Southern Valley Circuit 1 Day USD 20

Today, we´ll start the tour, on the Main Square (Plaza de Armas), from which we´ll walk, as a group, for about five blocks, to board a tourism bus that will take us on a 1-hour excursion to the Incan Architectural Complex of Tipón, with its aqueducts, fountains and benched terraces dedicated to agriculture and the Cult to Water. There, the Temple to Water stands-out, where the Incas used to perform ceremonies, in times of draught.

After that guided visit, our transportation vehicle will take us, for about 40 minutes, to the Pre-Incan Architectural Complex of Pikillaqta, of the Wari Civilization and Culture. There, temples stand-out, as well as houses, well-organized and distributed streets and squares, built with small stones and mud. In several rooms, one can still observe remains of a kind of coating, applied on the walls, with combined plaster and mud.

Finally, we´ll move on to the famous Colonial Church of Andahuaylillas, better known as ‘America´s Sistine Chapel’, the inside of which is almost entirely decorated with fresco paintings, murals and canvases, as well as with sculptures and paintings, of the Colonial Period, by famous Peruvian and foreign artists, and their disciples, with representations of biblical characters and scenes that evoke the native people´s evangelizing process, in the region.

After that last visit, our vehicle will drop us off just a few blocks from the city of Cusco´s Main –Square, around 2:00 p.m.

Included:

• Tourism transportation vehicle.
• Professional tour guide.

Not included:

• The entrance tickets to the places to be visited.
• Lunch.
• Tips and other personal expenses.

What to bring:

• Daypack.
• Mineral water and snacks.
• Clothes for warm weather, rain and cold, in successive layers.
• Wide-brim hat, sunglasses and sunblock lotion.
• Mountain hiking shoes or sneakers (tennis shoes).
• Photo/video camera and extra batteries.
• Light binoculars.
• Hiking sticks, with rubber tips.

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