Wonderful Cusco Tour

Description of Machupicchu & Sacred Valley Tour

With the Machupicchu and Sacred Valley Tour or “Wonderful Cusco”, you will visit the main archaeological centers of the city of Cusco; the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the wonderful citadel of Machupicchu, Chinchero, Maras – Moray and Salineras. A tour that will take you through the ancient Cusco, Andean landscapes, high mountains, jungle and agricultural laboratories. Everything so you can know the Cusco that the Inca civilization left us.

City tour in Cusco, is the traditional trip where we will visit the city of Cusco and 4 ruins. The City tour begins in the center of the city with a visit to the impressive cathedral of Cusco in whose foundations is an Inca enclosure, this tour includes a visit to the Cathedral of Cusco, the temple of the Holy Family and the Church of Triumph. From here we will go to Qoricancha, one of the most important and representative places of the Inca Culture, then by bus we will go up to visit the archaeological centers of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Puka Pukara and Tambomachay.

Machupicchu and Sacred Valley Tour, In this tour you will enjoy the most appreciated valley by the Incas due to its special geographic and climatic qualities. In Inca times 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.

In our tour we will visit different towns such as Pisaq, Urubamba, Ollantaytmabo, Ollantaytmabo, Pisaq, Urubamba and Ollantaytmabo.

because this valley is home to a group of villages such as PISAQ, or P’isaqa, which means partridge (a type of chicken 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.

Machupicchu, an ancient Andean Inca settlement, is 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. 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 been woven around it in much 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.

Enjoy the Machupicchu and Sacred Valley Tour.

TRAVEL PLAN

• DÍA 01: Cusco Tour
• DÍA 02: Valle Sagrado Tour
• DÍA 03: Machu Picchu Tour
• DÍA 04: Maras – Moray Tour

Day 1: Tour in Cusco

Cusco – Catedral – Qoricancha – Sacsayhuaman – Qenqo – Puca Pucara – Tambomachay – Cusco.

• At the agreed time pick up airport – Hotel, free morning to acclimatize in the city.
• Start of the City Tour Cusco: 12.50 – 13.10 hrs, pick up at your hotel. If your hotel is outside the historic center, we will meet you at our office at 13.00 hrs, we will start the tour of Cusco visiting the Cathedral and its more than 600 paintings of the Cusco school (40 min).
• 14.10 hrs We will go to Qoricancha on foot seeing beautiful Inca streets (10 min).
• 14.20 hrs We will enter the Qoricancha or House of the Sun, main temple in Inca times where we will learn about Inca religiosity and architecture (40 min).
• 15.00 hrs We will take our transportation and go to Sacsayhuaman (15 min) we will have a guided tour through the huge walls of this Inca temple built for the god Illapa or lightning (45 min).
• We will take the bus again to Qenqo (5 min) where we will have a tour to this other ancient Inca temple. Then in our mobility we will move forward (10 min) and go to Puka Pucara and Tambomachay water temple. We will finish our tour at 18.00 hrs.
• We will leave you in the center of the city so you can have dinner or stroll through the main square of Cusco or go to see the dances of Cusco in the Qosqo Center of Native Art.

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 at the train station with your name and then take you to the respective hotel, tonight we rest in this town of passage.
• 20.30 – 21.00 hrs Previous coordination with the guide, we will arrange the visit to your hotel to coordinate the tour to Machupicchu the next day.

Day 3: Machu Picchu Tour

Aguas Calientes – Machupicchu – Ollantaytambo – Cusco.

• At the time agreed with the guide, you will take the bus 30 minutes towards the sanctuary of Machu Picchu, climbing time 40 min.
• Beginning of the Machu Picchu Tour: 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, we will be able to continue visiting the beautiful Machupicchu by ourselves, then we will board the buses that will take us back 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.

Breakfast – Hotel / Lunch – Agency / Dinner – Passenger

Day 4: Maras – Moray Tour

Cusco – Chinchero – Moray – Maras – Cusco.

• 07.50 – 08.10 hrs Start the tour to Maras – Moray picking you up at your hotel, immediately in our bus we will leave to the sacred valley by an alternate route to visit:
• 09.10 hrs CHINCHERO, is an eminently Inca city that the Spaniards tried to civilize to establish their culture, but did not succeed in its entirety because its inhabitants until now resist to leave their culture and Inca customs. They keep alive the textile culture using and weaving their garments for use and decoration, so we will visit a Textile Center to teach us how they dye the sheep and alpaca wool yarn with natural dyes and make garments with ancient techniques, such as the use of the “away” and the “loom”.
• 09. 55 hrs MORAY, is 49.3 Km from Cusco and is a unique archaeological group of its kind. These are depressions or gigantic natural holes in the surface of the land, which were used to build terraces or agricultural terraces with irrigation canals in the surroundings. The most interesting thing is the average annual temperature difference between the top and the bottom of the depressions, which reaches up to 15°C in the 30-meter deep depression.
• 11.20 hrs MARAS, we will visit the famous salt mines known by some as “salt mines” which are made up of about 3000 small wells with an average area of about 5 m², during the dry season are filled or “watered” every 3 days with salt water emanating from a natural spring located at the top of the wells so that, as the water evaporates, the salt contained in it gradually solidifies (50 min.).
• 13.00 hrs Return to Cusco.
• 14.30 hrs Arrival in Cusco, we will leave you very close to the main square so you can go to the restaurant of your choice for lunch.
• At the agreed time, transfer to the airport, or if you are in Cusco one more night, we can arrange a transfer the next day from your hotel to the airport.

Breakfast – Hotel /Lunch & Dinner – Passenger