On the way to the Inca Trail and had our first taster of Inca Ruins. We went to the towns of Pisac and Ollantaytambo (double ll is a y - it's all a bit welsh!)
Pisac was really beautiful. Lots of terraced hills, and made all the more mystical by a loan Andean flute player on the hill side. The Accoustics were so good you could hear him from everywhere.
Apparantly the town of Pisac was built in the shape of a Llama, I guess if you tip your head to one side and squint....
Jimmy (being white as white) was asked by several locals to pose for photos with them. We tried to charge them 1 soles like they do us but to no avail!
From here to our base for the night - Ollantaytambo. Another set of ruins and another chance for a group photo. Here the little children usually posing for photos were intrigued by our history lesson and muscled to the front of our group to peer upwards at the pictures (really cute!)
There was a celebration in Ollantaytambo with a fiesta in the square and an apparantely really famous Peruvian Singer. Personally I thought she was shocking, and the song seemed to go on forever.
Nerves were setting in for the trek ahead!
Pisac was really beautiful. Lots of terraced hills, and made all the more mystical by a loan Andean flute player on the hill side. The Accoustics were so good you could hear him from everywhere.
Apparantly the town of Pisac was built in the shape of a Llama, I guess if you tip your head to one side and squint....
Jimmy (being white as white) was asked by several locals to pose for photos with them. We tried to charge them 1 soles like they do us but to no avail!
From here to our base for the night - Ollantaytambo. Another set of ruins and another chance for a group photo. Here the little children usually posing for photos were intrigued by our history lesson and muscled to the front of our group to peer upwards at the pictures (really cute!)
There was a celebration in Ollantaytambo with a fiesta in the square and an apparantely really famous Peruvian Singer. Personally I thought she was shocking, and the song seemed to go on forever.
Nerves were setting in for the trek ahead!
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