Ollantaytambo, Peru

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tourvideos.com Ollantaytambo Peru An amazing Inca fortified temple, with huge stone terraces up the hillside.

[@RostislavLapshin]

12:40 For those who are interested in the topic of polygonal masonry. A number of methods for obtaining the polygonal masonry are proposed. The basis of the proposed methods is the use of clay/gypsum replicas, a topography translator, and reduced clay models of the stone blocks along with a 3D-pantograph. The results are presented in the article: “Fabrication methods of the polygonal masonry of large tightly-fitted stone blocks with curved surface interfaces in megalithic structures of Peru” (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202108.0087.v7). KZbin does not allow a direct link. Search by the article title.

[@denniscallan]

If the Egyptians could build the pyramids 5,000 years ago, it shows humans had developed sufficiently to build this too, or do you think the Egyptians use poured plaster and cement? We should respect the capabilities of our ancestors everywhere.

[@RostislavLapshin]

The 8th article edition (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202108.0087.v8) is posted. Search the article by DOI or by title.

[@stephaniesmith9715]

Amazing thank you for posting this

[@Hakudohshi]

I'm playing the Inca on the Highlands map on Civ 5, and I founded my fourth city, Ollantaytambo, and I was like.. wow, what a fun name too say, it got me so interested I did a bunch of research, it's truly an awesome place!

[@miguellara2834]

Peru is Amazing! Thanks for sharing this.

[@johnp3470]

Thanks for this vid. I won't be going there in this lifetime so this is my only experience of an amazing place.

[@sebastianvargascardenas3384]

Excelente video 🦙🇵🇪

[@ry-np6yj]

I would love to visit Ollantaytambo, Coricancha & Sachsayhuaman! Just amazing!

[@GIANTSECRETS]

Thank you for taking the time. Much appreciated.

[@frabciscobarajas6920]

hermoso video, hermoso lugar , Hermosa tierra del Peru

[@hoz49]

We stayed 8 nights in Ollantaytambo this past May. During the Festival of Choquekillka. It is an amazing place.

[@briantravelman]

Nice video. This place looks awesome! I wanna go. Screw taking a tour. I would take the train and spend all day there. Hike up to those granaries too. Cute guide.

[@derekmaynard9236]

Your video really helps get a convenient snapshot of a day's exploring in Ollantaytambo. Thanks for sharing!

[@costitravel]

Beautiful!

[@patycervantes]

dennis, i realy love your videos... i havent, the oportunity (yet) to visit thise amazin places, ...... i realy like the way you show us, your trips, very natural,..... tankyou!!!!!!!!!!!! im from mexico.... thats wy i dont now how to write correctly

[@samsmom1491]

Am thinking I'd love to live there for a year or two and explore before my 50+ year old knees give out! Just dreaming, but I'd love to see this site before I die. Out of all the Inca sites I have researched, this one impresses me the most and I really can't explain why...

[@SlackrUk]

It's a really beautiful place!

[@yehudisrabinowitz4975]

Is there any way to enhance the sound?

[@sitowardi]

awesome!

[@alstyleyyo]

Looks like a beautiful village. Too bad It was not included on my tour.

[@etchalaco9971]

"The Inca was busy decorating (his domain) with great buildings. It was because of his command that the superb fortress was built, which was begun by his father and that way were the palaces of Tambo built the ruins of which still exist"- Father Bernabe Cobo -

[@robot2kgold]

Muy interesante el paseo

[@joliettraveler]

I follow your videos regularly, and enjoy them. We will be visiting Peru this summer. How long did it take you to get used to the altitude? Did any in your group suffer from altitude sickness?

[@katerinjaraenriquez7180]

I would like to listen to the guide.

[@CapicolaBroccoli]

This is a fantastic video. Thanks!

[@sbortiz]

Loved the video! Very well done. We're headed to Peru in September and definitely appreciated your perspectives! Thanks for spending the time to put all this together!

[@wheelmanstan]

If they took the time to measure and cut those stones (some 16x14x9ft and with 12 angles) then why would they leave those ugly nubs sticking out? Do you realize how long it would take to remove that amount of stone to create those nubs for supposed lifting? A lot of it looks like stone that had been heated and squished into place. Why would they cut them that way? How could they cut them that way? It's like well engineered chaos. davidpratt dotinfo forward slash andes2 It will Blow Your Mind!

[@samsmom1491]

I didn't go through all the comments, so forgive me for asking a question you may already have answered. What is the name of the hotel you stayed in that used to be a convent? Your video is the only one I've seen so far on Ollantaytambo that included the locals. The town is so clean and the surrounding mountains are magnificent. Really enjoyed this video, although I do believe there is some hype claiming the older (pre-Incan!?!) stones were shaped by the Inca. I am completely stumped on how the megalithic stones were shaped and moved to such lofty heights, but then, so is everyone else.

[@denniscallan]

Surprisingly, the first few hours in Cusco are OK because your blood still has oxygen from sea level, if you just came from Lima. Then the altitude might hit you, so just take it easy, move slowly, drink some coca tea, and by the second day you should be normal. It is good to spend the first night at a hotel in Urubamba Valley, 2000 feet lower than Cusco.

[@denniscallan]

You give humans too little credit -- we are a brilliant species, the brightest organisms in the known universe. If we can go to the moon and construct mile-high skyscrapers in the desert, why can't we build a large stone platform in the Andes? The Inca were powerful and wealthy, with a 3,000-mile road system bringing goods and people from afar to work for them, no problem. They had plenty of time. Further proof: consider the precision of cut stone walls in Cusco.

[@kenhasibar2450]

This is brilliant, and I'm jealous. But guy, 1:07? I knew you had a mustache.

[@fortressone22rr]

Great🙋🏻👍🍀🌹⭐️👏🏻🌷

[@victorponce7167]

Hey that was a very good video. Thank you felt like I was actually there. cool

[@hitman8853]

yeah lovely vid, just not sure about using stone spheres with no handle to move and cut 50 ton precision cut blocks, i mean can you even picture that happening?

[@enrique8molina]

ist wunderbar

[@arthistoreebc]

Thank you Ancient Greeks.

[@rayochapin]

Proof?

[@stephaniesmith9715]

I've been there

[@newnew-jk2kh]

Interesting... they call the tuning knobs "handles"...🤔

[@tania2160]

Dear baalhaophanim! It'll depend on how much you want to spend. The prices are all over the place for all pockets. You can go first class and stay in the most beautiful Inka palace fundation - colonial Spanish hotel that ranges from $500 a night or more to a simple family setting paying $15 per night or a Hostal which runs from $25 to $35 per night, adding to it the cost of your amenities. Cusco is one of the most colorful, pleasant place to visit. The food is wonderful, all natural and tasty.

[@orange70383]

I like the you can't escape the bargains, literally.

[@drwcody]

Thnx peto Rodregez but to much camera on people and not Ollantaytambo so no

[@chalaco155]

Can someone tell me why in hell isn't this a world heritage site??????????????? Alguien me puede decir por que Ollantaytambo no es patrimonio de la humanidad????????? Only 12 heritage sites for Peru? Does UNESCO know that ancient Peru is Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome all in One? Mexico farts and it is declared patrimonio, Peru builds the first civilization in the Americas and one of the oldest in the world. It build the largest empire in this continent, and it has less than the US with a little more than 200 years of history. Am I missing something?

[@captkirkconnell]

Dinasor resistant constructions.

[@diamondmg]

has anyone been here?? Can someone please give me a little feedback, as I am planning to go there to volunteer for 12 months, I would really appreciate it before I make such a hige decision. Thank you!

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

Hmm, build ridiculously high and cumbersome grainiers on the side of a cliff to keep the grains cooler or... build them in a much much more convenient underground grainiery that would take about 1/4 the time to build and much easier annual storage and upkeep? It seems some people just don't think before making assumptions that make no long term sense.

[@hoz49]

I climbed to the granaries when we stayed in Ollantaytambo. One reason for building them "up there" is for security. They are easy to defend from on high.

[@mechgator]

The point about building these grainaries high up there is because it is much dryer and cooler up there, as opposed to down there in the valley. This was confirmed by my taxi driver who is a direct descendant of the Incas and is a student of the Inca historical sites himself. I also climbed up to these grainaries myself, and I can attest to being air up there being a bit cooler and dryer. Stayed at a B&B which is in front of the entrance to the hiking trail leading up to these grainaries. Was able to get up there first thing in the morning when the door opened (first person right up there at 8am!). Lovely hike in the early morning!

[@richardcrow3042]

Notice the megalithic stones are created by a different species their bones are all over Peru the natives discovered the megalithic stones and adapted to them you cannot polish stone with round stone by smacking it .

[@calvincrowe1579]

Paracas = Megalithic. Inca = its not hard to figure it out the little stones are inca

[@KawaGPX750R]

Today's Peruvians have a pale conceptual notion of machining granite blocks, even less on their mining

[@herculesonassis8763]

- Entendi "Tudinho"!

[@MrTamagoshi]

Con tanta gente mayor ... ¿cómo no ponen pabardillas para subir? ... ¿es que están esperando a que alguien pierda el equilibrio y caiga ?

[@welles1971]

Not saying it wasn't human. I think we went lost some ancient technology. Why would the oldest stone work be more advanced than the Inca. And I love Cusco, watched many videos on it. Thanks

[@gp123lIlI]

Did I just hear him drop a Yamas ? (Llamas) Lol

[@smolet_captain]

good busines in Peru )) respect

[@etchalaco9971]

Can someone tell me why in hell isn't this a world heritage site??????????????? Alguien me puede decir por que Ollantaytambo no es patrimonio de la humanidad????????? Only 12 heritage sites for Peru? Does UNESCO know that ancient Peru is Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome all in One?

[@taffy7hfa897]

Some lovely stories from the tour guide there, most of them fairy tales, any one can see that you cannot cut and fit stones together with the accuracy seen here with bronze age tools. Laughable nonsense.

[@projectunreflected4539]

Work done with patience.14:55, Just in no way. This is about technology no patience.

[@plumbc]

And good copper chisels.

[@mrartwatcher]

+Ewe Doob energy chisels lol

[@sexiliciouslyhott]

The incas were amazing! Some of The locals look really Asian

[@AnnSotomayor]

Hi! peruvian here, let me explain a little about the asian caractheristics In our history, while Peru was still a colony, the Virrey offer jobs to a large group of chinesse people, he said that they will have a nice trait and work for the crown. But in reality when that gruop of people land here they were took as slaves and forced to work on farmlands. Thanks to the miscegenation, some of the quechuas natives have that asian look-alike (I'm sorry for the grammar faults, english is not my mother lenguage)

[@L.P.1987]

Poor Chile

[@welles1971]

sorry last post was not aimed at you I agree :)

[@EvaLapinska]

Thank you for uploading your travel video - Wonderful place on the globe, and so nice locals : ) Just for contrast, so silly, naive a wrong comments from that poor thing in blue hat, talking about things she has completely no idea : DDD its even not funny, just helpless...

[@briantravelman]

+Eva Lapinska What comments did she make that were wrong?

[@BrigittePlattner]

oll an ta it ambo. Althochdeutsch. heute würde das bedeuten " Alte Vorfahren des Amboss". Ollantaytombo tiene el significativo de idiomas indogermanos = Antepasados antiguos del yunque.

[@ShrKhAan]

+Brigitte Plattner Really ? So the language was really alt deutsch ? Also, who were these Menschen des Amboss, interesting stuff you might explain further to all of us, it seems a big story !

[@chairde]

I think the Indian people are attractive.

[@paul4657]

All the walls were built by Incas, the better ones were built at good time.

[@nelsonmontalvo3865]

oh yeap. I've just got another insight: destruction man ability is powerful!! That's what european people did...

[@markroeder2491]

Better learn not to piss off European people, huh?

[@PhantasmVideoVault]

Very sad to see native children playing *Call to Duty* for their first introduction to modern technology!

[@robsonlunar8161]

So true horrible

[@GUNZFAN69]

stone hammers my ass! they had a technology that's been lost to us over the millennia .

[@mrartwatcher]

+GUNZFAN69 notice the tourists start to turn away as the lie of stone hammers is started then the crap about stone handle that are actually the tuning points

[@thewizeard]

+GUNZFAN69 .. and they used stone hammers lol :)

[@hoz49]

I love how people can watch a youtube video and think they are experts on the construction techniques. What you can't see on this video is though those large sculpted stones look smooth they are not. They are covered in peck marks from hammering.

[@GUNZFAN69]

I've been there and touched it! not going to waste my time debating you.

[@hoz49]

GUNZFAN69 I spent 8 days in Ollantaytambo this May. I touched it too! But go ahead and believe in aliens, laser beams and "lost technology" if that makes life easier for you.

[@uglyguido]

Joe Rogan.

[@gaz1tinsley]

The female narrator dosent really k'now whats going on about the history there, quite cute, but she needs to learn how to pronounce more percussion a bit quicker ;) !!!!!!

[@rickautry2759]

Mmmmmn! I jus' LOVE'S me my Guinea pig! Any way is good, just don't let it get dried out and tough. Mmmm! (Don't knock it 'till you tried it!)

[@ricardorodrigijez8112]

Those big gigantic boulders I'm sure no human could possibly much less the Incas could lift those hundreds of tons of rocks unless before humans arrived on the Earth maybe the Watches up above like fallen angels

[@denniscallan]

You underestimate we humans. Look at all we have done since then!

[@agustus101]

Annunaki built stop the lying please! So sick of the lies...

[@urrioiolace]

Please be real, you very well know that these megalithic structures were not built by Incas. Incas simply found and settled on these sites, but please stop saying that this was built by them, when the Incas did not even how the wheel.

[@granitecat6380]

All lies, the Megalithic civilization built the older work with advance machinery, ninety thousand years before the Inca started building their primitive work.