Itinerary

1. Cusco Highlights

   Your tour guide will meet and pick you up from your hotel lobby 10 minutes before to begin your tour.
   Our first point to visit will be Sacsayhuaman, Quechua name, which means "satisfied hawk" was built with huge stone blocks. It was called the "sun hou in the Incase", and it was a religious center of great importance. We will then visit Q’enqo Inca site to see its fascinating Incan altars"Qenqo". It`s a Quechua word that means "Labyrinth" coined by the Spaniards for its labyrinthine underground galleries and the small canals carved in zigzag. Then we will visit the main local market of San Pedro, where we will familiarise ourselves with the local flavour by experiencing the Cusco area's products. Continuing with the tour, we will visit the Q’oricancha or the Temple of the Sun. At the Q’oricancha, you will be able to compare and contrast the Incan culture and Catholicism building methods. This was the Incas' key spiritual center, which leads to all four quarters of the Inca Empire. There is also a bronze, high altar to be seen. To finish our tour, we will visit the main square of Cusco; we will make a short walk through the main and typical streets of the city where we can see walls and buildings from the Inka period that are still well preserved (Hatun Rumiyoy "Stone of the 12 angles, Loreto street and Intikijllu street".

   The convent was built on the spectacular Qorikancha place of gold, the most important temple dedicated to the sun's worship, whose walls were covered with gold sheets. The convent stands on a foundation of polished stone structures, the most finely crafted in Cusco, the Inca Empire. Its gate is an excellent example of Renaissance and its unique tower, baroque, prominent on the city's tiled roofs. Like all churches, it has an important collection of paintings of the Cusquenian School.

   In our visit to the main square, we can see the cathedral of Cusco, the temple of the company of Jesus that in the Inca times these were palaces of the Inca rulers, main streets such as the stone of the 12 angles, walls, palaces and buildings from the Inka period that are still well preserved. We can take stunning photos inside this sacred square.

   An imposing example of Inca military architecture, this fortress was built using large slabs of granite and dedicated to safeguarding the city of Cusco from attacks by invaders from the east or Antis. Sacsayhuaman (in Quechua "satisfied falcon") is made up of three large terraces which overlap in a "zigzag" and flanked by enormous stone ramparts of up to 300 mt of length. Due to its proximity and elevation concerning Cusco and the stones' dimensions of up to 5 mt. High and 350 tons, this served as a quarry for specific structures in the colonial city of Cusco.

   Located four kilometres northeast of the city of Cusco, Qenqo is a ritual center built on a singular outcrop of limestone, with underground galleys and a semicircular amphitheatre with the archaeological groups of Q'enqo Grande and Q'enqo Chico. , meaning labyrinth or zigzag, fulfilled a purely religious function, being on the outside an amphitheatre in the semicircular form with trapezoidal niches and a monolith that simulates being a cougar which measures approximately six meters.

   Local market San Pedro is one of the oldest in Cusco. Founded in 1925 and remains the largest concentration point for the supply of essential materials for Cusco and visitors, without doubt, a cultural experience and Experiential fascinating and fun to learn about the Andean culture. Listen to the Quechua language pronounced correctly. We can see gestures and habits common in the Andean culture. Feel the mixture of smells of local products and flowers finally see handmade garments and some places where they make, in a typical way.