Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu 2-Day Tour from Cusco

One of the most amazing tours to visit Machu Picchu is the sacred valley of the Incas by Pisac. This journey will begin with your tour guide picking you up from your hotel at 7 in the morning. Then you will be transported by car for 40 minutes to Awanacancha, a petting Alpaca zoo and a textile center where you will have the chance to cuddle and feed Alpacas and Llamas. Also you will learn about the Andean textile process and the nature dyes people use in the sacred valley. Then you will be driven for 40 minutes to Pisac. The archaeological site of Pisac is one of the most important and visited in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. It is located to the east of the Vilcabamba mountain range. As was customary in Inca architecture, the cities were built on the basis of figurative traces of animals. Archaeological Pisac takes the form of the puna partridge (Nohoprocta ornata), as expressed by its toponymical or original name. You will explore this wanderlust Inca citadel with your tour guide and learn amazing facts about Incas.

You will be driven for 30 minutes to Urubamba to have a yummy Andean buffet lunch in a local restaurant. The you will visit a Chicheria, a place which is specialized in making Chicha, the most popular Andean beer. Here you will learn all the process to make this ancestral sacred drink and also you will be able to taste 2 types of Chichas. Then you will go to Ollantaytambo the biggest Inca citadel of the Cusco sacred valley. Ollantaytambo was a strategic military, religious and agricultural center that still dazzles with its stone-worked platforms and its imposing buildings over four meters high. In this place, Manco Inca faced the Spanish troops of Hernando Pizarro and was victorious. Located 80 km from the city of Cusco -in the province of Urubamba- and 40 km from Machu Picchu, this archaeological zone preserves over time its houses, streets and canals from the Tahuantinsuyo era. In the late afternoon you will have dinner in a local restaurant and then about 7 pm. you will catch the train towards Aguas Calientes, the closest town to Machu Picchu. Your tour guide will drop you off at your hotel and will plan the visit to Machu Picchu the next day.

** Explore and experience the most outstanding spots of the sacred valley in a well-organized sacred valley private tour.

• Meals Included: Breakfast Only

In order to get well rested and have plenty of time to enjoy the views, pictures and guided tour at Machu Picchu; we suggest you to wake up by 5:00 in the morning, get ready, pack the essentials and take the bus from Aguas Calientes town to Machu Picchu citadel. This will be a ride of 30 minutes until reaching the Inca citadel at 6:15 am. more or less. Thus, you will have the chance to see the sunrise on this magnificent location. Your guide will give enough time to take pictures into the most beautiful spots of the Inca citadel, share information about this amazing Incan masterpiece and display you the most impressive details of Machu Picchu.

Then we take the bus back at more or less 12:00 pm. Down to Aguas Calientes to enjoy without rush our lunch. This lunch is optional and not included. At lunch, your guide will deliver out train tickets, so if you opt to skip this; please arrange to get these train tickets before leaving your tour guide at Machu Picchu citadel. Unless you requested for an upgraded train, we will book the Expedition class train departing Aguas Calientes at 3:20 p.m. or 4:22 p.m. This will be a 2-hour drive to Ollantaytambo or 4 hours to Poroy (this is based on which train you board). At Ollantaytambo or Poroy, our Wari Expeditions driver will meet you and drive you back to Cusco, then we drop you off at the door of your hotel or the closest possible if there is not car access until your accommodation. You will arrive to your hotel in Cusco around 6:30 pm.