Ollantaytambo Hostel

... them for trying. Grannies After the encounter with Granny Binbags in Huanchaco, the amusing granny encounters began to increase in Ollantaytambo (becoming epidemic in Cusco - see later). First up was Granny Witch-Face: this was a veritable old crone, ...

... never far away. We're staying in a lovely spot near the square: www.homesweethome-peru.com We'd recommend this hostel if you're  visiting Ollantaytambo. The guy that runs the place, Luis, is a cool guy. He speaks English and French and ...

... lunch with a local woman and visited various people in the community, including the local guinea pig farmer.  Yum.  Ollantaytambo is a very small and cute town.  Again it was an Inca town, but fortunatel wasn´t completely destroyed by the ...

... back to Cusco. Im gonna stay here again tonight cos the room is cheap, there is heaps of cheap food here and the woman at the hostel is hot as. I´ve just been mooching around today and taking it easy after the last couple of days. Was is it Plaza again ...

... of the ruins affording wonderful views of the fortress above. Winn had a 3 month trip planned for Peru and couldn't leave Ollantaytambo once she arrived. Shortly afterwards Casa de Wow was born. It was sun-down and we were ravenous after all the climbing ...

... to the place.  It was weird, Lima was a cool, modern Peruvian city; Cusco, a more traditional Peruvian city; Ollantaytambo was even more traditional.  It was small, dusty, charming.  And the Ollantaytambo ruins literally looming over the ...

... it.  When she got outside she gave it to a little dog. This morning we woke up early and visited the ruins at Ollantaytambo.  They were less extensive then those at Pisac, and much less high. The most exciting thing was witnessing a falling-out ...

... into the heart of Ollanta and he deposited me at the Plaza de Armas -- the main square, which every town has. Ollantaytambo couldn´t be more different than Urubamba! It has maintained it´s incredibly old look and feel, it´s beautiful, traditional ...

... charge us 10 soles when it should be 5-8 ish. So we got on because we didn´t know the other bus places for Ollantaytambo, and started talking to a girl from Canada or America called Courtney and she´s volunteering in Urubamba for a while, she was really ...

... 'ckten Zugfahrt mit grandiosem Animationsprogramm sind wir schließlich in der Dunkelheit gegen 19 Uhr in Ollantaytambo angekommen. Hier haben wir (mangels Alternativen) das teuerste Hostel unserer Tour gebucht. Für 44 $ pro Nacht haben wir dafür ein ...

... altitude conditions, in order to experiment with new, different crops or acclimatize existing known crops. Clever eh? We returned to Ollantaytambo and were reunited with our companions, who had all survived the trek (and the weather) and we swapped ...

We woke up about 6:30 and went out for a walk around town.  We then headed to the Ollantaytambo ruins which actually face our hostel.  We had the place pretty much to ourselves until the bus tours rolled in a couple hours later.  By then, ...

... lunch in smae restaurant as last night and had the best tomato soup the world has ever created- read in the garden of our hostel adn went for afternoon beers with jamie and co and randomly bumped into a guy off my first trip so we arranged to emet ...

... . The scenery was interesting, especially to see fields so high up. Lucky again we were dropped right in front of our hostel, KC Tambo, which was really impressive. We had a lovely room overlooking the bougainvillea filled garden and views up the mountain ...

... Inky kvuli jeho zvlastnimi zemepisnymi a klimatickymi vlastnostmi coz byl take duvod proc zde postavili vesnice Chinchero, Pisac, Urubamba a Ollantaytambo. Nase prvni zastavka byl maly trh na kraji silnice, kde se nam naskytl prvni pohled na Posvatne ...

... the river flow to lift them up! Every now and then I stop to let the contrasting views of the tiny Ollantaytambo and the huge surrounding mountains to sink in. Often I have my immediate surroundings just to myself, without seeing ...

... in Cuzco (on the Plaza de Armas), who will break your soles into smaller bills. Do this before leaving Cuzco. In Ollantaytambo stores and restaurants, I was forced to wait for change to be brought from another store, the pockets of an employee or I'd ...

... a short distance. People were harvesting in the fields, all by hand, ploughing the fields with a pair of bulls, etc. – very simple lifestyles. Ollantaytambo was really nice and we could have easily spent more time there but Machu Picchu beckoned. ...

Cusco - Ollantaytambo - Machu Picchu This one may take a little time to read, as there is so much to cover......... I will start with Cusco.....Latin America’s Archaeological Capital and Cultural Heritage of the World. The capital of the mighty Inca ...