Cusco Classic 4 Days / 3 Nights
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Cusco Classic 4 Days / 3 Nights
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Overview
Cusco is recognized as the ‘Archaeological Capital of America’. The ancient capital of the Incas is a place full of archaeological sites, museums, temples and more. There you can see the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, the Coricancha, Qenqo, Puca Pucara and Tambomachay. Although it is possible to visit these places on your own, the best way is to do it with the ‘City Tour Cusco’.
Highlights
With the Cusco City Tour program you can visit the Cusco Cathedral, the main temple of the city of Cusco, built over the palace of the Inca Wiracocha, with part of the stones of the fortress of Sacsayhuaman. It houses countless treasures collected over the centuries from precious silver and gold artifacts to paintings and statues that are now considered colonial masterpieces, as well as paintings of the Cusco school.
Qoricancha, Quri Kancha, Golden Temple. It was a sacred place where the Inca god Inti (Sun) was worshipped, so you could only enter fasting, barefoot and with a load on his back as a sign of humility, as indicated by the Inca high priest: Willaq Umu.
In this City Tour Cusco program, you will also see the main archaeological centers of the Inca era, such as: Sacsayhuaman, is a ceremonial fortress, Qenqo, is an archaeological center that at the time of the Inca Empire was another center dedicated to the rite. Puca Pucara, is a military construction located near Cusco, Tambomachay or Tampumachay (tampu mach’ay = resting place, in an archaeological site that was intended for the worship of water and for the potentate of the Inca Empire could rest.
Itinerary
DAY 01. Cusco -City Tours.
Private Transfer airport to hotel in Cusco.
13hrs-18.30hrs. city tour and Inca nearby ruins
Visit the Cathedral. The Renaissance style dominates the façade and the interior, which features particularly exquisite carvings in cedar and alder. Then visit Santo Domingo church and Koricancha (Inca temple).Continue the tour with the nearby ruins.
Sacsayhuaman, The building was probably used for religious purposes but, due to its location and style, the Spanish and contemporary writers assumed it was a military structure, continue to Qenko or “labyrinth” is considered a sacred place in which ceremonies were performed in honour of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. – Puka Pukara Its role would have been a “Tambo” or a place of rest and lodging. Finally visit Tambomachay that would probably have had an important religious role linked to water and the regeneration of the earth.
Back to Cusco.
Dinner + Show at night
Overnight in cusco
Day 02 . Cusco sacred valley -Aguas Calientes
At 08:30 am. we will pick up our customers from your hotel and go by bus to the Sacred Valley visiting the sites of Pisaq and the Andean Market, at the half way We delight a wonderful lunch tasting flavors of the Andean food and the mix of the Andean food with the international food, after this great lunch we can contunue  to Ollantaytambo the last Inca Alive City, visiting it’s great walls and the huge terraces, after this visiting our bus will drop us up at the Main Plaza, where we can take our way to the Train Station, this walk takes like 20 minutes, we will wait for the train around half an hour or so, depending of the available, the train journey takes like 2 hours, once in Aguas Calientes we will have one person waiting for us and take us to the Hotel to spend the night
Dinner in Machupicchu.
Overnight in Aguas Calientes.
Day 03 . Aguas Calientes – Machupicchu.
Early in the Morning our guide will pick us up and go to the bus station, we will take one of the first buses to the wonder of the world this journey takes like 25 minutes by a nice road enjoying the great forest that surrounds Machupicchu,once upon in Machupicchu our guide will give us some instructions for our well visit to the site, we will start visiting Machupicchu at the point where you can take the classical view of Machupicchu, after that we will start walking by the streets and great palaces inside the park, it will take like 2 hours in Machupicchu ,depending of the train departure we take the bus down from the park in order to take the train back to Cusco depending of the available we can arrive to Ollantaytambo or to Poroy 20 minutes far from Cusco.
DAY 04 . Transfer out Hotel Airpot or Bus Station
Breakfast at the hotel.
Pick up from your hotel and transfer to the airport or bus station
Notes Itinerario
Included
- All Private transfers detailed in the itinerary
- Tours shared service
- Private Professional local guides
- Entrance to the archaeological sites or museums mentioned in the Itinerary.
- Meals mentioned in the program.
- 02 Nights in Cusco with breakfast.
- 01 Night in Machupicchu ( Aguas Caleintes)
- Private City Tours In Cusco
- 01 Lunch in Sacred Valley + Folklore Show
- Train Ticket RT.
- Bus round trip to Machu Picchu
- Entrance to Machupicchu
No Included
- Personal expenses (drinks, insurance, laundry, etc.)
- Air Tickets Lima – Cusco – Lima.
- Meals not mentioned in the program.
- Tips
- Extras.
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