WINIWANKU
Winiwanku represents another residence along the Inka trail, also built upon artifically terraced slopes. Agricultural production is evident from terraced fields surrounding the site. Winiwanku, like Sacama, functioned as a way station, or rest house, so that armies, trade goods, and messengers could move from one end of the kingdom to the other.
The second photo shown here is of the "sacred baths" that run down the left hand side of the picture of Winiwanku. These are stone built pools that run along the irrgation canals and feed the land around Winiwanku. Royalty were said to stop here and bath before continuing onto Machu Pichu.
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