Ollantaytambo Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Headed to Ollantaytamboo today ahead of my long awaited dream to visit Machu Picchu. I was feeling fresh from a couple of days rest in Cuzco and ready for some steep climbs on foot. Stopped at a place called Moray which is an Inca agricultural experiment to see which crops would grow best at different altitudes. The terraces have varying climate...

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 bien sympathique qui nous propose de nous emmener a ollaytatambo. Arrives dans le centre, il...

Up at 04:15 to be at the railway station for 5 am. Just time for a cup of coffee before boarding, thank heavens there is always somebody ready to earn a dollar at unearthly hours.
We have to go by train as there is no public road to Agua Calientes the access to Machu Picchu.
The train follows the river from Ollantaybambo to Aguas Calientes...

Day 5 – 25th May 2009

Day 1 of the Trek!
I wake today at 4.30, as does Becks. They turn the water off here over night, but when it comes back on, the toilet permanently flushes, random... Becks and I actually get up about 6.30 and we both speak to the other halves. We realise that this is very likely going to be the last time we...

The day before we set out on the Inca Trail, we headed through the Sacred Valley to Ollayantambo. It wasn't a great day for me; I'd spent most of the night awake suffering from food poisoning and I wasn't convinced I'd be fit enough to do the Inca Trail. But with a few pills from my personal pharmacist, Sam, some herbal tea and quinoia soup from...

Well hellooooooo!! Just though i pop in beofre i leave tomo to go and do the inca trail!!! For all of those who dont know what it is here an idea FOUR DAYS OF HELL!!! Basically its up and down then up and down lots of moutian, folloing a path that the Incas laid across South America before the Spanish wipped then out! Macuipuchi is the final por...

Here's a piece of pointless trivia for you. The Inca/Inqa (there's that confusing spelling again) trail that so famously makes its way to Machu Pichu is only about 45% original. You only realise this when the guide helpfully points out, while your hauling your ass up to 4200m, that the Q'echa (the Inca was the king of the Q'echa) were 5 foot not...

We got local taxis (3 soles to most places in Cuzco) to the bus station and waited while Bobby (our tour leader) queued for ages to get us tickets to the Urubamba Valley. We had allocated seats, which cost twice as much as a standing place, for about an hour up to the start of the Sacred Valley. From there we were picked up by taxis for the ride...

Day 3 of the trek and yet another early start. Was frigging cold last night! Rough sleep indeed and a bit of a sore head after the night befores over indulgence but nothing a little nurofen couldnt help tho! We woke at around 5 am to the sound of heavy rain which turned out to be snow! Such an awesome sight to wake up to. The whole valley was wh...

Spent a day travelling down the Sacred Valley to Ollantaytambo, a beautiful village near the start of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Visited Pisaq, and by the time we arrived at our hotel, there was a stampede for the showers - Phill beat me to it, was about half way through removing some of the grime from the home stay, when we had a big storm...