Hotel Kiswar Lodge Ollantaytambo provides a lots of different kind of activities around the Sacred Valley of Incas.
As well as cycle tours, in archaeological spots, craft market with ceramic and peruvian textiles.
We offer both private and shared tours from 3 to 8 people and 12 to 17 people.
Our tour guides and drivers are professionals and responsible.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RUINS TOUR BY CAR
- Ñaupa Iglesia at the Pachar
- Munaypata andenes de miskapocyu Marca Qocha Huilloc Patacancha.
- Abra Málaga where altitud is more than 3.400m.
- Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras with visiting Miradores, Urubamba and return back to the Ollantaytambo.
- Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras / Chinchero / Cusco.
- Ollantaytambo / Moray / Maras Salineras / Pisac Mercado / Cusco.
- Ollantaytambo / Pisac Ruinas return to the Ollantaytambo.
- Tipon, Pikillacta and Andahuaylillas .
- Sacsayhuaman / Qenqo / Pucapucara / Tambomachay.
- Handmade market tours of Ollantaytambo, visiting tipical markets, textile making demonstration in Gotowincho, Urubamba’s market and visit of Ceramical Factory in Urubamba.
- Thermal’s water tour in Localmayo.
- Thermal’s water tour in Lares .
- Thermal’s water tour in Raya.
- Bicycle tour in from Purmamarca to Ollantaytambo.
- Bicycle tour in from Abra Málaga to Tanccac.
- Bicycle tour in from Moray to the Salineras Pichingo and final to the Tarabamba.
If you want to book of the indicated tours, please contact us : 51 983980079 / 957779510 or directly from the Hotel Kiswar
Naupa Iglesia
5km from Ollantaytambo, in Pachar. Passing town call Socma on the way , you have to walk 2.3km along the road. A few meters high are the archaeological remains «Naupa Iglesia», a Queshua word that refers to a temple. It is a two-story construction with 8 niches and designs very similar to those of the Ñuesta bathroom in the Ollantaytambo Fortress. Possibly it was a place of worship to the moon and simulates a cross and altar compared to that of a Christian temple.
Perolniyoq
At the community of Socma, passing 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
.5km from Ollantaytambo.
Choqana, Queshua 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 strong place of administrative control with special provision of water, food deposits and living quarters for sentinels. The passage to Ollantaytambo had to be through this fort, since it was its main access.
Cachiccata
10 km from 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
1km from Ollantaytambo.
The entire place that includes a cyclopean wall and the fort has taken the name of Inkapintay, a Spanishized hybrid word referring to the Inka painter, because in this fort at the top and at about 15 meters high we can see some beautiful rock paintings that are at 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.
Munaypata
km from Ollantaytambo.
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 the road forks towards the Patakancha valley that goes to the town of Ocobamba, a town that belongs to the province of La Convencion. Munaypata 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 through Inca aqueducts that connect to the Patacancha River.
Choquebamba
5 km from Ollantaytambo in the Patacancha River Valley.
Also called Muskapucyo. Inca terraces built on a vertical drop of more than 700 meters. This type of architecture was an art of passage 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.
Marcacocha
9km from Ollantaytambo on the way to Huilloc.
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.
Pumamarka
A 7km de Ollantaytambo.
Pumamarka «Pueblo Puma» está a 3600 metros en lo alto de una colina. Fue baluarte defensivo de Ollantaytambo, ubicado en un sito estratégico que domina los valles del río Patakancha y Yuraq Mayu. Permitía el control peatonal y la distribución de las aguas por medio de un canal de piedra. Al borde del principicio 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 Patakancha existen otros edificios similares. Se dice que Pumamarka vista desde lo más alto de la montaña tiene efectivamente forma de puma.
Huilloc
12km 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. It is in Huilloc that the finest textiles of the «Sacred Valley» are produced.
