Lima – Cusco 6 Days

Arrival to the city of Lima. A representative of our Travel Agency will be waiting for you at the airport to welcome you and take you to the hotel of your choice.

Free afternoon to rest, walk around, taste food, and enjoy the city.

Hotel Lima.

After breakfast, a representative of our agency will pick you up to drive you and start your tour in Lima “City of the Kings” where you can enjoy an ancient and modern city for approximately 4 hours.

During the tour we will visit the Huaca Pucllana, an ancient civilization in the centre of the city where ceremonies and sacrifices were performed more than 1 500 BC.

We will visit the historical centre of the city: Plaza de Armas, the Government Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Archbishop’s Palace. Then we will pass through the Park of the Wall, the Convent of San Francisco with its great relics and religious halls as well as the underground crypts known as Catacombs.

Throughout our visit we will visit a Modern City where we will see the beautiful district of San Isidro, Olivar Park, the Parque del Amor, the Malecon from where you will have an extraordinary view of the Pacific Ocean and you will be able to take beautiful pictures.

In the afternoon our staff of the travel agency will pick you up to take you to the airport and take the plane to Cusco.

Arrival in Cusco. A representative of our Travel Agency will be waiting for you at the airport to welcome you and take you to the hotel of your choice.

Hotel Cusco.

Our guide will pass by your hotels at approximately 06:30 Hrs. to direct us to our transport that will take us for about 40 minutes to the Archaeological Center of Chinchero, it is a living city that still maintains its customs and traditions left by their ancestors that today 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 ancient techniques.

After our visit, we head to the area of Moray, which is considered to be an Inca Agricultural Experimental Centre, which is a circular system of platforms built, taking advantage of the subsidence of the area. They are terraces with microclimates, for experimental purposes, such as domestication, acclimatization, hybridization and, in general, plant experimentation.

Later we will visit the salt mines of Maras which have been explored since pre-Inca times. There are more than 3000 shallow pools owned and worked by almost 380 families today.

The salt water comes from natural springs that filter from the same hill called Qoripukiu (Fountain of Gold). After enjoying a delicious buffet lunch in Urubamba, we will continue by bus for 30 minutes to reach the Archaeological Centre of Ollantaytambo.

This was a successively occupied area. In Inca times, another of the many multifunctional cities, it was an administrative, military, social and economic centre, a checkpoint for various ecological levels.

Here we say goodbye to our guide, for go to Ollantaytambo station to take the train to Machupicchu Pueblo.

At Aguas Calientes station a representative of our travel agency will be waiting for us to welcome us and take us to the hotel of our choice.

Hotel Aguas Calientes.

At the agreed time after breakfast we go to the bus station to take one of the first buses that will take us to the Lost City of the Incas,

 where we can observe the magical and mysterious Inca citadel, after this experience we will have a guided tour of the archaeological complex of Machupicchu for an average of 2 hours, where we can explore and the guide will give us an explanation of the function of this place in the Inca period.

Where we can explore and the guide will give us an explanation of what function this place had in Inca times, in turn enjoy the impressive Inca architecture such as: The Guardian’s House, the Religious Sector, the Intihuatana, the Temple to the Pachamama, the Industrial Sector and the impressive terraces.

We say goodbye to the Sanctuary of Machupicchu and we go to take the bus back to Aguas Calientes where we will have a delicious lunch in a tourist restaurant.

At the indicated time we take the return train from Aguas Calientes Station to Ollantaytambo Station, there a representative of our Travel Agency will be waiting for you to direct you to the tourist transport that will take you to the hotel of your choice in the city of Cusco.

Hotel Cusco.

Free morning.

At 12:30 we will pass by the Hotel to start this beautiful excursion. The Cultural Thematic City Tour consists of a totally different tour with new thematic elements.

We will start visiting the Cathedral of Cusco, one of the most important temples of the City of Cusco that was built over an Inca Palace, in its interior it has an important collection of paintings of the Cusco School of Cusco.

The Qoricancha is considered as the Royal House of the Sun in the city of Cusco and is formed by a mixture of Inca and colonial construction. We will take the panoramic bus in the area of Tullumayu, this will take us to the thematic excursion in the surroundings of Cusco.

We will visit Saqsayhuaman which is considered as a great Inca fortress where the cyclopean constructions are found and which is a sample of the great architecture developed by our ancestors.

When we arrive at the White Christ we get off the bus for a while to take pictures and enjoy the panoramic view of the city. Then we enter Qenqo, a centre of Inca astronomy that is characterized by its labyrinths and ceremonial underground enclosures.

Along the way we will observe the staging of the Paucartambo Festivities with traditional dance and music as well as the famous cuculí story. We head towards Pucapucara, considered as an Inca military centre and entrance control to the city of Cusco, this place has a connection with Tambomachay which was a place of purification and water temple in the time of the Incas.

We enter the Huayllarcocha Wetland where there will be a small Inca performance in gratitude to the Pachamama, we will have an Andean show of the famous myth of Cuculi, as well as traditional dance and music. We return to Cusco city, we will leave you in the Av. Sol.

Hotel Cusco.

Breakfast in Hotel. At the agreed time, transfer from the hotel to the airport, we say goodbye to the city of Cusco, during the trip we will be able to observe the majestic Andes Mountains and its countless snow-capped peaks. Arrival in Lima.