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Our guide and transport will pick us up from our hotel to begin our tour of the Southern Valley, we will start with Tipon (approximately 40 minutes from Cuzco). Tipon was a place dedicated to religious worship and agricultural experimentation; we will visit the main plaza, the agricultural terraces, and its impressive stone water channels.

Next we head towards Pikillaqta, a complex made up of the city of Pikillaqta and 23 other complexes, related for their functionality. Pikillacta was constructed by the Wari culture who occupied the Cusco region before the arrival of the Inca and finally visit the church of Andahuayillas,known as the Sistine Chapel of America due to its impressive paintings and murals.
Return to Cuzco and transfer to hotel.

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We will pick you up at the hotel at about 8:20 am. Excursion to the Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of the Incas. This tour is a full day and includes the village of Qorao (where is possible to take beautiful pictures of the landscapes from a lookout site ). Visit to the picturesque Indian Pisac Market held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, the shopping paradise of the Andes where barter is still practiced. Enjoy the unique atmosphere during a typical lunch.

In the afternoon, passing through the Towns of Calca and Urubamba, we visit the Inca Fortress and Citadel of Ollantaytambo, built to guard the entrance to this part of the Valley, and protect it from possible invasion from the tribes in the Lower jungle. You can walk through the quaint streets of the nearby Town, and get a good idea of what this Strategic Military, Religious, and Agricultural Centre was like during the era of the Inca Empire. On our way back to Cusco we stop of at the picturesque Andean Village of Chinchero to visit the ruins of the Royal Hacienda of Tupac Inca Yupanqui. We will admire a well-preserved Inca Wall in the Main Square, and visit the beautiful Colonial temple built on Inca foundations, with interesting frescoes in the portico.

Late afternoon return to your hotel.

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At 8:30am we’ll pick you up at your hotel and head by car to the North east of Cusco where is located the ranch. There we will meet our horses and the horseman, who will show us how to saddle and practice how to drive the horses inside the corral before to get outdoor.

We’ll tour Sacsayhuaman Fortress first, once the site of important battles between Incan and Spanish forces. It was laid out in the shape of a Puma’s head to which the city of Cusco provided the body, and the massive blocks used in the construction confound modern visitors- some are as big as a truck and more than 50 tons in weight, with the largest weighing 120 tons.

Afterwards we’ll continue on to Q’enqo (Labyrinth/Zigzag) an astronomical calendar and shrine consecrated to the Pachamama, the Inca earth mother deity, the nearby Temple of the Moon, Puka Pukara (Red Fortress), which appears to have been a military checkpoint guarding the entry to the ritual baths of Tambomachay (Resting Place), Tambomachay (Resting Place), the “Inca Baths” with its artificial waterfalls, canals, and aqueducts channeled through the terraced rocks.
After 03 hours of horseback riding we’ll begin the return to Sacsayhuaman along a route known as Zone X, along rocks naturally eroded into tunnels, some bearing Inca carvings. This area is a traditional site for offerings to the Pachamama and other rituals with pre-Columbian roots due to the widespread belief that it has a magnetized energy.

We’ll return to the city of Cusco where you’ll be dropped back off at your hotel

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We shall now proceed to pick up at their respective hotels about the 08:50 AM hour in that we will proceed to our bus to begin our full day of amazing destinations; at approximately 09:00 in point we will be starting our displacement up to our first stop the ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER OF MORAY.

Moray ruins located at 3,450 m.a.s.l. we find the agricultural terraces with their complex system of irrigation and terraces. These terraces served as a natural green house to grow an extraordinary variety of crops at an altitude that they would typically only grow in the tropical Andes. It has also been suggested that they had a cosmological meaning.

Our final destination are the salt mines which have been in use since Pre-Inca times. Water from a subterranean stream is channelled through pools where it evaporates and leaves behind pure salt crystals. With thousands of stark white pools stretching down the valley, the views are stunning.

Once finished the descent, which we made on foot, as the car cannot go there, we will begin the return to Cusco where we will arrive at approximately 15:00 why we would recommend going with a small snack.

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