Sacred Valley Cultural Chinchero Moray Maras Salt Mines Ollantaytambo
MACHUPICCHU LATIN AMERICA
Itinerary
Day 1: Chinchero - Moray-Salineras - Ollantaytambo
6:30am: Breakfast at your hotel
7:00am: Our Machupicchu Latin America expert guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby and drive you in our private transport from Cusco passing through or explore Chinchero (if you haven`t visited before) and visit the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House where their original Inca walls are still well preserved and have a chance to meet the Chinchero women in their traditional dressing in a weaving or textile center.
9:30am: And then continue our journey to the village of Maras where you will visit their typical streets and taste the famous Chicha, a drink made from corn which during the Incan times including nowadays is used for special ceremonies. Then we will continue driving until we arrive at the archaeological site of Moray which contains an important agricultural system. Moray, during the Incan times, was possibly one of the most important agricultural research centers, where experiments were conducted at different heights crop, the arrangement of its platforms produces a variety of micro-climates taking the center of the concentric circular terraces higher temperature and decreasing gradually outward lower temperatures.
11:00am: After this important visit, we will drive to our next stop and visit the famous Salineras or Salt mines. The salt is extracted in artisanal form, the Salt Mines are made up of about 3000 small wells that have been exploited since the Inca times and it was an economic exchange way.
12:30pm: Then we will drive you for about 30 more minutes to Urubamba town and enjoy a delicious buffet lunch (not included).
13:40pm: After lunch, we continue our journey to Ollantaytambo where we will visit this amazing Inca site, which is an important area with Inca constructions, built during the Incan times. This is an extraordinary Inca citadel where we will find an amazing rock formation representing the Inca god Wiracocha.
15:30pm: Finally, we will drive you back to Cusco arriving by 17:30pm.
Important note: We can end the tour at ollantaytambo train station at 15:00pm in case you continue your trip to Machupicchu.
END OF SERVICE
Included
• Hotel pick up and drop off (door to door service)
• Sacred valley guided tour
• Professional English-speaking tour guide
• Overland transportation
• 1 Bottle of Water
Not Included
• Admission ticket to Chinchero Moray Salt Mines and Ollantaytambo (90 Peruvian sol cash)
• Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
• Travel insurance (Highly recommended)
• Tips
