SOUTH VALLEY TOUR

Itinerary summary

The tour to the South Valley starts with the pick up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

• The tour starts from Cusco city towards Tipon where we will have a guided tour in a place considered as an icon of hydraulic engineering and its distribution of water channels.
• After that we will go to Piquillacta to see pre-Inca constructions dating from the eleventh to ninth century belonging to the Wari culture, a city made of stone with straight streets and walls up to 12 meters high.
• From this point we will be able to see the Huacarpay lagoon, a unique place for people who like to observe and study migratory birds that make their way through here.
• The tour ends with a visit to Andahuaylillas where the temple of San Pedro Apostle is located, better known as the small "Sistine Chapel of America" built in 1580 by the Jesuit order, a place where works of art and an interior whose ceiling is covered with Mudejar style decoration.
• Finally we will return to Cusco at 14:30 hrs.

The tour includes

• Previous interview before the tour to clear any doubts.
• Entrance ticket to Tipon, Piquillacta and Andahuaylillas.
• Tourist transportation
• Official bilingual tour guide

The tour does not include

• Snacks
• Travel insurance
• Tips
• Lunch

Complete Itinerary

The tour South Valley is a tour that takes place in the southern part of the city of Cusco, an ideal tour for all ages that allows you to know the origins of Cusco in a tour full of pre-Inca, Inca and colonial history where we will visit one of the most important archaeological centers in Tipon known for the skill of its hydraulic engineering used by the Incas, We will also visit Piquillacta, a construction dating from the VI to IX centuries, one of the centers of political administration of the Wari culture and preserved in the Inca period where predominates stone constructions with mud and walls up to 12 meters high where there were more than 700 buildings, 500 warehouses and among other houses. After that we will visit one of the most beautiful chapels of Peru and the American continent and is located in Andahuaylillas 45 kilometers from the city of Cusco known as the small Sistine Chapel of America built in the seventeenth century Renaissance style and a baroque style interior with a ceiling full of Mudejar style paintings with motifs of flowers, On the outside of the temple we can observe a balcony guarded by a square bell tower, in its main atrium the presence of 3 stone crosses and in the central square the presence of old trees like the Pisonay give a unique tranquility to this beautiful place. The South Valley tour offers this experience which is done in a half day tour.

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

The tour to the South Valley starts with the pick up from your hotel at 08:30 am.

• The tour starts from the city of Cusco towards Tipon (3560 masl) located in the district of Oropesa where we will have a guided tour where we will know the main function of this place and who were the people who lived there, a place where terraces or Inca terraces and where they worshiped the water. This place has the title of wonder of civil engineering for its natural and technological environment in the use of mobilizing the waters of the springs or springs by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
• After that we will go to Piquillacta (3350 masl) to see pre-Inca constructions dating from the eleventh to ninth century belonging to the Wari culture, a city made of stone with straight streets and walls up to 12 meters high that give an aspect of fort, in it we can highlight that this place housed 700 buildings, 200 courts, 500 warehouses or houses whose structures were made of stone with mud where most of the houses were covered with plaster and painted with anthropomorphic images and came to have up to 3 floors.
• From the site of Piquillacta we can see the Huacarpay lagoon which provides and preserves species from different places such as: The following day we will visit the Huacarpay lagoon, which provides and preserves different species such as: the striped-fronted spinner, bearded mountaineer, rufous-fronted canastero and other migratory and seasonal birds that occur in the months of July to September.
• We will continue to our last point of visit which is Andahuaylillas (3122 meters above sea level) where we will find the temple of San Pedro Apostle better known as the small "Sistine Chapel of America" built in 1580 by the Jesuit order where we can see on the outside a Renaissance style and inside a baroque style where the ceiling is covered by a Mudejar style decoration with motifs of flora and fauna covered with gold leaf. Throughout the interior we will find works of art by Luis de Riaño and works of the Cusquenian School.
• Finally, after a wonderful tour we will return to Cusco at 14:30 hrs.

The tour includes

The tour South Valley includes:

• Previous interview before the tour to clear any doubts.
• Entrance ticket to Tipon, Piquillacta and the temple of Andahuaylillas.
• Tourist transportation
• Official bilingual tour guide

The tour does not include

The tour South Valley does not include:

• Snacks
• Travel insurance
• Tips
• Lunch

Recommendations

Recommendations for the tour South Valley

• Carry your identity card, passport or student card.
• Comfortable shoes
• Bring rain ponchos (October - March).
• Bring extra money
• Warm clothes
• Sunglasses and hat

The prices of the tour South Valley (all inclusive) in a shared service are as follows:

• Tour South Valley national tourist 45 USD
• Tour South Valley foreign tourists 50 USD

Ask for the discount prices for national and foreign students.

The prices of the tour South Valley (economic) in shared service are as follows:

• Tour South Valley national tourist 25 USD
• Tour South Valley foreign tourist 25 USD

The price of the tour South Valley economic includes only the tourist transportation service and tour guide. It does not include entrance tickets to Tipon, Piquillacta and the church of Andahuaylillas.

The prices per person for the tour  South Valley in a private service are as follows:

• South Valley private (1 person) 130 USD
• South Valley private (2 people) 90 USD
• South Valley private (3 people) 80 USD
• South Valley private (4 people) 70 USD
• South Valley private (5 people or more) 60 USD

Type of unit: private van, includes all the services mentioned in the tour.

The realization of a private tour allows you to:

• Choose the starting time of the tour
• Comfort in our new units
• Professional bilingual English / Spanish speaking tour guide
• Pick up from your hotel
• Extra stops at viewpoints that make this tour special

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