Cusco, Peru Ruins
11 Things to Do in Cusco
On this luxury train ride to Machu Picchu you’ll get to speed through the pastoral beauty of the Sacred Valley. First you’ll take a 4-hour train ride, and then a 30-minute bus ride up the side of the mountain. On they train voyage you’ll get to eat, drink, and enjoy live music.
The Cusco region has many of its most interesting destinations folded into the pockets of the Sacred Valley. Take a tour Chinchero, Maras, and Moray for a full day of sightseeing some of the most striking innovations of the native Andeans.
On this tour you’ll spend a day exploring the great variety of attractions the Sacred Valley of the Inca has to offer. In the marketplace at Pisac you’ll have the opportunity to buy crafts made by Peruvian artisans. Then you’ll visit the valley itself, and hike through an Inca ruin in one of the nearby mountains.
This tour takes you on a mountain bike ride to some of the top archeological destinations in Peru’s southern highlands.
See the ruins that surround Cusco on this full-day horseback riding tour. Your tour begins with a visit to Qenqo Ranch, which is where you’ll meet your horse.
This tour takes you on a mountain bike ride to some of the top archeological destinations in Peru’s southern highlands.
Cusco is a modern city coexisting with an ancient and dramatic past. In the ruins surrounding the city, you’ll see the remnants of a complex belief system and highly-sophisticated engineering.
This intermediate mountain biking tour takes you through ruins, a small village, and the valleys around Cusco.
This fast-paced tour takes you to some the Sacred Valley’s most interesting archeological sites. The ATV bikes are fun and easy to use, and allow visitors to cover a lot of scenic territory in the course of an afternoon.
This half-day horseback riding tour brings you to some of the Inca archeological sites that surround Cusco. Your tour will take you to Sacsayhuamán, an enormous fort that survived battles between the Spanish and the Inca.
During its lifetime, Machu Picchu saw the rise and the fall of the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century, just before the Spanish arrived and took control of the surrounding region. Touring the vast complex of agricultural, residential, and religious buildings, it becomes clear Machu Picchu was a world unto itself, the busy last chapter of an accomplished civilization.