Cusco City Tour

Cusco city and Outskirts Private Tour

Cusco city tour: Cusco is an amazing city located in the heart of the sought Peruvian Andes, at 11,023 ft. 3360 meters above sea level by the plaza de arms, and 13°31′00″S 71°58′44″O, founded on 12^th century by the 1^st inca: “Macco Ccapac, and his Wife Mama Occllo”, this city became to be the center of the most strong and sophisticated culture of the entire Americas, then was Re-founded on 1438 by the 9^th inca named: Pachacuteq.

The name of the city is: CUSCO, Spelt with “S” in Spanish, and QOSQO in the local language, Qosqo mean (Center and Navel), commonly misspelled as Cuzco, the books and website spell with Z, means as well that they are not local consequently, do this mistake, that the locals does not like.

Between the centuries XIII and XVI, the inca culture expanded the land and covered the current terrifies of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, then Spanish arrive d to Cusco on 15^th November of 1533, during the Spanish times, there was destroyed many incredible palaces and started adapting their houses and churches during the XVII and XVIII century. Nowadays, the city is spectacular and mixture of Spanish and Inca architecture.

What our Cusco city and outskirts private tour will show you?

PLAZA DE ARMAS

The plaza de armas of cusco, is located in the center of the old part, where the main building and the nice part is, here you can see The cathedral, the Jesuits Church, and several buildings with arches, balconies, from here you will walk to the sun temple, through a narrow street, where you can be amazed by the Inca walls at Inti Kicllu “street of the sun”.

SUN TEMPLE

Also known as (Saint Dominic convent and church, QORICANCHA, the qoricancha or Coricancha), consists in a majestic church, above Inca temple, the inca building are what amazes every visitor, here where built temples such as: The rainbow temple, the thunder, the moon, and stars temple that are still possible to see, and of course the WACA MAYOR “Main Niche”, this was the holiest site, in the entire territory.

SACSAYHUAMAN

After city, the transport leads to city outskirts, where you can see fascinating building and a spectacular view of Cusco city from Sacsayhuaman which was a huge temple during inca time, there are walls build with huge stones perfectly joined together, here is celebrated the sun fest every June 24^th.

Qenqo, Tambomachay and Pucapucra:

Small buy significant sites, but completely worth to visit, each of them are incredible and gives also an opportunity to hike a bit, qenqo consist in passages under rock to reach a shrine, pucapucara is at a hill from where you can see the Cusco valley, and mountains around, then tambomachay has water fountains, where you can also enjoy walking nest to a stream, and trees.

Daily departures are available in a private tour, where our expert local guides with be pleased to guide you and share their knowledge with you