Ingapirca and Parque Nacional Cajas

Parque Nacional Cajas

Another day trip I made was to Parque Nacional Cajas, which is located near Cuenca on 3100 - 4500 meters altitude. As you can get easily lost and as the weather does change quite often and suddenly, I went with an organized tour and we did two nice hikes along some lagoones and saw the different vegetation at the various levels of altitude.
I also met Neil and Coralie, a very nice French/UK couple, with whom I watched the football game between Ecuador and Uruguay the next day (unfortunately Ecuador lost...)

Ingapirca

Ingapirca is Ecuador's most important Inca ruin and was strategically placed on the Inca trail between Cuzco and Quito. Local people have used most of the original stone material of the site to build their houses and therefore not much is left of the old buildings and you can mainly see the foundations of the site.