Hotel Kiswar Lodg Ollantaytambo offers a variety of activities around the Sacred Valley of the Incas, including cycle tours, visits to archaeological sites, and exploring craft markets with ceramics and Peruvian textiles.
We offer both private and shared tours for groups of 3 to 8 people and 12 to 17 people. Our tour guides and drivers are professional and responsible.
1. Ñaupa Iglesia at the Pachar
2. Munaypata andenes de miskapocyu Marca Qocha Huilloc Patacancha.
3. Abra Málaga where altitud is between 3600 – 4500 meters above sea level.
4. Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras with visiting Miradores, Urubamba and return back to the Ollantaytambo.
5. Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras / Chinchero / Cusco.
6. Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras / Pisac Mercado / Cusco.
7. Ollantaytambo / Pisac Ruinas return to the Ollantaytambo.
8. Tipon, Pikillacta and Andahuaylillas.
9. Sacsayhuaman / Qenqo / Pucapucara / Tambomachay.
10. Handmade market tours of Ollantaytambo, visiting tipical markets, textile making demonstration in Gotowincho, Urubamba’s market and visit of Ceramica Factory in Urubamba.
11. Thermal’s water tour in Localmayo.
12. Thermal’s water tour in Lares.
13. Thermal’s water tour in Raya.
14. Bicycle tour in from Purmamarca to Ollantaytambo.
15. Bicycle tour in from Abra Málaga to Tanccac.
16. Bicycle tour in from Moray to the Salineras Pichingo and final to the Tarabamba.
Naupa Iglesia
Naupa Iglesia, Templo de la luna ( Moon Temple) is 5 km from Ollantaytambo, in Pachar. Passing the town you will walk 2.3 km along the road. A few meters high up are the archaeological remains “Naupa Iglesia”, a Queshua word Naupa means ancient. . Possibly it was a place of worship to the moon and simulates a cross and altar compared to that of a Christian temple.
Perolniyoq
Perolniyog is at the community of Socma, passing the small town called Pachar. Archaeological complex and a waterfall of more than 50 meters. Then going down to Choquetacarpo there is a stone canal of about 15km that carries water to the Cachiccata quarries. All the archaeological remains are in good condition and show the magnitude of what the Ollantaytambo area was and that they were connected by these towns until reaching Machu Picchu.
Choqana
Choqana, Quechua word that indicates the place where it is knocked down or thrown. It corresponds to a sign located on the left bank of the Urubamba River before Ollantaytambo. It was a gate, a place of administrative control with a special provision of water, food deposits and living quarters for sentinels. The passage to Ollantaytambo had to be through this gate, since it was its main access. It’s 1.5km from Ollantaytambo.
Cachiccata
Cachiccata is 10 km from the Ollantaytambo. Rhyolite stone quarries located in the woodland near the top of a sector of the mountain range on the left side of the Ollantaytambo Valley. Its name means “hillside with salt” and it was with its stones that the Royal House of the Sun and the Temple of the Sun were built. Several generations of Ollantaytambinos have worked since pre-Hispanic times to extract gigantic stones, previously working them and then moving them by rolling and pushing them to the river, passing them to the other bank, ascending them and reaching the patio of the Temple of the Sun to finally be sculpted by all the sides so that the joints fit together with great precision. There are enormous and semi-elaborate lithic pieces along the way that the Quechua settlers poetically and figuratively called “tired stones.” No one really knows how and why they fell by the wayside.
Inkapintay
The entire place that includes a cyclopean wall and pre-Inca paintings that have taken the name of Inkapintay, a Spanishized hybrid word referring to Inka painting, because in this door at the top and about 15 meters high we can see some beautiful cave paintings that are about to disappear due to weathering. The wall also has towers, roads, aqueducts, enclosures and from afar, on the inside there is a wide aqueduct that still provides water; This wall was another defensive barrier and made the valley hermetically closed in this place. There is also another long and high semi-clopean wall that has a door opening. Unfortunately, in the 20th century, portions of the monument were dynamited, especially the wall in its front and last part to give space to the railway line and the current paved road. It is located 1 km from Ollantaytambo.
Muñaypata
Community that is currently inhabited by about 20 families, residents of Ollantaytambo who continue to farm on the large number of terraces found in this place. Here begins the road to the Patacancha valley that goes to the town of Ocobamba, a town that belongs to the province of La Convencion. Muñaypata is mainly formed by platforms that border the right bank of the Patacancha River until joining the platforms of the Ollantaytambo fortress, covering an area of approximately 2km. On these platforms, corn, potatoes and vegetables are basically grown, which are irrigated by Inca aqueducts that connect to the Patacancha River. Muñaypata 1 km from Ollantaytambo.
Choquebamba
Also called Muskapucyo. Inca terraces built on a vertical drop of more than 700 meters. This type of architecture was an art of landscaping in Inca architecture, in which they did not violate the topography of the land but rather enhanced its most relevant aspects. Their dominance over nature was moderated by the veneration they felt for the “pacha mama” (mother earth) and they transformed the arid slopes into beautiful gardens for cultivation and protection, in addition to taking advantage of the various ecological zones at different levels. altitudes. Aware that certain topographic configurations created climates that were more benign than the surrounding climate, they built this type of platforms in this area since they were protected from the winds and their temperature is better. It’s located 5 km from Ollantaytambo in the valley of the Patacancha river.
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Pumamarka “Pueblo Puma” está a 3600 metros en lo alto de una colina. Fue un punto militar inca que funcionaba como punto de defensa de Ollantaytambo, ubicado en un sito estratégico que domina los valles del río Patakcancha y Yuraq Mayu. Permitía el control peatonal y la distribución de las aguas por medio de un canal de piedra. Al borde del precipicio del río Yuraq Mayu existen tres edificios idénticos e independientes con las partes superiores deterioradas, dispuestos en línea que eran “qolqas” (almacenes). Tienen vanos cortos desde el piso para sacar los alimentos, ya que por ellas sólo ingresarían personas arrastrándose. En el borde que da al río Patacancha existen otros edificios similares. Se dice que Pumamarka vista desde lo más alto de la montaña tiene efectivamente forma de puma.{/es_PE}
Marcacocha
Archaeological group of a possible Inca residence, composed of more than 16 rectangular enclosures along platforms and an esplanade. It is a typical construction of the classic Inca style. In this place a colonial chapel was built whose structure and thatched roof are very original, which has to be replaced every year. In this chapel there is a boy of Spanish origin named Melchor who is venerated by the residents of the area. This child participates in the Three Kings Day celebration in the month of January in the town of Ollantaytambo where he is carried on the shoulders of the parishioners. The compadres festival is also celebrated here, prior to the carnivals and the main dance is that of the wallatas, which simulate the courtship of these birds. It’s located 9km from Ollantaytambo.
Pumamarka
Pumamarka “Pueblo Puma” is at 3600 meters on top of a hill and 7 km from Ollantaytambo. It was an Inca military point that functioned as a defense point for Ollantaytambo, located in a strategic location that dominates the valleys of the Patakcancha and Yuraq Mayu rivers. It allowed pedestrian control and the distribution of water through a stone channel. On the edge of the precipice of the Yuraq Mayu River there are three identical and independent buildings with deteriorated upper parts, arranged in a line that were “qolqas” (warehouses). They have short openings from the floor to take out food, since only people would enter crawling through them. On the edge that faces the Patacancha River there are other similar buildings. It is said that Pumamarka seen from the top of the mountain is actually shaped like a puma.
Huilloc
Huilloc is 12 km from Ollantaytambo. Town of about 800 inhabitants, rustic buildings and textile tradition. In most of the entrances to the houses you can see women working on their looms nailed to the ground and which are arranged according to the size and shape that the fabric will have. Their hands preserve techniques whose origins are lost in time and the instruments they use have been the same for hundreds of years. The finishes have an endless variety of models, textures, abstract figures, strange emblems and many forms that are a waste of imagination, together with the time dedicated by each weaver, they are something worthy of admiration. The best of all is that they use natural dyes and each design is original and unrepeatable. Huilloc is where, one of the finest textiles of the “Sacred Valley” are produced.
