Ollantaytambo sits at 2,792 metres at the western end of Peru's Sacred Valley, about 60 kilometres from Cusco, where the Urubamba river narrows into a gorge. It has a strong claim to being the most interesting town in the valley, and most people see it for ninety minutes on a coach tour before getting on a train.
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THE CLAIM IS THIS: OLLANTAYTAMBO IS THE BEST SURVIVING EXAMPLE OF INCA TOWN PLANNING ANYWHERE, AND IT IS STILL LIVED IN. The Qosqo Ayllu neighbourhood below the temple hill is laid out on the original fifteenth-century grid, in walled compounds called canchas entered through a single doorway, with the Inca water channels still running down the middle of the cobbled streets carrying snowmelt. People live in those compounds now. This is not a ruin with a village beside it; it is a working town inside Inca walls, and walking its back lanes at seven in the morning is the thing to do here. Our Peru travel guide for women covers the country.
THE SECOND THING IS THE TEMPLE HILL, which everyone calls the fortress and which was really a ceremonial and agricultural complex. Enormous stepped terraces climb the slope above the town to the unfinished SUN TEMPLE, where six vast pink porphyry monoliths stand in a row, fitted without mortar, with the stone quarried on the far side of the valley and dragged across the river. IT WAS NEVER FINISHED. Blocks lie abandoned on the ramp, which tells you more about the Spanish arrival than any completed building could.
AND THE HISTORY THAT GETS LEFT OUT OF THE TOUR: THIS IS WHERE THE INCA WON. In 1537 Manco Inca defeated Hernando Pizarro's cavalry here, having flooded the plain below the terraces through those same water channels so the horses could not charge. It is the only significant Inca battlefield victory over the Spanish. The flooding worked, the Spanish withdrew to Cusco, and Manco later retreated to Vilcabamba anyway.
THE PRACTICAL REASON MOST PEOPLE COME, THOUGH, IS THE STATION. Ollantaytambo is the railhead for Machu Picchu: the trains to Aguas Calientes leave from here, and the classic four-day Inca Trail starts at Kilometre 82 a few kilometres up the valley. So the town is both a destination and a transit point, and the single best piece of advice about it is to treat it as the former rather than the latter.
The Terraces, the Storehouses and the Valley
A temple hill, a free climb opposite, and the best-placed base in the Sacred Valley.
THE TEMPLE HILL AND TERRACES are entered on the BOLETO TURISTICO DEL CUSCO, the regional tourist ticket, which is bought as a full or partial version and covers a list of sites across Cusco and the valley; it is not sold individually at the gate for this site, which catches people out. GO AT OPENING OR IN THE LAST TWO HOURS. The coach groups arrive mid-morning from Cusco and the terraces are narrow, so the difference between eight o'clock and eleven o'clock is the difference between a remarkable site and a queue on a staircase.
CLIMB THE TERRACES TO THE SUN TEMPLE, then follow the path round to the water channels and the so-called Bath of the Princess. LOOK ACROSS AT THE QUARRY on the opposite side of the river, which is visible from the top: the scale of moving those monoliths across a river and up a mountain without the wheel is the thing that actually impresses, more than the stonework itself.
PINKUYLLUNA IS THE BEST FREE THING IN THE SACRED VALLEY and almost nobody does it. On the mountain directly opposite the temple hill, reached by a signposted path from the town's main street, are the INCA STOREHOUSES, the qollqas, built high up where the cold dry wind preserved grain. The climb takes 30 to 45 minutes, it is steep, exposed and unfenced, and it gives you the view down onto the terraces and the town grid that explains the whole layout. IT COSTS NOTHING AND NEEDS NO TICKET. It also needs proper shoes and a head for heights.
THE TOWN ITSELF rewards an unstructured hour. The main square, the market, the canchas of Qosqo Ayllu, the chicherias flying a red bag or a flower on a pole to show the maize beer is ready, and the Catcco museum in a restored colonial house. THE MORNINGS ARE WHEN THE TOWN IS ITSELF, before the first coaches and after the early trains have gone.
THE REST OF THE SACRED VALLEY is within an hour by colectivo or taxi. PISAC has the best market and a hillside Inca site many people prefer to this one. THE MARAS SALT PANS are thousands of hand-cut evaporation terraces still being worked by families, and MORAY is a set of concentric agricultural terraces built as a crop laboratory, usually visited together. CHINCHERO is the weaving town, high and cold. URUBAMBA is the valley's service town with the best restaurants.
Recommended Tours and Experiences
Getting There, Machu Picchu, and the Altitude Argument
Sleep here, not in Cusco, and this is a planning decision rather than a preference.
FROM CUSCO it is about 90 minutes by road, by taxi, private transfer or the colectivo shared vans that run from Pavitos street via Urubamba for a few soles. Cusco is where almost everyone flies into.
HERE IS THE ALTITUDE ARGUMENT AND IT IS THE MOST USEFUL THING IN THIS POST. CUSCO IS AT 3,400 METRES AND OLLANTAYTAMBO IS AT 2,792. That 600 metres is a large difference in how your first two nights feel, and the standard advice among people who know the valley is to come straight down from the airport and sleep in the Sacred Valley, then go up to Cusco later in the trip once you are acclimatised. Soroche is common, unpleasant and occasionally serious, and arriving by air at 3,400 metres and staying there is the single most avoidable mistake in a Peru itinerary. Ollantaytambo is the best of the valley towns to do it in because it is also where the train leaves from.
THE TRAINS TO MACHU PICCHU leave from the station at the bottom of the town, run by two operators, and take about 90 minutes to Aguas Calientes along the Urubamba gorge. BOOK THEM AS FAR AHEAD AS THE MACHU PICCHU ENTRY TICKET, which is months in high season and which is now sold in timed circuits with capped numbers. Our Machu Picchu packing list covers the site, the circuits and the permits properly, and the Peru packing list is the country overview.
THE CLASSIC INCA TRAIL starts at KM 82, PISCACUCHO, 20 minutes up the valley from here, which is why trekking groups overnight in Ollantaytambo. It is four days, it requires a licensed operator and a permit bought months in advance, and it is closed every February for maintenance. The alternative routes, Salkantay, Lares and the Inca Jungle Trail, start elsewhere but most pass through or near the valley.
FURTHER AFIELD: Puno on Lake Titicaca is ten hours by road or the tourist train from Cusco, Arequipa is overnight, and Lima is an hour and a quarter by air from Cusco. For the Amazon, the Iquitos packing list, and for the Cordillera Blanca, Huaraz.
IN TOWN, everything is walkable and most of it is cobbled and steep. There are no buses and no need for them.
When to Go
April to October for dry days and cold nights. The rains are November to March.
The Sacred Valley has two seasons and essentially one temperature. Days run 19 to 22C year round at this altitude with strong sun; the variable is rain and night-time cold.
MAY TO SEPTEMBER IS THE DRY SEASON AND THE HIGH SEASON. Clear days, intense high-altitude sun, and NIGHTS AT 0 TO 5C, occasionally below freezing in June and July. This is the reason the packing list looks like a mountain list for a destination at a pleasant daytime temperature. June and July are the coldest and the busiest; MAY AND SEPTEMBER ARE THE BEST COMPROMISE, dry but with the crowds and the prices a notch lower and the valley still green from the rains.
NOVEMBER TO MARCH IS THE WET SEASON, with afternoon downpours rather than all-day rain, warmer nights at 7 to 10C, fewer people and a green valley. IT IS A PERFECTLY GOOD TIME TO COME and the trade-off is real: the FCDO names the rainy season, November to May, as disrupting walking routes, road and rail travel across the Cusco region, specifically including the routes to Machu Picchu, the Santa Maria to Santa Teresa hydroelectric alternative, and the Salkantay route. Rockslides and mudslides close the railway from time to time. FEBRUARY IS THE ONE MONTH TO AVOID: it is the wettest, and the Inca Trail closes for the whole month.
El Nino, late 2026 to April 2027. The FCDO carries a current warning that the El Nino event is expected to generate heavy rainfall with possible flooding, landslides and mudslides, especially on the northern and central coast, and that these may close roads and disrupt access to essential services. The Peruvian government publishes official updates through ENFEN and real-time road alerts, both in Spanish. Check them in the week before you travel rather than relying on a seasonal average, because this is exactly the kind of condition that makes a normally dry coastal road impassable.
THE OTHER TIMING RISK IS POLITICAL RATHER THAN METEOROLOGICAL, and it is specific to this town because the town is a railhead. The FCDO records that some train services in the south, INCLUDING THOSE TO AND FROM MACHU PICCHU, are occasionally suspended or disrupted because of protests, that Cusco is among the regions that have seen recent protests, and that strike action can be announced with little or no notice. Build a spare day into a Machu Picchu itinerary rather than connecting straight to an international flight, and keep your operator's number.
Is Ollantaytambo Safe for Women Travelers
Altitude first, then the unfenced stone, then the Cusco-area warnings.
US State Department travel advisory: the Peru advisory. Read the current level there directly rather than relying on a figure printed in any guide.
UK FCDO travel advice: gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/peru, and read the safety and security page rather than only the landing page, because that is where the substance sits.
UK FCDO: Peru has TWO advised-against areas and neither is on the normal tourist circuit. The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to THE VALLEY OF THE APURIMAC, ENE AND MANTARO RIVERS, the VRAEM, where remnants of the Shining Path occasionally attack police and military and where it notes both Peruvian and British Embassy assistance is severely limited. IT ALSO CLARIFIES, IN ITS OWN WORDS, THAT 'SOME PARTS OF THE APURIMAC RIVER IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF CUSCO AND AREQUIPA ARE NOT WITHIN THE VRAEM', which is the sentence that matters for anyone travelling in the Sacred Valley. The second area is within 20km south of the PUTUMAYO RIVER on the Colombian border in Loreto, excepting the Amazon River itself and the triple-border stretch from Caballococha to Santa Rosa de Yavari. Separately the FCDO warns that ARMED ROBBERS HAVE ATTACKED LONE WALKERS AT LAKE TITICACA and advises travelling in a group at the southern end at night, that ARMED RIVER PIRATES operate on the Amazon, and that states of emergency are declared from time to time with the current list published in El Peruano.
READ THAT CLARIFICATION CAREFULLY, BECAUSE IT IS THE SENTENCE THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION A SACRED VALLEY VISITOR ACTUALLY HAS. The advised-against VRAEM region takes its name from the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers, and the Apurimac runs through the Department of Cusco, so a reader who sees "Apurimac" and "Cusco" in the same advisory reasonably worries. THE FCDO ADDRESSES IT DIRECTLY: "Note that some parts of the Apurimac River in the Departments of Cusco and Arequipa are not within the VRAEM." The VRAEM is the coca-growing river basin several hundred kilometres west and north of here. OLLANTAYTAMBO, THE SACRED VALLEY, CUSCO AND MACHU PICCHU CARRY NO ADVISED-AGAINST DESIGNATION OF ANY KIND. What does apply is the FCDO's note that states of emergency are declared in parts of Peru from time to time, with the list published in El Peruano.
ALTITUDE IS THE REAL HEALTH RISK AND IT IS NOT A FOOTNOTE. At 2,792 metres most people feel something: headache, breathlessness on the terrace stairs, poor sleep, no appetite. THE HONEST VERSION IS SIMPLE. Arrive and do nothing for the first afternoon, drink far more water than you want, skip alcohol for 48 hours, eat lightly, and walk slowly uphill in a way that feels embarrassing. Coca tea is offered everywhere and does no harm. ACETAZOLAMIDE is available on prescription and worth discussing with a doctor before you travel if you are going straight to Cusco afterwards. AND THE RULE THAT MATTERS: a headache that will not shift, vomiting, confusion or breathlessness at rest are not altitude sickness to push through. They are reasons to descend, and from here descending is easy, because the valley drops away westward. NOTE ALSO THAT COCA LEAVES AND COCA TEA CANNOT LEGALLY BE TAKEN OUT OF PERU and it is illegal to import them into the UK.
THE UNFENCED STONE IS THE SECOND RISK AND THE FCDO DESCRIBES IT ALMOST EXACTLY. Its advice for the Inca sites is to always register when entering national parks and to "be particularly careful in steep and slippery areas, or those that are unfenced or unmarked", noting that several climbers have died or suffered serious injuries falling while climbing Huayna Picchu near Machu Picchu, and that ONLY BASIC MEDICAL SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AT MACHU PICCHU. That is a description of Ollantaytambo's terraces: steep, polished Inca stone steps with long drops, no railings, no barriers, and wet and slippery in the rains. The Pinkuylluna path opposite is worse, being an exposed scramble on loose ground. Proper footwear is a safety item here rather than a comfort one, and in the wet season the terraces are genuinely treacherous.
Peru's real risk is ordinary crime handled badly, and the FCDO is specific about taxis. It warns that tourists, especially those travelling alone, are at risk of EXPRESS KIDNAPPING, where someone is held and forced to withdraw money from ATMs for their release, usually at night, and that incidents often involve armed criminals POSING AS TAXI DRIVERS or drivers working for gangs. So: use licensed telephone or app-based taxis, never hail one in the street, ask your accommodation to book, and at an airport or bus terminal use only the registered desks inside the terminal. The FCDO also records armed hold-ups of provincial and inter-city buses, robberies at gunpoint of British tourists including in the Lima tourist districts of Miraflores and Barranco, and advises not resisting and agreeing to any demand for cash. Street crime, muggings and bag-snatching are a significant problem in Lima, Cusco and Arequipa: use ATMs inside banks or supermarkets in business hours, do not use a phone at the roadside because motorbike riders snatch them, and do not walk alone in quiet areas or at night. COUNTERFEIT US AND PERUVIAN BANKNOTES CIRCULATE, and the FCDO notes street money changers in Cusco's tourist areas passing off intis, a currency withdrawn decades ago. Carry ID at all times, which the police may ask for. And note that it is illegal for foreigners to take part in political activity or demonstrations, with detention or deportation the stated consequence, while protests and mining strikes are announced with little notice and close roads and railways.
THE CUSCO-AREA FINDING IS THE ONE TO READ TWICE, because this town is in it. The FCDO records that personal attacks including sexual assaults are infrequent but do happen, MOSTLY IN THE CUSCO AND AREQUIPA AREAS, and that UNSCRUPULOUS TOUR AGENTS HAVE TARGETED YOUNG FEMALES TRAVELLING ALONE IN THE CUSCO AREA. The Sacred Valley is the Cusco area. Its advice is to buy your own drinks and keep sight of them, to get help from people you know, and to report to the police as soon as possible, and it names iPeru as the service for finding reputable tourist operators. THE PRACTICAL VERSION FOR THIS TOWN: book treks and tours through a licensed operator with a verifiable record rather than a street agent or a bar recommendation, which also protects you on the Inca Trail permit, where only licensed operators can obtain one at all; be cautious of a cheap trek sold on the street; and treat a chicheria or a hostel bar the way you would anywhere.
THE MONEY DETAIL, also Cusco-specific: the FCDO notes STREET MONEY CHANGERS IN CUSCO TOURIST AREAS passing off intis, a currency withdrawn from circulation decades ago, as well as counterfeit US and Peruvian banknotes in general. Change money in a bank or a casa de cambio, not on a pavement.
Methanol poisoning. The FCDO records deaths and cases of serious illness in Peru caused by alcoholic drinks containing methanol. Even small amounts can kill, and it cannot be identified by taste or smell. Buy from licensed premises and shops, be wary of a spirit poured from an unlabelled bottle or a cut-price cocktail, and seek urgent medical attention rather than sleeping it off if someone shows symptoms after drinking.
Peru has no reciprocal health agreement with the UK or the United States, so insurance with medical cover and repatriation is essential, and it should cover trekking at altitude if you intend to walk. Private clinics in Lima, Cusco and Arequipa are good and will want payment or an insurance guarantee up front; public provision outside the cities is thin. A farmacia handles minor problems. DO NOT DRINK THE TAP WATER anywhere in Peru. ALTITUDE IS THE REAL HEALTH RISK rather than anything exotic: Cusco is 3,400 metres and the Sacred Valley around 2,800, soroche is common, and the honest response is to arrive low, ascend slowly, drink more water than feels necessary and treat a bad headache as a reason to descend. YELLOW FEVER vaccination is recommended for the Amazon lowlands and some onward countries ask for a certificate.
ONE PERU-WIDE LEGAL NOTE WORTH KNOWING AT AN INCA SITE: it is illegal to photograph anything of a military nature, with a stated sentence of two to five years, and it is illegal for foreigners to take part in political activity or demonstrations. Given that protests do reach Cusco and the valley, that second point is practical rather than theoretical: watch from somewhere else.
SOCIALLY THIS IS AN EASY AND WARM PLACE TO BE ALONE. Ollantaytambo is small, used to visitors, and Quechua as well as Spanish is spoken in the town; a woman on her own draws no attention. Dress is conservative by valley standards and practical rather than modest: layers, long trousers, closed shoes. It gets genuinely cold the moment the sun leaves the gorge, which is early because of the mountains on both sides.
The Ollantaytambo Packing List
Footwear with grip, which is the safety item
Hiking shoes with a real sole. Inca steps are polished stone, uneven, steep and unrailed, the Pinkuylluna path is loose scree, and the town's streets are wet cobbles with water channels running down them. This is the single most important thing on the list and it is not about comfort.
Proper socks
Merino hiking socks. Cold nights, long days on stone, and feet that stay dry on a wet-season terrace. Two pairs is enough for a short stay and four if you are walking the Inca Trail.
A warm layer, which is the thing people underpack
Our merino base layers are 100% Australian merino at 17.5 micron, and a long sleeve merino wool base layer for women is the right answer for a destination whose days are 21C and whose nights are near freezing. It is warm for its weight, which matters at altitude where you are carrying everything uphill, it works as the next-to-skin layer under a fleece on the Inca Trail, and it stays wearable for several days without holding smell, which is the real argument on a four-day trek with no washing.
A beanie, which you will want after sunset
A merino beanie. The sun drops behind the gorge walls early and the temperature goes with it, and at 2,792 metres a hat makes more difference than a jacket.
A rain shell, and February means it
A packable rain jacket for women. The wet season brings hard afternoon downpours rather than drizzle, and even in the dry season a Sacred Valley afternoon can turn. It also serves as a windproof layer on the terraces and the train platform.
Sun protection, which is stronger than it feels
A wide brim sun hat and high factor sunscreen. At nearly 2,800 metres the UV is far more intense than the 21C air temperature suggests, and people burn badly on a day that felt mild. This is the commonest injury in the Sacred Valley by a wide margin.
Water, and plenty of it
An insulated water bottle, filled from bottled or filtered supply since the tap water is not drinkable anywhere in Peru. Hydration is the main practical defence against soroche and you need noticeably more than at sea level.
Poles, if your knees want them
Trekking poles are genuinely useful on the terrace descents and on the Inca Trail's long stone staircases, and OUR AFFILIATE REGISTRY'S ONLY TREKKING POLE ENTRY HAS UNVERIFIED PRODUCT IDENTITY, so this is advice rather than a product recommendation. Note that rubber tips are required on the Inca Trail, and that poles are usually hireable in Cusco, which saves carrying them on the plane.
The small things
Sunglasses with real UV protection, which at this altitude is protective rather than cosmetic. A high factor lip balm, because dry cold air and strong sun split lips here within a day. Rehydration salts, which help with both altitude and stomach upset. Any medication in original packaging, and acetazolamide if your doctor agrees. Cash in soles in small notes, changed at a bank rather than on the street and checked, since card acceptance is patchy outside hotels. ID carried at all times, which Peruvian law requires. Your passport for the train and for the Inca Trail, where the permit is tied to it. And a spare day in the itinerary, which is the most useful thing you can pack for a town whose trains are occasionally stopped by protests or landslides.
Essential Resources for Women in Ollantaytambo
Emergency numbers: 105 is the national police, 106 is ambulance and SAMU emergency medical, 116 is fire. 911 is not reliable nationwide, so use 105.
Tourist police and information: the POLICIA DE TURISMO has a presence in Ollantaytambo and a larger office in Cusco, and is the right place for a visitor to report a crime. IPERU, on 01 574 8000, is the free state tourist information service, answers in English, and has a desk in Cusco and at Cusco airport; the FCDO names it repeatedly as the body to ask about reputable tourist services and about regional travel conditions, which on a route subject to strikes and landslides is genuinely useful. For the Inca Trail, only licensed operators can hold permits, and iPeru will confirm whether one is licensed.
Main hospital or clinic: Ollantaytambo has a small health post for basic problems. URUBAMBA, 30 minutes down the valley, has the nearest hospital with an emergency department. ANYTHING SERIOUS MEANS CUSCO, 90 minutes away, which has good private clinics used to foreign patients and insurance, and which is also where a hyperbaric or oxygen facility is available for severe altitude illness. NOTE THE FCDO'S OWN WARNING THAT ONLY BASIC MEDICAL SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AT MACHU PICCHU, and that on the Inca Trail you are hours or days from a road. A farmacia in town handles minor problems.
Official health authority: the Peruvian Ministry of Health. Peru has no reciprocal health agreement with the UK or the United States, so insurance with medical cover and repatriation is essential and must cover trekking at altitude if you intend to walk the Inca Trail or any alternative route, which many policies cap by altitude. The nearest hospital is Urubamba and anything serious means Cusco
US Embassy: the United States Embassy in Lima.
Official tourism authority: PromPeru, the national tourism board. And iPeru on 01 574 8000, the free state tourist information service, which the FCDO names for checking that a trekking operator is licensed and for current conditions on the Machu Picchu routes
Sleep here rather than in Cusco on arrival. Ollantaytambo is 2,792 metres against Cusco's 3,400, and that 600 metres makes the first two nights of a Peru trip substantially easier.
The terraces are unfenced polished stone. The FCDO's advice for Inca sites is to take particular care in steep, slippery, unfenced or unmarked areas, and that is a literal description of this one. Footwear is the safety item.
The FCDO states that some parts of the Apurimac River in the Departments of Cusco and Arequipa are not within the VRAEM. The Sacred Valley carries no advised-against designation at all.
Trains to Machu Picchu are occasionally suspended by protests or landslides. Build a spare day in rather than connecting straight to an international flight.
Solo women safety assessment: Ollantaytambo is a warm and easy place to travel alone. It is small, thoroughly used to visitors, Spanish and Quechua are both spoken, and a woman on her own draws no particular attention. The Sacred Valley carries no advised-against designation: the FCDO's VRAEM advice names the Apurimac, and the FCDO itself clarifies that "some parts of the Apurimac River in the Departments of Cusco and Arequipa are not within the VRAEM", which is the sentence that settles it. THE REAL RISKS HERE ARE PHYSICAL FIRST. Altitude at 2,792 metres affects most people, so arrive and rest, drink far more than feels necessary, skip alcohol for two days, and treat a headache that will not shift, vomiting, confusion or breathlessness at rest as a reason to descend rather than to persevere. The Inca stone is the second: steep, polished, unrailed and slippery in the rains, with the Pinkuylluna path opposite an exposed scramble, and the FCDO's own site advice is to take particular care in steep, slippery, unfenced or unmarked areas and notes that several climbers have died falling on Huayna Picchu and that only basic medical services exist at Machu Picchu. THE WARNING SPECIFIC TO THIS REGION IS THE CUSCO ONE: the FCDO records that sexual assaults are infrequent but happen MOSTLY IN THE CUSCO AND AREQUIPA AREAS, and that UNSCRUPULOUS TOUR AGENTS HAVE TARGETED YOUNG WOMEN TRAVELLING ALONE IN THE CUSCO AREA. So book treks and tours through licensed operators with a verifiable record rather than street agents, which is also the only way to hold an Inca Trail permit, buy your own drinks and keep sight of them, and ask iPeru on 01 574 8000, free and in English, to confirm an operator is licensed. Street crime is a significant problem in Cusco itself, express kidnapping by fake taxi drivers is a named national risk so book rather than hail, and the FCDO notes Cusco street money changers passing off withdrawn intis as well as general counterfeit notes, so change money in a bank. Travel the Cusco road by day. Trains to Machu Picchu are occasionally stopped by protests, in which case foreigners must not join them, since political activity by non-nationals brings detention or deportation. Carry ID. Coca tea is fine here and illegal to take home.
Reading On
Start with the Peru travel guide for women and the Peru packing list. The essential companion is the Machu Picchu packing list, since the trains leave from the bottom of this town, and the Cusco packing list covers the city you will fly into and should probably not sleep in first. Further south, the Arequipa packing list and the Puno packing list for Lake Titicaca. On the coast, the Lima packing list. For the Cordillera Blanca, the Huaraz packing list, and for the Amazon, the Iquitos packing list. For why merino rather than cotton when days are 21C and nights near freezing, read the guide to merino wool base layers for women. Every destination we cover is indexed at the travel packing guide for women, and the base layers are at the Roman Trail collection.
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