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City Tour - Cusco

Tour details.

Tour type: Historical - Cultural.

Duration of the tour: Half day.

Departure of the tour: Every day.

Start of the Tour: Cusco.

End of the Tour: Cusco.

Places to be visited:

The Main Cathedral, Koricancha (The Temple of the Sun), Saqsayhuaman, Q'enqo, Puca-Pucara, Tambomachay.

Description of the tour

The departament of Cusco lies in the south Easter region of Perú. We will visit the downtown and the surroundings of Cusco, with a tour called City tour, this tour is programmed to see the most important historical places of the Inca time as will as the colonial places, it has about 5 hours of duration, generally we perform in the afternoon at 14:00 hours

ITINERARY.

THE MAIN CATHEDRAL. – It was built on the ancient Suntur Wasi temple and years late on the palace of the Inca Wiracocha. It is not included in the tourist ticket.

KORICANCHA (THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN). - Enclosure which lays in the well named Temple Of The Sun. Nowadays is the Saint Dominic Monastery. It was the most important religious center of the Inca Empire. Entrances is not included in the tourist ticket.

SAQSAYHUAMAN.- Is one of the most incredible buildings made by mankind, with enormous stones weighing some of them over 140 metric tons. It originally was a temple for worshipping the Sun God but it had an excellent security system because temples like this were used only by the King and the priests; it was like a fortress to enable its protection. It was built in about 50 years by some 20000 people working at the same time. When the Spaniards arrived, the temple was fully finished and in use. What today is seen around here are just the foundations of the Inkan temple that was destroyed in about 4 centuries.

Q'ENQO. - 4 km, from Cusco, the most important Inca shrine nearly Cusco, in the amphitheater there is monolithic rock about 5.90 mts. With shape of the puma, this shrine was a temple in honor of mother earth, where the priest worshipped to the earth

PUCA PUCARA. - 6 km. From Cusco, it seems to have been a military fortress or a stopping place on the way from Cusco to the Sacred Valley

TAMBOMACHAY.- 7 km. From Cusco, we appreciate nice water fountains, water ruins always the same quantity, it was possible a temple to worship the water. Spanish chronicler called as the Inca Bath. At the end of the tour we came back about 18 hours.

We come back from the tour at 18:00 hrs

Included:

• Tourism transportation.

• Bilingual professional guide.

Does not included:

• Tourist ticket for the different sites: The Cathedral, Koricancha, Sacsayhuaman, Q’enqo, Pucapucara and Tambomachay.

Bring with you:

• Rain coat (January - March)

• A hat or Cap.

• Extra money for shopping.

• Video camera or Photo Camera, Cusco Tourist ticket

• Passport

• Sunblock

NOTE: It is important to bring the Tourist ticket once purchased to enable access to the various archaeological sites mentioned in the tour of the city

PRICE PER PERSON (2009)

NOTE: The price of this tour does not include:

* Tourist ticket: cost 130 nuevos soles, about US$ 44 (see price here)

* Cathedral entrance (US$ 8 aprox)

* Koricancha entrance (US$ 3 aprox)

PRICE PER PERSON 2009	CITY TOUR
PRICE PER PERSON 2009	Normal
Included in the price	UD$ 10
Transportation
Bilingual Guide
Cathedral (optional)
Koricancha
Sacsayhuaman
Q'enqo
Puca pucara
Tambomachay

Sacred Valley

Tour

Sacred Valley - Tour

Tour details.

Tour type: Historical - Cultural, only Tuesdays, Thrusdays and Sundays.

Duration of the tour: From 9:00am to 06:00pm

Start of the Tour: Cusco.

End of the Tour: Cusco.

Places to be visited: Qorao, Arqueological Complex of Pisac, Craftsmanship Market of Pisac – Urubamba – Arqueological Complex of Ollantaytambo, Craftsmanship Market, Arqueological

Complex and Colonial Church of Chinchero.

Description of the tour

The traditional whole day tour to Sacred Valley of the Incas is will know by our friends tourists the majesty City of Cusco.

We pick you up at 08:30 am by bus. The first village we will see is Qorao, where is possible to take beautiful pictures of the landscapes from a lookout site. Also sometimes a handicraft shopping can be taken.

The firs archaeological center to see will be Pisaq 33 km. From Cusco then we return from the ruins to the village of Pisaq to see the typical craftsmanship market of Pisac, where you will be able to buy artisan works, work made stones, clothes, sweaters made in alpaca wool and to see the local population in their typical costumes. (Typical market only Sunday, craftsmanship on Tuesday and Thursday ).

After to see the market we keep along toward the City of Urubamba across the Sacred Valley at the right slope of the Vilcanota River. In Urubamba we will lunch in one typical tourist restaurant. The following site will be Ollantaytambo, 98 km. from Cusco via Pisaq, we will see an Inca City with it is military fortress, terraces of "Chocana", and "Incapintay", the Mañay Raqay square also called as K’uychipuncu, the royal palace of the sun, the Temple of the Sun, the quarries of Kachiqhata, the pyramid, the rampart the enclosure of the 10 niches and more. All of this tour is guided for our proffesional guides.

Later we return to Urubamba and by another highway we go back to Cusco via Chinchero, in this Indian village we will stop to visit its Inca remains and the Colonial Catholic church of this village and finally we return to Cusco about 06:30pm aprox.

Normal Price:

Included:

• Tourism transportation.

• Bilingual professional guide.

Des not included:

• Tourist ticket for the different sites: Pisac, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero.

• Meals