Tour Cusco, Machupicchu and Mountain of 7 Colors 3 days

CITY TOUR + MACHUPICCHU + MOUNTAIN OF 7 COLORS 3D/2N

The City Tour Cusco, Machupicchu and 7 Colors Mountain 3 days is a tour package that leads to 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 Inca ruins. ), 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 square of Cusco also known as Huacaypata square or place of weeping, the Cathedral of Cusco built on the foundations of the palace of the Inca Viracocha and Qorikancha the first temple built by the Inca Pachacutec, you can also have a tour of the archaeological centers of Sacsayhuaman known for being a temple of worship and sacrifices, Q’enqo, Puka Pukara better known as red fortress and Tambomachay a place dedicated to the cult of water in Inca times.

Also this package will allow you to know Machupicchu one of the seven wonders of the world, a tourist destination of much magic and mystery admired by the whole world (2435 m.a.s.l.)favorite destination of many national and international tourists, recognized worldwide by Unesco. The tour takes you on a trip on the train service that will allow you to have magnificent views during its journey, and then head to the most fascinating architectural realization of the Inca Empire that is Machupicchu (2435 m.a.s.l.)Here you can admire the beauty of the landscape, history and Inca architecture, where you will be guided in the most important areas of this archaeological site such as the Temple of the Sun that has a semiconical shape which was intended for the worship of the sun god, Temple of the Condor has the natural shape of a condor, the temple of the Three Windows the most important for the architectural style, Sacred Rock and Intihuatana built in the most prominent part for the priests and nobles who led worship, the whole place is magical and you can connect with nature and recharge with positive energy in a unique landscape that offers Machupicchu.

Culminating with the tour the third day with the mountain of 7 colors or also known as Vinincunca mountain (5200 m.a.s.l.) the most visited by all tourists in recent years that has managed to position itself positively as one of the TOP tourist circuits of the city of Cusco and Peru this due to the natural formation of the mountain that dye colors its peaks and slopes located southeast of Cusco in the community of Chilca in the district of Pitumarca in the province of Canchis and is surrounded by large mountain ranges of the Peruvian Andes and the majestic snowy Ausangate (6385 m.a.s.l.) the highest of Cusco with the presence of Andean Quechua communities and high Andean animals such as vicuñas, llamas, alpacas, etc. This natural attraction is considered one of the 100 must-see places in the world according to National Geographic.

In Ready to Travel Peru we offer you this 3 days package tour City Tour, Machupicchu and 7 Colors Mountain with the combination of three wonderful places, the unmissable City Tour that allows you to give a preamble of the majesty of the Inca culture and its admirable archaeological sites connecting with the architectural beauty of Machupicchu to finally see the natural beauty that has the 7 Colors Mountain.

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: 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 3: MOUNTAIN OF COLORS – VININCUNCA

This day we will start the tour very early in order to enjoy this new natural tourist attraction of the city of Cusco, considered one of the 100 unmissable places to visit, located at 5000 meters above sea level.

• To start the tour Mountain of 7 colors, we will pick you up from your hotel starting at 4.30 hrs. (Valid for hotels located within the historic center of Cusco).
• Once ready we will board the tourist transport to start this incredible adventure to the 7 color mountain after 2 hours of travel we will arrive to the town of Cusipata at 3300 meters of altitude where we will have a delicious breakfast.
• After breakfast we will continue our journey for an average of one hour to reach Phulawasipata at 4625 meters above sea level where we will begin the ascent to the mountain of colors. The hike has an average duration of 1 hour and a half approximately. On the way we will be able to appreciate beautiful geological formations, imposing snow-capped mountains like the Ausangate (6385 m.a.s.l.) considered Apu or sacred mountain in Cusco, on the way we will also be able to see llamas and alpacas.
• After 1 hour and a half of walking we will finally arrive to our long awaited destination the mountain of 7 colors located at 5200 m.a.s.l. natural expression that shows us beautiful shades due to the oxidation of minerals found in the mountain here we will witness the fantastic and wonderful that this natural attraction that Mother Nature gave us. At this point we will have 40 minutes to take pictures freely and capture a nice memory, as well as feel the good positive energies of this beautiful place.
• After living this beautiful experience we will begin the descent for approximately 1 hour to Phulawasipata where our tourist transport will be waiting for us to take us to Cusipata, where we will have a delicious lunch.
• Finally we will return after having lived this unique experience in the mountain of 7 colors with destination to the city of Cusco where we will be arriving approximately at 17:00 hrs.