CHINCHERO

Chinchero.- Mainly visited for its Sunday market, which is about half for tourists (handicrafts) and half for local people who go there to trade goods and produce and to socialise. The main square of the town is famous for its massive Inca wall, set with ten of the largest surviving trapezoidal niches. This was probably the base wall of a noble’s palace.

The church is colonial style, the walls and ceiling decorated with multicolored flowers and patterns. The views from Chinchero are tremendous: rolling high plains in the distance topped by the dramatic snowpeaks of the Cordillera Vilcabamba and the Urubamba range.