Urubamba is the place to be

Trip Start Aug 31, 2008
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Trip End Feb 02, 2009


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Where I stayed
Hostal Los Geranios
(Urubamba hotels)

Flag of Peru  , Sacred Valley,
Friday, September 26, 2008

Hello there from the heart of the sacred valley (thats what they tell me, anyway.) We took an early bus from Cuzco (big city, lots of tourists) to Urubamba (little place, but "town" to many surrounding smaller places) yesterday morning. Took about 2 hours and had a nice time playing "whats that smell" and enjoying the breathtaking, as always, scenery. We tried out a hostal that looked like a roadside dive and turned out to be wonderful, and this morning woke up with the chickens and stuffed ourselves into a van with about 20 other folks to ride out to some Incan ruins. We were riding to see the ruins, that is, everyone else was simply riding to work. After about 10 miles and sixty cents a piece, we arrived in a little town called Maras, walked alittle over 2 miles through beautiful farmland to Moray. It is thought among those folks who know better than I do that Moray was an ancient argricultural laboratory where the Incans experimented with plant hybrids to expand the reach of their empire. To Nathan and I, it honestly looked like an extraterrestrial docking station. Very eerie place. We sat and had a bag lunch and pondered over the spot, decided not to take the 12+ kilometer detour to some salt pans, and walked back the way we came. As we were leaving on foot, all the tour buses started flooding in. A nice feeling. Tomorrow, we hope to get to Ollayantaytambo, and Ill fill you in with some more ruins news.
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