Inca salt pans at Salineras.

I backed into a cactus while squatting to take a photo, and then cycled a painful couple of kilometers to catch up to Julie, who plucked needles out of my posterior with tweezers while I bent over in a semi-secluded spot. We left our gear in the hospedaje this morning while we cycled down to Salineras, the Inca salt pans, a salty hot spring that is still used to make salt. We wished our bikes were loaded so we wouldn’t have to climb back up out of the Sacred Valley. Ollantaytambo is an old, Inca-walled town with a local fiesta happening in the main square. Music played all night, and the party was still going at 4 am as we walked through streets reeking of urine to catch the early train to Machu Picchu.

Taking this photo was a pain in the ass.

Fiesta in Ollantaytambo's Plaza Mayor.

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