Cusco 5 Days tour with Local Guide

DAY 1: ACCLIMATIZATION AND EXPLORE CUSCO WHIT LOCAL GUIDE:

Our Cusco 5 days tour starts whit the Welcome to Cusco, capital of the Inca Empire, one of the most beautiful cities on Earth, and a natural starting point for any Peru itinerary. We’ll meet you at 1 pm for a traditional Peruvian meal at a local favorite restaurant. In the afternoon your guide will lead a relaxed walking tour around Cusco’s stunning historic center – it’s important to take it easy if you’ve arrived from sea level today, as you need to adjust to Cusco’s  (11,200 feet) altitude.

• Meals: lunch included
  
• Accommodation: comfortable  hotel Cusco

DAY 2: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SACRED VALLEY:

A Local Guide from Peru cultural connection will pick you up from your hotel in a private van to show you The incredible scenic floodplain between Pisaq and Ollantaytambo in the sacred valley Pisaq is a cobbled Inca village that is home to the largest handicraft market in the region and a huge Inca fortress, we will visit both. Urubamba River that is the main river in this valley also is affluent to the Amazon River. Our destination is Ollantaytambo probably the most perfectly preserved of all Inca towns, a maze of cobbled alleyways and sun-drenched plazas presided over by a spectacular, llama-shaped ruin.

• Meals: breakfast – lunch included
• Accommodation: comfortable hotel Aguas Calientes

DAY 3: ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD “MACHU PICCHU “

On this spectacular day of the Cusco 5 days tour, we’ll visit one of the world’s most evocative sites: Machu Picchu Archeological Complex. The 3-hour guided visit is an unforgettable experience, as our professional Local Guide will recount history enveloping this mysterious and enchanting site. After the guided visit, you’ll have free time to explore independently or relax and soak up the site’s ambiance. (If you are interested in climbing Huayna Picchu, please advise upon making your tour reservation, permits are only sold along with the Machu Picchu tickets and the amount of entrances is limited.)

• Meals: breakfast – lunch included
• Accommodation: comfortable hotel Ollantaytambo

DAY 4: EXPERIENCE IN THE LAND OF THE INCAS WHIT LOCAL GUIDE:

The tour starts in the morning, the Local Guide will pick you up from the hotel at 8:00 am to avoid crows, and then we will continue to Moray, located about 7 km from Maras. Moray is a group of circular terraces of different sizes, which at Incas’ time were used as an agricultural experimental center; right there they performed their studies of plant adaptation to new ecosystems. Moray is seen as the superposition of concentric stone rings expand as it rises; the total depth is 150 m.

Continuing the tour we will go to visit the salt mines, composed of about 5000 small salt ponds from where the salt is extracted then drying salt water from an underground spring. The “Maras” have been exploited since Incas time so that it was used as a mean of economic exchange. Last stop Chinchero where you will visit the women’s weaving cooperative where we will watch a demonstration of local weavers who are still using traditional Inca patterns and techniques for dyeing fabric.

• Meals: breakfast – lunch included
• Accommodation: comfortable hotel Cusco

DAY 5: FREE MORNING AND THEN TRANSFER TO THE AIRPORT:

Our Cusco 5 days tour ends here, You can book your flight out of Cusco for any time today. If you’re staying on in Peru, we’re delighted to help out with suggestions and assistance for the rest of your time here

• Meals: Breakfast  included