If you want to looking for a mystical holiday, the stone city of Cuzco will give you the ideal environment to relax, and feel isolated within the arms of the snowed covered mountains. You will also feel energised by the hot high altitude sun that is always present even though the area is a cold weather land. The sunlight has a wonderful illuminating effect on the buildings that come from the pre-Hispanic period as well as the colonial period. I have been lucky enough to have visited Cuzco 10 times, and every time I am able to find something extraordinary that I hadn't seen the time before. But for those that want some advice about what to do for a short one off visit to Cuzco, I would suggest that you must go to the Temple of the Sun, Coricancha, which originally had walls covered in gold and even though it wasn't the most imposing structure from the Incan Empire it was the most revered because it had been built for the Sun god. Then after drop by the Sacsayhuman Fortress and see and learn about the impressive feat of the crafting, moving and building of the fortress with enormous stone blocks. These blocks are placed on top of one another without any type of cement but are so secure you cannot place a piece of paper between the stones. Even with all this, we still haven't mentioned the world famous "Incan Lost City" of Machu Picchu. This is one of the most frequented tourist attractions around the world. In general, the quality and beauty of the pre-Hispanic constructions, the purity of the air energy of Cuzco will leave you, as it did me, eternally enchanted.
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