Day 25/78 from Cusco ins heilige Tal

At 9 am we left Cusco with our guide and our driver . We are happy with our individual tour, everything is perfect organised

Todays destination is the village of urubamba..this is the outgoing station to Mach Picchu.

What did we see on the way to it?

At first we stopped at a place, were we saw the terraces of the Inca to do the agriculture. It is amazing their perfection in all thins of life.

We made a stop with a nice view down to secret Valley.
Next stop is amazing:

In a very sheltered place the Inkas made an agricultural test station, adepting plants and fruits used to the climate of Amazonas forests
To the clima of 3000 m and more of altitude .
The last stop was a salt factory.
Out of a mountain comes salty water. It is lead into basins. After filling up about 6 cm, the water flow is stopped, the sun dries the basin and pure salt is left, this proceeded several weeks till the us 30 cm of salt to be harvested.

Secret valley or holy valley in Spanish. Why this name?
Nothing to do with any god.
No the secret of The Valley are 3 god given components.
The whole valley is covered by high mountains againsedu wind

The is water by the urubamba river

There is best soil allowing three harvests a year
First vegetable
Than Mais
At least wheat

We stay in the hotel tambo del Inka, a first class hotel , which does not really fit in the sourrounding, but nice.

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