Cusco: Sacred Valley and City tour

This is a one-day tour. The tour includes a visit to the market in Pisac, where you can buy all kinds of handicarfts, and ruins nearby. Set high above a valley floor patchworked by patterned fields and rimmed by vast terracing, the stonework and panoramas at Pisac's Inca citadel are magnificent. You will find terraces, water ducts and a Sun Temple here.

You will stop for lunch in Urubamba, before you'll visit to the Inca village and fortress of Ollantaytambo. The town is home to one of three major Inca sites. Many guidebooks state that it was a fortress, but it surely must have been built for other purposes. There are a couple temples located within the ruins, including a Sun Temple.

Chinchero is the last stop of the tour. Chinchero was once the country estate of one of the last emperors, Tupa Inca. After the visit to Chinchero you'll return to Cusco.

This tour leaves on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00.

Included

- Tourist bus to go and return.
- Professional guide, who speaks English and Spanish

Excluded

- Tourist ticket ($20) 2006 price
- Lunch in the Sacred Valley

The first sight is the Cusco Catedral, dominating the northeast side of the Plaza de Armas. It is a church in renaissance-style built in the 16th-century in the shape of a Latin cross. It contains nearly 400 colonial paintings including the Last Supper by Marcos Zapata.

The second visit is "Qorikancha", one of the most important shrines in Cusco during the incas time. A dominican colonial church is built upon its inca foundations.

The tour will take you to "Sacsaywaman". This site is a megalithic work made by the Incas. It stands on a hill looming over the city. The enormous stones are fitted together with Inca perfection, using no mortar.

The next sightseeing is called "Qenqo". A shrine built in the Incas time, close to Sacsaywaman. It was used for religious purposes.

The tour will end with a visit to the "Tambomachay" ruins. This is populary called the Baños de los Incas (the inca's bathes).

The tour leaves two times at a daily basis from 9:00 to 13:00 or from 14:00 to 18:00.

Included

- Tourist bus both ways.
- Professional guide, who speaks English and Spanish

Excluded

- Tourist ticket ($20) 2006 price
- Entrance to Qorikancha and cathedral.

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