Nearing Ollentaytambo: Some pretty sights / by Kylie Fuentes



Before we made the final ascent to Machu Picchu, we had the joyful task of descending from 4500m above sea level to the second most important Inca town in the Valle Sagrado - Ollentaytambo. Not even a big red cow with bull horns was gonna stop me from getting into town for a bottle of Coke. Sooooo sick of water by this stage.

I don't know if it is just because I was so keen to see some sort of actual civilisation after days in the wilderness, but my goodness, some of the things my camera captured were a sight for sore eyes. In all fairness, the town is set in a pretty breathtaking location, waterfront against a big flowing river and set in the Valley of a huge mother mountain range.