Mayas and Salt Mines

Hello hello! I am sorry I didn't update yesterday- we were busy busy busy from sun up to the end of the night. We went to a few different places with a big group from the pharmacy school and a few others. We checked out this salt "farm", where the salt isn't mined it is basically grown. There was a small natural stream which has a very high salt content that they let trickle down into 4000 different pools. The pools collect water and then they let it evaporate and viola, salt! It was more interesting than I thought it was going to be. The next place we went to was Mayas, which has more Inka ruins. The pics will show that it was a bunch of level circles that each went into the ground. Think of an upside down tiered cake. They are not positive what they were used for, but many scientists believe that the Inkas conducted experiments on growing different plants on the different tiers. Each tier has a different temperature, so they could perform many tests in many different microclimates. The Inkas were geniuses- it's sad that that are not around anymore. Well, I am sorry to say that I don't have anymore time to blog here. The bus leaves to Pisac in 30 minutes and I haven't eaten breakfast yet! Hopefully I will have more time later to put some pics up and share a little more. Adios amigos!