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Peru - Ollantaytambo and Moray

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We caught the bus up to Ollantaytambo in the Inca Sacred Valley of the Urubamba River. The Sacred Valley runs from Cusco up to Machu Picchu. The journey lasts about 2 1/2hours passing through the rather ugly town of Urubamba, named after the river. The town itself is grim but it sits under mountains and the Veronica Glacier, so we could see a snow capped peak. Urubamba was apparently, in the 70's, the home of a bohemian set and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards spent time here when Jagger was filming for Werner Herzog in Fitzcarraldo (he never did appear in it as he went on a tour with the Rolling Stones and was not able to keep to the filming schedule). Mairi had stomach problems and so when we reached Ollantaytambo we took things fairly easily. The bus stopped by the railway station where the line runs up to Agua Calientes and Machu Picchu. We walked down towards the town and the Inca site following a mountain stream The site is incredibly impressive with Inca terracing ascendi