Hike Pumamarca to Ollantaytambo

We leave from your Hotel towards Ollantaytambo. From there, a dirt road takes us up the Patacancha side Valley (1 hour) until reaching the community of Pallata. Here you can observe the native way of Quechua life, where crops and weavings are worked with simple hand tools that have been in use for centuries. A steep ascent to the road head will bring us to the small archaeological complex at Pumamarca, a small Inca settlement overlooking the Patacancha valley that managed the irrigation system of the Inca terracing below.

After visiting this site, we will begin hiking along and through the terracing complex of Choquecancha, with great views of the surrounding landscape. A three- hour descent through these farmed terraced areas will bring us to the outskirts of Ollantaytambo Village, where we will arrive for lunch. After lunch, we will visit the Ollantaytambo ruins, one of the few Inca towns that have survived much as the Incas designed it several hundred years ago. Here we can see Inca canchas, enclosures of multi-family living quarters that share just one exit to the street, ingenious stonework, cobbled streets, and an extensive communal water system that survives to this day.