Classic Tourism

Classic Tourism

Visit Cusco is an unforgettable experience that allows uncovering some of the mysteries of the Incas, ancient capital of the Inca Empire retains proud walls and stone walls that evoke the grandeur of its past, monuments and relics, of myths and legends, which seem to life every time you walk through its ancient streets.

Today Cusco is a cosmopolitan city that welcomes with open to visitors, who watch in awe its archaeological sites, day or night, Cusco is a city full of charms and attractions arms.

Mornings are ideal for strolling through the streets, visit its churches, tour the legendary craftsman Barrio San Blas or to travel around the villages and archaeological sites nearby.

At night, when the city wears lights, nightclubs, pubs and restaurants, are the biggest attractions. The nightlife in Cusco, offers a variety of possibilities for fun, able to satisfy the most demanding.

If visiting Cusco is essential to know the following locations: the Koricancha (Temple of the Sun), the Ajlla Wasi, Churches and Convents, Archaeological Remains, mainly Machu Picchu, Sacsayhuaman and Ollantaytambo, its picturesque villages as Pisac, Chincheros that maintain the traditions of their ancestors.

    Primary Routes or programs for Cusco Classic

        City Tour.
        Sacred Valley.
        Machupicchu.
        Southern Circuit.
        Maras and Moray.

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Cusco City Tour

Initiating the tour in the historic center of the city visit to Cusco Cathedral, built between 1556-1654 altarpieces are splendid, gorgeous your carved wooden pulpit, late s. XVII, and superb choir stalls. Also emphasizes, his collection of paintings from the Cuzco school. It has one of the richest treasures of colonial art jewelry.

Then visit the Temple of the Sun or Qoricancha, this set was dedicated to the religious worldview of the Andean world. Sacsayhuaman is then directed stunning example of Inca architecture 2 km. To the north of downtown, is famous worldwide for the huge carved rocks, together with amazing precision.

Then visit Qenko which is a limestone outcrop on which have carved intricate mythical representations, Puca Pucara visit then, fulfilled functions of a checkpoint on the Inca Trail. Then it goes to Tambomachay to 7 km. From Cusco, popularly known as the Inca baths, an important center of worship and shrine to water.

The city tour program is comprised within tourism packages on offer, but it is also possible to perform independently.
TOURS IN PROMOTION FOR CUSCO 4 DAYS

    Cusco at your fingertips 4 days 3 nights from $ 329
    Country Machupicchu 4D / 3N from $ 330
    Magical Cusco 4 days / 3 nights from $ 340

SUGGESTED TOURS CITY TOUR

    Basic Cusco 3 Days 2 Nights.
    Cusco 4 Days 3 Nights Classic.
    Cusco Magic 5 Days 4 Nights.
    Cusco Special 6 Days 5 Nights.

Cusco and the Sacred Valley

It begins with a visit to the village of Pisac, a picturesque town and important archaeological site 32 km. (1h) NE of Cusco. Pisac is the gateway to the Urubamba Valley, has an "old people" (an archaeological site considered one of the most beautiful collections monumental Inca) and a "modern village" of colonial origin, Pisaq traditional craft market is done who recommend going as long as the trip coincides Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. On this tour only traditional market town and you visit, if you wish to visit the archaeological remains should be performed in a private tour.

The journey is continued through small towns like Calca, Qoya, Yucay and others to the village of Urubamba, a town located in the heart of the Urubamba Valley itself is surrounded by beautiful landscapes, among which the snowy Chicón and picturesque countryside.

From there he moved to immediately visit the village and the archaeological ruins of Ollantaytambo, a typical town of Inca origin in the west end of the valley of Urubamba, both the design and the foundation of most of its buildings correspond to the time of the Incas, during the which was a strategic military, religious and agricultural center. At its top an impressive fortress that guarded access to the bottom of the valley and protected it from possible invasions of jungle ethnic groups rises.

Then it returns to the town of Urubamba and then go to Chincheros town of Inca origin, its square Capellampampa a huge Inca wall decorated with ten large trapezoidal niches seen, and one of the most important colonial churches of Cusco with baroque altars and profuse mural painting. After the visit we return to Cusco.

To make the trip you should contact a specialized travel agency.
TOURS IN PROMOTION FOR CUSCO 4 DAYS

    Cusco at your fingertips 4 days 3 nights from $ 329
    Country Machupicchu 4D / 3N from $ 330
    Magical Cusco 4 days / 3 nights from $ 340

SUGGESTED TOURS CITY TOUR

    Basic Cusco 3 Days 2 Nights.
    Cusco 4 Days 3 Nights Classic.
    Cusco Magic 5 Days 4 Nights.
    Cusco Special 6 Days 5 Nights.

Machu Picchu

The Citadel of Machu Picchu was voted one of the 7 wonders created by man, besides being the most important tourist attraction in Peru and Latin America is known as the Sacred City of the Incas.

To start the Classic tour to Machu Picchu, one must be at least one day before departure in Cusco, you can visit by the railroad (trains) and the other walking the ancient "Inca Trail" in two or four days. There are 3 categories or types of train to visit Machu Picchu Classic: The backpaker for adventurers, the Panoramic executive and Hiran Bingham luxury train.

The tour starts when you collected from your hotel early bound for the station towards the majestic city of Machu Picchu, travel time is approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.

You appreciate a diversity of natural landscapes according to existing altitudinal are going through the Valley of Anta, to Ollantaytambo to arrive at the station Puente Ruinas located in the town of Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu Pueblo, from this station take the buses to make the ascent to The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu at a height of 2225 m

The visit starts watching the magnificent scenery that surrounds it, enhancing the beauty of their temples, shrines, halls and stairways that connect the different levels on which the buildings stand, all Machupicchu is an exaltation to the stone, the time tour is 3 hours, after which it descends again in bus did Aguas Calientes where visitors can have lunch and do some shopping.

In the afternoon at approximately 3:30 pm train back is addressed to the city of Cusco.

To make the trip you should contact a specialized travel agency.
TOURS IN PROMOTION FOR CUSCO 4 DAYS

    Cusco at your fingertips 4 days 3 nights from $ 329
    Country Machupicchu 4D / 3N from $ 330
    Magical Cusco 4 days / 3 nights from $ 340

SUGGESTED TOURS MACHU PICCHU

    Basic Cusco 3 Days 2 Nights.
    Cusco 4 Days 3 Nights Classic.
    Cusco Magic 5 Days 4 Nights.
    Cusco Special 6 Days 5 Nights.
    Cusco Inca Trail 6 Days 5 Nights.
    Inca Trail 4 Days 3 Nights
    Inca Trail 2 Days 1 Night

Southern Circuit

Towards the south of the city of Cusco is Tipon, a city of beautiful real and amazing water fountains enclosures, is another of the most important architectural complexes are located within the city of Cusco.

This admirable Inca recess located southeast of Cusco is seated on a highly irregular surface.

In the days of the empire were no flat land or horizontal, all was amended by the inhabitants of the Tahuantinsuyo empeñosos to the satisfaction of its veteran and lackluster monarch.

You may Tipón area has been occupied by lordships were waging wars and to ensure many years, they built huge and extensive defensive walls, which undoubtedly took many years of work. Subsequently the wall lacked subject for all regional kingdoms became part of the great empire of Tahuantinsuyo.

It continues "down" by the paved up to Pikillacta which is considered today as one of the most famous and best preserved pre-Inca cities in Peru there. It is located 30 km. Southeast of Cusco, over 3,350 meters high and covers an area of ​​approximately 50 hectares.

Pikillacta is shown of a great civilization, known for the extraordinary planning capability of its cities. This is the Wari culture, whose base was in Ayacucho.

Thanks to its large size, Pikillacta is considered among the main cities in ancient Peru. It is surrounded by what were aristocratic villages located in front of the whole plain and Wakarpay gaps.

We continue on to beautiful Andahuaylillas picturesque village has its unique church, San Pedro de Andahuaylillas, the biggest attraction for visitors. Built in the early s. XVII, inside this temple is decorated with murals attributed to Luis de Riano (s. XVII) representing the path to glory and the road to hell.

To make the trip you should contact a specialized travel agency.
SUGGESTED TOURS SOUTH CIRCUIT

    Private Tour Southern Circuit
    Cusco Magic 5 Days 4 Nights.
    Cusco Special 6 Days 5 Nights.

Maras and Moray

40 kilometers from Cusco is the picturesque town of Maras, multicolored whim of nature in the Sacred Valley. There you can appreciate its colonial church, its salt mines that are interesting to observe the landscape that exhibit, you can see an ancient method for obtaining salt from water that flows underground, the residents of that area retain salt water in small pools for submission to evaporation and obtain the salt as sediment, the view of the nitrate group which highlights the white between the mountains is breathtaking.

The first Maras belonged to Prince panaca Ayar Kachi, lord of the salt, which became a mountain on the outskirts of Cusco. It is possible for them to remain there to found his people suspected Mountain has within the fabulous salt mines and a water jet that emerges from her womb leads to the salt.

Moray is a formidable archaeological complex, consisting of admirable farming terraces, enormous terraces that overlap concentrically, taking the form of a giant amphitheater. These beautiful terraces formed a large agricultural laboratory, in which the ancient Peruvians experimented and obtained improvements. Incredible progress was made in agriculture, which constituted their main work activity and the basis of their economic development.

The great and daring design of its Inca constructions had no limits to the ancient Peruvians. A throughout the world, men generally made constructions from the ground up. In Moray they worked down, removing extraordinary amounts of rock and stone, and employing thousands of workers for generations to shape various groupings of platforms in almost perfect circular shape. His perfection was such that even today works flawlessly.

To make the trip you should contact a specialized travel agency.
SUGGESTED TOURS SOUTH CIRCUIT

    Private Tour Maras - Moray
    Cusco Magic 5 Days 4 Nights.
    Cusco Special 6 Days 5 Nights.