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| Locals in traditional clothing. Note the authentic Winnie the Pooh shirt :) |
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| Guinea pig farm |
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| Terraces at Pisac |
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| View over Pisac valley |
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| Getting closer to the old city of Pisac |
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| Those ruins were granaries to store the crop they cultivated from the terraces |
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| The granaries |
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| Sacred temple. Note the perfect stone walls. |
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| More temple and a view over the valley |
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| The round building in the middle was a very precise sun calendar (still is) |
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| The sun calendar (Intihuatana) |
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| Local with her baby |
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| Typical flaura |
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| These were the gate to the sacred city of Pisac. It was the only door of the city that could be closed. Note the holes in the walls: they were used to tie up the cross shaped wooden made lock. |
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| Local taxi (those are every where in small towns) |
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| Ollantaytambo gate |
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| Terraces at Ollantaytambo |
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| Through these gates, you can access the princess bath (although this might just have been a fountain) |
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| Accross the valley, these granaries were acting as natural fridges, due to the strong cold winds. |
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| View over today's Ollantaytambo city. Note that people still live in houses that were built in Inca time, which makes Ollantaytambo the last and only living Inca city. |
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| Local flaura |
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| Another part of the town. Note the protesters on the left, and the very Spannish bull-fighting arena on the right. |
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| Pachamama temple in Ollantaytambo. Note the remains of the Andean cross (Chacana) on the middle wall, and the remains of statues on the right one, probably pumas. |
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| Part of the sacred place. Note the funny vegetation on the hill. |
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| Perfect walls and ... perfect Netta :) |
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| Perfect walls with niches (for offers) |
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| Some of these stones weight 80 tons |
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| More vegetation. |
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| There again |
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| Along the road, red mountains |
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| Other landscapes |
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| Chinchero. Textile handcraft, demonstrated. |
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| All the colours were found in nature, sometimes from a plant, sometimes a fruit, or a mix |
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| Note the tools, the drawings (indicating the place), the finition on the side (indicating who it is destined to, ie. a princess) |
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| Guinea pigs, shaved and ready to be cooked |
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| The standing lady explains that red colour can be obtained from a cactus parasite. Mixed with lemon, it gives many variation. Pure, it was also used as a lipstick, last 24H, kiss proof :) |
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| It almost looks like the Alps |
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| Chinchero ruins. Note that in this part, walls aren't perfect, it wasn't a temple or a sacred place. |
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| Market on the church plaza. Note the Inca walls behind. |
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