Travel Blog Photos from Pisaq (138)
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![]() | Pisaq, Peru |
... was market day in Pisaq, a town on the way back to Cusco from where the train left us at Ollantaytambo. The Pisaq Sunday market is a small colourful indigenous market selling local handicrafts to the tourists, plus fruit, veg and other food to the locals. ...
... . Set high above the valley floor, patched by patterned fields and rimmed by vast terracing, the stonework and panoramas at Pisaq's Inca citadel are magnificent. Terraces, water ducts and steps have been cut out of solid rock, and in the upper sector of ...
... via a few villages in the Sacred Valley. We took a nice crowded local bus for a few hours to the market town of Pisaq, then after a browse, lunch and a quick visit to the nearby ruins we took another bus to Ollantaytambo, a beautiful and quaint village ...
... . I realised how silly I was being and decided to go out. The next day, we visited the beautiful ruins of Pisaq and Ollantantambo. ´Tambo´ in Spanish means ´lodging place´. So Ollantantambo means ´the place General Ollantay rested.´ (or kept residence at). ...
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Suggestions For Sacred Valley/Cusco Please!
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, 15:54:10
... . Sun. 18th. Get to Pisac early before the tour buses. Enjoy the market, then get a taxi to ascend to the Pisaq archeological site. Amazing place. Don't drink the water from the Inca cistern! Walk back to Pisac and return to Ollyantaytambo Mon. ...
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