Pisac Market

... 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 couldnīt 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 stalls. ...

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 ...

... 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, games  ...

... it. Personlly Iīd be voting for some lad called Elvis (not sure if thatīs 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 lost ...

... 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 love. ...

... combines Inca ruins with a typical Andean village and an elaborate colonial church on Inca foundations.  There was also a market set up around this area.  Mike and i ended up buying a beautiful hand woven blanket.   After our ...

... we going to meet his schedule if we stop for lunch? He just smiles and walks in front of us thru the blue tarped market. We pass vendors selling everything from woven items (women are sitting on the ground weaving) oh, another of those photo stops. I ...

Today we got the bus (ad it was a bus) to Pisaq, a local town only an hour away with a market and ruins. It was the bus of death as it swept around the cliff edge corners. When we arrived we started the trek up the mountain to the ruins. However the guide ...

Walker went on a solo mission with the tour guide to the Pisac market. On the drive we stopped at what can best be described as a "llama petting zoo".  There are all varieties of llamas and alpacas both domestic and wild. After arriving in Pisac, we ...

... the bumpy start (literally) we were on our way. Our first stop was Chinchero which the "trusty" guide book said had a large market like Pisac, so when we went past " Welcome to Chinchero" on a sign by a rusty, dusty and what seemed an empty town , we ...

... dancers, bands , etc. On this morning the army joined in the party Took the local bus to Pisac yesterday to check out this beautiful market town situated at the head of the valley of the Incas. Local bus was designed to hold approx 60 people ...

... rock andean music with lots of drums, pan pipes and an electric guitar...it was cool! Today - we decided to go to Pisac for the ruins and the big market that is every sunday. We got a bus that was so packed you could hardly move! We got to pisac and ...

... in tow) to bury their fallen comrades (see the pic labelled Inca burial sites).      Pisac's famed artisans' and antiques market draws many hundreds of shoppers on Sunday morning in high season, when it is without a doubt one of the ...

... , see a bit of the Quechua mass, use public transport the whole way and start after breakfast was served at our hostel. Well, I can canvass a market as thoroughly as I care to in about 5 mins, so that put me ahead of the game and we decided to meet up at ...

... sad. We hopped on a bus (after some significant searching for the bus station) to Chinchero, which, like Pisac, also has a Sunday market and ruins. We arrived and walked around the market, bought some food for lunch and admired the beautiful handicrafts ...

... of the Pisaq ruin tour... Luckily we didnīt pop into Pisaq on a Sunday (or Thursday or Tuesday...) as those are the market days...or better said "tourist market days" as we are quite sure that local people dont buy endless amounts of stupid hats or ...