Sacred Valley – Full Day

PISAC

Pisac Market. The main square of Pisac is an entertaining place full of colorful and diverse items for sale. This town is famous for its astronomical observatory. Pisac is a mestizo town built on indigenous remains by the viceroy Francisco de Toledo, the same one who approved the dismemberment of Tupac Amaru. In Pisac, you can attend a mass in Quechua in the midst of indigenous people and varayocs or regional mayors. You can also see how Inca agronomists solved the problem of planting on the slopes of the hills.

P’isaq Archaeological Park

is one of the most important archaeological parks in the region. Possibly its name derives from a type of partridge very common in this area known as “p’isaqa”. Some scholars suggest that the pre-Hispanic city had the shape of a “p’isaqa” that represented the local fauna. Today there is also a colonial town named P’isaqa in the lower part of the valley, established as a result of the “Indian Reductions” famous because the Quechuas were united in small towns. The Inca City currently offers a local market, full of handicrafts and local products.

OLLANTAYTAMBO

The archaeological complex of Ollantaytambo was a strategic military, religious and agricultural center. The architectural scenery is of exceptional interest for the size, style and originality of its buildings. For the Quechua language, the name comes from the word Ollanta (which is the name of an Inca captain, whose story was kept as an oral tradition, and written as a drama by Antonio Valdez, a priest of Urubamba, in the mid-eighteenth century) and the term, tambo, a Spanish derivation of the Quechua word tampu; which means, “city that offers lodging, food and comfort to travelers”. The agricultural activity in this area was benefited by the presence of the Patacancha stream, a place where you could see large cultivation terraces that are currently deteriorated and abandoned.

CHINCHERO

The most typical population of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, is a purely Inca city that the ambitious conquerors wanted to “civilize” to implant their culture, but they never succeeded, since they resisted totally. Today you can appreciate this resistance in its inhabitants, since they live in the Inca constructions almost intact, in the same place where their distant ancestors lived and formed the largest and most prosperous civilization of America.

The city of the Rainbow is located 28 km. northwest of Cusco, at 3,762 m.a.s.l., in an intermediate place between the puna and the temperate ravine, flanked by the snow-capped mountains of Salkantay, Veronica and Soray. The view from here is breathtaking.

Chinchero was the place chosen by the Inca Tupac Yupanqui to establish his residence.

Arrival to Cusco 19:00 pm approximately.

We leave you near the beautiful Plaza de Armas of Cusco.

• Transfers from hotel/Train Station.
• Train to Machu Picchu round trip.
• Entrance to the Inca City.
• Consettur Bus up and down to Machu Picchu.
• Professional Bilingual Guide.
• First Aid Kit.