CUSCO BASIC TOURS

CUSCO 3TOURS
PRICE PER PAX: US$280 DOLARES


INCLUDED:
Transportations
All entrances ticket
Professional guided tour


TOURS DESCRIPTIONS


CUSCO CITY TOUR
At 1.30 pm we will met you at the cathedral front door to start our tour.
We start taking the tourist toward the Q'oricancha the most important shrines in Cusco during the incas time), discover with us, the most important religious shrine of the andean civilization at the Q'orikancha, which shows an interesting dominican colonial church upon inca foundations
The second visit is to another colonial church La Catedral, the most imposing church at the main square, which shows 400 impresive colonial paintings, including many from the 'Escuela Cusqueña'.
The tour keeps going to Sacsayhuaman, this site is a megalithic work made by the INCAS; it stands on a hill looming over the city to the north-yet even these enormous stones are filled with that extraordinary inca perfection.
The next sightseeing is named Q'enqo, another shrine by the incas time close to Sacsaywaman, it shows a singular limestone outcrop, which was used to religious cult.
The tour finishes at Puka Pukara and Tambomachay. The first was a kind of establishment or post-house where travelers were logged and goods, animals, etc. were housed temporarily. The second one which is populary called the Baños del Inca the Inca's bath, is a rather finely preserved example of a site for ritual bathing and water cult.

Includes :
ü Bus Transportation (first class)
ü Transfers
ü Touristic Ticket (BTG)
ü Entrance ticket to Qoricancha
ü Entrance ticket to Catedral
ü Tour guide




SACRED VALLEY
We will pick you up at 8 am at your hotel, to start our sacrev valley tour.
The first visit at the village of Qorao where is possible to take beatyful pictures of the landscapes from a lookout site. Also sometimes a handycraft shopping can be taken.
The next stopping is another lookout site, whence Pisaq (Ruins and village) and the Sacred Valley with its impressives snow capped mountains are seen.
The route follows to "Pisaq" (village), here exists another handicraft market located at the main square and surroundings. On the other hand Pisaq Ruins stands over the upper part of the hill, its visit is carriet out in private tours.
The lunch is usually taken in Urubamba or Yucay where the best restaurant services are located.
By afternoon Ollantaytambo (an impressive inca village) is visited. The only inca settlement still inhabited in Peru.
Afterwards to finish the tour at dast, Chinchero a colonial village built upon inca foundation and where typical shopping is usually taken.

INCLUDES :
ü Bus transportation (first class).
ü Tranfers.
ü Lunch buffet at Maizal Restaurant
ü Entrance tickets to Pisaq, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero.
ü Professional tour guide.




MACHU PICCHU
We will pick you up at 6.20 from your hotel to start our trip to machu picchu.
The tour to Machupicchu starts very early in the morning. The first train leaves from the station of San Pedro at 6:00, then during half an a hour a zig-zag way leades to El Arco de Tika Tika (the high point on the outskirts of Cusco) through popular neighboors. If you leave very early from Cusco, you can't let to contemplate its dawn. Afterwards the train descends to La Pampa de Anta, which is an open and grassy country with willow trees, herds of cattle, and many small villages.

Before a great lake, now an extraordinary colorful carpet on an vast opened country. After reaching the edge of the plain the train follows a steep drop through a magnificent gorge into the Sacred Valley via Pomatales - Pachar. Sacred threshold between secret trails and sacred mountains.

Now the route stretches along the Urubamba Canyon between Ollantaytambo and Machupicchu, which grows more narrow and beatyful as the train nears to Machupicchu, for the mountains themselves seem almost vertical and the vegetation is a real jungle.

As you get closed to Machupicchu the spirits of the mountains get made more powerful. By 9:30 the train arrives in Aguas Calientes, the village whence buses are taken during 25 minutes to get the mountain called Machupicchu. Travel in first class to be first in Aguas Calientes.

The tour to Machupicchu (the archeologycal complex) is about 2 hours and a half, which is leaded by a professional tour guide who will explain the most plausible theories about the secrets of Machupicchu. We are sure you will also take the best pictures of the impressive Machupicchu.
By afternoon the first train coming back to Cusco leaves at 5:00 and gets there by 9:30.

INCLUDED :
ü Train transportation (backpaquer service)
ü Transfer hotel – train station - hotel
ü Entrance ticket to Machupicchu
ü Bus tickets (round trip)
ü Professional tour guide