A valley sacred with tourist overload!

Our 12th day of our Peru trip was a full day trip through the Sacred Valley, which is the Urubamba valley in Peru where many Inca temples, palaces and villages were built. Most of the times the Spanish conquerers built a church on top of it to show their power!
The Inca also had impressive plant laboratories which were huge round terraces used to make plants more cold resistant by only taking the best seeds at the bottom (where it's up to 6 degrees warmer) and plant those one lever higher. This was repeated several times to adapt the plants' resistance. Smart!
Another genius Inca place was their salt mines, where they let the water, coming from a tiny, but very salty stream, evaporate in big cubes to cultivate salt. An impressive sight.
In Ollantaytambo, we visited the largest archeological site of the Sacred Valley, unfortunately filled with too many tourist, letting us feel like sardines in a tin! This small village is clearly suffering from this amount of tourists!
So, we were really happy to leave this village by train to Aguas Caliente, the place where our visit to Machu Picchu will start tomorrow!Read more