Lost Inca City: Ollantaytambo Peru 🇵🇪

all right come with - wait I think l-train see where is the s look at the horses - mighty excited about the train this train looks much actually more intriguing than what I was on thoughts of the new rails for the same company well has a pasta strain on my motorbike more interesting inside despite being a luxury one the one that $600 of something rich Americans shall we say hello to the horses whilst here hello there do you speak English how about you guess not maybe it's like me you don't like to talk in the mornings I'll be on my way then it's a 20-minute drive and then I'll be at some epic ruins we go there having a good day I assume so I'm evolved I'd say 20 minutes from my destination and that's all I have to say about that because it's early morning and I do not have anything to say it's nothing this happened and my brain is probably running at 5% or its normal capacity bear in mind it's normal capacity is great to begin with they're edging closer to Elliot and Tampa they thought this little town whatever it's called warrants a little filming it's very unique the road the road the houses and a wall everything is made from the same material essentially these - drive on hold on can be problematic yeah here you can see the houses no different from the wall that emerges and then the wall opposite crazy the truck behind me so I have to speed up yes yes maybe this is only a tan taco I don't know but wow look at this love it put in another truck behind me I would stop hi-yah this must be it I think I am here actually stupid me Wow oh this place is amazing let's get some food and then we will trek up to the ruins up there see you then so the peach has arrived it looks like this and it is absolutely horrendous think is the worst pizza I've ever had being actually this is the worst country I've ever been to for food maybe parts from Bolivia but it's sustenance and I need something if I'm gonna track up there so I'm gonna force it down this is awesome wall road wall made of the exact same fabric sue Corona are you gonna work with a six-pack and Stella where do you work there about oh wow don't stay in that house guys when you come here I'm trying to make my way up actually to the least visited ruins as you can see on that side I'm gonna go there first oh what a place is this it this can't be the way let me ask this guy boy oh boy si si this way mas Arriba okay the rest job means straight wow what a cool place River or sewer who knows either way I'm down for a swim one of you guys wrote me or it may have been a comment and you said that this is one of the coolest cities you had ever seen or been to and I didn't believe it cuz I haven't seen a single even city here has since I left Cusco every place that I Drive through it's more or less just 100-200 abandoned houses and a bus station but no this is I must be here this is an actual city and pottery no another dog so you're gonna attack me like the other one hola hola aqua cuánto cuesta do solas okay that's a deal do we have the necessary gracias thank you yeah I think we are here I thought she was gonna yell at me for some ticket or something so hello there I'm friend of dog that's right but I may smell like cat okay I only have one battery with me today so I'm gonna save it once we can get a good view I'll start telling you about the Incas and the Spanish Jesus and afterwards we're gonna go to those main ruins it was actually a fort but more on that later it's good to continue to the top oh you come in from up there or are you going up you're going up okay thought maybe you've given up are you resting - he's up there you see it's not just me that's tired on these trails a bit of a win situation here when the Spanish came here this was a fort I'm obviously going to go all the way up but we'll start from here I'm not sure if both sides were a fort but quite possibly they both were this is the beginning of the trek up so yes the Incas did have forts not up to European standards but keep in mind that the Incas when the Spanish arrived they had conquered the whole known world to them from north to south to the border where the Amazon starts and you enter Brazil there that people called let me see if I can remember this name why don't I remember this name there's a catcher word for East that they used to call these tribes and thank us who were adapted for high altitude like these mountains they did not they feared the Amazon jungle people and they wanted nothing to do with them so they didn't continue their conquest hola they did not continue their conquests in that direction so with these structures here they probably felt mighty secure before Pizarro and his two hundred men rode in here well only 60 of them 68 Road the rest were men on foot hah this is so cool there's no science telling you you can't go here don't walk here quite possibly crenulations I don't know it could be probably a watchtower as well over there there is actually graffiti here but I assume it's modern definitely has all the hallmarks of a defensive structure no doubt actually I saw hey I know hold on we can go we can go further up here for the past five minutes I've been furious at myself why I couldn't remember what the Incas called the Amazon tribes that they didn't want to touch and didn't want to even try and conquer because they were very skilled with a crossbow they used to call them they catch a word for East which is antis so they had conquered a whole known world and up until where the untested Amazon jungle tribes not sure how that fits into what I'm going to talk about now but okay at least I remembered also brave down there thinking oh wow I trekked much further two days ago but then you start your Trek and you begin to remember how hard it is especially when you know eating properly surely this can't be the conventional way what matters is we're moving up I don't see anyone up there but I am gonna do my best to traverse this trail and end up I can at least go up there and maybe there's some shady footpaths I can sneak across to those houses I don't see anyone there but rest assured if anyone's ever gonna go there it's me almost level okay so the conventional trail stops what goes here so I'm gonna have to brave it off-road you thought when I get there so let's see how far I can go yep we're on our way Jesus [Applause] it's gonna be hell going down I'm just around about to go around this Bend we'll see if it ends here oh no oh yes yep it worked see you in there as I turned around I see a couple which means there's an easier path than the one I took because no way it's a woman I don't think she would go on that trail are you saying women couldn't do that no it's not that I'm saying I'm saying that Jesus these structures are sublime can you believe that they're still here after 600 years let's go through here certainly looks like crenellations to me so you could stand here at least the idea of crenulations in the European sense is that you can be covered from incoming fire and then you can step out and but since the Incas didn't really use the crossbow guess maybe that's - to hell with the spear I don't know it's strange I didn't in the books I've read I've not come across any stories that concludes that they had crenellations on their defensive walls should we see inside as well there's one with a roof intact aha if you're wondering why I'm not telling stories it's just I'm taking this in myself and if I'm going to tell a story I have to concentrate let me get reach higher ground and I will tell you how the Incas sent traps to attack Christian priests it's raining mud hallelujah it's raining month hey hey it's raining muff hallelujah it's raining muff hey hey you heard me [Music] so the incas being the rulers of the known world with only the Pacific Ocean to the west and the antes in the Amazon jungle to the east were obviously very bewildered about these strange creatures coming from faraway land while Europe Spain just come in here and conquering them vastly vastly outnumbered and in that regard I have a funny story about religion because a lot of Incas and other tribes suspected that the European religion was stronger and that's why these Spaniards were able to come here and conquer them so they decided to put this to the test very often when you came to a city you actually can't you can't call what to be most people lived in back then cities but villages little settlements and so on but anyway they decided to try and see how strong the Christian faith were so in these villages very often the first Spanish resident or Spanish to live in little villages would be men of the cloth that's right priests preaching the gospel one man one woman family life and older the blessings of Christianity note my sarcasm and so day the Incas came up with a plan they decided to try and attempt the very Harbinger sand and preachers of this so-called superior Christian faith can I walk through here no into sin so they picked their finest women and according to the author that didn't mean Highland women with dark skin it meant fair-skinned low-altitude beauties those were the most sought-after women in Inca civilization according to this author check out these these walls so these women their goal was to Wow turn the camera around here hold on if there's a hard route then we take the hard robbed yeah they their goal was to tempt the priests into sin so they slaughtered themself up they tried every trick in the book - I'll try it jumping the priest and starting to hump him and so on and apparently it didn't work according to the source that I read and in some of the villages that tried this they obviously concluded them that these these otherworldly creatures from Europe were you couldn't move them you couldn't couldn't suede them into sin and so on now that isn't entirely true there were plenty of priests back then who had hundreds of concubines for lack of a better word that's right priests with concubines this was a free-for-all for the first conquistadors in the man of the cloth that came but that wasn't necessarily the norm but it happened but the author that again quoted this story I just told you now he had a more a more rational explanation apparently in Peruvian society 600 years ago they had trans people and these they used to dress flamboyantly and not unlike I think we can say people who are in pride parades today like to dress a bit more challenging ly and kind of flaunt their there are s e X you a L I D Y I'm going to confuse the algorithm right babe but then the general population at large and so he the author that I read he just concluded that these these were Spanish authors and people priests and people who saw what happened to the priests confusing I guess the modern phenomenon of a pride parade and and and and that community with with with actual with actual women so take the story for what it is worth it's an interesting bit of trivia nonetheless there is one Plateau hold on I did record that damn battery we struggling for battery life another interesting trivia with regards to religion was that in Inca myths and folklore there was a tale about gods coming from the sea and if not conquering them at least coming in and with with yeah I guess with conquest in mind and that would be the demise of their civilization here and according to again many authors a lot of that acted as a as a de motivating factor for many people here who wanted to to fight back because they believed in these myths and the myth said that tall men would come from the sea and they did damn I lost my train of thought and may or may not have had a point with that story either way hopefully the point was made a lot of this ruins there was a guy downstairs a woman and she said she could tell me about this place if I wanted to for 50 soulless I may or may not take her up on that offer I was not too impressed with a guy that had at Sacsayhuaman which is why I didn't go for the 90 minute tour he didn't know the interesting bit of history but I wanted to know he didn't even know which Pizarro was killed at that gate who saqsaywaman that should be basic if you're going to be a guide nice guide where I'm just saying wasn't the best in terms of historical trivia knowledge so that's where I worked up he felt so high up when I was there who there's a house here let's see if it's open you guys been on the top oh you mean the climb up there okay Jess I'll go for it well let's check out this house first if we can go in there no I can but there's people down there so yeah bro bro habido El Paso damn it that's how they roll in in Italy close after the best places let's go up then blend it up there now we're talking again you see from the outside here this it looks like crenellations I'm very if anyone knows more about Inka warfare than me please let me hear it if that is what it is or if it's even built I mean it may have been that the Spanish kind of fortified this place after conquering the Incas and that they added the crenellations either way I'm curious to know if you know if that's what it is again we have the agricultural terraces down here so this there were never houses here this was always for agriculture and to grow agricultural product as there was not enough variable land down below as I told you in the last episode so let's see what lurks around this Bend and then I will end the video there hopefully with some battery life left well well well more terraces if you're wondering why I did not go up on that peak it's because I have climbed enough mountains here now on this trip that to know that the view up there it's not gonna beat anything that I have seen thus far especially not the view sorry bug in my eye the view in in T suck cool place to wander around it has always so how far is this from that hotel I'm staying at that cabin hotel but you saw in my last video it's through the valley here and just about it's hard maybe thirty minutes max maybe 20 if you drive as fast as the cars which I I don't on this crappy bike wow this looks like a little epic look out more houses so should you stay at that cabin as opposed to have you come here as opposed to here I don't know there's nothing up there breakfast was horrendous but hotel breakfasts are always horrendous I would say for just a beauty of the hotel the jacuzzi on the balcony and everything yes stay there as opposed to here but if you you want access to food and so on I mean I guess this city here is better hola selfie spot is all yours there's a Celtic you I'm gonna finish off nice race inside whoo just keep coming up with a vocabulary but then I saw these steps I was gonna say I was gonna finish off inside this Hut as most men would you like to finish inside but not me I'm an outside man so I'm gonna track further up man you can't go into this Hut this is outrageous no man can finish in such a place let's go up these steps see what we find Oh inca steps yep I saw that when you see inca steps you have to walk on them and hope they don't break these are a breeze compared to the ones in pisaq ah there's nothing really up here oh well so I got quite the workout today too it's able to throw in some history trivia some dirty jokes that you can have a field day too as well you know the words a normal haroldo video so I think here this is a goodest place to sign off as any so signing off from yet another fantastic day exploring wandering around an Inca ruins but runde wasn't gonna leave without showing you what it looks like from below down here pretty spectacular again whenever I see the architectural I guess almost promise you can say of this civilization it just just begs the question you know how on earth did they fall to so few men but have covered the broad strokes of how that was done in the episode I did in Machu Picchu both of them touch upon that so if you're curious to hear more about that do go and watch my Machu Pichu episodes now we're signing off actually I don't think we are this seems to me to be the remnants of actual dwellings houses five percent it almost looks like military barracks seeing as this was fortification a fort that kind of makes sense to be fancy a swim today - one last pan of the camera I'm gonna leave you with this have now seen the three biggest and most famous inca sites machu picchu pits go of the reigns of Pisco used to make climber that mountain and here in Woodleigh Antin tumble how do I rate the tree personally I rate P suck number one after pisaq Machu Picchu and then number three would be here doesn't mean that this is this is bad it just means that the others was just unreal and since I went there first your impressions your senses everything is kind of heightened so there's no telling if I'd come here first maybe this would be in the top two but I think for me the peace act wreck reigns supreme Burundi what treachery is this that we Christ even Wild Wings sang into love some but you follow us I'm on my way to see him you know what song that was major props to you in a comment section that's my food that's my foot that's mine that's mine

Channel: Harald Baldr

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Keywords: Ollantaytambo, Inca history, Peru Travel, Peru tourism, Visit Peru, Ollantaytambo Incas

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Length: 35min 54sec (2154 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 20 2019