Winding back the clock the Hut of Daniel Ruzo, continues waiting for us. We must preserve it!
On the Marcahuasi plateau there are three places that the tourists prefer to camp: the Amphitheatre (the Marcahuasi Hotel), the Hut (where the difference between truth and mystery often confuses us), and much further to the south of the plateau at the Fortress, for its silence and enchantment.
The Hut, where Daniel Ruzo lived, wrote and cooked up his hypothesis about Marcahuasi. He spent many years next to the Monument to Humanity, contemplating the many faces, the shadows, and the shouts. With this sculpture he made this place known throughout Peru and the rest of the world.
Every tourist in Marcahuasi wants to have the perfect photo, unique and exclusive. The Monument to Humanity gives you this opportunity.
We can agree with some or all that Ruzo said about this place, but what is certain is that thanks to his diffusion of information about Marcahuasi many tourists now arrive here. That is a major recognition of his investigation here.
The Hut was constructed in a strategic place on the plateau. Here you find a large quantity of sculptures, such as the Monument to Humanity with its many faces, the Llama, the Chinaman, the Hippo, the Lion, the Condors, the Tortoise, the Monkey, the Toads, the German helmet, the sacrifice table, etc.
Curios hippopotamus, protecting the Monument to Humanity; a sculpture that is often overlooked by many tourists.
In these days we continue using the Hut and it is very useful, particularly for those tourists that come up without adequate information. I've camped in the hut and nearby on my trips, full of anecdotes and unique experiences, and besides to have the company of the Monument to Humanity is a significant privilege.
When there is no space to sleep in the Hut camping nearby is a good choice.
The Hut brings many memories of Daniel Ruzo, hiding his mysteries and confusing the tourist. This is another world with its own history, its ruins, sacrifices, your discoveries, the night and the strange revelations. This is how you find yourself in the Hut.
Everything found in Marcahuasi are links between man and nature. These ruins are a memory, connecting the past with the present.
A visit to the Hut doesn't take long, an exclamation, a stare when arriving and upon leaving, but the impression and the satisfaction of having seen it will last with you for the rest of your life. Here you find the present, here is the truth, and where you find what you want to find ...
When you camp in the Hut you can take a free yet imaginary trip to the world of Daniel Ruzo, to the enchantment that he had with Marcahuasi, making him construct the Hut and spending days, nights, and indeed years solitary with the cold, the rocks and the mystery. In the Hut we live an unexplainable triangle between the ascent, the people and the sculptures. Sufficient to not deny the reality that here we started loving Marcahuasi. Everybody gives in here, like in the case of the singer-songwriter Jaime Franco Bazo who sung "The Hut, you are magic, mystic, and mysterious ..."
"Green, blue. Red" or so said some tourists at four in the morning. I also saw these circles of colours, but at 6 in the morning and also many years later. I invite you to camp here ...
When we find ourselves at the Cross, placed here by the people of San Pedro de Casta, a place from where we can see the routes we could take to return, the long route and the short route, the road going to San Pedro de Casta, and indeed going on from there. Here we remember everything, the ascent we made, we feel a type of champion for everything we've done and lived. At these beautiful altitudes we take amazing photos, where the air doesn't intimidate us, and the scenery leaves us delirious with such beauty.
This scenery is part of the adventure, beautiful memories, to love and believe in the sacred mountain.
The Hut is a crucible of eternal memories, of undisturbed questions, where you can't distinguish the limits of the history and the myths, because here you find enigmatic knots that hold us captive, just like they did with the pioneer Daniel Ruzo.
The best parts of every trip are the emotions that we experience. To be in this place, next to the cross, is like having a new spark about what Marcahuasi is and what it gives us.
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Photos : John Ysrael Guevara