Cusco and Machu Picchu Tour: The Ultimate 4-Day Essential Experience

The day of your arrival at the Cusco airport, we will be waiting for you with a sign with your name, then we will transport you to the selected hotel, where you will rest, have a coca tea. In the afternoon we will come to pick you up at 1:00 p.m. To start the tour to the city of Cusco and its surroundings, we will visit the center of the millennial city of Cusco, the Plaza de Armas, the Cathedral, the Monastery of Santo Domingo, the Koricancha Temple and the nearby ruins of Kenko, Puka Pukará, Tambomachay and the Sacsayhuaman fortress, built with megalithic stones will blow your mind away. After a wonderful afternoon exploring the most iconic spots of Cusco, we will transfer you off to your hotel.

** The city tour in Cusco is the best way to start exploring this Inca land.

The tour in the Sacred Valley of Peru begins at 6:30 a.m. with the pick-up from your hotel in Cusco, then we will travel to the upper part of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, where we will have the opportunity to meet and enjoy picturesque towns dedicated to the work of crafts, ceramics and agriculture. We will visit several tourist attractions in the Sacred Valley of Cusco such as: Chinchero (textile market, colonial temple and archaeological site) then we will visit Moray (an agricultural experimentation center) and the salt mines of Maras, then we will go to the town of Urubamba to taste a delicious buffet lunch.

After lunch we will visit the Ollantaytambo fortress, where there are still descendants of the Incas who live in the old Inca buildings, finally we will go to the Ollantaytambo train station, to board the train to Machu Picchu, which leaves at 4: 36 p.m. The train ride is approximately 2 hours to the town of Aguas Calientes, where we will arrive around 6:00 pm, where we will spend the night at the selected hotel. Aguas Calientes is officially the closest town to the wonder of Machu Picchu.

** The sacred valley of Cusco is the best welcome to Machu Picchu.

After getting up very early and having breakfast, we will go up to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, then an excursion will be made with our guide through the citadel of Machu Picchu, for 3 hours, during the tour you will visit the most important sites of this city such as: the main square, the temple of the sun, the solar observatory, the royal quarters, the temple of the three windows and the residential area. Concluded in tour of the citadel of Machupicchu optionally: If you booked your additional tickets, you can trek to the summit of Huaynapicchu or Machu Picchu Mountain, this will take a few hours, in which you will be able to enjoy the landscape and take in some impressive views (This visit is without a guide). Then we will go down by bus to Aguas Calientes and in the afternoon we will take the train back to Ollantaytambo, where our staff will be waiting for you, to transport you by bus to the city of Cusco and take you to your hotel.

** After seeing Machu Picchu, the Inca wonder, you will return to Cusco refreshed.

Having a good breakfast, we will pick you up from the hotel where you are staying and we will take you to the airport of the city of Cusco, which is a few minutes from the center of Cusco, we must be at least an hour before to make the arrangements for flight confirmation, after checking in with the airline that we will fly and paying the airport tax, we will say goodbye and take the flight from Cusco to Lima.

** A happy return to their homes after visiting Cusco, the sacred valley and Machu Picchu.