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Arturo offers to guide you on trails through the local mountains and valleys, on foot, horseback, bicycle, or with the services of a local taxi or minibus. There are routes for as many days as you want to go for and for people of all fitnesses. One very popular trail is the Lares Trek through indigenous Andean communities to mountain springs. He can cook for you and arrange for animals to carry your luggage and the camping equipment if you wish.

Arturo is a Quechua (and Spanish) speaker with an extended knowledge of Andean plants, culture and traditions. His knowledge of natural medicine includes San Pedro and temescal sweat lodge ceremonies. He can take you to see weavers in the indigenous communities of Huilloc and Patakancha. He is also familiar with the route through the Pongo featured in Michael Palin's Rim of Fire.

He owns Cactus Bar on Calle Principal in Ollantaytambo (just off the plaza), a great lounge bar with tasty food and very original and cool decor.

Arturo is a local of Ollantaytambo, an idyllic Inka town in the Sacred Valley, where people still live in the houses built by the Inkas to house their astrologers and architects and other important people who lived in the town, a trading point between the jungle down towards Machu Picchu and Cusco.

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Other images from this local:

Arturo taking a bend uploaded by on 26/02/07 12:41

Arturo and friends on top of the world (before cycling down it) uploaded by Louise on 01/03/07 21:09

Cactus bar uploaded by Louise on 05/04/08 19:21

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