This tour will take you through the main attractions of the Sacred Valley, you will be able to appreciate impressive landscapes, mountains with glaciers that by their rivers slide crystalline waters to irrigate the very fertile valley, in passing you will be able to observe the archaeological sites such as Chinchero, Salt Mines, Moray, Ollantaytambo and Pisaq.
At 06:30 in the morning we will be passing by your hotel to pick you up, in our bus 40 minutes from Cusco city to the north we will arrive to the archaeological center of Chinchero, it is a living village that still preserves the original Inca layout and is located in a very important agricultural area. The church and tower are from colonial times, built on the base of Inca temples. The artisans offer locally made textiles, using ancestral techniques. After our visit we continue by bus to Moray which is a circular system of terraces built, taking advantage of the sinkholes in the area. They are terraces with microclimates, with experimental purposes, such as domestication, acclimatization, hybridization and in general the experimentation with plants. Then we will visit the salt mines, they were exploited since pre-Inca times there are more than 3000 ponds, shallow, owned by nearly 380 families, this salt water comes from natural springs that filter from the same hill called Qoripukiu (source of gold) then we will go to enjoy in Urubamba a delicious tourist buffet prepared with the products of the sacred valley, after enjoying lunch we will continue in the bus 30 minutes to reach the archaeological center of Ollantaytambo. It was an area occupied successively. In Inca times it was one of the many multifunctional settlements was an administrative, military, social and economic center, control point of passage to various ecological levels. After the visit we will take our bus and arrive at the archaeological center Pisaq, is a name that comes from the Quechua word P'isaca (partridge). Its lands were used by means of intelligent systems of terraces with their respective irrigation channels, which allowed the almost exclusive cultivation of the best corn in the world parcay sara or giant white corn. Religious, urban, social and economic zones can be distinguished. Generally, the Incas built in high and safe areas that were not very vulnerable, as well as on land that was not suitable for agriculture. Colonial Pisaq originally, it was only a typical market dedicated to the purchase and sale of varied products, for the inhabitants of the place, at the moment it has been incorporated the sale of crafts, thanks to the visit of the tourists who are now daily.
We will return to Cusco at approximately 07:00 pm in the evening.