Sacred Cusco Tour

Description Complete Tour Sacred Valley and Machupicchu

With the Sacred Cusco tour, you will know the wonderful Sacred Valley of the Incas and the beautiful citadel of Machupicchu, it will be 4 days to visit the historic center of Cusco, its squares, craft centers and most important archaeological centers of the Inca empire. A tour that will take you through the millenary Cusco, Andean landscapes, high mountains and rivers.

Sacred Valley of the Incas Tour: This tour will allow us to appreciate a beautiful valley which is composed of numerous rivers that descend through ravines and small valleys; it has numerous archaeological monuments and indigenous villages.  It is scattered with beautiful colonial towns that were created, and that today show their mestizaje in architecture, art and living culture. There are the towns of Chinchero and its weavers, Pisac and its craft fair, Urubamba and its cosmopolitanism, Ollantaytambo with its fortress and its living Inca people.

This valley was highly appreciated by the Incas due to its special geographical and climatic qualities. It was one of the main production points due to the richness of its lands and the place where the best corn grain in Peru is produced.

Machupicchu Tour: In this tour we will appreciate an ancient Andean Inca settlement, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, in the Andes mountain range at 2,430 meters above sea level; it is located in the Cusco region, province of Urubamba, district of Machupicchu. At the time of the Incas Machu Picchu would have been one of the resting places of Pachacutec, ninth Inca of the Tahuantinsuyo between 1438 and 1470.

It is considered, at the same time, a masterpiece of architecture and engineering. Its peculiar architectural and landscape characteristics and the veil of mystery that has woven around it a good part of the literature published about the site, have made it one of the most popular tourist destinations on the planet, as well as one of the 7th wonders of the modern world.

The trip to Machu Picchu is made by train, the train station is in Ollantaytambo and the trip lasts 1:45 Approx. where we arrive at the town of Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu town, on the way we can appreciate a natural spectacle.

TRAVEL PLAN:

• Day 01: Arrival to Cusco – Transfer to Hotel.
• Day 02: Sacred Valley Tour – Travel to Machu Picchu
• Day 03: Machu Picchu Tour – Return to Cusco
• Day 04: Transfer to the Airport – Departure from Cusco.

Day 1: Arrival in Cusco – Transfer to Hotel

• At the agreed time pick up from the airport and transfer to the hotel of your choice.
• Free day for the passenger to acclimatize in the city.

Lodging: Hotel In Cusco

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner – Passenger

Day 2 Sacred Valley Tour

Cusco – Pisaq – Handicraft Market – Urubamba – Ollantaytambo – Aguas Calientes.

• 08.00 hrs Pick up at your hotel to start the Sacred Valley of the Incas tour, the first place to visit is the archaeological group of Pisaq and the handicraft market.
• Then we will go by bus to Urubamba for lunch buffet at the Tunupa Restaurant. After lunch, we will move on to the living town of Ollantaytambo, a town that still maintains its splendor from when the Incas left it. The visit of the archaeological group of Ollantaytambo will give us an idea of what this religious, military and cultural center was like.
• 16.00 – 19.00 hrs We will go to the train station to board the train that will take us in 1h 45 minutes to the town of Aguas Calientes, Hotel staff will be waiting for us to rest tonight in this town of passage.
• 20.30 – 21.00 hrs The guide will visit us at the hotel to coordinate the Machupicchu Tour that we will do the next day.

Lodging: in Aguas Calientes

Breakfast – Hotel / Lunch – Agency / Dinner – Passenger

Day 3: Machu Picchu Tour

Aguas Calientes – Machupicchu – Ollantaytambo – Cusco.

• At the time agreed with the guide, you will take the bus 30 minutes to the sanctuary of Machu Picchu, climbing time 40 min.
• The tour to Machu Picchu: At 07.00 hrs We present the income of Machupicchu and enter to start the visit. Our guide will be waiting for you to lead you to the sanctuary of Machupicchu and make a guided tour of 2 hours and 30 minutes. Booking this tour to Machupicchu you will be able to know the most important archaeological center of South America and all its different tourist attractions.
• At the end of the tour to Machu Picchu, we can continue visiting the beautiful Machu Picchu alone, then we will board the buses that will return us to the town of Aguas Calientes.
• 12.45 hrs We will go to the Apuinti Restaurant to enjoy a delicious buffet lunch.
• 14.30 – 19.00 hrs We will board the tourist train at any of the schedules, according to availability with arrival in Ollantaytambo (1h 30 min) Depending on availability.
• REMEMBER, that in high tourism season the train schedules may vary.
• 15.56 – 20.41 hrs We arrive at the train station in Ollantaytambo, our transfer will be attentive to the arrival to transfer us to the hotel in Cusco. Travel time 1h 50 min.)
• 18.00 – 22.00 hrs Arrival to the hotel in Cusco.

Hotel in Cusco: – Principe III / Mayu Wasi
Breakfast – Hotel / Lunch – Agency / Dinner – Passenger

Day 4: Transfer to the airport

• At the agreed time transfer to Cusco airport.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner – Passenger