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Ollantaytambo

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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History

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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Tourism in Ollantaytambo

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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Tunupa

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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Willoq

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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Fortress

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. The Fortress or Real House of the Sun Beautiful place that is composed by 17 over imposed terraces of pink ...
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Inca Bridge

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. ...
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Cachicata

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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Access Routes

To Ollantaytambo only exist land routes and by car. They are: ROUTE TIME PRICE 1. Cusco - Pisaq - Ollantaytambo Private 1:30 hrs Private S/. 10.00 Public 2:00 hrs Public S/. 5.00 2. Cusco - Urubamba - Ollantaytambo Private 1:00 hrs Private S/. 6.00 Public 1:30 hrs Public S/. 3.00 3. Cusco - Alta - Ollantaytambo Private 0.50 min Private S/. 15.00 Public 1:00 hr Public S/. 10.00 ...
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Pumamarka

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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Pincuylluna

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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