Cusco City Walking Tour: Historical Center of Cusco, Cusco Cathedral from the exterior, Corikancha, de San Pedro local market, famous twelve angle stone.
OVERVIEW
This journey through the Cusco city represents one of the finest ways to start or conclude your visit to this enchanting Inca land, where mystery thrives, and the vibrant culture is alive. The Cusco City Walking Tour, accompanied by a professional guide, offers you the opportunity to wander through picturesque streets, adorned with colorful decorations in the local structures. It provides an up-close understanding of the significance of each location.
This option grants us access to places that remain unexplored by other tours, including the bustling San Pedro Market and the renowned Twelve-Angle Stone. Throughout the tour, our guide from Peru Day Tours will take on the responsibility of imparting comprehensive insights into each visited site.
This captivating experience commences at the Plaza de San Francisco, where we will gather by the water source at the appointed time. Look for the Peru Day Tours guide’s flag. Following a brief introduction about what we’ll encounter here, we will embark on a journey through the streets of this city, seemingly frozen in time. This square boasts a profusion of plant specimens that once thrived during the Inca era, covering most of the valleys.
Along the way we will see many shops and people offering their products such as handicrafts, key chains, if you want you can help by buying some souvenirs is going to appreciate it.
Once arrived at the San Pedro market, we will have the option to enter the main place where local people buy their basic necessities so we know how people really live here.
After trying and taking incredible photos of the market of San Pedro de Cusco, we go to the Plaza de Armas of Cusco, here the Cathedral will be one of the most impressive monuments of the colonial era that still hides many mysteries our guide try to reveal some of them the visit is made from the outside, If you want to visit or can do after the tour or taking the option of private service.
Now we tried the famous tamale made by a family from generation to generation and with the locals are agree it is the best tamale in town.
We continue the walk to the edge of the twelve angles a narrow street that survives from the time of the Incas, also this enclosure was palace of rulers of the time.
Finally, we go to the most important place of the Inca culture the temple of Coricancha or known as the temple of the sun, one of the most important enclosures of the Inca era where the walls were covered with gold, this and many more things will teach us this walk within the city, at the end of the tour you can continue exploring this site or use the toilets of this place.
A highly qualified professional with extensive experience in the art of guiding will lead your tour. They have years of dedication to nature walks, have medical certifications and an overflowing passion for leading people on unforgettable adventures.
We understand how essential a delicious hot meal is to revitalize and comfort your body after a challenging hike. Therefore, on each expedition with Ausangate Peru, you will find chefs with extensive experience in preparing meals during the hikes.
All our hiking trips offer a varied selection of delicious meals, rich in carbohydrates, proteins and essential fats. We have carefully selected foods that adapt perfectly to the natural environment.
Our experienced muleteers and their faithful horses are responsible for all our equipment and will always be available in the safe and comfortable camps, ready to receive us.