Description
The Sacred Valley vip is an option for those visitors who want to know the whole Sacred Valley in one day, this route was crucial for the Inca Empire and functioned as an agricultural, spiritual and political centre for them.
- Price: 30 US dollars per person.
- Confirmed departures: Every day.
- Schedule: 6:30 hours a 19:30 hours.
- Duration: 13 hours approximately.
Along its length there are many Inca and Pre-Inca archaeological sites. Its climate was beneficial for the development of agriculture and the construction of important cities such as, Chinchero, Moray, Ollantaytambo and Pisac, they also extracted natural salt from maras which we will visit as part of this tour.
On this tour we will head through the mountains to the “Sacred Valley of the Incas” which had great importance in the Inca Culture. The valley has a milder climate than Cusco and we will see a succession of picturesque villages, agricultural terraces and several archaeological sites.
Tour Details
Pick up.
Professional Bilingual Guide.
Buffet Lunch (Urubamaba).
Tourist transport.
Partial tourist ticket: for the 4 archaeological sites, 40 soles for Peruvian and 70 soles for foreigners.
Entrance to the salt mines (10 soles).
If you are also planning to do the City Tour, South Valley it is actually better to buy the general tourist ticket which is 130 soles for foreigners and 70 soles for Peruvians (which gives you access to other archaeological sites and some museums and attractions in Cusco and is valid for 10 days).
Original passport or ID card.
For students: valid physical student card issued by your university (50% discount on the tourist ticket).
A warm jacket.
Water.
Hat.
Sunscreen.
Money in soles.
Itinerary
Full Day | Valle Sagrado Vip (Valle Sagrado + Maras- Moray y Salineras)
The pick up will be between 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. at your accommodation to start the tour and go in our tourist transport to our first point of visit which will be:
CHINCHERO
Here are the remains of what was the royal hacienda of the Inca Tupac Yupanqui, on which is built a beautiful colonial church built on the Inca foundations.
We will also see a textile and handicraft fair in the village of Chinchero, which attracts foreign tourists and national visitors, where you can find many handicrafts and local products.
MORAY
Which is located at 3500 m.a.s.l. where you can observe concentric terraces that according to archaeological studies served as a great laboratory for the adaptation of plants of warm climate to higher altitude climates, you can observe four sets of gigantic terraces as amphitheatres, the enigmatic of this place is the presence of the number seven in the constructions, we will learn why and its energetic influence in the agriculture.
SALT MINE
Salt mines, which have been extracted from time immemorial to the present day by the local inhabitants and there are more than three thousand open salt pits, which are extracted mainly in the months of drought, that is to say from May to the end of September.
URUBAMBA
It is located in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, it was one of the main agricultural centres of the Inca empire. In this village we will enjoy a delicious buffet lunch, typical food of the Sacred Valley.
OLLANTAYTAMBO
This archaeological site is another monumental work of Inca architecture influenced by the Tiahuanaku culture (Bolivia). It has been built on two mountains in a very strategic place that dominates the whole valley. At the top of this complex there is a temple dedicated to the god Wiracocha, characterised by huge monoliths in the most perfidious red ever imagined and which defy all human imagination, they have mysterious engravings (two pumas, chacanas). These blocks are joined with incredible precision.
PISAQ
We will continue to visit the archaeological park of Pisac, located at the top of the mountain of the same name, here we will observe the largest Inca cemetery and agricultural terraces ever known in the Inca empire.
After this tour we will be arriving in Cusco city at approximately 7 p.m.
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