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Half-day city tour of Cusco and Sacsayhuaman
Cusco, Peru
$60
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Overview
Cusco's captivating blend of Inca and Hispanic architecture weaves a rich historical tapestry that has thrived since before 1400. Immerse yourself in this vibrant city, where every corner tells a story of cultural heritage and artistic fusion.
- 🏷️ Group Option: Enjoy a comprehensive 4-hour guided tour with a professional English-speaking guide, ensuring an enriching experience.
- 🚍 Pickup included from locations within 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of the city center, making your journey seamless and convenient.
- 🌄 Visit the awe-inspiring Sacsayhuaman, a monumental Inca fortress that offers breathtaking views of Cusco and its surroundings.
- 🪨 Explore Q'enqo, a remarkable site showcasing intricate rock carvings and channels used for ancient rituals and divination.
- 🏰 Discover Puca Pucara, a historical tambo that served as a resting place for travelers, providing stunning vistas of the countryside.
- 💧 Experience Tambomachay, known as the 'Banos del Inca,' where you can admire the exquisite stonework and learn about its ceremonial significance.
- 🏛️ Marvel at Qorikancha, once covered in gold and a significant temple in Inca times, now a fascinating blend of Inca and colonial architecture.
- ⛪ Visit the iconic Cusco Cathedral, home to an impressive collection of colonial art that reflects the unique fusion of European and indigenous styles.
- 🌬️ Oxygen support is provided during the tour to ensure your comfort at high altitudes.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Group Option
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 4 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Professional Tour Guide
- Transportation for the group
- Oxygen
- Ticket To Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Pucapucara & Tambomachay
- Qoricancha Ticket
- Cathedral Ticket
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SacsayhuamanVisitors to this magnificent Inca fortress, which overlooks the city of Cusco, cannot fail to be impressed by the beauty and monumental scale of this important Inca construction. Sacsayhuaman can be variously translated as 'speckled falcon' or 'speckled head'. The last interpretation refers to the belief that the city of Cusco was set out in the form of a puma whose head was the hill of Sacsayhuaman. The origins are uncertain but the fortress is generally attributed to the period of Inca Pachacuti, the man who essentially founded the Inca empire.
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Q'enqoThis is one of the finest examples of a rock artfully carved insitu showing complex patterns of steps, seats, geometric reliefs and a puma design. The rock is an excellent example of the Inca 'Rock Worship'. In Inca cosmological beliefs the Incas held large rocky outcrops in reverence, as if they possessed some hidden spiritual force. On top of the rock are zigzag channels which served to course chicha (local maize beer) or sacrificed llama blood for purposes of divination; the speed and route of the liquid, in conjunction with the patterns made in the rock, gave the answers to the priest's invocations. Inside the rock are large niches and a possible altar. This may have been a place where the mummies of lesser royalty were kept along with gold and precious objects
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Situated on a hill with superb views over the surrounding countryside Puca Pucara was more likely a tambo, or kind of post house than an actual fortress. Travelers may have lodged here with their goods and animals before entering or leaving Cusco. An alternative theory is that it served as a guard post controlling the flow of people and produce between Cusco and the Sacred Valley
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TambomachayCommonly referred to as the 'Banos del Inca' or Inca baths, Tambomachay was a site for ritual bathing. The excellent quality of the stonework suggests that its use was restricted to the higher nobility, who maybe only used the baths on ceremonial occasions. The ruins basically consist of 3 tired platforms. The top one holds four trapezoidal niches that perhaps were used as seats; on the next level an underground spring emerges directly from a hole at the base of the stonework and from here cascades down to the bottom platform, creating a cold shower just high enough for an Inca to stand under. On this platform the spring water splits into two channels, both pouring the last metre down to ground level
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Today’s site is a bizarre combination of Inca and colonial architecture, topped with a roof of glass and metal. In Inca times, Qorikancha (Quechua for ‘Golden Courtyard’) was literally covered with gold. The temple walls were lined with some 700 solid-gold sheets, each weighing about 2kg. There were life-sized gold and silver replicas of corn, which were ceremonially ‘planted’ in agricultural rituals. Also reported were solid-gold treasures, such as altars, llamas and babies, as well as a replica of the sun. But within months of the arrival of the first conquistadors, this incredible wealth had all been looted and melted down.
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Cusco CathedralThe cathedral is one of the city’s greatest repositories of colonial art, especially for works from the escuela cuzqueña (Cuzco school), noted for its decorative combination of 17th-century European devotional painting styles with the color palette and iconography of indigenous Andean artists. A classic example is the frequent portrayal of the Virgin Mary wearing a mountain-shaped skirt with a river running around its hem, identifying her with Pachamama (Mother Earth).
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Half-day city tour of Cusco and Sacsayhuaman
Cusco, Peru
$60
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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