Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba

An Andean hacienda within a valley that remains agricultural. Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba occupies a hundred hectares of Inca terraces, white-corn fields and high pastures, with the Apus Chicón and Pumahuanca as a permanent backdrop. Its thirty-six rooms — divided between the main casona and scattered casitas — all face the valley. It is the most rural of the Inkaterra properties: no village nearby, only the worked earth and the silence.

The Premium Casitas, free-standing and with fireplaces, offer the greatest privacy; the Hacienda Suite, with two rooms, is the natural choice for families. Hawa — the restaurant in the main house — draws directly from the property's organic garden: quinoa, oca, kiwicha, Andean herbs and Urubamba trout. Tasting dinners beneath the original tiled roof are memorable; breakfast on the terrace, facing Chicón, is reason enough.