Water features at Machu Picchu

These water features at Ollantaytumbo we pretty remarkable. They not only drank from these fountains, but bathed in them as well. At Machu Picchu they start high up on the site and then there is one after the other (a dozen or more) going down the mountain. The same water goes from fountain to fountain all the way down. The royalty get the highest one, then the priests, then soldiers, then the farmers and peasants at the bottom.

Here is a larger one at Ollantaytumbo. Only on this one the large slab of rock on top had a little trench carved in it for about 30 feet so it would channel the water into this pool.