Sacred Valley & Moray tour from Cusco: 7 archaeological sites

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Duration11h–12h

GroupUp to 19

LanguagesEN · ES

PickupAt your hotel

Seven stops across the Sacred Valley: weaving, terraces, salt ponds, and Inca ruins

A full-day guided tour from Cusco through the Sacred Valley visits six archaeological sites and landscapes in a single itinerary: Chinchero, Moray Agricultural Terraces, Maras salt mines, Ollantaytambo, Pisaq and Urubamba. A professional guide leads the route in English or Spanish, hotel pickup is included, and lunch is provided at a local buffet. The day runs 11 to 12 hours and involves moderate walking at several stops.

11h–12h

Step-by-step itinerary

The Experience

How do you fit the Sacred Valley into one day without renting a car or hiring a private driver? This tour strings together six major sites across the valley in a fixed itinerary, so the route, timing and transport are already arranged. You're picked up at your hotel in Cusco, then driven north to Chinchero—a 1-hour drive—where the guide takes you to a local family's home to watch the traditional weaving process before moving on. From there the day branches into the high-altitude landscape: Moray Agricultural Terraces, a set of concentric stone rings built by the Incas for crop experimentation, sits a 30-minute drive away, and you walk the viewpoint to take in the full scale of them. The Maras salt mines, still worked by hand in shallow ponds carved into the mountainside, come next after another 30-minute drive.

Lunch is a 30-minute buffet stop with local dishes, then the route moves into the main valley floor. Ollantaytambo, a fortress-temple complex overlooking the Urubamba River, gets a guided walk of about 30 minutes through its most important structures. Pisaq—another major Inca site with agricultural terraces and temple buildings—follows after a 1-hour drive, and the guide walks you through the layout before the group has time to browse the craft shops nearby. The return to Cusco takes another hour by bus, and you arrive back at the main plaza around 7:00 pm. Your guide speaks English or Spanish, and the professional commentary ties the sites together as a single story of Inca engineering and settlement rather than isolated stops.

Two optional add-ons are available at checkout: entry to the Maras salt mines costs extra, and a Cusco Tourist Ticket—which covers entry to several valley sites—can be purchased separately. The tour includes transportation, hotel pickup, lunch and the guide; what you walk varies by site, with Ollantaytambo and Pisaq involving the most time on foot across uneven terrain.

What’s included

Professional guide in English or Spanish.
hotel pickup in Cusco.
transportation by bus to all six sites.
buffet lunch with local flavors.
guided walks at Chinchero, Moray, Ollantaytambo and Pisaq.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by Inka Altitude

Is this one for you?The guide speaks English or Spanish, so you follow the commentary comfortably in your language—a difference if you're traveling with family or friends who don't speak the local tongue and want the story, not just the stops.