Machupicchu, Cusco, Sacred Valley, 7 colors Mountain and ATV

MACHUPICCHU 5 DAYS (CITY TOUR + SACRED VALLEY + MACHUPICCHU + 7 COLORS MOUNTAIN + ATV)

The City Tour Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu, 7 Colors Mountain and ATV (Machupicchu 5 days) is a 5 days tour package. 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 square 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 make the next tour which is 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 centers.

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) place where you can connect with nature and recharge positive energy in a unique landscape that offers Machupicchu.

The fourth day of the tour start with the tour to the mountain of 7 colors (5200 m asl. n.m.), the most visited by all tourists in recent years by the natural formation of the mountain that dye the colors of its peaks and slopes located southeast of Cusco surrounded by large mountain ranges of the Peruvian Andes and the majestic snow-capped Ausangate (6385 m a.s.l.), a tour full of adventure.

Finally on the fifth day we will go on our ATV tour on ATVs in part of the Sacred Valley of the Incas (3300 m.a.s.l.), a tour full of adrenaline on a dirt road, perfect and ideal for people who like adventure where you can see magnificent landscapes and views of the snow-capped Chicon and La Veronica. You will also visit two special points, the circular terraces of the archaeological site of “Moray” and the famous pink salt pits “Salt mines “. All these destinations make this tour package the best of our service to finally on the sixth day make the transfer to the airport in Cusco.

“Ready to Travel Peru” elaborated this package Machupicchu 5 days especially for those tourists who want to know the Inca culture from the City tour Cusco, Machupicchu, Sacred Valley of the Incas and with a little adrenaline and adventure in the Mountain of Colors and in the quad bikes of Maras – Moray), releasing the stress that we have had for it we invite you to be part of this tour package.

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: 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.
• 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 5000 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.

DAY 5: MARAS – MORAY ATV

In our last tour in the city of Cusco, we will visit the Sacred Valley in a peculiar way with the ATV ATV, a tour with a lot of adrenaline ideal for all ages enjoying the snow-capped mountains like Chicon and La Veronica.

• To start the Maras Moray ATV tour, we will pick you up from your hotel starting at 06:30 hrs. 
• The start of the fun of this ATV tour starts from the sector of Cruz Pata, where our adrenaline adventure begins with the ATVs, before the start of the tour the guide will give you all the instructions and guidelines about the correct handling and its route in everything that represents this tour on ATVs.
• We will go aboard the ATVs to the town of Maras, an important point of passage to reach the “Salineras de Maras” characterized by the presence of more than 5 thousand wells of pink salt and its warm water springs whose flow is conducted by thousands of small ponds with little depth, In Inca times this archaeological site was used for purification rituals which were consumed with special unction and used in festivities associated with the summer solstice on December 21st. Nowadays, the consumption of this salt is the economic activity to which the population of Maras is dedicated.
• After the visit of the salt mines of Maras we will leave towards the archaeological site of Moray that extends between the more than 3200 meters of altitude, the same that is irrigated by some springs, Moray is very characteristic for its terraces in circular form where the natural depression was taken advantage of which is believed that it was a center of agricultural experimentation of crops used by the Incas obtaining diverse microclimates, It also has ceremonial fountains and concentric terraces in whose agricultural surfaces have been found average temperature variations of up to 5 ° C and which allowed the cultivation of products from different regions of Peru.
• Finally we will have a short pass where we can have panoramic views and where we can take pictures of the Piuray lagoon.
• We finish the Maras Moray ATV tour with the return to the city of Cusco after a unique and unforgettable experience of the beautiful and unique landscapes.

DAY 6: 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.