Machupicchu, Cusco, Sacred Valley and Humantay lake
4 DAYS | $ 385 USD per person
Explore Cusco’s treasures in just 4 days with our City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and Humantay Lake package.
Day 1: City Tour Cusco Discover the heart of Cusco’s cultural heritage with visits to iconic landmarks and ancient ruins.
Day 2: Sacred Valley of the Incas Journey through fertile valleys and ancient ruins in this picturesque region.
Day 3: Machu Picchu Experience the awe-inspiring wonder of Machu Picchu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Day 4: Humantay Lake Conclude your adventure with a visit to the breathtaking Humantay Lake, nestled in the Peruvian Andes.
In “Ready to Travel to Peru” we want to offer our customers an unforgettable trip and experience in the city of Cusco with a 4-day package tour offered to suit our customers, including in it the main tourist attractions City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and the natural attraction of the Humantay Lake, which allows you to know and appreciate both the Inca Culture and enjoy the scenery within its route to the different tours.
$ 385 USD
Foreign Tourist
$ 330 USD
National Tourist
ITINERARY
DAY 1: CUSCO – CITY TOUR
The first day in the city of Cusco will be to acclimatize to the altitude and take a short tour.
- Pick up from the airport to your hotel.
- Start of the City Tour Cusco at the indicated time (08:00 hrs. or 12:00 hrs.) pick up from your hotel.
- Guided tour of the main attractions in the city of Cusco and surroundings we will visit the Cathedral, Qoricancha, Sacsayhuaman, Q’enqo, Pukapukara and Tambomachay.
- We end the City Tour Cusco tour in the city of Cusco.
DAY 2: SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS
On this day we will start the tour early in the morning to visit the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
- Pick up from your hotel to start the tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas starting at 07:00 hrs.
- The first archaeological site which we will visit will be Pisaq.
- To replenish energy we will have lunch at a tourist restaurant in Urubamba.
- We will continue our visit to the archaeological site of Ollantaytambo and finally we will visit Chinchero.
- Return to Cusco
DAY 3: MAGICAL MACHUPICCHU
The most important day of your visit to Peru – Cusco, we will visit one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World.
- Pick up for the start of the tour to Machupicchu from your hotel
- Transfer to the train station.
- We will board the train to Machupicchu (Aguas Calientes) appreciating the scenic beauty that this tour offers us, then we will take the bus that will take us to the entrance of Machupicchu.
- Guided tour of approximately 2hrs. in Machupicchu where you will enjoy this important tourist attraction “Wonder of the Modern World”.
- We will board the bus and train to Aguas Calientes and then to the city of Cusco.
- We finish the magical Machupicchu tour in the city of Cusco (chosen hotel in the city of Cusco).
DAY 4: HUMANTAY LAKE
This day we will start the tour very early in order to enjoy this new natural tourist attraction of the city of Cusco.
- Pick up from your hotel starting at 4:30 hrs.
- Travel for 2 hours until we reach Mollepata where we will have a delicious breakfast and will be given the respective indications and recommendations to start this adventure.
- We will continue our journey for about 1 hour until we arrive to Soraypampa, the starting point to begin the trek.
- We will begin our hike for 1 hour and a half approx. on the way we can see beautiful wildlife until we reach our destination Humantay Lake.
- In the Humantay lake we will have 40 minutes to take postcard photos and also feel the energy of the Apus.
- Then we will return by the same route for 1 hour approx. where our transport will be waiting for us to take us to Mollepata where we will have a delicious lunch.
- Return to Cusco city arrival time approx. 18:00 hrs.
DAY 5: CUSCO – AIRPORT
Final day in Cusco, at a certain time we will transfer you from your hotel to the airport of Cusco, Alejandro Velazco Astete.
INCLUDES
- Previous interview to give you more information about the City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake tours and clear up any doubts.
- Pick up from airport – hotel – airport
- Pick up from your hotel for all the tours indicated
- Entrance tickets to tourist attractions (City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake).
- Round trip Expedition train tickets or upgraded Vistadome service (client’s request)
- Bus tickets from Aguas Calientes – Machupicchu – Aguas Calientes
- Qualified bilingual tour guide (English and Spanish)
- Tourist transportation to all sites described
- Lunch buffet in Sacred Valley Urubamba
- Lunch and breakfast buffet at Mollepata village.
- Permanent assistance before and during the tour
NOT INCLUDED
- Lunch in Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu)
- Meals not mentioned in the program
- Personal expenses
- Tips
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Bring original and valid passport or identity document.
- Bring entra money in soles
- Adequate backpack
- Comfortable shoes, hat for sun and cold, sunscreen, snack.
- Rain poncho (depending on the season November – March).
- VERY IMPORTANT camera to immortalize the moments.
MACHUPICCHU 4 DAYS (CITY TOUR + SACRED VALLEY + MACHUPICCHU + HUMANTAY LAKE)
The Tour City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake 4 days. It is a tour package of 4 days. We start with the City Tour Cusco which is one of the main and important tourist circuits within the city of Cusco (3399 m.a.s.l.), the city tour will allow you to know the Inca culture from museums, temples that were built on the foundations of Inca palaces and more archaeological sites that has the city of Cusco, with a tour full of history and magic that this keeps both in its colonial monuments such as the Main squeare of Cusco, Cusco Cathedral and Qorikancha, as well as the archaeological centers of Sacsayhuaman, Q’enqo, Puka Pukara and Tambomachay.
The next day we will go to the Sacred Valley of the Incas at 2800 meters above sea level, a rich valley for its fertile land, climate and geographical conditions located on the banks of the Vilcanota River, which allowed him to be a center of agricultural production through the systems of terraces, also highlighting its hydraulic systems, it also established urban, military and religious centers such as Pisaq, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero,
On the third day you will take the tour of Machupicchu, a tourist destination that leads you to one of the seven wonders of the world, a place of great magic and mystery admired by the whole world, recognized worldwide by Unesco. Here you can admire the scenic beauty, history and Inca architecture (Temple of the Sun, Temple of the Condor, Three Windows, Sacred Rock and Intihuatana) where you can connect with nature and recharge with positive energy in a unique landscape that offers Machupicchu.
The fourth day of this adventure will end with a tour of the Humantay Lagoon (4200 m.a.s.l.) a natural attraction located in the Peruvian Andes in the Vilcabamba chain at the foot of Salkantay (6270 m.a.s.l.) the second highest mountain in the Cusco region. The fourth day we will visit the beautiful turquoise water lake was formed by the melting of the snowy Humantay and part of the snow-capped of Salkantay its turquoise hue is due to the presence of blue-green algae. In this beautiful natural landscape we will be able to feel the energy of this mystical place to finally on the fifth day make the transfer to Cusco airport.
In “Ready to Travel to Peru” we want to offer our customers an unforgettable trip and experience in the city of Cusco with a 4-day package tour offered to suit our customers, including in it the main tourist attractions City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and the natural attraction of the Humantay Lake, which allows you to know and appreciate both the Inca Culture and enjoy the scenery within its route to the different tours.
ITINERARY
DAY 1: CUSCO – CITY TOUR
The first day in the city of Cusco will be to acclimatize to the altitude and take a short tour.
- To start the City Tour Cusco, we will pick you up from your hotel.
- we will start with our first visit which is to the Main square of Cusco or Huacaypata (place of weeping).
- Then we will have a tour of the Cathedral of Cusco, one of the most important attractions of the city of Cusco built on the foundations of the palace of the Inca Viracocha which today is the cathedral of Cusco that has three naves, with characteristics of the baroque-renaissance style, with paintings belonging to the Cusco school of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Continuing our City tour to the Qorikancha or also called “Temple of the Sun”, built by the Inca Pachacutec with andesite stone finishes in green, red and gray in their temples of worship, in Inca times was an important religious center to worship the sun, moon, lightning, rainbow and stars which was coated in gold, silver, with life-size representations of gold in the form of mammals, birds, animals, wildlife. etc. place where we will appreciate the integration of the Inca culture and the Spanish influence.
- We will take the bus to Sacsayhuaman, an attraction well known for the various denominations that it has such as: the great Inca fortress, or also known by their terms as biased head by the way it presents its walls with zigzag-shaped features. One of the greatest works of Inca architecture and a great ceremonial center of worship and sacrifice to their deities, where you can appreciate impressive and megalithic Inca walls weighing approximately 125 tons. Place where every June 24 is staged the Inti Raymi or Festival of the Sun, and the rite of Warachicuy where tests of military physical prowess were made.
- After the guided tour we will go to Q’enqo: its name means labyrinth or Zigzag, for having an entrance in the form of a labyrinth or underground conduit, it is presumed that it was a ceremonial center of worship and has an amphitheater with 19 niches where they put their deities in worship ceremonies.
- Already located in Puka Pukara or “Red Fortress”, we will have a guided tour in this archaeological site located in a strategic point where you can see the road to the Antisuyo (Jungle) that functioned as a military center and control point where tribute was received as coca leaves, cassava, leather, gold, and medicinal plants.
- Finally we will visit the archaeological site of Tambomachay: Last point in our tour, important center of worship and adoration of water for purification rites. This archaeological site is formed by walls, windows and water channels, where water from springs flow through an amazing hydraulic system built in Inca times.
- We end this magnificent city tour with the return to the city of Cusco.
DAY 2: SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS
On this day we will start the tour early in the morning to visit the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
- To start the tour of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, we pick you up from your hotel starting at 07:00 hrs.
- Already located in the tourist bus our first point of visit will be in the viewpoint of Taray, to appreciate the scenic beauty of the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
- We will continue our tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, a magnificent view and the starting point of this great tour to the Sacred Valley where you can take the famous postcard photos.
- We will continue our tour to the archaeological site of Pisaq, located 32 kilometers northeast of Cusco, a place where the great Sacred Valley of the Incas is born, located on a condor-shaped mountain that expresses the progress of religious and agricultural architecture by the presence of squares and Inca neighborhoods, of which the most important thing to highlight is the famous solar observatory “Intihuatana” and pre-Hispanic cemetery “Tantana Marka” the largest found in South America. Also Pisaq was an administrative center dedicated to the control of agricultural production in addition to this Pisaq is characterized by its craft market and the very pelicular form of negotiation “barter” (exchange of products) ancient custom that today is losing its practice performed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
- After having visited these two wonderful places we will have a stop to recover our energies and have a delicious lunch in a tourist restaurant in Urubamba.
- We continue our tour of the Sacred Valley of the Incas with our next point of visit the archaeological site of Ollantaytambo known as the “Living Inca City” built on two mountains, strategic point within the Sacred Valley of the Incas for having agricultural, military, religious and administrative complexes in Ollantaytambo, In Ollantaytambo we can highlight the great temple of the sun that consists of 6 monoliths of granite of pink color that are united by means of engravings that conform the ceremonial platform, the town of Ollantaytambo is also well known for maintaining the Inca urban planning since ancestral times.
- Our last point of visit will be Chinchero, whose name derives from Quechua meaning “brave man”, built on top of a hill surrounded by platforms, which has shrines, an urban center where was the residence of the Inca Tupac Inca Yupanqui, a place moderately cold and dependent on rainfall for agricultural production also in turn is characterized by maintaining the urban style and its textile art that are made with alpaca fibers made by locals.
- We end the tour of the Sacred Valley of the Incas with the return to the city of Cusco after a wonderful day.
DAY 3: MAGICAL MACHUPICCHU
The most important day of your visit to Peru – Cusco, we will visit one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World.
- To start the Magical Machupicchu tour, we will pick you up from your hotel.
- After that we will board the tourist bus to make the transfer to the train station available in that season such as train stations in Cusco, Poroy or Ollantaytambo, if the reservation of the tour to Machupicchu was made months in advance we will look for the best option for your trip.
- Already located at the train station we will take the train service that you have chosen in your reservation such as Expedition or Vistadome train service, each one has a different service and costs, during your journey on the train you will appreciate the scenic beauty that hides the Sacred Valley of the Incas that are part of the route to Machupicchu until you reach the train station in the town of Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu) in a journey of approximately 1 hour and a half.
- In Aguas Calientes we will board the green ecological tourist buses, leaving from the station to the point of entry to the citadel of Machupicchu, the trip lasts 30 minutes.
- At the entrance of the citadel of Machupicchu, our tour guide will be waiting for you at the control gate of Machupicchu to start the guide service, the guide service will take approximately two hours where he will give us details of the majesty of the Inca citadel of Machupicchu since its discovery, findings, As well as explaining the most important areas within the citadel of Machupicchu, such as the astronomical observatory of Intihuatana where we will highlight the function that this fulfilled in Inca times, the temple of the three windows which is oriented towards the sunrise at the winter solstice and other urban and residential sectors that Machupicchu presents throughout its route.
- After the guided tour, we will have some time to take all the photos we want of this wonderful place.
- At the end of the guided tour we will board the ecological buses that will take us to Aguas Calientes, where you will have free time to visit this town on your own, as well as to take your meals.
- After a tour full of positive energy we will take the train back from the Aguas Calientes train station to Cusco, where we will be waiting for you to take you to your hotel.
- Thus culminates this wonderful tour of Machupicchu full day in a tour called Magical Machupicchu.
DAY 4: HUMANTAY LAKE
This day we will start the tour very early in order to enjoy this new natural tourist attraction of the city of Cusco.
- To start the Humantay Lake tour, we will pick you up from your hotel starting at 04:30 hrs.
- Already located inside the tourist bus we will have a trip for an average of 2 hours to reach Mollepata where, in this place we will have breakfast and will be given the respective indications and recommendations by the guide to start this adventure.
- We will continue this tour to the Humantay lake after the instructions received with a walk for about 1 hour to reach Soraypampa starting point to begin the hike.
- From this point begins the ascent hike for about 1 hour and a half. On the way of this tour we can appreciate the beautiful wildlife until we reach our destination Humantay Lake.
- Already located in the lake of Humantay (4200 a.s.l.) we will be able to see the natural wonder located in the chain of Vilcabamba at the foot of the snowy Salkantay (6270 m.a.s.l.). This beautiful lake with its turquoise waters was formed by the melting of the snowy Humantay part of the snowy Salkantay and its turquoise hue is due to the presence of blue-green algae. In this beautiful natural landscape you can feel the energy of this mystical place and build the famous “Apachetas” stone towers that have the purpose of worship, to be providers of water, vital element, principle of existence in the Andean world, as well as generate fertility in animals, protection to its inhabitants and success in the harvest.
- Then we will return by the same route for about 1 hour where our tourist transport will be waiting for us to take us to Mollepata where we will have a delicious lunch after a walk.
- Finally, after the tour of the Humantay Lake we will return to Cusco city at about 18:00hrs.
DAY 5: CUSCO – AIRPORT
Final day in Cusco, at a certain time we will transfer you from your hotel to the airport of Cusco, Alejandro Velazco Astete.
INCLUDES
The City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake 4 days 3 nights tours (Machupicchu 4 days) include the following services:
- Previous interview to give you more information about the City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake tours and clear up any doubts.
- Pick up from airport – hotel – airport
- Pick up from your hotel for all the tours indicated.
- Entrance tickets to tourist attractions (City Tour, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake).
- Round trip Expedition train tickets or upgraded Vistadome service (client’s request)
- Bus tickets from Aguas Calientes – Machupicchu – Aguas Calientes
- Qualified bilingual tour guide (English and Spanish)
- Tourist transportation to all sites described
- Lunch buffet in Sacred Valley Urubamba
- Lunch and breakfast buffet at Mollepata village
- Permanent assistance before and during the tour
NOT INCLUDED
The City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake 4 days 3 nights tours (Machupicchu 4 days) do not include the following services, take into account them
- Lunch in Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu)
- Meals not mentioned in the program
- Personal expenses
- Tips
Discover the Charm of Cusco with Our Tour 4 days City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake.
At Ready to Travel Peru, we tailor our tour to offer you exactly what you are looking for, whether you prefer the shared experience with other travelers or a private tour for you and your companions.
How to book? It’s easy. Just send us an email to info@readytotravelperu.com or call our contact numbers +51 935520609 or +51 953469081. We will be happy to inform you about our special rates, as well as discounts available for students, children, and adults, depending on the season in which you visit us.
Costs or prices:
PRICES | NATIONAL TOURIST | FOREIGN TOURIST |
SHARED SERVICE | 330 USD | 385 USD |
PRIVATE SERVICE | FROM 520 USD (2 PAXS) (CONTACT US) | FROM 520 USD (2 PAXS) (CONTACT US) |
Don’t miss the opportunity to explore the treasures of Cusco with us, contact us today and prepare your adventure!
These are some recommendations suggested to visitors to do the tours City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu and Humantay Lake 4 days 3 nights (Machupicchu 4 days).
- Bring original and valid passport or identity document.
- Bring entra money in soles
- Adequate backpack
- Comfortable shoes, hat for sun and cold, sunscreen, snack.
- Rain poncho (depending on the season November – March).
- VERY IMPORTANT camera to immortalize the moments.