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Pisac Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pisac, Peru
Sacred Valley
... blue. The mountains are gorgeous. I could see the little road we had driven along carved into the mountain...pretty scary!! The town of Pisac is pretty small. One main square (the Plaza de Armas, of course. All of the towns of a Plaza de Armas) with ...
marche de pisac
lever tranquillou, pour chab ce sera un peu + tard quelle nous rejoindra, direction pisac en collectivos, ruines superbes, jolie vue, redescente au village par petit chemin, on cherche alors a manger ptit repas sympa ds un cadre magnifique "le blue lama, ...
Day trip to Pisac
I took a bus from Cusco to Pisac, to visit the Pisac Market. It was a huge! I found several gifts there. A backgammon set with condors and llamas for playing pieces, a sample pack of different grains and corn and a poncho for myself. As I was ...
The Inca Trail
... bed. We had to prepare for our bus trip to Puno the next day. Puno would be our last destination in Peru before crossing over into Bolivia. Goodnight....hopefully we can actually get out of bed tomorrow, we are feeling the stiffness set in ...
Cuzco or Qosq'o (in Quecha)- elevation 3326 m
Today we did our city tour of Cuzco which included visiting the Cathedral in Plaza De Armas, Qorikancha in Plaza Santo Domingo, Saqsaywaman ruins, Puca Pucara ruins, Tambo Machay ruins and Qīenqo ruins. Cuzco is the main tourist hub for doing ...
Travelling to Pisac
... at a little farm on the way to Pisac. We also visited the sun temple at Pisac and toured around for an hour or so before heading to the famous Pisac markets. The girls did lots more shopping here before heading to our hotel (with jacuzzi) for the ...
Inca Trail
... makes contact where other people have been sitting. Decided Id be less fussy in future especially since I was heading towards Bolivia after Peru. Day Four Rudely early start. Outside was pitch black and cold. Didn't want to get up. Luckily the tent ...
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 ...
Cuzco
Arrived by bus in Cuzco and taken to our hostel which is up the hill fprom the road. The airīs pretty thin and the walk (about 5 ins) was a real killer, felt like i couldnīt breathe. the view from the hostel is amazing though. The weather is pretty ...
Pisac
... above the modern day market of Pisac. The Pisac ruins are the largest that we had come across in Peru, an obviously important fortress. Pisac is perhaps the most famous for it's sweeping agricultural terracing enveloping the mountain in it's huge ...
Our first adventure into the Sacred Valley...
... 't felt adventurous enough yet to try it, but weīre toughening up our stomachs to try it next week. When we arrived at Pisac (or Pisaq), we were amazed at the remaining Inca terraces that were still built into the side of the mountains. Our tour ...
Inca ruins
... were on their way on the 3-day Inca trail to Machu Picchu, we did a tour of the sacred valley. Our start was in Pisac where are some Inca ruins on top of a hill at the entrance to the valley. There are many agricultural terraces on the hillside and ...
A life in ruins
... way to see it. When I put my pics up I will explain about each ruin a bit more there. Sunday is market day in Pisac, a neighbouring town about an hour's bus ride from Cuzco, and there are also some great Inca ruins there too. So I compromised between ...
Pisac
To get to Pisac we had to catch 2 COmbis but it was pretty easy. We planed to see some ruins there but we were completly exhausted and all ruined out so we saw the market which Sarah has been fantasising about (I thought it was rubish), there were loads ...
Lots of terracing
... is less than 100 km. When we entered the ruins, we asked and were told that we could camp there. The caretaker told us Pisac is larger than Machu Picchu in size (but not density). There are a few small Inca villages scattered around the hilltop with ...
A day trip to Pisac
One of our in-and-around-Cusco outings was a day trip to Pisaq -- nearby Incan ruins. We decided, as part of our training for the Inca Trail, weīd scale the tallest looking hill and create our own adventure. We donīt actually have a ...
Exploaring the magic of Ayahuasca
... several other rooms with space for workshops and healing sessions. All with a stunning view of the Sacred Valley majestic mountains and the Pisac ruins. People come from all corners of the world to Paz y Luz to find peace and attend a workshop as well as ...
Attack of the Cacti
... before and wanted to continue hiking beyond the waterfall. It was an amazing hike. One of the first things Iīve done in Peru where I havenīt run into a single other tourist. Actually, I think we only ran into two other people during the entire 4 hour ...
Pisac and the Dilemma of Picture Taking
... ; share your thoughts! Anyway, after we finished gorging ourselves we were ready to get some exercise. Above the town of Pisac is an Inca Citadel, built on a plateau high up on the mountain overlooking the valley. All around the mountains are ...
Sunday, March 2
... over 100 different varieties of potatoes, and they pick the best ones to use for the next season's crops. Afterwards we traveled to Pisac, and hiked to see some very secluded Inca ruins. I love adventures like this so I was really excited. Once again, ...
Cuzco and The Sacred Valley
... in Peru, we were soon amongst a market and in the valley there is no larger market than the carnival atmosphere enjoyed at Pisac. The most encouraging aspect of this market throws the tourist crafts in with the everyday trading of the local people. This ...
Pisac Pisac Pisac!
... a bit and then had lunch at the "Blue Llama" cafe. After lunch we located a taxi stop and took a taxi to the Pisac ruins, 1/2 hour drive up switchbacks to the top of a mountain. We bought a tourist ticket that allowed us into the Pisac ruins ...
El Aņo Nuevo
... das ganze geht zu fuss, denn bekanntlich gilt ja "no pain, no gain"! was ist passiert im guten alten peru? nichts besonderes hab mir ein mopped fuer ein tag gemietet und es waere fast ein rechtsstreit mit dem vermieter ausgebrochen! ;-) ...
About the Peruvian food
cebiches, chicharron y chicha de juro in Lima tocto kankacho escabeche Lucuma Alpaca Cuy y canoza con zorritos Hamburguesas Tacu-Tacu warm beer Pisco ...
A Day out in The Sacred Valley
... all professionals and 2 grandchildren. We stopped along the way and visited a small local village market and then continued on to Pisac itself. The drive, as most seem to be in the Andes was along roads winding through the valleys and the ever ...
The Sacred Valley
... by minibus. It was small and only about 20 of us which was a nice little tour group. Our first stop was to Pisac Market. This was a large square crammed with market stalls selling every kind of souvenir, item of clothing, genre of music, snacks, ...