TOUR IN CUSCO – SOUTH VALLEY ½D(HALF DAY)

We will pick you up from your hotel at 08:15 am to begin the tour in the southern valley of Cusco. First we’ll visit Tipon, it is believed it was a temple to worship of water, contains 12 stunning terraces, whose walls were built with finely carved stones, it will surprise you even more the exquisite irrigation system through channels that still serve for agriculture today.

Then we’ll visit Pikillaqta, a large pre-Inca urban center developed by the Wari empire with more than a thousand of buildings between qolcas (food stores), courts, homes, temples, long and narrow streets with buildings that had till 4 levels of high.

Our next point is Andahuaylillas, a typical village of singular and original architecture and its beautiful temple built in the colonial era with a beautiful decoration and mural painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it’s known as the “Sistine Chapel of America”. And finally we’ll return to Cusco passing by Oropesa, cuzqueñan typical village famous for its tasty bread. We’ll arrive to Cusco at 15:00 Hrs. Approx.

End of services.