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Pisac Slideshow
Pisac
Travel Blogs from Pisac, Peru
the festivities begin...
This is a top pick! ... of 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 ...
The Beautiful Sacred Valley
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The never-ending staircase
This is a top pick! ... running water. I followed the terraces down to the parking lot was Erin was waiting for me. Í thoroughly enjoyed Pisac and wandering through the ruins. It´s much better to do it independently than with a day tour because you ...
The main event - Inca trail and Machupichu
This is a top pick! Again, it was an early start and despite the anticipation of finally getting onto the trail, I couldn't help but fall asleep on the bus and completely miss the passing mountain landscape on the way to kilometre 82 which is the official start of the inca ...
Christmas Day up Machu Pichu!
This is a top pick! ... 8 the next morning, then all day the next there was player presentations, more partying and an open air concert. A great introduction to Peru. So I booked up to climb Machu Pichu on the 22nd Dec. Since before I left Scotland, it was my aim to be up ...
Country number three
... we wouldn´t have done it if we realised quite how much effort was involved. After a nights rest back in Copacaban, we headed into Peru on a bus to Cuzco which is where I am writing this from. After getting into the town at around midnight last night we ...
Pisac
... to Pisac, which took about an hour and cost about 50 pence. It was a small bus, but surprisingly comfortable. Once we arrived in Pisac, we found our hostel, and then set out to visit the ruins. It was about an hour´s climb up to the start of ...
Pisac, market day and street protests
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 ...
White water rafting, day 2
George Verney's day :) By today, we were all so complacent about our rafting skills that we begged to be taken to some more daring rapids. I have never been so glad to be wearing one of thoso down-right unattractive safety helmets in my entire ...
Pisac
... 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 turned out to ...
The Sacred Valley of the Incas
... of love, 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 ...
Discovering Inca Ruins in the Sacred Valley
... we picked up prescriptions for antibiotics. The medicine seemed to do the trick. Yesterday we boarded a bus and headed for the town of Pisac, Peru. We spent the day, as usual, walking around town and visiting with the locals. Today we hiked out of the ...
Pisaq in the boiling heat
... the dry grass. I'm beginning to get excited. It's the ancient Inka trail, leading to one of the biggest fortress in this part of Peru: the fortress of Pisaq. Reaching the fortress is not as easy as it may seem. It's hot, and the track is steep and ...
Pisac, first step into the Sacred Valley
... sommes précipités dans un café pour voir passer l´orage. On a sérieusement douté de pouvoir aller visiter les ruines de Pisac ce jour -là… Terrain escarpé et glissant avec la pluie. La chance nous a souris, le temps d´une acalmie, ...
cuzco
Por ser,es una de las ciudades mas bonitas en las que hemos estado,pero a partirde aqqui y como siempre, elturismo,los turistas,la hemos prostituido: todo jira alrededor del turista, del machu pichu y deldolar, esto es carisimo, cualquier excursion te ...
Home of the Incas
... 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, ...
The host family
hello everyone, Well it has now been almost 3 weeks since i arrived in this strange and colorful area of the world. Since i last wrote Hannah has settled in nicely, she is slowly getting used to the quantity of food that the Peruvians eat. The morning ...
WAUW
Saa har pigerne vaeret paa travetur - 4 dage- i Salcantay omraadet, og Wauw hvor var det flot! Skoen skoen natur, selvom vi lagde ud med en dag i bidende kulde, hvor vi bl.a. maatte vente paa vores baerer, de havde ikke troet vi kunne gaa saa staerkt (ja ...
Valle Sagrado
... name painted all over 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 ...
Trails and Tribulations
... and fleece jackets 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 ...
To Pisac and back to Cusco
... me them. After, negotiating with my guide I have a Quena and hopefully it was custom made :) Machu Picchu, Ollantayambo and Pisac ruins I visited. I felt that Machu Picchu was definately worth it and I felt Ollantayambo ruins was much better than Pisac. ...
You're In the Andes My Friend - Day I
... who were looking for a tasty meal. DO: pick up after yourself and/or others. Although rubbish disposal is a problem throughout Peru, it is particularly offensive to see a candy wrapper or plastic water bottle on the Inca Trail. Furthermore, as most ...
Machu Picchu
... . Machu Picchu. What more can I say, google it to see some pics, Its pretty amazing. And if you ever find yourself in Peru, you really have to go. Just dont wear ´´Zip-off trousers``, cause you may get attacked by a strange englishman who has spent ...
The Sacred Valley
... Sacred Valley) of the Rio Urubamba, is 15 km north of Cuzco. The valley´s attractions included the Inca citadels of Pisac and Ollantaytambo. The main agricultural crop in The Sacred Valley is maize (corn). You can buy huge cobs of ...
Cuzco, party central, home of the inca trail.
Peru! Another stamp on the passport, not much different too Bolivia on first impressions but the people are nicer. Arriving very late in the evening is not good for hostels, everywhere is taken, but we did find one place descent enough for one night. ...
Inka-Ruinen um Cusco
... " um, und bat mich um Essen. Ulrike und ich machten uns dann auf, um den Berg vorm Sonnenuntergang bis nach Pisac abzusteigen; ganz schoen steil und ganz schoen weit. Das Gestein zuckte und machte ein Geraeusch wie die sich bewegenden Eisplatten eines ...
...doch es geht noch länger.
... in Puerto Maldonado abfahren und früh morgens in Urcos ankommen, wo Jhon auf uns warten würde, um uns ins Hinterland von Peru zu enführen. Doch haben wir nicht mit der Regenzeit gerechnet, die gerade einsetzte. Durch heftige Regenfälle wurde die ...
Peru live - 1. Tag
... 'tung konnten wir unsere Wanderung in die Umgebung von Urcos und Cusco doch noch antreten. Wir wollten nicht nur das touristische Peru mit Machu Picchu kennen lernen, sondern auch das "echte und ursprüngliche". So wanderten wir 4 Stunden wir auf kleinen ...
To Pisac and Goodbye to a new friend
... Museo Palacio Municipal, Museo de Sittio Qoricancha Sacsayhuaman, Q'enqo, Puca Pucara, Tambo Machay, Pikillacta Tipon, Ollantaytambo ruins, Pisac Ruins and Chinchero ruins. Purchase the ticket at: Casa Garcilaso, corner of Garcilaso and Heladeros, Tel. ...