Pisac Market

Still feeling rough and very weak. Managed to have a bit of breakfast and went to a couple of tour companies to get info/prices for treks to Machu Picchu (MP from now on). We decided to have a chilled out day to recover so we went to the Sacred Valley town of Pisac where there is an 1000 year old Sunday market. We caught the local bus which took …

We left Aguas Calientes near Machu Picchu, as always (it seems), in the rain. (Whose bright idea was it again to travel fall-winter-spring and spend both summers at home?!) The Hotel Sumaq personnel loaded our luggage into a cart and we all headed out for a 10-minute walk to up the hill to the train station. Fritz helped the guy push the cart up …

Hey hey. So after winding around the Andes mountain range for 22 hours we arrived to stunning views of Cusco. Some amazing history here and it feels like a bit of mysterious place. About 350,000 people live here and it is known as the capital of the Inca Empire. "The Rome of America". The altitude kicked our butts for the first 24 hours but some …

It took us a while to get to Pisac. We passed by a small village call Corao. I think today will be more of a shopping stop. Both Pisac and Corao are all about marketplace and buying things.

Pisac is more interesting though since it's a much bigger city/market than Corao. We also saw Guinea Pig and drank some more of Chicha Morada. We also …

... it.  Then it's off to the town of Pisac for the service in Quechua, the native language of the Incas.  Pisac has a huge market on Sundays, with everything one could imagine and more...there are also some more Inca ruins there but I'm getting my ...

... is the Sacred Valley. (click to enlarge the pictures) Every Thursday and Sunday the town of Pisac has a market which is the most popular in Peru. Locals from all the surrounding villages bring their produce and wonderful handicrafts to sell and the ...

... to the top.  The guidebook described the path as a steep uphill 4 km climb.  Piece of cake. It was market day in Pisac and we planned on buying some cold-weather gear for the Inca Trail and Bolivia (Erin cannot regulate her body ...

... in the Witches Market, not the comfiest of places but for a pound a night we couldn´t really complain! The witches market was a curious maze of streets full of stall selling the standard Bolivian Alpaca wool clothes and the not so standard witches ...

On a nice sunny weekend 2 hours drive from Cusco is the beautiful market town of Pisac with inca ruins - see yourself. Unfortunately our nice stay ended in protests as the indigenous people went to the streets to demonstrate against the privatisation of ...

... a morning of hiking through the ruins we made our way back to the bus and down into the Pueblo. Sunday is a big market day in Pisac and many families and ProPeru staff said it was much better priced than anything we would find in Cusco. The advice ...

... Valley. That was a very wise decision because it turned out that Sunday is the best day to go to Pisac because of its famous indigenous market. Plus that very Sunday, there was a show/ceremony to celebrate some Inca festival which we didn´t understand ...

... preserved, and us being the only people on the site all added to its allure. I'll let the photos do the talking.. The Pisac market was a tad disappointing, so we retreated to Ulrich's - a great cafe, with superb food, a cool vibe, books, ...

... it. Personlly I´d be voting for some lad called Elvis (not sure if that´s his first or second name)... Pisac itself is a small village with a tourist market and is famous for the Inca ruins which lie 600 metres above town. Several litres of sweat were ...

... and fretting about how much immodium to pack. The next day we took the sacred valley tour, and lunched at Pisac. I bought a lovely table runner at the market there to add to my ever expanding souvenir pile, I also bought a fab silver poncho which I ...