Sacred Valley Of The Inkas With Maras & Moray 1 Day Tour Cusco

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Complejo Arqueologico Chinchero

  This day we will visit the "Sacred Valley of the Incas" The tour starts at 07:00 AM in the morning, you will be picked up from the hotel to go to the village of Chinchero, were we`ll visit the archaeological site which was an Inca temple, and then at the colonial time, it was built a catholic temple over it, this is the highest place we’ll visit in the sacred valley.

  40 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Moray

  Our next point will be Maras, crossing through very typical populations and beautiful landscapes that we’ll enjoy in our route. Maras is a picturesque village with pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican attractions. After that, you'll visit Moray, it is an archaeological site with terraces in natural gigantic holes that were used by the Incas as an agricultural experimentation center, those farming terraces were built with their respective irrigation canals, the largest hole has depth of 150 meters and the average platforms height is 1.80 m., between each.

  40 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Salinas de Maras

  Then we’ll visit the Salineras: or "SALT MINES" consist of about 2000 small salt wells, which have been exploited since Inca times as a mean of economic exchange.

  40 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 4
  Archaeological Park Ollantaytambo

  After that we`ll drive to Urubamba where we you can have a delicious lunch. Then we`ll drive to the town of Ollantaytambo to visit the fortress of Ollantaytambo, it would have been a Tambo or accommodation in the Incas time. It was named in honor of the Chief Ollanta, famous for his affair with an Inca princess, daughter of Pachacutec Inca. Ollantaytambo is the only city of the Incas in Peru which is still inhabited.

  40 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Parque Arqueologico Pisac

  Then You will go to Pisac, where we will visit the famous market of crafts as well as the archaeological site of Pisac with picturesque terraces on the mountains. Finally you will come back to Cusco around 19:00 hrs.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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