ollanta, a b&b and a stop in pisac

Salad (with flowers!) at the delicious El Albergue restaurant in Ollanta

After spending the evening at the lovely Sacred Valley Brewery http://www.cerveceriadelvalle.com

we stayed at a super cozy bed and breakfast just down the road, where the owners made us coal-fired pizzas and their three dogs and sheep (who thought he was a dog) greeted us upon arrival.

Logan the dog

Morning views

Checking out some service work - building a water pipeline

Cruising the narrow Pisac streets

Home sweet home! Back to Cusco before heading out for the night

sacred valley & salineras de maras

Took off to the Sacred Valley for a night and stopped at salt flats near Maras on the way

Salineras de Maras 
Strategically dug into the mountainside, thousands of shallow pools filled with salt water evaporate and leave behind crystallized salt. Over millions of years tectonic plate movement has buried salt deposits from prehistoric salt lakes deep beneath the mountains; the salt becomes accessible from a natural spring that bubbles up near the town of Maras.