El Albergue Ollantaytambo

Travel Itinerary 16 Toronto/Lima 17 Lima/Cusco/Ollantaytambo/Mountain Bike Moray/El Albergue 18 Riverrunning Ollantaytambo/Clilca 19 Hike Huayna Picchu@sunrise/Machu Picchu/Aguas Calientes Hot Springs 20 Cusco/Lima/Quito Patio Hotel Andaluz 21 ...

From Puerto Maldonado, Naomi and I flew to Cusco and took a taxi to Ollantaytambo.  We stayed overnight at the El Albergue hotel, which is down by the train station, and a very cool hotel.  We got there in the early afternoon and spent the rest ...

... the local women for education, housing, medicine, clothes, etc. It has by far the best salad that I have had the entire trip. Ollantaytambo is worth a visit. Even just a a day trip or a few days is worth the effort. After relaxing days we had our ...

... driver! He was very nice and the scenery en route was lovely especially once we reached the valley floor. We were very impressed with El Albergue. It is right on the train platform - no fear of missing our train in the morning - you have to go through ...

We had arranged another full day tour of the Sacred Valley ending in Ollantaytambo. Omar picked us up early for the drive.     I had wanted to go to Pisaq but the town was cut off and flooded again.We headed off and the first stop was Chinchero ...

... was awesome! It is now the next day around 7:00 am and shortly we will board the train bound for Mach Picchu. I am sitting at the El Albergue’s little café which is reported to have the best coffee in town—I wish they would deliver ...

... that this is the way it always was. He said they do, but the children leave to seek a better life.   Dinner at El Albergue. Spinach soup with a dollop of sour cream and chicken in a yellow sauce with potatoes, served with cucumbers and rice. Ed ...

... around town to get my bearings and broke my pattern of eating alpaco or guinea pig to settle on the familiar pizza.  Ollantaytambo is an Inca site dating back to the 15th century, 9160 feet above sea level.  Serving first as a royal estate of ...

... fin, es una de esas ocasiones en las que nos hemos sentido abuelas y, además, algo desplazadas porque allí ni los que trabajaban en el albergue hablaban español. Menos mal que hicimos piña con un par de brasileños que se sentían como nosotras, y con ...

... thought I might as well have a light dinner and one of the small cafés down there. I did send a curious glance at the El Albergue hotel and restaurant, only accessible from the platform behind the bars, and it was only after I had sat down and ordered, ...

... adobe buildings, Inca stone walls, a long narrow cobblestone road along the Patacancha River, and finally our hotel on the railway platform, El Albergue. There are a ton of buses, taxis, vans, and moto-taxis (a kind of rickshaw built on a motorcycle) in ...

... adobe buildings, Inca stone walls, a long narrow cobblestone road along the Patacancha River, and finally our hotel on the railway platform, El Albergue. There are a ton of buses, taxis, vans, and moto-taxis (a kind of rickshaw built on a motorcycle) in ...