Cusco City Walking Tour (available only for small mini group & private service)

Trip Length
Group Size
Activity Type
Hiking Adventure
Physical Level
Easy

Overview

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.

Highlights

  • This is a half-day tour that allows you to explore places that are not typically visited on regular tours, such as the main Cusco Cathedral, the Twelve-Angle Stone, and San Pedro Market.
  • During this tour, we can learn the fascinating history of the of the Incas and visit the most important Inca temple, Coricancha, renowned for its architecture, which some argue is better than that of Machu Picchu.
  • Accompanied by a professional guide, we have the opportunity to ask any questions that come to mind during our exploration.
  • Along the journey, we can try various local treats, including fruits and tamales, while enjoying a leisurely walk through the city. This experience helps in acclimatizing to the high-altitude area.
  • Additionally, we will have the chance to shop some souvenirs to bring home.

Itinerary

DAY 1: Cusco City Walking Tour

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.

Inclusions

Included

  • Professional English-speaking Local Guide

No Included

  • Coricancha (Sun Temple), entrance tickets
  • Lunch and drinks
  • Visit to the main cathedral of Cusco.
  • Any other extra expenditures
  • Gratuities

Small mini group

minimum 6 people – maximum 9 people

USD $ 15.00

Private service

Price is based on number of people

USD $ 35.00

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