January 24, 2010

Up for an early wake up call.  I got some rest but found that it was hard to sleep at the altitude.  We headed out to the Sacred Valley - not too far from Cusco.  In the morning we visited a couple of touristy markets in Pisac and then to Ollantaytambo, an Inka town still inhabited. 

We stopped along the way and I found a place that baked empanadas.  Check out that oven!

We stopped of for lunch at this beautifully situation restaurant.  It was a buffet and on it was alpaca and Corn Pudding - which was puprle. 

Our next stop was the temple of Ollantaytambo an Incan temple.  This was the highlight of the day and I climbed it!

Demonstration of weaving, which turned out to be pretty interesting.  They showed how to clean the wool, spin the wool and then die it using natural ingredients.

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Jim Gaidula