Itinerary

1. CUSCO - PISAQ - URUBAMBA - OLLANTAYTAMBO - CHINCHERO

   The tour starts in Cusco at 7:30 AM. Your guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby in Cusco. We will travel by our private car to the sacred valley of the inkas for around 45 minutes, on the way we will stop in strategical viewpoints, we will be able to see the Sacred Valley and get into the Inca history, once we arrive at Pisaq we will visit the famous typical craft market then, we will drive towards the ruins of Pisac, where we will see impressive agriculture terraces on the mountain and beautiful Inka temples, after exploring we head to the town of Urubamba (one hour drive) we will meet for lunch at a local Andean restaurant. This meal is not included in the tour. They usually offer buffet lunch (it cost USD 20 per person).
   After lunch will drive next to the Urubamba River towards Ollantaytambo. Once we reach this village we will visit the Inka City, and the important area of Incan construction, built during the Inca’s heydays, Ollantaytambo Fortress that constituted a strategic military, agricultural and religious center to administer and control the Sacred Valley of the Incas; this is deduced by the constructions that presumably were for agricultural deposits and for military use like walls and watchtowers (probably to protect themselves from the jungle ethnic groups). This archaeological site comprises a series of overlapping terraces, showing the impressive and large stone blocks finely carved and located on the upper terrace, where the Incas' descendants are still living in the inkas houses.
   On the way back to Cusco, we will visit the picturesque village of Chinchero where there are the remains of the "Royal Hacienda of Tupac Inca Yupanqui". You will admire its well preserved Inca Wall in the Main Square and visit the beautiful colonial temple with impressive frescoes on the portico. This temple was built on the foundations of an Inca building. Here we can also visit its artisan market and enjoy demonstrating the natural dyeing of wool and tissues.
   The tour of the Sacred Valley ends in Cusco 6:00 PM approximately.