Cusco South Valley Tour (Tipon, Piquillaqta & Andahuaylillas) Economical Group
Description
This is a half day tour in the south of Cusco. This tour take you to Tipon and Pickillaqta Archaeological sites, 2 places that are included in the general tourist ticket. If you bough this and you have time. You can book this tour, we provide you transport and tour guide for a good price. This tour you share with other tourists around the world and it is a good way to meet new friends. This tour also will take you to Andahuaylillas, consider like The Sistine Chapel of America
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Itinerary
We will pick you up from your hotel at 08:40 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.
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You need to provide us the hotel or accomodation information (Name and address)
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Important Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(1)
Very well organized and executed. Our guide (Ladi) was full of knowledge. If you already have purchased the boleto ticket, it's a good and economical way to hit the major sites in Vallee Sur, the van was comfortable and the driving was good. Well planned rest stops as well.
