Tipon - Pikillaqta and Andahuaylillas - South Valley Half Day Tour

After breakfast at your hotel, our Machupicchu Latin America guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby between 7:45 to 8:00am and drive you in our private transport from Cusco for about 50 minutes to visit the beautiful Inca city of Tipon, an elaborate set of terraces and water channels. It is thought to have been used as one of the most important ceremonial center to worship water. The town of Tipon is also known by Cusquenians as the home of the famous typical dish “guinea pig” where all weekends come to enjoy guinea pig on a stick and roast in a clay oven. In route we will have a short stop at Oropesa town and taste a special and delicious big bread Known as “Chuta”. Oropesa town is considered as the bread capital of Peru due to having more than forty bakeries, which is the main economy in this town. Then we will drive for about 15 minutes to Pikillacta, the only pre-Inca site in Cusco. This amazing and unique adobe pre-Inca complex was built by the Wari culture who once dominated the central highland and coastal regions of Peru. Extensively considered the first culture to make use the agricultural terraces, most of the Inca administrative practices can be traced back to the Wari civilization. And then we will finally visit Andahuaylillas the “Sistine Chapel of the Americas”. Andahuaylillas church is situated in a beautiful and quiet plaza, this baroque church is famous for its incredible artwork. Which will show us many beautiful paintings completed by the Cusco Religious (Escuela Cuzqueña). On the way back to Cusco we will get a chance to stop at Saylla town and try the traditional Chicarrones (fried pork). After experienced the beauty and best of this interesting trip we will drive you back to your Cusco hotel arriving around 13:00 pm.

Note 1If you are taking a departure flight from Cusco, we can start the tour earlier to be back at Cusco airport by 12:00 pm.

Note If you prefer, we can drop off you to Urubamba or Ollantaytambo town for an extra cost.