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Pisac Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pisac, Peru
Shop till you drop
Pisac is a small town an hour or so outside of Cusco, Peru. It is known for it's market where locals come to sell their goods and trade with one another and tourists flock there to buy random shit. Stall after stall offering goods such as shirts, knives, ...
Peaks to Desert Day 4 - Sacred Valley
... views of the surrounding mountains. After this we headed back to Pisac to have our previously ordered lunch and check out the Pisac markets where I bought yet another painting and a beanie. We then headed to Ollantaytambo to climb the 350 steps to the ...
Getting strong for Asusangate Mountain Trek
We have been in Pisaq for the past 5 days resting and shopping. I had a fever, chills, and traveler's diarrhea when we were in Lake Titikaka. We stayed on an island with a family that you eat meals with and takes care of you while you are on the ...
Into the Sacred Valley
Took a bus ride across the altiplano, the high plains separating the Andes from the jungle. Unfortunately, after staying the night with a local family in Lake Titicatta, it became clear that hygene had not been their thing as I revisit the ...
Pisac
Today we hired a taxi to drive us to the town of Pisac for the big Sunday market. It was a taiste of real Peruvian Andes culture. There were almost no other tourists to be found. It also happened to be carnival and there were some wild ...
Pisac
... ... I´ve added a bit more to my badly organised tan, my hands and face actually look quite dark! Well, the ruins of Pisac... we didn´t take a guide, but we looked at everything! I mean everything... we were walking for five hours! Most people do it ...
La vallée Sacrée des Incas
Le 25 juin 2009 Nous voici donc partis pour la Vallée sacrée des Incas. Nous commençons par la visite du marché de Pisac très touristique mais agréable à visiter car il n'y a pas beaucoup de monde. On enchaine ensuite par le site de Pisac où ...
Market day!
... dress. The bus went up the mountain and back down a few times, again with the hairpin turns. The market in Pisac was wonderful. They are selling things more for locals near the front-fruits and veggies, dyes for yarn, corn on the cob, ...
Sacred Valley
... After we shopped we explored the town a little, and I had my first Inka Kola- I though it tasted like bubble gum. After we left Pisac we went to a resort called Sol Y Luna for lunch. This was a very, very nice place (at $600 a night, you would ...
Loco for Llamas
... the ride we saw some great landscapes but also saw some of the devastation caused by the floods in February. Pisac Market was very interesting, everyone had their own stalls and most of the folks were selling similar items. The key ...
Around the "navel" of the Inca empire
... Pachacute who conquered the region and built the town and a ceremonial center. At the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru it served as a stronghold for Manco Inca Yapanqui, leader of the Inca resistance. My favorite ruins to this day (maybe it ...
Pisac and trek prep
... try to disregard the stench of urine, cough up our 2.20 soles and get on board for our one hour ride to Pisac. Assigned seats! Such class. It's a great ride with the locals featuring many spectacular views and gorgeous ...
Parque Nacional Manu
Saindo de Puerto Maldonado a 200m de altitude, floresta amazônica coberta de fumaça, subimos em um só dia para Cusco. Paisagens estonteantes, almoçamos em Macapata, e não havia muito mais onde comer. Quince Mil e os outros lugares que aparecem no ...
Cusco and the Machu Picchu
Cusco and the Machu Picchu Our first impresión about Cusco was pretty heavy...we had a cab driver with his wife, the tout, who was trying to sell us everything Ander the sun that Cusco had to offer, and more....We had to run away to our bedroom ...
Sunday Night in Pisac, Sacred Valley, Peru
... from fermented corn. It has been a sacred to the Incans for thousands of years. It is still sacred for most people of Peru. There is children playing soccer in the street with drunken men stumbling into the game and never noticing what he ...
Valle sagrado de los Incas - Pisac
... . Une petite heure de trajet, sur une jolie route montagneuse qui serpente au milieu des forêts d’eucalyptus. Puis, arrivé à Pisac, je dois prendre un taxi pour monter jusqu’aux ruines situées à 10km au-dessus du village. On dit que ...
Inca Trail at Pisac
... ! I have to admit that it finally did happen to us! Yes, we got pick-pocketed on the small crowded bus from Cuzco to Pisac. Feeling so smug that we had spent 3 days in Cuzco, the theft capital, without incident, we thought we had all bases ...
Photographers, the Inca Trail and children....
... Then it's time for school. Oropesa is a sleepy town famous for its bread - apparently there are 30 odd bakeries! Picaflor is the Peru equivalent of Grace House in Cambodia, set up by Globalteer a couple of years ago. Annie is based there and is the ...
mas fiesta
Inesperado, sin saber hemos llegado y hay fiesta, nadie lo pudiera creer, pero así es, se celebra la Virgen del Carmen. El pueblo entero pendiente de tanto baile y fuego artificial. La comida típica solo la miramos: cuye asado...pienso en mi Caro con ...
The trip to Pisac
... is a little town an hour away from Cusco. Mike did not want to come because he had been partying. When we got to Pisac, we went to the market there. First thing we did was look at things made with Lama hair. My mom bought me a ...
Pisac
Arrivée à Cusco à 5h00, on prend un bus pour aller à la Plaza de Armas puis de là on cherche un bus pour aller à Pisac. Après un long moment de marchandage un taxi nous emmène à un autre endroit dans la ville ou un homme nous emmène à Pisac ...
The "Sacred Valley" or 15 Minutes of Pisac
... being in English to being in Spanish with occasional English phrases. Even worse, the first stop was NOT the market at Pisac, but instead a made-for-tourist roadside market in Corao. 30 minutes we waited there, with a sad-looking llama petting ...
The heart of the Incan Empire
... just in time to put our things down at our hostel and walk out into the street for the largest festival of the year in Peru- Inti Raymi- the festival of the Sun. It is a huge reenactment of the Inca winter-solstice. They sacrifice a llama, march around ...
Between Missions
... an abandoned grandmother? Listening to Wider's personal story, inspiringly noble, painfully conflicted ? Moving to Pisac? Meeting new soul friends? Easter Saturday at the monastery? Ayuwaska ? So many rich ...
In the Halls of the Mountain Kings
We were picked up his morning by the rudest little Peruvian man you are ever likely to come across. Such a giggle when all our guides to date have fallen over backwards being happy, friendly, charming and accommodating. Not this chap. Came over to our ...
Sacred valley shenanigans
... told us many fascinating facts. For example, only 4%252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525252525 of land in Peru can be used for agriculture, everything else cannot be cultivated and ...