Chinchero, Peru
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Started to work my way around the Sacred Valley route around
Cusco using local buses. The first place being the small village of
Chinchero which has a colonial church built on the foundations of an Inka Royal Estate, although the village was packed for Sunday market, making getting on and off buses a bit of a nightmare. The second site was Moray, thought to be an agricultural laboratory or experimental centre where different strains of maize crops where bred for different climatic conditions. It consisted of a number of deep, terraced circular pits which are supposed to recreate different micro-climates. From here walked down through the mountains to a steep mountain valley filled with Inka era saltpans (for evaporating of saline water to give salt) which are still in use. Finally walked down to the Rio
Urubamba in the Sacred Valley and into Urubamba in the dark to get a minibus up to
Ollantaytambo where I spent the night. Its the last village with a road connection before
Machu Picchu in the Sacred Valley (where we started the Inka Trail last time in
Peru).
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