Marvelousperu – Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu

Sacred Valley

Overview

Sacred Valley Tour of the Incas has five places to visit. Chinchero, Moray, Maras Salt Mines, Ollantaytambo, Pisac. If you like you can visit the five sites in one full day.

This itinerary gives you the opportunity to visit all the most significant places of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, where you can appreciate the magnificent work that the Incas made in stone.

You will also have the opportunity to interact with the local people and enjoy the landscapes mountainous areas that surround the sacred valley, with its glaciers, rivers and the friendly people that live in the ancestral valley.

For example you will make a stop at the Chinchero to visit the Inca ruins, a colonial temple, and a local family to learn about Andean textiles, then you will go to Moray to visit the circular terraces, Maras Salt Mines, then visit the largest archaeological center of the sacred valley which is Ollantaytambo then we go to Pisac and then return to Cusco.

Highlights

Itinerary

Day 1

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 7:00 pm. approximately.

Included

Excluded

Recommendations

  • Any flight or airport departure taxes

  • Travel insurance

  • Vaccinations

  • Breakfast on the first day

  • Tips for local staff

  • Entrance fee to the Reserve

From:

$ 29.00