Inti Raymi Cusco – Package 4 days Tour Inti Raymi, Machu Picchu and Cusco

We’ll be waiting for you at the airport in Cusco on your arrival date, take you to the hotel where you will rest for an hour, you’ll have a cup of coca tea and we will pick you up from your Hotel in the afternoon (13:30 hrs) to start with the tour around Cusco and outskirts.

We pick you up from your Hotel to start visiting the following attractives, with a professional guide:

The Koricancha Palace and Convent of Santo Domingo Religious center known as “The Temple of the Sun” where you will admire the impressive engineering used in its construction.

The Cathedral: Colonial religious monument of extraordinary artistic value.

Sacsayhuaman: Built at 3 Km. From the city of Cusco, impressive stone fortress with an excellent architecture, Famous for its huge carved stones some of which are at 9 m/30 feet off the floor,with a weigh of 350 tons. Here is where the Inty Raymi or Fiesta del Sol is held in June Every year.

Qenqo: Ceremonial and ritual center, amphitheatre where sacrifices were made.

Puca-Pucara:.– An old Tambo (resting place), monitoring place throughout the Inka Empire Routes.

Tambomachay: At 7 Km. From the city of Cusco, ceremonial center of cult to the water, known traditionally as the place where water rests excursion time: around 5 hours

From 5:45 hrs to 6:00 hrs., we pick you up from your Hotel in Cusco (3400 mosl) and drive you to the Train Station, located in Poroy, then we get aboard the train and the trip from Cusco starts heading to Aguas Calientes (2000 mosl).

Our Guide Will be waiting there , he will lead us to the bus station, to go up by a zigzag way for 30 minutes to reach the world wide marvel The Sanctuary of Machupicchu, known as the lost city of the Incas.

Once we get to Machu-Picchu, We’ll pass throught the control, where we’ll hand in our entrance tickets and where our guided tour will start, visiting the main square, the Circular tower, the sacred solar watch, the royal rooms, the temple of the three windows and the cementeries, it lasts around two hours.

Afterwards you’ll be given enough time to have a walk around the citadel and have your meals , at any restaurant in Aguas Calientes or if you wish at Santuary Lodge (this is not included).

In the afternoon, betwen 15:30hrs pm and 17:00hrs pm we’ll return on train to Cusco, we’ll be waiting for you at the train station and then we’ll take you back to your hotel.

On June 24, the festival in honor of the Sun God, takes place in the three historical and natural settings that are usually used for staging:

Ceremony Scenarios

The Qorikancha (Golden Fence): In Inca times it was the main temple consecrated to the sun.

The Plaza de Armas (the old Auqaypata or Plaza del Guerrero): During the Inca period, in this immense plaza the ceremony took place in its entirety in the middle of the great ushnu or ceremonial platform.

Saqsaywaman (voice derived from the Quechua terms “saqsay” and “waman” which translated into Spanish means “satiate yourself, hawk”). This impressive archaeological center is located at 3,555 meters above sea level, one kilometer from the Inca neighborhood of Qolqanpata. Here the final staging takes place with the following acts. Ceremonial location Report of the 4 Suyus or Regions: Qollasuyu, Kuntisuyu, Antisuyu and Chinchaysuyu. Chicha Rite Sacred Fire Rite Sacrifice of the Flame (Andean camelid) and omens. Rite of Sankhu (sacred bread) Q’ochurikuy (outburst of popular exaltation).

Ceremony times:

9:OO hrs Qorikancha: Start of the staging. Duration 30 minutes.
Tour start date.11:OO hrs. Auqaypata (Plaza de Armas): The lnka and his royal entourage enter through Inti K’ijllu street. Duration 45 minutes.
Tour start date.13:30 hrs. Central ceremony. Duration of 90 minutes.

Included in the Inti Raymi tour

Entrance tickets to the VIP tribune.
Official English/Spanish tourism guides.
Box Lunch.
Bus transportation service
Transfer services
The service is shared with other tourists.

We’ll be at your hotel at least two hours before your flight leaves to take you to the airport Where you should check your plane ticket and pay the airport tax, we’ll see you to the departure launge.

Note: the program of the second day can be exchanged for that of the third day depending on which day Inti Raymi falls, which is celebrated only on June 24