Cusco City Tour – Itinerary
Day 1.- Qoricancha – Cusco & four ruins
Travelers are picked up from their hotel at 1:30 in the afternoon, after a short drive by bus we will start the City Tour in Cusco, visiting Qoricancha, a wonderful Inca Sun temple, a construction built during the Incas heydays. Afterwards we will pass by the major square of Cusco called as Plaza de Armas; where we will be able to see all the big catholic buildings from XVI century, including the famous Cathedral, which is considered as the best and beautiful church in South America. Later on, we will drive to the northern outskirts of Cusco, to visit the famous four ruins around Cusco.
Sacsayhuaman is the most Impressive and outstanding Inca Temple just 20 minutes away from the Incas’ Capital, where we will walk through huge Inca walls, built with massive lime rocks weighing up to 128 tons, amazingly well joined, with absolute perfection. Then, we will move onto another important Inca site called Qenqo, a strange place with subterranean passages, hiding in its interior perfect carved rock formation where the Incas probably mummify some of the very important people in their society. We will finish our tour visiting the spectacular Inca Baths of Tambomachay and the military lookout point of Pukapukara, and then we will get back to Cusco.
