Templo de la Luna o Ñaupa Iglesia

This guide to the Templo de la Luna, also known as Naupa Iglesia, near Cusco centers on a rectangular doorway chiseled into solid rock that leads nowhere at all, no chamber, no hallway, just stone. You'll hear why guides call it a portal, tied to Quechua stories of naupa spirit ancestors said to cross between worlds at dawn and dusk, and why fresh coca leaves and flower petals keep turning up in the niches beside it with no one paid or asked to leave them. It also touches on the carved altar nearby and the moon and earth offerings once made there. Stand at the threshold and see what has been left recently.