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Ollantaytambo is located inside the principal tourist attractions that are in Cusco and Sacred Valley of the Incas.It is one of the best places for tourism and tours that can be diversified by the vast range of tourist attractions that contains Ollantaytambo, with picturesque places that preserve the beauty and distribution of Inca times in its streets and paved ...
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Ollantaytambo was a strategic military, agricultural and religious place to manage and control the Sacred Valley of the Incas, this follows from the constructions that were presumed agricultural reservoirs and for military use as walls and watchtowers (probably to protect against jungle ethnicities). There are 150 steps that separate the top from lower part and observe the perfect carved ...
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Within this area you have many alternatives into living Inca town that is Ollantaytambo which is the first of all how as inevitable point to forward and visiting all archaeological sites that contain the religious fortress of Ollantaytambo. The present town stands in the same spot where the urban sector was in Inca times. And it's really interesting because ...
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Considered the Wiracochan or Tunupa, The Ollantaytambo Guardian, which was described as a gifted character powers beyond our judgment, also was described anthropomorphically of high size, short hair, dresses in the old style, representing the Willaq Uma or high priest who kept the cosmic vitality to Wiracocha, robe and bonnet with four points.
This iconic character was represent in one ...
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Within all archaeological attractions of Ollantaytambo, with a exotic flora and fauna of this living Inca town. The Willoq community offers another kind of alternative tourism which could be called Experiential Tourism, because it offers its visitors customs and lifestyles that remained over time, in a little words this place is one of the last towns where you can ...
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The Amazing Ruins
In this place we find Mañay Racay Square or better known as Aracma Ayllu ceremonial and was a ceremonial part in Inca Times. Also, you can see the octagonal homes were divided in neighborhoods known as the Qosqo Ayllu (Cusco City).
The Fortress or Real House of the Sun
Beautiful place that is composed by 17 over imposed terraces ...
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The pillar and ancient Inca bridge still remain standing and supports now a modern bridge. This bridge was made of stone and mortar, which was one of the many techniques used by Peruvian ancestry.
The bridge flies over the Vilcanota River and serves as access for the communities that live on the other bank where Ollantaytambo is located. ...
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This place was dedicated to the extraction and carved the stones that were used for the construction of Ollantaytambo and many surrounding enclosures. This place is located to nine miles from the Inca town of Ollantaytambo and has three groups of quarries: Molle Pucro, Sirkusirkuyoc (it was the largest of the three), shows the evidence of having been in ...
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To get to Ollantaytambo you can access by train and by highway, our services are only private and by highway. If you are interested in buying train tickets or taking a train tour, visit the following page: Ollantaytambo & Machu Picchu Tour.
Cusco - Pisaq - Ollantaytambo Private
2:30 hrs
$65.00
Cusco - Chinchero - Ollantaytambo Private
2:30 hrs
$65.00
Cusco - Pachar - Ollantaytambo Private
2:30 ...
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The route begins outside of Ollantaytambo along the old road to Cqobamba until we find a junction in Munaypata zone, following the Patakancha creek with direction to high level, where is located a great quantity of agricultural terraces are still cultivated, many of them still preserved their aqueducts. Along the path of right riverside and after about two hours ...
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When we travel in Ollantaytambo is impossible not to see Pinkuylluna hill that containing something out of place, which are the impressive Inca deposits and the location of these deposits we find extravagant or uncomfortable and surreal view that you can see, but according to the Bernabé Cobo chronicler and many of his investigations showed everyone that the Incas ...
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