CUSCO – SOUTH VALLEY TOUR

Our excursion starts when we pick you all up from your hotel between 08:30am to 09:00am, to then aboard our tourist bus. This tour is known as the “combined tour”, because it mixes beautiful natural landscapes, Inka architecture in Tipon, Wari pre-Inka architecture in Pikillacta, you visit Andahuaylillas and its beautiful chapel, known as the “Sistine Chapel of the Americas”, not forgetting to say a word about the delicious gastronomy you can taste in the towns of Saylla, Huasao, Oropesa, etc… come with us to enjoy of this wonderful excursion !!!!!

Our first place to visit is Tipon. A big huge crop field so stunning that it contains 12 cascading terraces that is being protected actually by the Ministery of Culture, to its safekeeping and conservation, whose walls were erected with huge rocks and stones so finely carved. Still more impressing to you is its irrigation system that still is working its duty to agriculture in these days and the advantage being the water intake in the spring season. Then we will continue on to:

Pikillacta:

It shows the characteristics of a great urban center corresponding to the time of the development of the Wari Empire with more than a thousand compounds among them plazas, Colcas (food storing silos), Canchas or dwelling patios, temples, long and narrow streets with buildings 3 floors high. Finally we will visit:

Andahuaylillas (Sistine Chapel of the Americas)

A typical Andean village from the time of the colony of unique origin and architecture. What it is more impressive and notable in this place is its catholic temple from the colonial times with a nice decoration and wall paintings from the XVII and XVIII centuries, better known as the Sistine Chapel of Cusco and the Americas. In the drive back to Cusco we will pass by Saylla, typical cusquenian village where you can taste the delicious “chicharrones de cerdo” (deep fried pork slabs) as an optional stopover. We will be returning back to Cusco at about 15:30pm. End of our services.