Ollantaytambo, Peru Travel Blogs

Getting to know one another - Huilloc and Pumarca
Aug 4, 2009 (5 photos)

... something from everyone you see.  But we realize that it really does make a difference in their lives when tourists purchase things. In Ollantaytambo, Julio is backing up the car on to a side street so that Harvey can go to an ATM.  He hears a ...

Sacred Valley
Nov 27, 2007

The Sacred Valley

Inca Trail: Pilgrimage to Machupicchu
Jul 22, 2008 (26 photos)

... became clear that one of the young members of our extended group, Rachel from Trinidad, was unwell and we stopped in the town of Ollantaytambo for her to be checked over by a doctor.  The diagnosis was a lung infection and that proved to be the end of ...

More old ruins....
Nov 1, 2004 (3 photos)

... a lot of people work in the mines of Potosi (Bolivia) and other areas, and this was certain death, so many people from Ollantaytambo moved further and further upwards to escape, surviving by farming, and to this day live at heights of up to 4,200m, many ...

Romancing the Stone
Aug 24, 2007 (22 photos)

Today we are traveling by bus to Ollantaytambo with our Tour Director Freddie and our local guide Jeramey to do a a little hiking at the ruins in Ollanytaytambo in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.  Tomorrow we start the big hike so today is intended as ...

Into the Sacred Valley of the Incas
May 26, 2008 (5 photos)

We had decided to save a bit of money by getting our train tickets from a place called Ollyantaytambo (nearer to Machu Picchu) rather than Cusco (we saved about $70). So, we left Cusco after 3 days, leaving our big rucksacks with the hostal, and ...

Sacred Valley
May 14, 2006 (5 photos)

Was pretty nice, but nothing compares to Machu Picchu. I recommend this to be done before the great city! There were some real cool markets! Bought a few things...

Day 9!
Nov 14, 2008

... off as we departed. This part of the trek being 95 percent downhill to Patakancha town for our bus back to Ollantaytambo. Quiet a relaxing trip down the valley more children were seen as we decended. More fantastic scenery as we went. The trek ...

Experiencing the Sacred Valleys of the Incas
Nov 24, 2008 (10 photos)

... . Never would I have guessed the pleasant drive this would be!! Mario, our driver, was the most amazing person. So passionate about Peru, and with our broken Spanish and our Phrase books, we learned a lot from him about the area and Inca history as ...

Through the Scared Valley of Peru to Ollantaytambo
Sep 2, 2008 (64 photos)

Blurb and pics to come!

Sacred Valley
Dec 13, 2007 (35 photos)

We were picked up by our guide Nancy who stayed with us for the day for the Sacred Valley tour.  It was just our group which was nice because we all seem to get along quite well.  The people have really made this tour even better.    ...

El Camino Inka
Oct 31, 2004 (11 photos)

Not the best of starts: the agency (a reputable one) had messed up the reservations, so three people had to pretend to have forgotten their passports and to be other people, as all names have to be registered with the trail authorities in advance and they ...

Lares Trek: Part 1
Sep 17, 2008 (34 photos)

... about the hat? The first person to either comment here or email me with the correct answer will receive a small prize from Peru! Here is another picture of the campsite. Notice the immense amount of fog.  The weather was pretty much like that ...

Walking in a Pinca Wonderland
Oct 30, 2008 (1 photos)

... "23 deaths on Black Monday". And yes, they meant tour buses. But we survived the collectivo and arrived in paradise, Ollantaytambo, the most striking, stunning, beautiful small town I have ever been to (we have about a million photos). Completely hemmed ...

The Inca Trail
Jan 18, 2008 (114 photos)

... ¨Lady's Man¨ as he was soon to be known, plus all the gear and food for the trip and set off on the 2 hour drive to Ollantaytambo to pick up the porters. Fortunately Franco got some rest on the way and was in a bit better shape when we arrived. We had a ...

Ollantaytambo
May 26, 2008 (15 photos)

... tourist fell to his death a few years ago. At the end of the day we had a nice dinner and very welcome cold beers in Aguas Calientes while waiting for the last train back to Ollantaytambo at 9.20. getting to bed at 11 after a tiring but excellent day.

Trekking in the Andes - Lares to Ollantaytambo
Aug 21, 2008 (68 photos)

... leg of our trip to Ollantaytambo. For the last 15 kilometres of the trek we more or less follow the dirt road to Ollantaytambo, passing through small villages along the way. Perhaps it is the knowledge that the end is in sight but our feet really do ...

The Sacred Valley
Mar 25, 2008 (14 photos)

Hola, We are staying in a small town called Ollantaytambo, located in the Sacred Valley of Peru. This town is also home to an Inca ruin site. The ruins sit above the town scaling a steep hillside. It is breathtaking. One of the few battles won ...

The Sacred Valley
Dec 7, 2007

We spent the day at The Sacred Valley of the Incas.  Here we visited Pisac and Ollantaytambo, to get a taste of Inca culture and practice some hiking for the Inca Trail.  We first stopped at a woman co-operative to see how they spin, dye ...

Sacred Valley
Sep 27, 2009 (123 photos)

Day 35 - A trip around the sacred valley, including a llama farm, Pisac market and ruins, and Ollantaytambo archaeological site and town. Very informative tour, perhaps too much so, and visually spectacular. I´ll let the photos speak for themselves, once i ...

Ollantaytambo
Feb 3, 2008 (18 photos)

... conditions, in order to experiment with new, different crops or acclimatize existing known crops. Clever eh? We returned to Ollantaytambo and were reunited with our companions, who had all survived the trek (and the weather) and we swapped traveller's ...

Ollantaytambo
Jul 23, 2009

... every meal. Grannies After the encounter with Granny Binbags in Huanchaco, the amusing granny encounters began to increase in Ollantaytambo (becoming epidemic in Cusco - see later). First up was Granny Witch-Face; this was a veritable old crone, sporting ...

New year on the Inka Trail
Jan 3, 2008 (10 photos)

Rick and I had pre-booked the Inka Trail before we left the UK in October, and had been looking forward to it for ages. A kind of Christmas present from our salary-earning selves to our future jobless selves.  So we left Cuzco early  ...

Big stones!
Sep 24, 2008 (5 photos)

... of original Inca streets and walls with massive stones that we marvelled at for ages.  We then walked upto the main site (ollantaytambo) which again ahd inca terraces, a sun temple and all the usual inca treats.  We wanders around for a good hour ...

Valle Sagrado, The Heart of Inca Land
Jun 23, 2008 (8 photos)

... to build temples, walls and houses still standing today. Another local bus that afternoon took us to the next valley settlement, Ollantaytambo, to be our stop for the next couple of days and last point before our train to Machu Picchu. Olly was ...

Walking the Inca Trail
Jul 8, 2006 (3 photos)

A long day today. We began by catching the train to Kilometre 104 on the railway between Cusco and Aguas Calientes. We got off, crossed the river and organised our passes for the trail. We also got a special Machu Piccu Inca Trail stamp in our passports. ...

Dia 17 - Cusco - Ollantaytambo
Dec 6, 2007 (7 photos)

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Sacred Valley and Inca Trail
Oct 10, 2008 (106 photos)

Sacred Valey & Inca Trail

Inca ruins, salt pans and cliff dwellers
Jul 7, 2006 (2 photos)

More bus tripping today with the first stop being the circular inca gardens at Moray where we ran into our amercan friends, the ´Spirits of the Earth´ meditating in the centre of the gardens. We made our own statement with a gant starfish at the bottom. ...

The only Inca village
Oct 18, 2008 (10 photos)

... non registered taxi to take.         We knew once the road got bumpy we were in Ollantaytambo.  Ollantaytambo is in the Sacred valley and is the only Inca village.  There are a lot of ruins there.  On one ...