Ollantaytambo Hostels

... the Amazon, taxi and by foot - we will be covering over 35,000 miles by plane alone. We will be staying in hotels, hostels, B&Bs, an Amazon jungle lodge, a reed island homestay and with friends and family and our hosts from the hospitality club. A fairly ...

... properly.  Having taken the Sacred Valley tour from Cuzco, we left the bus in the town square of Ollantaytambo and found a nice room in one of the hostels right on the square.  Our room was a good size, the beds comfortable and warm and with a ...

... wealking as it was literally only 10km from our destination but we went round for safetys sake. We eventually arived in Ollantaytambo and there were no hostels open due to the fact it was 1am. We knocked on every door which advertised rooms but no ...

After our long day in Pisac we took the bus through the Urubamba (Sacred) Valley to Ollantaytambo. Literally the end of the road. From here we took the train to Aguas Calientes, the crapshack you must stay at to get first dibs on Machu Picchu. We arrived ...

... und das gleiche nochmal zurueck im vollen Backpackerzug nach Cusco. Die Einheimischen zahlen nur 4 Euro... ============================ Ollantaytambo Dieser typische Inka-Ort liegt 93 Kilometer von Cusco entfernt und wurde zu Ehren des ...

... place we really liked and get some good rest, food, et al... Sooooo...we took an illegal collectivo for about 4 hours back to Ollantaytambo.  It was a rough ride, the bus didn´t have permits to take passengers (or some such shit) through St Maria so ...

... private bathroom!) and then as we re-loaded onto the bus bought a slice of cake from a street vendor!  Then we proceded round the hostels of Cusco, and at about 8.30 arrived about 1km out of town to pick up our guides, and sat, and sat some more, ...

... We didn't stay at Cuzco the first day. The plan for the first day was: - Go to sacred valley straight - Catch a train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes and stay there that night. Since we landed at 7.15AM, we went to the hotel where we were planning ...

... até pra mim, fui pra estação de trem e encontrei o casal no meio do caminho! Mundinho pequeno..... fomos pra Ollantaytambo de trem e lá nossos onibus eram diferentes.... nos despedimos...... cheguei em Cusco mais ou menos meia noite e fui dormir.... ...

... , but also crops such as corn and quinoa were known to exist.  Another major stop for us was the town of Ollantaytambo, a small village near the start of the inca trail, which also has a beautiful inca ruin built into its hillside overlooking the ...

... sun temple.  Unfortunately, despite the steep climb to get up there, it was also overrun by tourists. After Ollantaytambo, we stopped at a traditional Peruvian weaving village where we were shown how the locals weaved cloth in the traditional way ...

... we took a tour through the sacred valley including visits to 3 Inka sites. hat was really nice and we saw the ruins of Pisac, Ollantaytambo and an old church. Ollantaytambo was the mos faszinating one, i thought. It is a cute little town with amazing Inka ...

... on my Santa Cruz trek. We hiked through two small towns before reaching the famous "oasis," a collection of basic hostels at the bottom of the canyon that have swimming pools and palm trees and hammocks for everyone. Very chill, very ...

... it can´t top Angkor or the temples of Central America. Instead I tried to book a bike trip down the MegAvalanche course at Ollantaytambo but the cheapest I found was $90 for one run with a crap old hardtail bike, $150 with a full suspension of which the ...

... 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 ...

... nous verra quitter Cusco pour une randonnée de plusieurs jours dans la vallée sacrée, soit Pisaq, Urumbamba, Chinchero, Moray, Ollantaytambo et finalement Machu Picchu que nous ferons par train d`Ollantaytambo. Les ruines de Pisaq sont très belles ...

... . This is a superb Inca ruin and well worth seeing as a prelude to Machu Pichu. See: http://www.rediscovermachupicchu.com/ollantaytambo.htm for a detailed description of the fortress. Then the train to Aquas Calientes and ready to take the first bus up at ...

... to Ollantaytambo where there will be a private bus waiting to pick you up and bring you to Cusco. (Reason - Train ticket till Ollantaytambo is cheaper than to Cusco). Return journey will be 3 hours at the most) General things - Water is included in ...

... also faces of some Inca gods carved into the mountain opposite the ruins where their storehouses were situated. After leaving Ollantaytambo we travelled to Chinchero, another Inca village. We visited the colonial church there that had been built over ...