View allAll Photos Tagged Urubamba
The Urubamba merges with the Tambo river to form the Ucayali river. When the Ucayali and the Marañón merge they form the Amazon river.
Urubamba Mountain Range 20221125
Urubamba is a 50 km mountain range located within the region of Cusco, in the Peruvian Andes. The Urubambas are located right next to the Urubamba Valley, also called Sacred Valley, so many of the snow capped mountains can be seen from several points of the valley.
Although the area is mostly known for the many Inca constructions and the Machu Picchu archaeological site, the Urubamba range offers a good scenario for mountaineering and trekking.
Urubamba Mountain Range (Sacred Valley of the Inca) 20221125
Urubamba is a 50 km mountain range located within the region of Cusco, in the Peruvian Andes. The Urubambas are located right next to the Urubamba Valley, also called Sacred Valley, so many of the snow capped mountains can be seen from several points of the valley.
Although the area is mostly known for the many Inca constructions and the Machu Picchu archaeological site, the Urubamba range offers a good scenario for mountaineering and trekking.
This is a view into the valley below Machu Picchu, Peru. To get to Machu Picchu, you have to get to Ollantaytambo usually by road. It's also on the Inca Trail which requires a four day hike from Cusco to MP. The modern town of Ollantaytambo is built on the foundations of the old Incan town and features a large important archeological site of its own. From there you take a train down the valley following the Urubamba River for about one and half hours to the modern town of Michu Picchu at the bottom of the valley. On the way the climate changes from arid to semitropical cloud forest. From there you take a bus for about 40 minutes which climbs an unpaved switchback road with hairpin turns up to the top of the mountain from the river at the bottom. It's a hair raising ride. The week before we were there a bus lost control and plunged from one level of the road to the level below; over 20 people suffered broken bones or worse. They space the visitors out so you have a reserved window of time so you have to arrive by that time or you don't get in. It was a full 12 hour day to get there and back. We got back to Ollantaytambo about 8:30pm.
🇬🇧 Photo taken from the train, heading to Machu Picchu from Ollantaytambo.
The name of the Urubamba River comes from Quechua Urupampa which means "Plateau of the spiders". He was known in the time of the Incas as Willkamayu and it was sacred to them. It is one of the main Peruvian rivers and is part of the Amazon basin.
🇪🇸 Foto tomada desde el tren, rumbo a Machu Picchu desde Ollantaytambo.
El nombre del Rio Urubamba proviene de quechua Urupampa que significa “meseta de las arañas”. Fue conocido en tiempo de los Incas como Willkamayu y fue sagrado para ellos. Es uno de los principales ríos peruanos y forma parte de la cuenca del Amazonas.
In the Peruvian countryside it is possible to see lot of red plastic bags standing on a pole outside the houses. It means that in the evening in that building will be served the chicha, the fermented corn beer.
Palos y troncos de los arboles que andan de paso con el curso del rio, sirve como zona de descanzo temporal a los bañistas que disfrutan de un dia muy caluroso.
............Peruvian style. Taken early in the morning in the village of Agua Calientes . We were in a deep valley with low hanging clouds on the banks of the Urubamba River.
The surrounding view of Machu Picchu is simply breathtaking. It 's amazing how the Inca has constructed such a magnificent citadel without the use of heavy equipment. I am pondering whether they actually used the Urubamba river to transport materials from Cusco and then use these terraces to move them up the mountains.
Valley in Peru - on our way to Huayna Picchu...
Camera: Sony A7II
Lens: FE 24-70 F 1/4.0 Zeiss
Lr + Nik + Ps