The Sacred Valley is the valley formed by the Urubamba River (Vilcanota). It was the nerve center of the Inca civilization and is currently one of the main destinations in South America. It houses many colonial towns where you can see the daily life of the people of the Andes, ancient Inca cities abandoned almost intact.
Tour Location: City Tour, Sacred Valley, Inca Trail, Rainbow Mountain, Red Valley.
Tour Type: Trekking/Hiking, cultural, adventurous
Good For: Those in moderate shape, families.
Difficulty: Moderate. It’s not a technical hike but the altitude may affect some individuals.
Consideration: Permit is required, but a separate permit process for the 4 day hike and generally available with little notice.
Season: Opened March through January. Closed February
We start the tour with the pick-up from your hotel between 06:30- 7:00am to go the village of: Chinchero, where we will appreciate the remains of the royal house of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, a beautiful colonial temple with interesting paintings on the portico (this place was built on the Inca’s construction).
We start the tour with the pick-up from your hotel between 06:30- 7:00am to go the village of: Chinchero, where we will appreciate the remains of the royal house of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, a beautiful colonial temple with interesting paintings on the portico (this place was built on the Inca’s construction). You can also admire the Inca walls in the main square of the village, etc. Continuing our tour, we will visit the village of: Maras, which is located 52 km from Cusco at an altitude of 3,380 m; the importance of the place is given by the salt mines; these salt mines are composed of about 3000 small wells of approximately 5 m2 from which salt is extracted. Obtaining salt follows the process of extracting and drying salt water from an underground spring. Next place that we will visit is: Moray, which is considered an Inca agricultural laboratory. This place was one of the main ‘agricultural research centers’ of the Inca empire. It was dedicated to the experimentation and planting of crops from different places. The different climates and altitude floors were built with the intention of making possible the planting of products from the coast and jungle in cold climates. We will continue our journey towards: Urubamba: Where you will have the delicious buffet lunch, then continue to the next place to visit: The Ollantaytambo Fortress, in the Inca era, was a fortified city with temples, defense walls as well as urban and agricultural sectors. It is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in Peru and South America and is also considered after Machu Picchu, as the most perfect Inca citadel. And finally we will visit the: Pisaq viewpoint, from where you can appreciate the village of Pisaq and part of the archaeological center. Our tour ends at approximately 6:30pm in the city of Cusco in the square of San Francisco which is 2 blocks from the main square.
Beautifull trail through the heart of the andean mountains. We had the hounour of being guided by Persy Cusi, whose knowledge about nature and Inca history and culture bewildered us through 4 days of walking. In adition, Persy made even the imposible for our confort and for us to have a nice trip (he has also amazing cooking habilities and knows the best spots for pictures where no other tourists went). Higly recomended trail, guide and touring company.
first of all machu picchu was amazing,but only can re-entry twice! wayna picchu was amazing too but there were only 2 slot of time 200 people can get inside each time, need to book the ticket before. My slot was 10-11 entry time, so we thought we could spend more time in machu picchu so we reached the entry gate at 11.
I recently visited Peru for a wedding in Lima…I took it upon myself to extend my trip by visiting Cusco so I could do some sightseeing and hiking. I researched and found Peru…reached out to them, told them when I would be there and what I wanted to do. They in return sent me a whole itinerary detailing each day. The trips were absolutely amazing, the tour guides were extremely knowledgeable, personable and fun.
What else to say about this beautiful, historic and amazing place. We hiked up the Wayna piccu to get an overlook on the maccu piccu and where lucky. It was absolutely breathtaking!
