Tour South Valley half day

SOUTH VALLEY

The South Valley tour is a tourist destination located south of the city of Cusco on the way to the Antisuyo, a perfect tour for those people who want to know the origins of the valley of Cusco, a tour of a lot of pre-Inca, Inca and colonial history where you can appreciate the archaeological site of Tipon an archaeological site cataloged as the masterpiece of the Inca culture for its hydraulic engineering, next to the archaeological site of Pikillaqta a pre-Inca construction dating from the years 600 and 1000 A.C, the origin of the Wari culture that had its expansion to the region of southern Cusco in its heyday that still remains preserved, then finally visit the town of Andahuaylillas 39 km from the city of Cusco, important for having the chapel of Saint Peter Apostle founded in 1572 by Viceroy Francisco Toledo, the most beautiful religious art of South America known worldwide as the “Sistine Chapel of America”.

Ready to Travel Peru recommends you to take this tour and we are sure you will not regret visiting it.

DURATION: 5 HOURS (half day)

SCHEDULE: FROM 08:40 – 14:30 HRS.

ITINERARY

• To start the tour we will pick you up from your hotel starting at 08:20 hrs. (Valid for hotels located within the historic center of Cusco).
• Already located in the tourist bus our first point of visit will be in the town of Oropesa, the archaeological site of Tipon whose name comes from the Quechua word Tímpuj which means boiling in allusion to the liquid that gurgles in its spring as a state of boiling and is also considered the icon of Inca hydraulic engineering, It has 13 large terraces of agricultural production of an imperial style of pink granite, stairways and water channels made of stone with beautiful crystal clear water fountains that are part of a shrine where water was worshiped as the element of life for the Incas.
• Then we will continue this tour to the archaeological site of Pikillaqta located 33 km southeast of the city of Cusco its name comes from the word Piqui (flea, small) llaqta (town or city) town of fleas or better called small town a pre-Inca construction, belonging to the Wari civilization of the centuries dating from the years 600 and 1000 A.C. From this place you can observe the Huacarpay Lake, a protected natural area, a place of study for many ornithologists who visit this place to make studies of concentration and study of more than 120 species of migratory birds.
• Finally we will visit the town of Andahuaylillas, 39 km from the city of Cusco, important for having the chapel of Saint Peter Apostle founded in 1572 by the viceroy Francisco Toledo and built by the Jesuits in a space full of great religious works of the great Cusco school that collection shows works of the life of Saint Peter Apostle and many more pictorial works that will leave more than one amazed of this place, this temple of San Pedro Apostle is also known in South America as the “Sistine Chapel of America”.
• Finishing the tour of South Valley with the return to Cusco city.