,"date":"2014-07-27T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2014-07-27T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:12:51","slug":"sacsayhuaman-ancient-ruins-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2014\/07\/27\/sacsayhuaman-ancient-ruins-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacsayhuaman – Ancient Ruins with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A natural Incan-made slide, and you can slide down it? Yeah, I\u2019m definitely going to do that. Saqsayhuam\u00e1n, is an Incan Archaeological site that the most famous Incan Patchaqutec built out of respect for the sun for \u201cassisting\u201d them in a battle that they won. The site overlooks the city of Cusco and you can see for miles around at the top of it.<\/p>\n

Our group went to Saqsayhuam\u00e1n on a weekend excursion. We learned a lot about the Incan\u2019s and about how they built a lot of their architecture. They had to bring the stones that they used to construct the sight from a quarry that is miles away. The stones they used weigh several tons and they really had no efficient way of getting them from point A to point B. This just goes to show what some motivated individuals can do.<\/p>\n

While we were there on the backside of the site there is a natural rock formation that over the years has eroded and smoothed down to form a slide. You can go down the slide and it is extremely fun. It had everyone in our group smiling and laughing. We had an incredible time.<\/p>\n

\"Incan<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sacsayhuaman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sacsayhuaman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CusquenianLlama\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake Triplett is a Commerical Spanish major hoping to join the ROTC program in the fall. This trip has been a great immersive experience for him and has given him a new perspective of the great country he calls home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A natural Incan-made slide, and you can slide down it? Yeah, I\u2019m definitely going to do that. Saqsayhuam\u00e1n, is an Incan Archaeological site that the most famous Incan Patchaqutec built out of respect for the sun for \u201cassisting\u201d them in a battle that they won. The site overlooks the city of Cusco and you can see for miles around at the top of it. Our group went to Saqsayhuam\u00e1n on a weekend excursion. We learned a lot about the Incan\u2019s and about how they built a lot of their architecture. They had to bring the stones that they used to … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[156,149,142],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peru","tag-peru","tag-sacsayhuaman","tag-south-america"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/files\/2014\/07\/Jake4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}