I’ve made a number of separate posts from our recent trip to Peru / Lima / Cusco / Machu Picchu with Overseas Adventure Travel (thanks Ciro!), here they are in chronological order …
Lima to Cusco to Ollantaytambo to Urubamba
Ollantaytambo Sanctuary (Inca ruins)
Machu Picchu “within the walls”
Cusco Farmers Market and Moto Taxis
Our final day, leaving the hotel after lunchtime to fly back to Lima and then home, needed some careful travel planning due to it being a BIG festival day! Here are some photos before we left:
I’ve not included photos of celebrations we saw earlier in the trip, in Ollantaytambo, so I will include them here:
I also assembled various videos I recorded of the celebrations, to a single YouTube video:
Today, our last full day of the tour, we visited Inca ruins at Tipon which have a lot of working water courses / irrigation canals, and water “fountains”; very beautiful!
Here’s a couple videos of flowing water, also:
On the way back to our hotel we stopped to get an overview of Cusco:
After lunch we visited the fabulous giant stones at Saqsaywaman which in some ways is more impressive than Machu Picchu due to the enormous size of the stones which even so have been precision cut one to another!
We finished the day with a group dinner …
M&I / GBMINI 