5 Day Tour to Sacred Valley Machu Picchu Maras and Moray

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
PICK UP FROM THE AIRPORT / CITY TOUR CUSCO IN THE AFTERNOON
5 stops
1
• A representative will be waiting for you the day of your arrival in Cusco at the airport to take you to your respective hotel. • We will have the morning free. • Our city tour begins at 2:00 p.m. with the pick-up from your hotel, our first point to visit is the temple of the sun or Qoricancha, considered an indigenous religious sanctuary, where we will appreciate the fine work of lithic technology carried out by the Incas, with the highest level of cutting in hard stone without being able to insert a sheet of paper and that despite earthquakes remain stable to date.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
2
Sacsayhuaman
After the visit to Qoricancha we will board the bus that will take us to Sacsayhuaman located 3km away. from the city of Cusco, Sacsayhuaman offers us a panoramic view of the city of Cusco, Sacsayhuaman was built with large blocks of limestone weighing from 25 to 130 tons. Composed of three superimposed terraces in a serpentine way (zigzag).
1 hour 20 minutes • Admission ticket included
3
We will also arrive at Qenqo, which means labyrinth, it is located one kilometer from Sacsayhuaman, it establishes a construction based on limestone rock that shows stone sculpture in 500 m2 accompanied by structures that according to historians were used for astronomical, religious and astronomical study. embalming and/or mummification.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
4
Then we will know Puca Pucara: coming from two Quechua words that mean Puca (red) Pucara (fortress) "red fortress", a strategic place for control and surveillance of access and exit of the Imperial city of Cusco, which was used as a territorial border for divide the regions and establish the displacement regimes.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
5
Tambomachay
Finally we will visit Tambomachay: resting place, located 9 km from the city of Cusco, better known as the Inca Baths for the water sources, or also known as the waters of eternal youth for the flow of its waters that is constant. and offers us part of the Inca trail that goes from Cusco to Machupicchu. This city tour in the city of Cusco ends at approximately 6:30 p.m.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 2
SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS / AGUAS CALIENTES
2 stops
6
Pisac
In the morning we welcome you and pick you up from the hotel in Cusco, to transfer you to the starting point of the tour to the Archaeological Park of Pisac, located 45 minutes from Cusco and at a height of 2,972 meters above sea level.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
7
Ollantaytambo
At noon you will be driven to the town of Urubamba to enjoy a buffet lunch based on the exquisite and recognized Peruvian cuisine. In the afternoon you will visit the fortress of Ollantaytambo, located in the district of the same name in the province of Urubamba. The archaeological complex of Ollantaytambo was a strategic military, religious and agricultural center. The architectural setting is of exceptional interest due to the size, style and originality of its buildings. Then we go to the train station to board the train to Machu Picchu Pueblo or Aguas Calientes, upon arrival our staff will be waiting to take you to your respective hotel. Later our guide will visit you at your hotel to give you all the information about the next day's excursion to Machu Picchu.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 3
MACHU PICCHU / RETURN TO CUSCO
1 stop
8
Machu Picchu
• This great day begins with breakfast at the hotel, then we will board a bus to reach the citadel of Machu Picchu, upon arrival we will have a guided tour of about three hours as well as enough time to take photos. • At the end of the tour in Machu Picchu we will go down to the town in a bus, upon arrival we will direct you to a good restaurant where you will have a lunch included. • In the afternoon we will board the return train from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo, then a transport to Cusco to leave you at your respective hotel.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
SALT MINES OF MARAS – MORAY
1 stop
9
Sacred Valley
• Our tour starts between 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. with the pick up from your hotel, then we go to the sacred valley, to see the circular terraces of Moray which is considered an Inca agricultural laboratory. • Later we go to the salt mines of Maras, where we will appreciate more than 3000 pools of salt mines suitable for human consumption, we will learn how our ancestors transmitted their knowledge from generation to generation until today, we will also have time to buy from the residents the different types of salt they make. • Finally we will return to Cusco arriving at 2:30 p.m., our tour ends near the main square of Cusco.
6 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 5
TRANSPORTATION TO THE AIRPORT.
1 stop
10
Cusco
• Our mobility will be at your hotel at the indicated time to take you to the Cusco airport or bus terminal.
Admission ticket free

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• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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