Land of Hidden TreasuresPISAQ and OLLANTAYTAMBO
Itinerary
- Pisaq: Guided visit of handicraft workshops, as well as of the Handicraft Market, where a huge diversity of handicraft and souvenirs are on sale, while rustic wood-burning dried-mud ovens still bake bread and pastries, in the old traditional way.
- In Pisaq´s church, Mass is said in Quechua, so that local communities´ Quechua speaking authorities might assist to it, dressed in fine ponchos, with their adorned hats, and carrying their embossed silver scepter or “vara”, as they come in, accompanied by their suite of men who blow in marine shells, called “pututu”, that produce prolonged sounds, to open their way through the crowd.
- Then, our journey goes on along the Incas´ Sacred Valley, with lunch, at a tourist restaurant, on the way.
- Ollantaytambo: It is an Andean village that still conserves an urban area, dating back to the Incan period, with a symmetrical layout, in which straight streets, with water canals that run by the houses´ entrance doorways, as these are inhabited by descendants of the Incan people, and are like a live interpretation museum.
- Ollantaytambo´s Terraces: This is a set of benched terraces that ascend the mountain slope, on top of which the Incas built colossal temples and palaces, of exceptional beauty, with cyclopean megaliths, that leave locals and foreigners in awe.
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