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The Sacred Valley Full-Day Tour has beautiful history and culture at every stop. This tour is an excellent overview of the importance of Sacred Valley

Highlights

• Visit the city of Urubamba and enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant.
• Explore the vibrant colors and crafts on display at local craft markets.
• Visit a local town and learn about its history as a center of salt production.
• Visit Inca archaeological sites while learning about the history of the sites.

Description

This day we will start with the pick up from your hotel at approximately 7:00 am to go to the town of Chinchero, where we will find Inca wall constructions and its colonial church that awaits a lot of history, we will also have a small participation in the textile center. Continuing our visit, we will go to the famous circular terraces of cultivation of Moray, this archaeological site was very important in Inca times, especially in agriculture. After that we will descend to the salt mines of Maras, a picturesque place for its landscapes; here we will visit more than 3000 salt wells, this salt was used by the Incas for their consumption. We will arrive to the city of Urubamba where we will enjoy our buffet lunch and continue our trip to Ollantaytambo, known as 'The Last Living Inca City'. Once we finish our visit to Ollantaytambo we will go to the picturesque town of Pisac located on the slopes of the Intihuatana hill ('Place where the Sun is tied'). We will enter the indigenous market of Pisac, which is the best place to shop for handicrafts and then finish visiting the Archaeological Park of Pisac, Inca archaeological sites, buildings in polished stone finely assembled. We will be back in Cusco at 7:30 pm. approximately.

Includes

Pick up from your hotel in Cusco Roundtrip transportation Buffet lunch English/Spanish speaking professional tour guide

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund