13/6/09 We left everything we wouldn't need for the Inca Trail at the hotel, and left for Ollantaytambo with our duffle bags and daybags at 11.40 am. For the rest of the day until we got to Ollantaytambo we explored the Sacred Valley. We visited a very well preserved Inca site at Pisaq, used as an astronomical site, and stopped at another little village where GAP's charity, Planeterra, have provided jobs for the local men as Inca Trail porters and paid for alpacas for the women to use their wool to make textiles and clothes. They dye the wool completely naturally, using local herbs and plants, and in fact we managed to see some wool in the process of being dyed in a clay or stone stove over an open fire. Last of all we looked round the impressive astrological ruins at Ollantaytambo, which from a viewpoint at the top of the mountain opposite look like a giant llama apparently, before settling into our hotel.