Sacred Valley of the Incas

Description Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas

With the “Sacred Valley of the Incas Tour”, you will enjoy the most appreciated valley by the Incas due to its special geographic 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. It is composed of numerous rivers that descend through ravines and small valleys and has numerous archaeological monuments and indigenous peoples.

In our tour of the Sacred Valley of the Incas we will visit PISAQ, or P’isaqa, which means partridge (a type of hen very abundant in this area). It is known that the architecture of this Inca compound combines mystical Inca constructions and the natural wealth of the Urubamba Valley. For the Incas, the cities were built on the basis of figurative traces of animals.

PISAQ MARKET In this beautiful Andean town of Pisaq, traced by the Spaniards in 1570. You can still appreciate houses of mud and adobe, white walls, blue balconies and tile roof with 2 waters that makes our spirit connect with the old.

THE PISAQ MARKET OR PISAQ CRAFTS FAIR, is one of the most famous of the continent, is open every day in the main square of Pisaq. You can get all kinds of textiles, ceramics, goldsmiths, agricultural and medicinal plants as sourvenirs.

URUBAMBA, after a morning full of emotions here we will enjoy a buffet lunch in one of the restaurants that offers the best presentations of typical dishes of the Cusco region.

OLLANTAYTAMBO, in Inca times, it was a Tambo or lodging town, it was a key point to reach the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu through the Inca Trail. Today it is one of the most monumental architectural complexes of our ancestors, has been built on two mountains in a strategic place that dominates the entire valley. It was a military, religious, administrative and agricultural complex.

The entrance is through a gate called Punku-punku, made of stone and double imperial jamb. It is the entrance to a city with a legend of prestige. You have to start climbing some stairs rigorously well traced and at the top is the masterpiece of Inca architects and stonecutters, do not hesitate to book our Sacred Valley Cusco Tour.

Ollantaytambo is the only living Inca city, which is preserved almost intact and their houses still serve as homes where their descendants dwell. The design of the city, its axes, its urban structure, the beauty of the volumes and its play of light and shadow attract everyone. The main temple has a frontispiece with six pink granite monoliths brought from another place and perfectly assembled in the stone.

CHINCHERO, on the way back to Cusco we will visit the picturesque village of Chinchero, where the remains of the royal hacienda of Tupac Inca Yupanqui are located. You will admire its well-preserved Inca Wall in the main square and visit the beautiful colonial temple with interesting frescoes in the portico built on the foundations of an Inca building.

The Sacred Valley of the Incas Tour is one of the most popular activities when visiting the city of Cusco, also in the Sacred Valley is the town of Ollantaytambo, Ollantaytambo is an Inca town and is where the train station that takes us to Machu Picchu, everyone who comes to Cusco and the Sacred Valley does it with the purpose of making the tour to Machu Picchu.

Enjoy the Sacred Valley of the Incas Tour

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT

• Pisaq (3,762 masl)
• Pisaq Handicrafts Market (2,950 masl / 2,950 fasl)
• Urubamba (2,860 masl / 9,860 fasl)
• Ollantaytambo (2,792 masl)
• Chinchero (3,762 masl / 11,762 fasl)

Day 1: Pick up from Hotel – Pisaq Handicraft Market – Urubamba – Ollantaytambo – Chinchero

• 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 how this religious, military and cultural center was.
• 16.00 hrs We will go to the town of Chinchero, where we will visit the Inca remains of the same name and its colonial church with its beautiful paintings of the Cusco school of art.
• 19.00 hrs Arrival to the city of Cusco. We will leave you near the main square.