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Ollantaytambo Slideshow
Top Hotels in Ollantaytambo
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Albergue Kapuly Ollantaytambo
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Hostal La Nusta Ollantaytambo
2 reviews
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Hotel Las Orquideas Ollantaytambo
26 reviews
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Hotel Munay Tika Ollantaytambo
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Hotel Pakaritampu Ollantaytambo
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Hotel Sauce Ollantaytambo
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Nustayoc Ollantaytambo
5 reviews
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Ollantaytambo Lodge
19 reviews
Ollantaytambo
Travel Blogs from Ollantaytambo, Peru
Holy Big Stones!
This is a top pick! Loved this town. Not far from the base of Machu Picchu - this town has it all. Really diverse ethnic groups - all who come into town to the thriving market - a kaleidoscope of colors and hat styles. The old girls sat outside the ...
Inca Trail Day 1 - Today is supposed to be 'easy'
This is a top pick! Last night at the 'pre-trek briefing' we got to meet the rest of our Inca Trail group – Cara and Laura, two 21 year old female vegetarians from Australia – the couple of 36 year old Brits that were meant to be joining us had had to cancel due ...
They are watching Olympics, I am chilling in Peru
This is a top pick! ... today (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 ...
Telly Tubby Tambo
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Lares Day 3 - downhill walk and great ruins
This is a top pick! ... sides 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 ...
Inca Trail Day 1 - Walk like an Inca
This is a top pick! ... 6 and 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 ...
The Sacred Valley
Today we travelled through the Sacred Valley on our way to Ollantaytambo. We stopped at a small village where we saw the process that wool goes through from llama / alpaca to a woven article and the things from which natural dyes are made. ...
Day 6!
... for 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 ...
À mi-chemin entre Cusco et Machu Picchu
... ' la vallée sacrée à bord d'un bus touristique qui nous a menées vers des sites magnifiques, dont Pisac. À Ollantaytambo, nous avons découvert un village accueillant et relaxant entouré d'une superbe forteresse inca. Après une ...
En el Valle Sagrado - Ollantaytambo
... sure our 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. ...
Adventures in the Sacred Valley
... 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
... 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 un ...
Serenity in the Sacred Valley
I was picked up at nine by the lovely guide, Silvia, who together with Max, the driver, would be taken me to the Sacred Valley, called this due to the abundance of crops that it was possible to grow here; in the time of the Incas as well as now. ...
Journey to Ollantaytambo / Sacred valley
... beautiful scenery but no adventure. We all set out on a mini bus to see the sacred valley on our way to Ollantaytambo. Wilber and Carlos our guides were able to give us loads of information and were very knowledgeable about everything. Wilber had ...
la vallee sacree des incas
nous ns levons plus tard auj, pour tt ce qui est administratif.achat des billets de train pour le macchu picchu, et de tous les sites de la vallee des incas, la carte bancaire a flambe. En allant a la gare, nous avons rencontre ruben chauffuer de taxi ...
ruine locale et train pour agua calientes
Apres un petit dej pris sur le balcon, nous decollons vers 8h pour les ruines du site Incas d'Ollaytatambo (forteresse avec assamblage de pierre et terrasse typique au Incas) c'est vraiment sympa, puis grimpette sur la montagne d'en face avec une vue ...
Day 38 - Up The High Pass
After a refreshing sleep (man, I love sleeping in a tent!), we awoke to a sunny morning. Actually, we awoke to one of our group members telling all that his trip to the toilet tent was his personal Vietnam. We wouldn’t have the portable toilet for ...
Day 5: Sexy woman and the sacred valley
... , 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 ...
Amazing horseback ride to salt mines, and Moray
... 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
... , 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 ...
Ollantaytambo
... lunch with a local woman and visited various people in the community, including the local guinea pig farmer. Yum. Ollantaytambo is a very small and cute town. Again it was an Inca town, but fortunatel wasn´t completely destroyed by the ...
Cusco-Ollantaybambo-Aguas Calientes
After a lightening-fast trip in minivan from Cusco to Ollantaybambo thanks to a driver incensed over a traffic ticket from a tiny cop, I spent a day wandering the small town of Ollanta and loading up on carbs for the 18-mile trek I would make ...
The Inkas
Ollantaytambo is a small pueblo on the way from Cuzco to Machu Picchu, so it's not hard to guess that its inhabitants live off the tourists. As I get off the bus next to the railways station, all the platforms are already packed with people, mostly ...
An Inca town
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 ...
Pre-Incan and modern Peru
... 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 ...
Sacred Valley
... for the hotel to pick us up as again it seemed easier than negotiating a taxi on arrival. It was a two hour drive to Ollantaytambo. We had opted not to stop en route to make things easier for the driver! He was very nice and the scenery en route was ...