{"id":2447,"date":"2015-02-12T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T04:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2015-08-29T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T01:09:18","slug":"sacred-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2015\/02\/12\/sacred-valley","title":{"rendered":"Inca Sacred Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the &#8220;cutest village in Peru&#8221;, at the heart of the sacred valley filled with ruins of Inca fortresses and still used stone buildings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ollantaytambo follows the original town layout, and at 8,000 feet is a better place to acclimate than Cuzco. We spent several days here exploring the impressive fortress (the site of one of the few battles where the Spanish conquerors were defeated), hunting for alpaca steaks (apparently out of season), and enjoying the tremendous views and constantly changing cloud cover.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7365\/15925551283_cb3f94fb98_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Golden Hour at Ollantaytambo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7365\/15925551283_cb3f94fb98_m.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Hour at Ollantaytambo\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Golden Hour<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7449\/15925555063_228ce995c8_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Inka Salt Pans\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7449\/15925555063_228ce995c8_m.jpg\" alt=\"Inka Salt Pans\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Inka Salt Pans<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7378\/16358073518_0ac79f94ac_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Ollantaytambo Water Fountain\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7378\/16358073518_0ac79f94ac_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ollantaytambo Water Fountain\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Water Fountain<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7408\/16360053627_8489e49c26_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Ollantaytambo Stonework\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7408\/16360053627_8489e49c26_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ollantaytambo Stonework\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Stonework<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7311\/16519746206_923e53a46d_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"Andean Rainbow Bridge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7311\/16519746206_923e53a46d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Andean Rainbow Bridge\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Andean Rainbow Bridge<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8587\/16519752496_5aeee1bcaf_b.jpg\" target='_blank' title=\"View from Apu Lodge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8587\/16519752496_5aeee1bcaf_m.jpg\" alt=\"View from Apu Lodge\" class=\"alignnone \"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>View from Apu Lodge<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the &#8220;cutest village in Peru&#8221;, at the heart of the sacred valley filled with ruins of Inca fortresses and still used stone buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peru","tag-peru"],"geo":{"latitude":-13.2583685,"longitude":-72.264267,"description":"Ollantaytambo, Peru"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}