Mike and I were finally on our trip to Peru October 30, 2009 - after 10 months of planning and lots of reseasrch, it was happening! Our first leg of the trip after arriving in Lima took us to the city of Cusco in the central Andes mountain region, where we hailed a taxi and headed for a village about an hour away on the western edge of the Sacred Valley. Ollantaytambo is a typical town with cobblestone streets but with an exceptional ancient Inca ruins tucked into a hillside. The view from our room was spectacular, looking directly into the Inca terraces! We decided to do the trip on our own and without any organized tour or group, that way we could spend as much time as we wanted at specific areas and leave room
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