Monumento Nacional Wilcahuain Ruin

Two Sets of Ruins; Three Level Stone Mausoleum over 1000 years old.

Wilcahuain is large, multi-chambered stone Wari mausoleum dating from around 900 CE. The largest building sits on the flank of a hillside above Huaraz city. The building is of three levels, each leve...

Pre-incan Archeological Site

Went with a local trekking guide for a much more informed understanding of the sites. While the adjoining museum is good there were no guides on site so having our own knowledgeable guide helped.

Different construction than other Peruvian ruins

This is definitely an interesting site to see pre-Inca ruins of very different style/structure than other sites we visited.

Cool Daytrip from Huaraz

Really nice ~1.5 walk from the center of Huaraz, and just outside of the ruins there's a beautiful mirador on a hill. Fascinating that such old structures are just outside of the city! If you've got a...

Nice way to get used to higher grounds

We took a taxi up to the ruins for 20 s. We were dropped of at the entrance where we paid 5s/p to get in. No one spoke any English (our fault, we should speak Spanish) so we didn't know or were told t...