On the way to Machu Pichu we decided to pay for a bus tour of the sacred valley and finish at Ollantaytambo, where we needed to catch the train to Machu Pichu from. I felt a little like a sheep in a herd being prodded along, and the challenge of making any sense of the words being fired at me like rapid machine gun fire made my head hurt by the end of the day, but the valley is definitely amazing. It is a fertile valley in the middle of altiplano desert where civilisations way before the Incas grew potatoes, corn, beans and farmed animals. It became an important area to the Incas as well, both agriculturally and spiritually, with terraces, fortresses, temples and ruins pretty much lining the whole valley. We visited two of the
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