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Total assistance when you arrive to the Imperial City of Cusco and transfer to your hotel. Free time to rest, relax and get acclimatized to the altitude.
In the afternoon, City Tour of Cusco; we pick you up from your hotel at about 13:00pm and proceed to visit the Qorikancha or Sun Temple (today known as the Santo Domingo complex). We continue outside the city to visit Qenko, Tambomachay, Puka Pukara, and the biggest Inka temple complex, Sacsayhuaman, built strategically atop a hill overseeing Cusco (being the head of the puma), famous for its enormous carved stones assembled with a big precission that it’s stunning to your eyes. Some of these huge stones exceeds the 9 meters of height and weighs more than 120 tons.
Return to your hotel at about 18:30pm. Lodging in your hotel.
Our tour starts when we pick you up at your hotel at about 8:00am, to then aboard our Private Tourist Bus bound for the valley, in this section of the ride, we will watch many picturesque towns with a marvellous flora and fauna, which you can’t miss out; our first stopover will be at the typical Qorao Pass town market, where you can opt to acquire some budget handicrafts, which are sold by the local artisans themselves, after that we will continue with our tour to our second stopover at the Taray Lookout, a nice place to take postal-like photos of the surrounding Sacred Valley of the Inkas, after that we will be visiting the archaeological zone of Pisaq, a place where you can see the huge agricultural terraces as though the Inka biggest cemetery; these tombs have been profaned by the treasure hunters as you can see, and after that we will be riding along the river banks along this valley, at approx. 13:40pm we will have our Buffet lunch in a restaurant of the Urubamba valley, we go on visiting the Ollantaytambo Fortress, a military, religious and administrative center, considered to be the Inka general Ollanta dwelling. In our return to Cusco we will visit the picturesque town of Chinchero, a place where you can see the remains of the Inka Tupac Yupanki’s palace, where it was built the Chinchero adobe colonial temple above this palace, typical of the spanish religious architecture. Nowadays Chinchero is considered as a living culture town, because at seeing the Inka narrow streets you can watch the Inka textile art. Return to Cusco at about 19:30pm. End of our services.
Breakfast. We pick you up from your hotel at 04:00am and transfer to the Ollantaytambo train station to get the 06:10am train service, to ride towards Aguas Calientes town (or Machu Picchu pueblo). We reach the Aguas Calientes train station and then take the CONSETTUR bus which will take us in a 25-minute ride by a zigzagging road up to the Inka citadel of Machu Picchu. On arrival, guided tour for about 2 hours 30 minutes inside the MAPI Sanctuary visiting the most important points as: the Main Plaza, agricultural terraces, the Temple of the Sun, the Inti Watana (where you “tie the sun”), the sacred temples, the stunning Temple of the Three Windows, the Sacred Rock, the Temple of the Condor, among others.
After the guided tour you will have your free time to wander the complex at your own pace. On the afternoon, we return down back to Aguas Calientes town, and to catch the return train at 18:20pm, reception by our staff at Ollantaytambo train station and transfer back to Cusco by our private van, arriving in Cusco at 22:10pm. Lodging in your hotel.
Breakfast. At the fixed time, transfer from your hotel to the Airport. Farewell by our staff from the beautiful immortal city of the Imperial Cusco.
