1 Day Tour to the Sacred Valley
Full Day our In the Richest Valley of the Inca Civilization
From 8:00 am /6:40 pm
Cusco-Pisac Market and Ruins-Urubamba-Ollantaytambo and Chincheros
Price per person US$ 20.0
Schedules: Our tours leaves at 8:00 AM / until 6:40 P.M
Duration: This tour takes all day including the historical centers and the traditional markets.
Places to Visit: Qorao, Pìsac (Market and Ruins) Urubamba ,Ollantaytambo & Chinchero
Private Service: Private Service for organized groups departs any day. Highly recommended.
Tourist Ticket or Boleto Turistico (BTG): Officially known as the Boleto Turistico Unico (BTU) this ticket is valid for 10 days. It is sold at the Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC). The ticket allows you entry to the following sites:
Description of the Sacred Valley.-The Sacred Valley of the Incas is a relaxed and incomparably beautiful stretch of small villages and ancient ruins spread across a broad plain and rugged mountain slopes northwest of Cusco. The Sacred Valley of the Incas is a valley in the Andes of Peru, close to the Inca capital of Cusco. It is fed by numerous rivers which descend through adjoining valleys and gorges, and contains numerous archaeological remains and villages. The valley was appreciated by the Incas due to its special geographical and climatic qualities. It was one of the empire's main points for the extraction of natural wealth, and the best place for maize production in Peru.
Through the valley rolls the revered Río Urubamba (called the Willcamayu by the Incas; today it is also called the Vilcanota in one section), a pivotal religious element of the Incas' cosmology. The Incas believed not only that the flow of the Urubamba was inexorably tied to the constellations and the mountain peaks, but also that the river was the earthbound counterpart of the Milky Way.
With the river as its source, the fertile valley was a major center of agricultural production for the Incas, who grew native Andean crops such as white corn, coca, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables in expansive fields and along spectacularly terraced mountain slopes.
Even though the villages of the Sacred Valley, stretching about 100km (62 miles) from Pisac to Ollantaytambo, are highlights of many tourist itineraries and are coveted by hotel developers, they remain starkly traditional. Quechua-speaking residents work the fields with primitive tools and harvest salt with methods unchanged since the days of the Incas, and market days although now conducted to attract the tourist trade as well as inter village commerce - remain important rituals.
Itinerary of trip.- Our tour start around 8:00 am with the pick up from you Hotel, we will have a guided tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, over the Vilcanota river, with a panoramic view of Pisac an old Inca City and visiting the Inka handycraft market in this village, where we will have the chance to know in a closer way its people customs and get good bargains with the handycrafts and souvenirs sellers.
Afterwards we'll head for Urubamba,we'll have lunch at a restaurant in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the afternoon we visit the fortress and citadel of Ollantaytambo, built to watch the entrance to this part of the valley and protect it from the jungle habitant’s invasions.
On the way back to Cusco we will stop by the colorful village of Chinchero , where we will find the ruins of the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House, we will appreciate its well preserved Inca wall in the main square and you will visit the beauty Colonial Temple with invaluable portraits, built over Inca Bases. Then we return to Cusco around 6:30 pm.
Our tour Includes:
- Pick up from your Hotel
- Official English-Speaking guide
- Shared Touristic transport.
- Tour price includes government sales tax (19% as known IGV)
Our tour NOT Included:
- Tips for the tour guide
- Buffet Lunch in Urubamba ( Cost aprox. 40 Soles per person )
- Tourist ticket to enter to the archaeological sites ( Big tourist ticket S/130 / Partial Ticket S/ 70 Soles )
- Big tourist ticket is valid for 10 days; you can visit 16 sites even museums and City tour in Cusco.
We recommend you to Bring:
- Wear light shoes or snickers
- Water proof raincoat for the rainy season
- Long sleeve T-shirts
- Short or Long Pants
- Sun Block and hats for the sunny days
- Sun glasses
- Personal medical kit.
- A light backpack
- Photographic Camera
- Extra Money for lunch and souvenirs.
