- 01 día
- Grupo: 10 - 15 personas
- Disponibilidad: Diaria
City Tour in Cusco half day
Description
The City Tour is usually the beginning of your tourist visits in Cusco, it is the contact with the Inca culture and the wonderful city of Cusco “Navel of the World”, it has a duration of half a day, and allows you to visit the most important tourist attractions in the city and surroundings: the Inca Temple of the Sun “Q`orikancha,” the Inca archaeological sites of Sacsayhuaman, Q`enqo, Tambomachay and Puca Pucara. This tour is not to be missed.
The most important thing
- Walk the streets of the mysterious Inca city.
- Visit the temple of the sun in the heart of the city.
- Meet the impressive Inca constructions.
Includes
- Professional guides
- Transportation
- Entrance tickets
Does not include
- Meals: No meals are served during this tour, you will return to Cusco around 18:00.
Summary Itinerary
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Recommendations
- ORIGINAL PASSPORT – IDENTITY CARD BTC TOURIST TICKET.
- Hat, cap and sunglasses.
- Camera and spare batteries.
- Sunscreen
- Trekking shoes or waterproof boots for your comfort, rubber or thick soled shoes are an excellent option.
- Rain gear: A good raincoat, rain pants (rainy season only).
- Extra money for drinks and tips, souvenirs, etc. (soles or dollars).
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Detailed Itinerary
Our transfer will visit you at your hotel to take you to the starting point of your tour.
We have 2 shifts, the morning shift starts at approximately 08:40am. ending at 13:00pm. APROX. and the afternoon shift starts at approximately 13:00 am, ending at 18:00 pm. APROX
The tour starts heading to the Q`orikancha or Temple of the Sun, according to the chronicles to enter this enclosure had to enter fasting and barefoot, as it is considered an indigenous sanctuary, dedicated to the deities of the Sun God, the Moon, the Stars, the Rainbow, the Thunder and the Lightning, The Thunder and The Lightning where we will appreciate the fine work of lithic technology made by the Incas, with the highest level of cutting hard stone without being able to insert a sheet of paper and that despite the earthquakes remain stable to date.
After the visit to Q`orikancha we will board the transport that will take us to Sacsayhuaman located 3 km from the city of Cusco, the esplanade of Sacsayhuaman offers a panoramic view of the city of Cusco, Sacsayhuaman is a megalithic construction, with large limestone blocks weighing 25 to 130 tons. Integrated by three superimposed terraces in a serpentine form (zigzag), this place for being large and wide served to gather people and perform different festivities such as the WARACHIKUY and INTI RAYMI.
We will also arrive at Q`enqo, which its name means labyrinth, is located one kilometer from Sacsayhuaman, establishes a construction based on limestone rock that shows stone sculpture in 500 meters accompanied by structures that according to historians served for astronomical, religious and embalming and / or mummification study.
Then we will visit Puka Pucara, coming from two Quechua words that means Puka (red) Pucara (fortress) “red fortress”, strategic place for control and surveillance of access and exit of the Imperial city of Cusco, which was used as a territorial border to divide the regions and establish the regimes of displacement.
As the last point of this tour, we will visit Tambomachay, a place of rest, located 9 km from the city of Cusco, better known as the baths of the Inca by the water sources, or also known as the waters of eternal youth, by the flow of its waters that is constant. Finally, we end our City Tour, transporting you to your hotel in Cusco.
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