“Inca ruins” Rindy’s photos around Ollantaytambo, Peru (sacred valley)
Preview of Rindy’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Ollantaytambo, Peru Entry Title: “Inca ruins” Entry: “Ater leaving the hotel we first drop in on a market. I love the colorful clothing and products, but I think I might be reluctant to purchase any meat there. I start wondering where our hotel gets its meat. Later we visit a small village very high up in the mountains where they make wonderfully colored patterned woven textiles. We buy some for asking price! It was strange going up there – we were already high up, and travelled much higher. It seemed to us that we’d be heading up to rugged mountain tops, like our Rockies, but as we got even higher, there were more pleateaus and more farming of the red soil. It’s a pretty amazing place. After the high in the sky textile place, we head to Ollantaytambo, an Inca settlement that has been continuously occupied since its inception. There are are great ruins – steps running up the side of a mountain that apparently served as a temple or for some other religious purpose. They say that the rock walls that look like rubble rock piled up are for ordinary purposes, but the rock that is cut perfectly and fitted together without mortar was the temple areas. Most of us climb to the top, look around, and are amazed by the work that went into this, and the views.” Read and see more at: www.travelpod.com …