Category: Unesco

Corpus Cristi Cusco

Corpus Cristi I fell in love with Cusco in 1990 on a tour to Machu Picchu and vowed to come back and spend more time there. I finally made my wish come true ten years later. Plaza de Armas is a beautiful square surrounded by its towering Cathedral, the imposing Jesuit church Compania de Jesus, […]

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Machu Picchu

It is very weird to arrive in a town (Agua Calientes) which has a railway track running through it. You have to step over the rails to get from one side to the other. It is very reminiscent of the old wild west towns and as we found out this place is rip off city […]

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Ollantaytambo

  Ollantaytambo is one of my favourite villages in the Sacred Valley. It is an old Inca site and the walls and the streets of the village are Inca. Many people come here from outlying villages and so it is very normal for people to be wearing the red Ponchos and hats of the Quechua […]

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