Tour location: Cusco. Calca and Urubamba provinces
Type of tour: historical and cultural
Recommended season: All year around, better from april – november
Difficulty: moderate
Recommended age: 5+
Highlights: home stay, women weavers, pisaq, ollantaytambo and machupiccho citadel.
.ITINERARY
Day 1: Embrace the local living in Ccaccaccollo village
To begin this expirience we will pick you up from your hotel around 10 am with our private van to go to small community of ccaccaccollo located 1 hour away from cusco city, the elvation there is almost same to cusco city.
Once we will arrived to the village, you will meet your family host, have lunch with them. You will learn about their daily living activities, proper of the season related to farming crops and animals and a lot of interaction.the locals mainly speak the inka language (quechua), also some of them can speak spanish as their second language. If you prefer your guide stay with you, he or she will be your translator.
The families involved in this exprience have simple, warm and clean rooms to pass a night.
This houses have also toilet and showers.
- Meals included: lunch and dinner
- Acommodation: local house
Day 2: Ccaccaccollo village – Pisaq Inca – Ollantaytambo – Train To Aguas Calientes
This day after having breakfast around 7:30 am. You will visit the women weaven group in the village. Here, you will see the traditional animals of the Incas: llamas and alpacas. Your guide will give you background information, show you the textile center where the local ladies are going to explain the process of working with alpaca wool, showing how the wools are woven and colored. In which your guide is going to be the translator. Good quality alpaca wool will be for sale. Then, we’ll drive to El Mirador del Valle Sagrado, the Sacred Valley Lookout Point, for amazing views and photos. Following, we will continue the journey to the Pisaq Inca Archeological site, located on top of Pisaq Mountain in the Sacred Valley. Your tour guide will take you to the most impressive spots. Then, we will drive along the valley for about 1 hour, until we reach Urubamba, where we will stop for lunch. You will have an amazing selection of fresh dishes, served buffet-style. After lunch, we will drive to Ollantaytambo, where the second heaviest Inca monoliths are to be found. The ruins have an amazing Temple of the Sun, and The Temple of the 10 Niches. This living Incan town displays narrow walkways, lined with water channels. If your departing train is at 7 p.m., you will have time to explore more of the town and enjoy dinner. If your departing train is at 3:36 p.m., you will need to head to the train station and catch your train to Aguas Calientes, where you may have dinner there (the train schedule will depend on how far in advance you are booking and/or the availability of the train.) The train trip to Aguas Calientes is just under two hours, descending into the Cloud Forest, where you will see orchids, bromeliads and ferns.
- Meals included: breakfast and lunch
- Acommodation included: 3 star hotel
Day 3: Aguas Calientes Town – Machu Picchu – Cusco
On this day you will visit Machu Picchu. You will be visiting the famous Sacred City of the Incas, one of the seven wonders. You will explore with your professional tour guide, this day Most people prefer to rise at 4 a.m. walk to the bus station to take one of the first buses up to Machu Picchu. It can be enjoyable to arrive at the ruins as soon as they open, at 6 a.m., to catch the magical mists on the ruins as the sun rises. After 25 minutes bus ride to Machu Picchu. Ounce at checkpoint you will show your original Passport. Then, your tour guide will take you to the postcard photo views before the day trippers arrive. Then, we will start the two hour guided, walking tour, exploring all of the famous places of this impressive citadel. If you have booked permits to climb HUAYNA PICCHU MOUNTAIN or MACHU PICCHU MOUNTAIN, you will head to that adventure on your own. After your machupiccho expirience you will take the bus down to aguas calientes. Have lunch there before taking the train back to ollantaytambo. Where we take our private van back to cusco.
- Meal included: only breakfast at the hotel
INCLUDED
Professional Guide: (english, spanish and quechua speaker)
Home stay
Hotel: We include a 3 star Hotel in Aguas Calientes. Our price is based on rooming two people per room. There is a $50 surcharge for a single (prices vary by hotel).
Transportation: private van cusco- ccaccaccollo village, van for sacred valley tour, round trip tickets on expedition tourist class train, round trip bus ticket for machupiccho
Meals: 2 brekfasts, 2 lunchs 1 dinner
Intrance to machupiccho citadel
Inka horizon duffel bag: in this bag you will pack everithing you need for this 3 days and 2 nights expirience.
NOT INCLUDED
Huayna Picchu mountain. That stands next to Machu Picchu. It is about 1 hour and 30 minutes going up and down. This is done without your tour guide, after the tour of Machu Picchu. The cost is $ 75 per person. Arrangements need to be made at least one month in advance, due to popularity. Please understand that weather is out of our control
Machu Picchu Mountain. Requires a separate permit to climb. Please notify us if you are interested and we can book this for you. It must be done in advance, its cost is $ 75 and it takes around 3 hours going up and down.
Gratuities: Tipping is always appreciated and should be based completely on your satisfaction
Entrance tickets to archeological sites of sacred valley: 70 soles (1 day pass) or you can buy the 130 soles (10 day pass) if you plan to spend more days in cusco. Take cash in soles to get the intrance at the first archeological site.
Travel Insurance: This is not required, but always recommended. For those of you who live at sea-level, landing in Cusco will take an adjustment period. Most people need one or two days to adjust. In case you have a hard time adjusting to the altitude, it is suggested to have protection for missed tours.
WHAT TO BRING IN YOUR DAYPACK ON THE INCA TRAIL?
- Original Passport
- Good daypack (the smaller, the better 25L)
- Reuseable wáter bottle
- Comfortable shoes
- Gloves
- Toilet paper
- Hand Sanitizer
- Sun hat
- Sunscreen
- Wool hat in the cold season
- Rain jacket or plastic poncho
- Snacks like chocolate bars, cereal bars or dried fruit
- Extra money for souvenirs, drinks & tips
- Valuables
- Clothes you will need
- Personal toiletries
- Personal medication for altitude sickness and others if you have.
- Battery chargers
Price per Person
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