Cusco Machu Picchu Tour

Cusco Machu Picchu Tour Overview

Sustainable Tourism: At Salkantay Trek Machu, we are happy to promote and practice sustainable tourism and support local communities.

Difficulty Hike: 2 Moderate.

Age Requirements: 2+ (All travelers under the age of 18 years must be accompanied by an adult!).

Crew: Salkantay Trek Machu representative in Cusco and a professional tour guide in Cusco and Machu Picchu.

Accommodation: Hotel*** (3 nights),.

Meals: 2x breakfast, 1x buffet lunch 

Transportation: Tourist transportation and train.

Cusco Machu Picchu Itinerary

Day 01: Cusco City Tour

Day 02: Sacred Valley of the Incas / Machu Picchu

Day 03: Machu Picchu

Day 04: Departure Day

Cusco is famous for:

The words are not enough to describe Cusco, just visit it and let yourself be trapped by the telluric air that is impregnated in streets and houses combined with history and modernity.

Cusco, living city and of continuous settlement in time.

• Cusco is the ancient capital of one of the most important cultures of Humanity, the Tahuantinsuyo, and today, according to the Political Constitution of the State, is the Historical Capital of Peru. As Angel Avendaño Farfán said in "History of Qosqo Literature": "The Qosqo has the fate of great human forges like Athens, Baghdad, Cairo, Rome, Mexico, Tenochtitlan, Chichicastenango, where a corner is turned you hear the hierarchies of history ... ", adding that Cusco is one of the few heritage cities in the world, where human settlement has been continuous and permanent over time.

Cradle of intellectuals and brave men and women

• Cusco is the cradle and trainer of personalities that marked a milestone in national history, such as José Gabriel Condorcanqui; Túpac Amaru II, who after completing studies at the San Borja school, initiated the revolutionary feat with repercussions in South America. In this city was also born the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Chimpu Ocllo, intellectual, famous for his Royal Commentaries, Florida del Inca. Cusco was also the birthplace of María Trinidad Enríquez, the first woman to attend university studies in Peru and South America and the first jurist woman in Peru, also in Cusco, the first worker deputy of Peru, Francisco Gonzales, promoter of the Society of Artisans of Cusco, who left his political life to go to war with Chile, like Ladislao Espinar. They wrote pages of history and important contributions, illustrious sons that if we mentioned them and their works, they would not reach the pages of hundreds of books.

Main monuments of Cusco breathe history and resistance

• The Cathedral of Cusco that rises majestically in the Main Square as the emblem of Catholicism in Cusco, was the scene of the Manco Inca uprising, between 1536 and 1572, during which the rebels besieged not only the Imperial City, also Lima and Trujillo . Behind this temple is the Major School for children of Inca chieftains, "San Borja", where Tupac Amaru II studied. Also in the main square, is the temple of the Company of Jesus, one of the few Catholic world with three doors and Cathedral level, was the scene of the torture of the great rebel Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, after his revolution was defeated in May 1781. Seven years before independence, in Cusco, the taking of the city took place almost half a year, between August 1814 and March 1815 by the Angulo brothers and Mateo Pumacahua, who in open rebellion to Spanish power sent expeditions to Arequipa, La Paz and Huamanga, seeking their expulsion. Another place, the University Hall of the National University of San Antonio Abad, a three-hundred-year-old house of studies, was the scene of the first University Reform of America, in 1909, nine years ahead of the reform of the University of San Antonio.

Faith and tradition with intangible heritage come together in Cusco

• Cusco, also shows catholic temples of fine factory such as San Blas, where the famous pulpit is located, made by indigenous sculptors, in a single piece of cedar, in the baroque style with more than a thousand details; the temple of San Cristobal is the old palace of Manco Capac and is half an hour from the historic center; the temple of La Merced, where not only a beautiful cloister is observed but also houses the famous "Custodia de la Merced", a jewel made of 24 carat gold and inlaid with 1518 diamonds, 615 stones (rubies, topazes and emeralds) and a great pearl in the shape of a mermaid, considered the second largest in the world. Cusco, is a good example of the architectural miscegenation where on Inca construction palaces with gigantic rocks weighing five or more tons each, there are palaces, temples and mansions, one of them is the Palace and Religious Museum built on the Palace of the Inca Roca, in one of its walls there is the Stone of Twelve Angles, in the emblematic Hatun Rumiyoq street; It is also located on Sol avenue. Santo Domingo or the famous Qoricancha, where the Inti Qancha was the principal Temple in the Incas time, one of the most important temples of the Cusco Valley

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• City Tour
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