Ollantaytambo, Peru Travel Blogs

Valle Segrado
Aug 17, 2008 (71 photos)

Lots of ruinas....

They are watching Olympics, I am chilling in Peru
Aug 8, 2008 (4 photos)

... (well, 15 minutes late) to pick me up to see some of the other Inca ruins in the area. The tour include Pisaq , Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero ruins. Out tour was  big enough that the guide had to walk around the city to gather all the tourists up. ...

Telly Tubby Tambo
Apr 18, 2006 (8 photos)

... was about to depart and she wasn´t happy. Luckily for her, Ron the hero stepped in. We´d stopped a few minutes previously in Ollantaytambo town itself, where a load of bags had been unloaded. I asked the driver to return there to see if her bag was there, ...

Lares Day 3 - downhill walk and great ruins
Sep 18, 2006 (6 photos)

... become steeper and steeper and we see the sites of various landslides and the odd Incan terrace. We arrive at Ollantaytambo before lunch which is a smallish village with very steep sided cliffs surrounding it and old granary stores perched in them for ...

Inca Trail Day 1 - Walk like an Inca
Nov 2, 2007 (25 photos)

... 6:45 a.m.  It actually came at 7, and then we went and picked up more people.  After a short supply stint in Ollantaytambo we drove the last half hour to km 82 and got started with everything.  Travis and I bought walking sticks for 3 soles ...

Ollantaytambo
May 12, 2008 (37 photos)

Ollantaytambo

Back to the Sacred Valley
Nov 11, 2008 (2 photos)

Headed to the Inca town of Ollantaytambo where direct Inca descendants still live today. The site is dominated by a fortress on the mountain where the Conquistadors actually suffered a heavy defeat to the Incas. Aside from the military it was also an ...

Day 6!
Nov 11, 2008

... lunch which was a buffet at a rather touristy venue. Food not that great but ya get that i guess! Continued on to Ollantaytambo arriving in the late afternoon we visited the local inca ruins for a 45 minute tour which again hoped we would have a bit ...

En el Valle Sagrado - Ollantaytambo
May 15, 2006 (4 photos)

... tickets are indeed genuine, which we are assured, they are. From here we continue to the impressive archeological site of Ollantaytambo. The admission is included in our Cuzco Tourist Ticket, and we pick out a local guide to show us around. Regrettably ...

Adventures in the Sacred Valley
Mar 15, 2009 (123 photos)

... a break from the long distance buses, this weekend we decided to explore the area closer to Cuzco so we set off for Ollantaytambo - a town with an unpronouncable name in the Sacred Valley near Cuzco.  There was a big group of us from language school ...

The Sacred Valley of the Incas
May 26, 2007

... , Bethany xxxxx Hola otra vez, hoy fuimos a la Valle Segrada de los Incas y fue increíble. Fuimos a Pisac, Urubamba, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero y finalmente a Cusco otra vez. ¡Un día lleno de actividades! Las ruinas en Pisac y Ollantaytambo son algo de ...

Day 5: Sexy woman and the sacred valley
Sep 20, 2008

... , UK, travelling around south america for three weeks. Today we drove around the Sacred Valley, the distance between Cusco and Ollantaytambo - the fertile valley used by the Incas as a farming community. The Valley is bookended on each side by ruins.... ...

Amazing horseback ride to salt mines, and Moray
Sep 28, 2009

... and amazing dessert, and passed out.    We woke up at 4:30 am to go to Machu Picchu.  Evidently the town of Ollantaytambo shuts off all its electricity at night, so we had to get ready by the light of our cell phones.  We found out at ...

Through the Sacred Valley of the Incas
May 25, 2007 (7 photos)

... , squeaking happily away. Little did they know of the fate awaiting them... We then headed to the small town (and ruins) of Ollantaytambo (O-yan-tai-tam-bo), and I found myself enchanted by the setting. The ruins of the old Inca city spread upwards on ...

An Inca town
May 9, 2008 (5 photos)

Ollantaytambo We split from our Machu Picchu group because we wanted to spend longer at the ruins (a very good decision) and thought that as we were passing through this famous town, we ought to take a look at it. It is famous as a relic of the Incas. ...

Pre-Incan and modern Peru
Dec 12, 2006 (18 photos)

... day, around nightfall, the place emptied and became a dusty, dirty ghost town. By then, we were getting increasingly disappointed in Peru, probably because as we had heard so much about it and peoople seem generally to rave about the place. Also, I think ...

Through the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu
Jun 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... market town of Pisaq, then after a browse, lunch and a quick visit to the nearby ruins we took another bus to Ollantaytambo, a beautiful and quaint village surrounded by ruins, and mountains. After a night here we took the scenic train to Agua Caliente and ...

Ollantaytambo / Urubamba
May 31, 2009

Woke up, had a great sleep but my legs were feeling very sore! I had some Burt's Bees Ointment that I brought over to use on this occasion. Went downstairs to grab some breakfast, the owner Louise was up and provided me with some excellent breakfasts. ...

The sacred valley
Jul 5, 2008 (60 photos)

... and how they would have fitted them together with apparently no sign of tool work! It really is a mystery. Until some years ago Ollantaytambo was seen as a passing point in the route of the Sacred Valley of the Incas and not somewhere to stop and look. ...

Out and about in Ollantaytambo
Aug 19, 2009 (5 photos)

... are porters on the Inca trail. Next we went to Pisca to visit some Inca ruins and then on to the ruins at Ollantaytambo itself. The ruins arereally amazing, some of the blocks of stone are huge and perfectly fitted together... its hard to comprehend how ...

Inching ever closer to Macchu Pichu
Oct 20, 2009

Today was a travel day - several hours getting through the sacred valley of the incas, to ollantaytambo.  Along the way we had a few pit stops, including a visit to a local ´ ...

Day One , Inca Trail
Aug 25, 2007 (22 photos)

It is an early start this morning and the group is largely quiet.  Nerves and not knowing what to expect has the group on the quiet side.  I did get some sleep but I still have a knot of apprehension in my stomach.  All of the blogs that I ...

Ollantaytambo to Socma
Oct 18, 2009 (20 photos)

... I had eaten one too many coca sweets or drank one to many cups of coca tea.  After approximately 20 minutes of leaving Ollantaytambo we arrived at Puente Pacher where were dropped off at the side of a river and told this is where we would eat lunch. ...

I left my heart in Ollantaytambo....
Apr 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... ) into the heart of Ollanta and he deposited me at the Plaza de Armas -- the main square, which every town has. Ollantaytambo couldn´t be more different than Urubamba! It has maintained it´s incredibly old look and feel, it´s beautiful, traditional and ...

Ab ins heilige Tal
Nov 6, 2006 (9 photos)

... und das gleiche nochmal zurueck im vollen Backpackerzug nach Cusco. Die Einheimischen zahlen nur 4 Euro... ============================ Ollantaytambo Dieser typische Inka-Ort liegt 93 Kilometer von Cusco entfernt und wurde zu Ehren des Adeligen ...

The Sacred Valley
Aug 8, 2009 (18 photos)

... was still some time left before dusk Me, Nat and Geoff decided to go for a walk around the nearby per-inca ruins of Ollantaytambo. The ruins were set on a steep slope just up from the town centre and consisted of a number of terraces leading up to the ...

The Lares Trek
Oct 19, 2009 (78 photos)

... else in a lovely setting with llamas and vicunas around us (not to mention the scrummy food...). After lunch we headed to Ollantaytambo, a very touristy town where the Inca trail starts from. We walked off our lunch (and more) climibing over 250 steps up ...

Ollantaytambo
Aug 18, 2008 (11 photos)

Sacred Valley before we started the Inca Trail from Ollantaytambo.

Psyching up for the Inca Trail
Jun 28, 2009 (25 photos)

... stand.  On this one we do get seats though.  Today we head through the Sacred Valley of the Incas to Ollantaytambo with a few stops in between.  With everyone on board, faces squashed against windows and all but the local chickens as company ...

Ollantaytambo Sacred Valley
Apr 28, 2008 (9 photos)

... - maybe 2500 metres, but stairs still puff us out! Looking forward to Macchu Picchu tomorrow - train this afternoon from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes (Hot Waters). Maybe train back (switchback) and down the mountain to Cuzco again tomorrow night. ...