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Complete Sacred Valley Tour
The Sacred Valley Extended Tour is a great way to explore the whole Sacred Valley within a day and not to miss anything.
This tour is a perfect option for those with very limited time and willing to see as much as possible. It is a historical-cultural tour based on the Incan sites: lifestyle, their living support, their economy base, their farming technology and tools, including their religion and the astronomical facts they achieved.
Meeting Point
The pickup is at your hotel, so when booking please drop your hotel either in Cusco city or Sacred Valley
Pick up at your hotel in Cusco City or Sacred Valley by private vehicle
Chinchero town and ruins
We will visit this inka and colonial town and the ruins that was one of the most important town at Incan times surrounded by farming terraces and a main trail which linked it to the valley functioning also as a trade hub for bartering of crops and stuffs on periodical fairs.
Additionally we can visit local weaving factories led by local women to showcase the preservation of the knitting, drying and spinning techniques as our ancestors made all by hand.
Salt Mines of Maras
Maras is other colonial town through we will drive to the Salt Ponds, we will able to see the water source (spring) where salt water comes out from and learn all the harvesting process from the crystallization until worldwide distribution.
Moray
Here we will travel back in time to learn how they were able to adapt seeds/crops from warm environment to this altitude as they truly needed those crops such as coca leaf from jungle.
It is formed by concentric round terraces all built into a natural geological hole, we could see four holes in total but just one has been restored so far.
Lunch time
We will already be at Ollantaytambo town and I will recommend really good restaurants for lunch there.
Ollantaytambo Fortress
We will be amazed by the size of the rocks they moved and worked. It is a awe-inspiring site perfectly fitted at the the at the edge of the Sacred Valley watershed. We will be able to see where they pulled rocks from and techniques applied at that period without developing iron tools but just bronze, tin, copper and silver alloy, they did not even possessed horses as Europeans did.
If you have your train to Machu Picchu town this afternoon/night then just let me know to finish in time there at the station. If not, we'll just keep going to the next and last site.
Pisaq ruins
This is the last but not less important site where we will see more farming terraces and the most conserved inka cemetery on the cliff that were perfect places to fix the mummies as they wanted them to rest in peace.
Drop off at your hotel in Cusco or Sacred Valley
Afterwards, we will finally return to Cusco city arriving around 6:30 - 7:00 PM.
We can do it shorter this tour as well depending what time you would like to finish at.
Ending Point
The drop off is at your hotel to either in Cusco or Sacred Valley
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Inclusions & Exclusions
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private transportation
Guiding services
Tourist ticket: For a day trip only s/70 (USD 19), for multi-day s/130 (USD 35)
Entrance ticket to Salt Mines s/10 (USD 3)
Meals (but we do stop and recommend good restaurant regardless your dietary condition)
Tour Important Information
At rainy season (late October to middle March) make sure you take raincoat as climate is unpredictable and might rain suddenly apart from that as we will be mostly into the valley, weather is mild in there.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
