A day of leisure in the ancient capital of the Incan Empire entitled a World´s Heritage site by UNESCO. In the morning you will explore the stunning fortress-temple Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Pukapukara, and Tampumachay.

About midday you will have a great lunch at one of the typical restaurants, after having the lunch we continue exploring Cusco’s antique streets, and we arrive walking to the extraordinary Temple of the Sun Coricancha, the most important religious site of the Incas in the lower Cusco This sumptuous temple’s walls and floors were allegedly once covered by sheets of solid gold.

This temple was once one of the most important religious sites of the Incan people in the city of Cusco. On this tour we also visit The local San Pedro market where you taste fresh-baked Chuta bread, sample authentic fruits and you’ll see some local bizarre items, articles for different purposes and aims, we’ll then go walking to the main square in which you will feel at the puma’s heart, (because Cusco the capital of the Incan Empire was designed in a puma shape), and from here you will see the colonial buildings, the cathedral, and the other churches around, eventually, we go back to the hotel.

• Lodging in Cusco city.

At 7:00 am, your Peru Summit Adventures private guide comes to your hotel to pick you up, next, you will drive to the first site to visit, which is Pisac, here you will see impressive and massive crops terracings, which cover all the hillsides of the mountains, these terraces were built to keep producing products on any time or season a year as they were fed by irrigation aqueducts system.

Pisac has other smaller neighborhoods which are linked by short Inca trails, on this tour, you will take one of them to have a short walk while enjoying the impressive views around, once in Pisac, you can also visit its local colorful market, where you may find the perfect souvenirs.

The following site to visit is Maras salt ponds. Maras salt ponds were the main provider salt center to Cusco and it’s still today for many communities around and the Sacred Valley, where locals still farm the salt by hand as the Incas used to do it centuries ago.

After this site, we visit Moray, an Incan farming research center, because of this place, today we are able to have over 3000 sorts of potatoes and other plants, at this place you will see those spectacular rounded-shape terraces specially designed to get microclimates, which were good for plants adaptation and acclimatization.

Finally, we will drive to Ollantaytambo, an iconic Incan site and historical site from the Spaniards’ collision time, where the Incans defeated the Spaniards several times during the Manco Inca’s rebellion after 1536. Ollantaytambo also is famous for its temple of the sun whose 100 tons of construction rocks were brought from 5 miles away. This tour will end at Ollantaytambo, we will drop you off at your hotel in this beautiful town.

• Lodging in Ollantaytambo Town.

Today, we start early in the morning at 5:30 am with a pick up from your hotel, we will take the train at 6:10 am to Km 104 where the train will stop to get off and go walking to the main checkpoint for the respective registration (you must bring you original passport for this checkpoint), this place is located at an elevation of 2,150 m/ 7,052 ft, after the registration we will walk for a couple of minutes and we will reach the first Incan site called Chachabamba that has beautiful temples, the main patio, sacred rock, etc. In which, our guide will deliver great information about this site.

Afterward, we will continue walking gradually uphill enjoying the spectacular sceneries until reaching the Winaywayna Incan temple whose meaning is “forever young” where our guide will make an explanation about the meaning of this site during the Incan time. After the exploration of this lovely place, we will eat our packed lunch at the checkpoint of Winaywayna.

We will then continue hiking to Machu Picchu for two more hours, entering this wonder of the world through the Gate of the Sun, from where we will have the first views of the famed Incan city and take our time to make great snapshots from this point. Once we arrive at Machu Picchu we will take our time to make more snapshots of the Incan city, as the afternoon is usually with fewer people.

Eventually, we will take the bus to Machu Picchu town (Aguas Calientes town) where we’ll stay at a cozy hotel Intipunku Suites, or a similar hotel, and have dinner at a restaurant (this last dinner is not included).

• Hiking distance: 12 km / 7.46 miles.
• Hiking time: 6 – 7 hours.
• Lowest elevation: 2,150 m / 7,052 ft.
• Highest elevation: 2,650 m / 8,692 ft.
• Physical rating: Moderate.
• Highlight: Original section of Inca Trail, exploration of two Incan ruins before Machu Picchu, first views of Machu Picchu from the Gate of the Sun, and gaze out Machu Picchu in the late afternoon.
• Lodging in Aguas Calientes.

Today a great breakfast at the hotel makes us ready for a full morning exploration of Machu Picchu on a private tour with your Trek Leader. We’ll take the bus back to Machu Picchu early in the morning for an amazing tour until 12:00 pm (Machu Picchu permits will be issued for the first group which is from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm).

If you have booked a permit for Wayna Picchu mountain, you’ll climb the mountain after the tour; however, spaces are subject to availability. In the unlikely event that Wayna Picchu permits are not available for your departure date, you will climb Machu Picchu Mountain instead.

After a great time at the Incan emperor’s palace, we’ll take the bus down to Machu Picchu town (Aguas Calientes town), where we’ll have lunch (not included). In the afternoon we’ll take the train back to Ollantaytambo train station and/or Poroy train station, as of this place continue driving to your hotel in Cusco.

• Lodging in Cusco.

Today in the morning we will have our last Peruvian breakfast at the hotel and say our goodbyes before heading to the airport.

From here it’s of course your option to continue exploring Peru on your own or have a flight booked to return home. You can depart Cusco any time on this final day. Service ends after private transportation to the airport. If planning to stay longer in Peru, we have day tours available leaving from Cusco. Thank You for choosing Peru Summit Adventures!