Private Cusco City Tour Archaeological Sites, Guide & Driver only
Description
Enjoy a 6-hour, private, guided tour of Cusco, considered the historical capital of America. Not only will you visit the city's main attractions, but you will explore Sacsayhuaman, a must-see archeological site and highlight of Cusco, located just 3 miles outside of the city. This tour also visits Qenqo, Tambomachay, and the cathedral, which is considered the most beautiful church in South America, the Santo Domingo, also known as Korikancha, which translates to Golden Palace. The last stop on this tour is a visit to a local farmer's market, where you will see fresh vegetables, fruits, cheese, and the local meats (including pig heads). Included in this tour is a professional, English-speaking guide, private transportation, hotel pickup and drop-off, and a guided tour. Please note, entrance tickets to the archeological sites is not included. You will be able to pay for the ticket at your first location with your guide
Tour Options
Itinerary
Sacsayhuaman can be translated as ‘speckled falcon’ or ‘speckled head’. The last interpretation refers to the belief that the city of Cusco was set out in the form of a puma whose head was the hill of Sacsayhuaman. The origins are uncertain but the fortress is generally credited to the period of Inca Pachacutec (1450-1490), the Inca king who essentially founded the Inca Empire.
After Sacsayhuaman, your van will be waiting to continue with visits to Q’enko, Puca Pucara and Tambomachay also located near the X-zone, just outside the city, before returning to Cusco for a stop by the ‘Koricancha’ or Inca Temple of the Sun located beneath the Santo Domingo church and convent. We’ll round out the excursion with a visit to the local market, where inside the main building you find the food market with fresh fruits and vegetables, meat from rabbit to guinea pig to whole pigs, fish and seafood, groceries of all kinds and little food stands where ‘Mamá or ‘Jefe’ cooks a simple, but fresh and delicious menu for a few Soles.
And finally the cathedral of Cusco a very impressive colonial church build on the 16 hundreds by the Spanish after you will be return to your Hotel.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
A representative from Amazing Andean Adventures will contact you shortly after your booking to confirm and request pick up information
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- Minimum age is 6 years
Reviews(13)
Excellent tour - highly recommend. Covered all the main historical sites and more. This tour is well worth doing
Juan was our tour guide and he is the absolute best. He answered every one of our questions and was deeply knowledgeable. Taking this tour early in our trip was a fantastic idea because it gave us a lot of knowledge for the remainder of the trip. I would recommend Juan to everyone!
Thank you for your review. We appreciate your kind words and hope you are enjoying the rest of your time in Peru.
We had the team pick us up from the airport and take us through the various archealogical sites. The knowledge of the sites and the information they provided was amazing. Thank you for an amazing time.
Thank you Huzefa for taking the time to write a review. It was a pleasure to have your family with us on both of the tours you took with us. We appreciate your business and hope that you enjoyed your time in Peru. Please, come back and see us again sometime.
We had a fantastic Cusco city Tour with them. Communication with them was so smooth. Their representative kept in touch with us throughout booking the tour. Our guide Manuel was great. Peru is once in a lifetime holiday experience and Andean adventures made it even better.. even more memorable.
Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are glad you enjoyed your tour yesterday and we appreciate your business. We think communication with our customers is very important, thank you for your compliment regarding our communication. You will have many memories to look back on from your time in Peru, thank you for letting us be a part of it. Juan Ruben, Owner
We hired Amazing to guide us to the archaeological sites Q'engo, Tambomachay, and Saqsayhuaman and who guided us was Dany. He and his brother picked us up at the hotel and took us to see the main sites of Cusco. Dany is a very attentive and delicate guide and knows a lot about the history of each place. We recommend Amazing for these tours. Above average.
<p>It was a great tour. I enjoyed it. Juan? had a good knowledge of local areas/history and spoke great English. We really enjoyed it.</p>
Cusco Cathedral, Qoricancha - the Sun Temple and Archaeological Temples in an afternoon is madness! Very fast! It is worth taking 1 day only to the Cathedral and Qoricancha, the Temple of the Sun. And an afternoon to the temples.
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<p>We were hesitant about booking this tour, due to the fact that there were only five reviews in total. I am so glad we did! Erica, our tour guide was very knowledgeable and friendly and helpful. She picked us up from the hotel and clarified our itinerary. Usually tourists start at the bottom, in Cusco, and end up in Sacsayhuaman instead Erica reversed the order of the five destinations. This way we avoided the crowds.</p> <p>Our five stops were all interesting. I just wish the powers that be would allow us to take photos. Cusco and probably the Peruvian government are very protective of their interior relics and do not allow any photos to be taken inside of buildings. So instead I purchased a booklet of postcards of the artwork of the Cathedral.</p> <p>If you can ask for Erica, do so!!!!!<br/> My favorite part of the tour was at the end when we asked Erica for a restaurant recommendation. We said we wanted to have lunch where she would take her family, NOT where tourists would go. I wish I had taken a picture of the menu so I can recommend that restaurant to everyone.</p>
<p>We booked this tour to see the ruins around Cusco. We wanted to have a guide that understood the history, and would give us a personalized experience. Our guide did just that. He took us around in an order that seemed to avoid the hoards of tourists. He was very attentive and knowledgeable. We could have spent a little less time in the churches in Cusco, but i'm sire that is personal preference. We had been to the market the day before so we talked him into taking us to the best Peruvian doughnut shop in Cusco. I wish I could remember our guides name because he was fantastic.</p>
<p>Our guide, Danny, was the best ever. He told the history with the most engaging stories in perfect English.</p>
