Peru Vacation Packages – Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Cusco

| February 5, 2012

www.fertur-travel.com Sacred Valley Tour The Sacred Valley follows the Urubamba river from the market town of Pisac, by means of the agricultural terraces that were as soon as the engine area of the Inca empire and finishes at Ollantaytambo, an virtually untouched Inca town, with an imposing temple looming over the valley. The day begins with a walk via the Pisac markets. The town is swathed in white tarpaulins 3 days a week, below them stall holders compete to sell conventional artworks and textiles, huge wood fired ovens bake empanadas and guinea pigs, and the central plaza is filled with ladies promoting fresh generate, with dozens of potato and corn varieties on show. On the ridge above, the ruined fortress of Inca Pisac protects the southern end of the Sacred Valley even though the Temple of the Sun shows the precision stonework Inca architects reserved for their most critical religious buildings. The road by means of the valley passes by way of the modest towns of Coya, Lamay and Calca, and the larger center of Urubamba, surrounded on all sides by the astonishing andenes the agricultural terraces that fueled the Inca Empire, and gave the Andes mountain range its name. The town Ollantaytambo offers an insight into the Inca way of life, with streets, houses and watercourses that survived the Spanish conquest. The imposing ridge top up to the stunning views from the Temple of the Sun is a string of gigantic terraces, a fortress strong sufficient to repel the Spanish. The unfinished temple at
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