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Sacred Valley
So we set off to the Sacred Valley of the Incas early on the Thursday morning. We went to some ruins and then were shown a demonstration of how traditional Peruvian clothes are made from Alpaca wool and dyed. I purchased some standard gap year tragedy clothing and then we went off to see more ruins. The next part of this blog is mostly about ruins.. We then went to Ollantaytambo town to our hotel, dropped our stuff and went to see the last ruins of the day. Apparently these ruins were all more important than Machu Picchu in Incan times, but unlike Machu Picchu they were discovered by the Spanish conquistadores and destroyed. There were a lot of steps at these ruins which were hard enough so we were starting to worry about the 4 day inca hike at this point. We then headed back to the (slightly grimy) hotel, had a couple of beers and had an early night.
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