Lima and Machu Picchu 5 Days

After a good breakfast at your hotel, our staff will pick you up and take you to Lima's international airport to board your flight to Cusco (1hr 10 min approx).
Pick up at the airport to transfer you to the hotel of your choice. You will have the morning free to acclimatize. In the afternoon, after lunch, we start the city tour (13:30). Most of the archaeological sites are on the outskirts, the only place within the city will be Qoricancha (temple of the sun) where we can appreciate the fine construction of one of the most important temples. Then, we continue to Sacsayhuaman, located in the upper part of Cusco. This place consists of cyclopean masonry construction made with huge stones weighing between 5 and 128 tons. A perfect spot with a beautiful panoramic view of the entire city. Afterwards, we visit Qenqo which has a natural stone formation that the Incas carved and adapted to carry out their worship ceremonies dedicated to the Pachamama (mother earth). Then is Puka Pukara, a fortress used as a checkpoint to enter the city. Our final stop is Tambomachay, a temple dedicated to water. We return to Cusco at 18:30.

8:30am pick up from your hotel to start our tour in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. A beautiful place with amazing landscapes and scenery, friendly people, colorful markets and lots of tourist attractions. In Pisaq we visit the artisan market, full of textiles, ceramics, gold work among other things. After this picturesque town, we go to the top of the mountain to the archaeological center with marvelous agricultural terraces and other constructions that despite being more than 500 years old are still intact. We will follow the banks of the Wilcamayu river (sacred river) until Urubamba.

After lunch and a short rest we continue to Ollantaytambo, a very unique and gorgeous town with charming narrow and cobbled streets, where the local people still use the Inca constructions as houses. The archaeological center and the majestic temple of the sun are located in the upper part of the mountain. The tour finishes here at approximately 4pm. We will board the train towards Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town, 1 to 2 hours away). Once we arrive, a staff member of your hotel will meet you. At the hotel, the guide to Machu Picchu will come to discuss the tour to Machu Picchu for the following day.

Early breakfast and then take the bus up to Machu Picchu. The guide will be waiting at the entrance of the citadel for a two hour (approximately) guided tour. In the afternoon you will have free time until 3pm to explore at your own leisure, take pictures, and if you wish, climb the mountain of Huayna Picchu (needs to be booked beforehand). We return by bus to Aguas Calientes to catch the train to Ollantaytambo. The train departs at 7:00p.m. (you can request an earlier time). You must be at the station half an hour before the departure time indicated on your ticket. In Ollantaytambo we will meet you and take you back to Cusco, arriving at approx 10.30pm.

The Mapi Adventure staff will take you to Cusco airport.

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