The Incan Fortress at Ollantaytambo

Today I was blown away. The impact of seeing the enormous fortress at Ollantaytambo can be conveyed with neither words nor pictures. Its size is staggering. Its presence overpowering. It easily vanquished my cyninism regarding Incan ruins.

Having stood before it and within it, it isn't difficult to imagine that this would be one of the few places that the Incans would emerge victorious over the Conquistadors. Repelling them with a barrage of arrows, spears, and boulders. And a well timed flood to reduce the maneuverability of their horses.

Of course, since Suramérica isn't a collection of countries all speaking Quechua, it can be deduced that the Conquistadors returned, historians claim with a force four times greater than the first time, and won, forcing the Incan army to retreat further into the mountains.

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Photographic evidence is on facebook in the folder entitled The Incan Fortress at Ollantaytambo.