- Breakfast at your hotel in the Sacred Valley.
- At 09:00 am: You will be picked up at the reception of the Hotel to start your Sacred Valley Tour in private service.
We will travel on a paved road to the village of Pisac, located 32 km from Cusco. In the Pisac Handicraft Market, located in the Main Square, you will be able to admire and buy typical handicrafts of ceramics, leather and handmade fabrics made by local artisans, we will stop for lunch in a tourist restaurant and then continue with the tour. In the afternoon, we will continue the tour to the town of Ollantaytambo, an architectural complex that was in the times of the Tahuantinsuyo a gigantic agricultural complex, then we will move to Chincheros, the last point of the tour. This village is a beautiful example of the mestizo and colonial style.
Pisac is a town in Cusco famous for housing the Inca archaeological site of the same name. Its ruins attract miles of visitors who travel along the route through the Sacred Valley of the Incas. It is renowned for its system of terraces and carved stone enclosures.
According to historians, Pisac was created to protect the Imperial City from possible enemy attacks. And if you take a map, you will see that the location of Pisac, Cusco and Piquillacta form an almost perfect triangle.
Pisac (in Quechua: P’isaq) is an archaeological complex that is in the homonymous district of the province of Calca, it is located 30 kilometres from the city of Cusco, in Peru. The archaeological site is one of the most important and visited archaeological sites in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Ollantaytambo (Quechua: Ullantaytampu, «storehouse or inn of Ollanta») is a Peruvian locality and Inca archaeological site, capital of the homonymous district located in the province of Urubamba, in the department of Cuzco.
The archaeological site preserves immense Inca constructions, such as the Temple of the Sun, the Monumental Gate, the Bath of the Ñusta and many others. Here the troops of the rebel Inca Manco Inca and the Spanish invaders commanded by Hernando Pizarro clashed.
Ollantaytambo was a strategic military, religious and agricultural centre that still dazzles with its stone terraces and its imposing constructions of more than four metres high. It was here that Manco Inca confronted the Spanish troops of Hernando Pizarro and won the victory.
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Unique archaeological group of its kind in the region. These are gigantic natural pits that were used by the Incas who built terraces or agricultural terraces with their respective irrigation channels, it is therefore a prototype of a greenhouse, the largest pit has a depth of 150 meters. In this place is where incredible advances in agriculture were obtained
Located in the province of Urubamba at 3300 metres above sea level. Nowadays this
picturesque town keeps attractions from the pre-Hispanic, colonial and republican period,
standing out in the town the colonial streets and doorways with coats of arms of the nobles
and chiefs of the XVII and XVIII centuries.
