Hotel Sauce Ollantaytambo

... very helpful and very thoughtful. It also won the award for the most comfortable beds. The Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo were only a short walk from the hotel. There is a plaza outside the entrance to the ruins where there is a small tourist market, ...

...  flowing skirts and white hats while carrying brightly coloured woven sacks over their shoulders. The Ollantaytambo ruins were once a stronghold for the Incas, albeit short-lived, until Spanish conquistadors arrived on the scene ...

OLLANTAYTAMBO/ SACRED VALLEY One of our favorite tiny Peruvian cities, Ollantaytambo's (population 2000) history details a lovely story about a great Inca King that wanted to marry a peasant girl from the village.  Forbidden love decided that ...

... in the world -- one variety has kernels about 3 times the size of ours -- and we had some at a market (with salt and hot sauce and a little cheese) and it was DELICIOUS. Will have to stock up on Cholula for next summer .... Also stopped at a wonderful ...

... to stop at a few of those once I rested up. I arrived in Olly shortly after 11:30 a.m. and my little hostel (Hotstel Sauce) could not have been more inviting or cosy. Gorgeous wood, high ceiling beams, a lovely fireplace and huge down comforters on the ...

... us the agricultural terraces were pre-Inca. We talked for quite awhile and what follows is the rest of what he told us. Ollantaytambo is named for the Inca General Ollantay (tambo means refuge). At that time the king was Pachacuteq. Pacha had a daughter ...

... 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 ...

... the Swede's adventures through South America the past 6wks.  Sounds like a lot of fun. Next we were off to Ollantaytambo for some more impressive Inca ruins & nice terracing examples.  From the air supposedly the site resembles a llama ...

Our 15 days living and volunteering in Ollantaytambo have come to an end and for this entry I´m going to do something a little different. As we were some of the initial volunteers with the Casa Hogar Del Sol NGO and may want to give future ...

... ; I had juanes again, but it tasted very different-had a lot of herbs in it, large pieces of chicken, and came with a peanut sauce and marinated garlic cloves and chili peppers on the side.  Noah had a cream of vegetable soup of some kind.  ...

... 5 am was hard, but it certainly proved to be worth it over the next 4 days! We all met up at the plaza close to our hotel at 5:45 to catch a wonderfully luxurious bus to Kilometer 82, where our trek of treks would begin. Along the way, we got to chat up ...

... ;oh-yan-tay-tambo”) which has some famous Inca ruins and terraces built high up on the hill overlooking the town. Ollantaytambo – the name is derived from the Tambo valley and the Inca general named Ollantay, who was imprisoned for wanting to ...

... also made from the purple corn. Then it was onwards to the day’s main attraction being the Inca ruins at Ollantaytambo. Yashira was wonderful in her detailed explanation of the history and why this was built here at the concurrence of two rivers ...

... to Peru), you need to go there. So we left Aguas Calientes this morning via train and headed back to Ollantaytambo. Our first stop was K'uychi Rumi (our hotel in the Sacred Valley) where we picked up our luggage (they only let you take one small bag with ...

... waterfall, meeting people from foreign lands for a long time.   12/11/05 Iguazu to  Buenos Aires / Cuzco /  Ollantaytambo   Left Iguazu and got into BA around 8pm with no problems.  Hotel Castelar didn't have a room for ...

... , tadcaster breweries, the moors! Sarah had just quilified as a doctor, also studying in London. we drove 1 hour to Ollantaytambo, or Ollantaytamboplace as David called it. got a few supplies, twix, sandwhich coca leaves etc. then drove another 30mins ...

... an included tour of the sacred valley... visitng many important incan sites such as Saqsaywaman, Pisac and then ended with Ollantaytambo. Saqsaywaman means in the local Quechua language "satisfied falcon" was a fortified town, and the huge stone blocks ...

... glued to the outside as we passed by mountains that, only a few days before, we were hiking on the far side of. From Ollantaytambo we caught a bus to Cusco. I thought I’d grab a nap, but the scenery was stunning as we travel through the valley. On ...

... lamb with rocoto relleño (stuffed pepper) and corn (so yummy and so excited to have lamb). We drove a little longer to Ollantaytambo where we parted ways with the group because they were headed back to Cuzco. Jonathon helped organize our tickets for the ...

... mate de coca, as I was feeling the altitude and needed the fuel!)  The we wandered around the old city of Ollantaytambo, where the neighborhoods are preserved almost as the Incas lived.  There are stone walls around groups of homes, and little ...