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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 great precision 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 with hotel pick up between 04:30 to 05:00am. After 2 hours of riding, we stop at Mollepata village where we will have our hot and delicious breakfast. We will go on in our private van to Soraypampa town riding in one more hour. When we reach to this zone we can appreciate beautiful mountains and snowy peaks like that of Apu Salkantay (6,230m.a.s.l.) and the Humantay (5,250m.a.s.l.). After that we will prepare to begin our trek towards the Humantay lagoon, our hike will last for about 1 hour or 3 km. The trek to the Humantay lagoon is uphill but our small group and our guide will take the time to enjoy the nature and reach this lagoon without any hurry or pressures.
After enjoying our first look of the Humantay lake, there is another option to walk a short uphill to the right or to the left of the lagoon, where you will look and enjoy a big & nice panoramic view. Following this, we will have the easier part of our walk. We will have to walk down to Soraypampa for one hour. Then, we will aboard our private transport to return to Mollepata where we will enjoy our delicious, hearty and nurturing lunch. After the lunch we will say farewell and return back to Cusco reaching at about 18:00pm. End of our services.
Included:
º Customized assistance
º Briefing before the tour
º Private transport in our van
º Professional guide
º Hotel pick up for each participant
º Breakfast and Lunch
º Humantay lagoon entry ticket
º Emergency First Aid kit box
º Oxygen supply bottle (for emergency)
º Trekking poles/sticks
º Hot beverage in the restaurant
Not included:
º Extra horse
º Tips
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 old 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 arts. Return to Cusco at about 19:30pm. End of our services.
Breakfast. Hotel pick up at 10:00am and transfer to Ollantaytambo train station to aboard the train service at 12:58am, during our ride in the train we will be watching the beautiful landscapes along the sacred river of the Inkas, the Willcamayo (Vilcanota), at our arrival, reception by our personnel and transfer to your hotel.
Free afternoon to take a stroll around Aguas Calientes town and also you can enjoy the termal baths (S/. 10.00 Soles). At 20:00pm you will have the assistance of our guide in the hotel briefing before the outing to Machu Picchu citadel. Lodging in Aguas Calientes town.
Early breakfast. We pick you up from your hotel at 06:00am and transfer to the CONSETTUR bus station 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. Lodging in the village of Aguas Calientes.
Hotel pick up at about 14:00pm to aboard the return train service at 14:55pm, reception by our staff in the Ollantaytambo train station and transfer to Cusco, arriving back in Cusco at about 19:00pm. Lodging in your hotel.
Hotel pick up at 06:30pm and transfer to the bus station, to then aboard the bus bound for Cusco.
