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Pisac

The community of Pisac is located at 33km from the city of Cusco, is one of the most important places in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. For more information, check you route on your travel all along the Valley. Pisac is divided on 2 parts, the archaeological, wich is […]

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Machu Picchu Discounted Tours

  Selection Machu Picchu travel programs, please make a choice Program Duration Highlights MACHU PICCHU EXPRESS 3 DAYS 3 Days and 2 Nights Cusco, Machu Picchu MACHU PICCHU CLASSIC 4 DAYS 4 Days and 3 Nights Cusco, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley MACHU PICCHU SPECIAL 4 DAYS 4 Days and 3 […]

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Trekking Inca Trail

The Inca trail to Machu Picchu (also known as Camino Inca or Camino Inka) consists of three overlapping trails: Mollepata, Classic and One Day. Mollepata is the longest of the three routes with the highest mountain pass and intersects with the Classic route before crossing “Dead Woman’s Pass”. Located in […]

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How To Get To Machu Picchu

To travel by train to Machu Picchu, PERURAIL, the company that operates the Southern Railways, offers a wide variety of services which cover the needs of the different types of passengers to the former Inca citadel or the nearby area. 1. To take the so called INCA ROUTE Cuzco/Machu Picchu/Cuzco […]

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Intihuatana

Intihuatana, the place when the sun gets tied, It was a religious construction, conformed of 4 sides, considering like the 4 cardinals points (north, south, east and west) located at the top of the sacred mountain, after climbing around 70 steps, is a wonder of the ancient technology, given the […]

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Muyucmarca

Muyucmarca, The round place,When the Spanish conquers arrive to the fortress, the chroniclers that write everything that happened misunderstood the name of the tower, change it for Muyumarca, and not Muyucmarca. Actually, the name that remains was Muyucmarca, due that the local natives cannot change his language by a foreign […]

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Intipata Ruins

Intipata Ruins, the place of the Sun. This site is one of the less known of the whole Inca Trail, because you can’t see it at first sight, but if you are curious, you can see these beautiful platforms, and the way the sun sets over these structures is amazing, […]

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Machu Picchu Trips

There are 112krn of railway line between the city of Cusco and the station of Puente Ruinas or Machupicchu. The trip starts in the station of San Pedro in Cusco, zig-zagging up the Picchu mountain until it reaches the highest point, a spot called “El Arco” (the arch), in the […]

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Island Taquile: The textile art

Taquile is an Island on the preuvian sid of Lake Titicaca, a 45 from the city of Puno. The inhabitants, known as a Taquileños speaks Quechua and Spanish. In 2005, “Taquile and its Textile Art” were honored by being proclaimed “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by […]

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Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo Was a site with many archaeological structures like astronomic observatories, administrate, agricultural and urban. Is a city with the remain of his Inca legacy, since this still keeps some of the constructions that were built by the Incas, and the natives are still using it like 400 years ago. […]

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Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca The Titicaca Lake: The Mount of the Puma . The name Titicaca comes from the two Quechua words Titi which means Puma and Caca which means mount, this name is a reminder of the felines that lived many centuries ago in the vicinity of the territory. One peculiar […]

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Machu Picchu Cusco

The city of CUSCO capital of the Inca Empire, nominated by the UNESCO as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, because of its magnificent architecture and also cultural richness. CUSCO means in quechua “navel of the world”, because for the Incas this site represents the center of all: life, culture, military […]

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Nazca Lines

Nazca Lines, The mystery behind the pictures The Nazca Lines are a group of traces that are located in the Jumana pampas, on the Nazca desert, between the towns of Nazca and Palpa, they were draw by the Nazca culture, and there are hundreds of these lines, from geometric figures […]

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Wiñaywayna ruins

Wiñaywayna, forever young, Is an archeologic site, located at the southwest of Machu Picchu Sancturay, between Putyutamarca and Intipunku, at 2700 meter above the sea level, perfect for your tour adventures. Wiñaywayna consists of two constructions, one is located on the top, and the other is below that, united by […]

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