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The great half day Cusco city tour is the traditional way to explore the most important sites around Cusco. We will take you to the Cathedral of Cusco, the ancient Inca Sun temple called Qoricancha and the 4 spectacular ruins outside of the city in Cusco, You will get to see the mixture of Inca and Spanish culture styles, as the case of Qoricancha. Where Spanish conquerors built big Catholic church on the top on the Inca worshiping place. Cusco is just a magnificent place to visit; many streets has nice original Inca walls, which served as foundation for a lot of the colonial buildings.
Cusco city tour is the ideal excursion if you want to be well introduced to the fantastic world and history of the Inca society. This tour is highly recommended for all kind of visitors, at any time of the year.
Travelers are picked up from their hotel at the appropriate time. After a very short drive by car, you will get into the down-town. You will start the City Tour visiting Qoricancha, a spectacular Inca Sun temple, the best one in the Puma city during the Incas heydays. Afterwards you will walk to the main square of Cusco or Huacaypata. Where you will admire all the big catholic churches from XVI century. Being the Cathedral as the most amazing one. Which is definitely the richest and stunning church in South America. Later on, you will drive to the northern-east of Cusco, to visit the great four ruins of Cusco.
Sacsayhuaman is quite amazing and outstanding Inca Temple located on the hill, just outside of Incas’ Capital. The guide will take you around the huge Inca walls, constructed with giant lime stones, which weights approx. 128 tons perfectly joined to each other. Then you will be going to visit another interesting Inca site called Qenqo, a weird rock formation with great carvings and passages from inside. Probably here is where the Incas mummified some very important people in their society. You will finish the Cusco city tour visiting the ceremonial baths of Tambomachay and the military check point point of Pukapukara, and then you will get back to Cusco.
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