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Trip to Cusco, Urubamba, and the Sacred Valley

By : MILAGROS POLO
Trip Begins January 10, 2009
Trip Ends January 15, 2009

Travels through Cusco to the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, the San Pedro market for fresh goods, the local market in Urubamba, and Samanapac Hotel in Ollantaytambo.
  • Jan 10 - Cusco
  • Jan 12 - Urubamba, Peru
  • Jan 13 - Sacred Valley
See my photos : Cusco and the Sacred Valley

I went to: Peru, Cusco, Sacred Valley
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My Photo Album: Cusco and the Sacred Valley
Juice vendors at San Pedro MarketWoman vendor at the local San Pedro Market Beautiful floral arrangements at the local San Pedro Market Indigenous women selling medicinal plants at San Pedro markeDoing the dyeing with natural plants at the CTTCGuide Ayul explains how to get the differents colors Textiles on display at CTTCSelling pigs at the very local Urubamba marketLocal people on a market day in UrubambaThe very local Urubamba marketLocal people going back to home in a local pick upVendors selling herbs and medicineMan selling chicks out of his truck at Urubamba marketLocal vegetable vendors at Urubamba local marketChicks at the market of UrubambaOur driver in Cusco who is a dancer put on his custome for usRoom at Samanapac Hotel Hotel bathroomSamanapac Hotel courtyard in OllantaytamboView from one of the rooms of Samanapac hotelGardens of the Samanapac hotel in OllantaytamboDining room at the Samanapac hotelSamanapac hotel ceramic classroomMeat vendors selling innards, tongues, bull penuses, etc. Aligator skulls, cactus, and crafts!Weaving the textiles by hand at the CTTCMilagros visits the Center for Traditional Textiles of CuscoWeavers from the CTTCSACSAYHUAMAN RUINS IN CUSCOSACSAYHUAMAN RUINS IN CUSCOMILAGROS AND LOCAL LITTLE GIRL IN PISACLOCAL LITTLE GIRL IN PISAC RUINSMILAGROS IN MARAS INCAS SALT MINESTYPICAL STREE OF OLLANTAYTAMBO TOWNOLLANTAYTAMBO RUINSSACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS SCENERYLOCAL KIDS EN PISAC MARKET