Valle Sagrado

The Sacred Valley runs from Ollantaytambo to Pisac and was named as such because it was the perfect place for agriculture at Inca times (stable temperatures with a sustained source of water). It boasts an uncountable number of ruins in a beautiful natural setting.

We visited picturesque Ollantaytambo (a former Inca administrative center and control point with extensive agricultural terraces, storehouses, religious buildings, ...), the circular terraces Moray (an agricultural laboratory where the Incas experimented with plants & crops as each terrace has a different temperature), the Salineras of Maras and Chinchero.Read more