Hay agua

It’s easy to marvel at the Incans’ skilled masonry, but one thing that really pops out at me is their command of water. They were brilliant at channeling it for agricultural and aesthetic purposes. Their fountains are marvelous. It’s humbling to stand in front of the tingling waters and realize this sound has been reverberating through the nearby stone for hundreds of years. And it’s all by design. It would be hard not to incorporate rushing water into the architecture here. Cascading mountain springs are the Sacred Valley’s soundtrack. The distant roar of water is always present, at Machu Picchu, in Urumbamba, in Cuzco. And the Incans echoed it as they built their cities.