Photography Tour in Cusco Sacred Valley

Free Photography Tour in Cusco Sacred Valley with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free photography tour route in Cusco Sacred Valley. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Ollantaytambo ruins and town — A massive Inca fortress and temple complex with perfectly fitted stone terraces rising above the town, where Manco Inca famously defeated the Spanish in 1536 — one of the only Inca military victories over the conquistadors. The unfinished Sun Temple at the summit features six enormous rose-colored monoliths quarried from a mountainside 6 km away and transported across a river. The town below retains its original Inca grid plan with stone water channels still flowing through narrow streets, making it the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in South America., Pisac ruins and market — a massive Inca citadel on a mountaintop above the Sacred Valley, with a famous Sunday market where Quechua communities trade textiles, pottery, and produce, Moray circular terraces — concentric Inca agricultural terraces descending into natural sinkholes, believed to have been an agricultural laboratory for testing crop adaptation at different altitudes, plus hidden gems like Huchuy Qosqo — a lesser-known Inca site accessible by a half-day hike from Lamay, with panoramic views and none of the crowds.

Use this page as a starting point for a Cusco Sacred Valley walking tour, a free route, or the Roamee app for Cusco Sacred Valley. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Ollantaytambo ruins and town — A massive Inca fortress and temple complex with perfectly fitted stone terraces rising above the town, where Manco Inca famously defeated the Spanish in 1536 — one of the only Inca military victories over the conquistadors. The unfinished Sun Temple at the summit features six enormous rose-colored monoliths quarried from a mountainside 6 km away and transported across a river. The town below retains its original Inca grid plan with stone water channels still flowing through narrow streets, making it the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in South America.
• •Pisac ruins and market — a massive Inca citadel on a mountaintop above the Sacred Valley, with a famous Sunday market where Quechua communities trade textiles, pottery, and produce
• •Moray circular terraces — concentric Inca agricultural terraces descending into natural sinkholes, believed to have been an agricultural laboratory for testing crop adaptation at different altitudes
• •Chinchero textile demonstrations — a highland village where Quechua women demonstrate traditional Inca-era weaving techniques using backstrap looms, natural dyes from plants and insects
• •Maras salt mines — thousands of shallow salt evaporation pools cascading down a hillside, in continuous use since Inca times, creating a stunning white-terraced landscape fed by a saline spring

• •Huchuy Qosqo — a lesser-known Inca site accessible by a half-day hike from Lamay, with panoramic views and none of the crowds

• ›Work the edges of the day. The hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset (plus the blue hour just after) give warm, low, directional light that flat midday can't.
• ›Shoot Ollantaytambo ruins and town wide for the establishing frame, then hunt the details — a doorway, a sign, a texture — that tell the same story up close.
• ›Chase reflections after rain: puddles, wet cobbles, and glass turn an ordinary street into a symmetrical frame.
• ›Turn around. The best shot is often behind you — and quieter spots like Huchuy Qosqo give you angles no one else is posting.
• ›Photograph people with respect: a nod or a smile first, and skip anyone who clearly doesn't want the lens. Better photos, fewer problems.