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Lima, Cusco & Machu Picchu: 6-Day Sacred Valley Tour

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Six days tracing the Inca path from Lima's colonial heart to Machu Picchu's stone terraces

You move through Lima's colonial plazas and museums on day one, then fly to Cusco and spend three days exploring the city, Sacsayhuaman, and the Sacred Valley's weaving villages and Inca terraces. Day five is Machu Picchu by train — the full citadel, lunch included, return the same day. All hotels, meals, entry fees, train tickets and transfers are arranged; you bring your passport details at booking and altitude medicine if you need it.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Explore Lima's historic center and museum

Visit Convent of Santo Domingo
See Universidad Mayor de San Marcos
Walk through Plaza Mayor
Explore Government Palace and Cathedral
Tour Larco Museum

Day 2 — Afternoon city tour of Cusco

Visit Plaza de San Cristóbal
Explore San Pedro Market
Tour Qorikancha Temple
Walk San Blas artisans’ neighborhood
See Inca Roca palace and Twelve Angled Stone
Visit Plaza de Armas Cathedral

Day 3 — Visit Sacsayhuaman and nearby sites

Tour Sacsayhuaman citadel
Visit Q'enqo Inca shrine
See Puca Pucara watchtower
Explore Tambomachay monument
Free afternoon in Cusco

Day 4 — Sacred Valley: Chinchero, Moray, Ollantaytambo

Visit Chinchero village and textile centre
See Chinchero Inca square and church
Tour Moray agricultural terraces
Lunch in Sacred Valley
Visit Ollantaytambo village and ruins
Admire views from Ollantaytambo heights

Day 5 — Machu Picchu visit and return

Board train at Ollantaytambo
Arrive at Machu Picchu station
Take bus to Machu Picchu site
Tour Machu Picchu citadel
Lunch at Machu Picchu
Return by train to Cusco

Day 6 — Departure transfer

Transfer to airport or next destination

The Experience

The Plaza Mayor opens in front of you on day one — the Government Palace, the Cathedral, the weight of four centuries of Lima stone. You're walking the Historical Center with a guide who knows which doorways matter: the Convent of Santo Domingo, where the university that predates Harvard still keeps 15th-century books in its library, where the remains of saints rest in the crypt. The Larco Museum comes next, gold and textiles and ceramics that tell you how Peruvian cultures saw the world. By evening you're in a Lima hotel, and the city's energy — the kind that moves through plazas at dusk — is already in your bones.

Day two lands you in Cusco by afternoon. The San Pedro Market hits you first: vendors calling out, the smell of fresh coriander and quinoa, locals moving through stalls that supply the entire city. Then the Qorikancha Temple, where walls used to be covered in gold before the Spanish came. You walk down Hatun Rumiyoc street and stop at the Twelve Angled Stone — a block cut so precisely that no knife slides between it and the next one, built into what is now the Archbishop's Palace. The Plaza de Armas Cathedral holds colonial paintings of impossible value. That night you sleep in Cusco, already at 11,000 feet, already feeling the altitude shift your breath.

The next morning takes you to Sacsayhuaman, the massive citadel above the city, before the crowds arrive. Colossal stone walls, concentric circles, the landscape opening in every direction. Q'enqo comes next — an Inca shrine carved into rock, with an altar for sacrifices embedded inside the formation itself. Puca Pucara and Tambomachay close the morning, both considered pillars of Andean cosmovision. Your entrance passport, included in the tour, gives you access to other sites in the area if you want to walk on your own in the afternoon. The guide is bilingual, Spanish and English, so nothing gets lost in translation.

Day four is the Sacred Valley proper. Chinchero first — the most typical village, famous for women weavers who still use ancient Inca techniques to dye and spin alpaca wool. You stop at a textile center to watch it happen, then visit the Inca square with its colonial church. Moray comes next, concentric agricultural terraces the Incas used as a laboratory to test different microclimates. Lunch happens somewhere in the valley. Then Ollantaytambo, the last living Inca village, where you see the Temple of the Ten Windows, the baths of the ñusta, the Temple of the Sun. The postcards from the heights close the day — you sleep in the Sacred Valley that night.

Day five is Machu Picchu. You board the train at Ollantaytambo station in the morning, the selected category ticket already in your pocket. The train follows the Urubamba River through a deep canyon, the view building as you descend. At Machu Picchu station, staff help you onto the bus that winds up the mountain. The Lost City opens: terraces, staircases, ceremonial precincts, urban areas carved into stone. Energy moves through the place — that's not metaphor, it's what the site does. Lunch is included. You return by train that afternoon and transfer back to your Cusco hotel. Day six is your departure transfer. The tour runs six days total, five nights of accommodation included, all transfers between airports and hotels, all admission tickets, the train to Machu Picchu. Note: Machu Picchu now uses three visitor circuits to distribute passengers and protect the site; you'll be assigned a route before tickets are issued, and the admission ticket itself is non-refundable and non-changeable — if your date shifts, you buy a new ticket. Book your domestic flight from Lima to Cusco for the morning; arriving after noon is too late to start day two on time.

What’s included

Your six days include five nights of accommodation in Lima, Cusco, and the Sacred Valley.
all transfers between airports, train stations, and hotels.
train tickets to Machu Picchu in your selected category.
entry tickets to the Larco Museum, Convent of Santo Domingo, Qorikancha Temple, Sacsayhuaman, Q'enqo, Puca Pucara, Tambomachay, Chinchero, Moray, Ollantaytambo, and Machu Picchu.
lunch on day four in the Sacred Valley and lunch at Machu Picchu on day five.
and a bilingual guide (Spanish and English) throughout.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for heart conditionsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by VIPAC Travel

Is this one for you?This tour works if you want the main Inca sites—Lima's colonial core, Cusco's temples, the Sacred Valley villages, and Machu Picchu—without arranging flights between cities, train bookings, or entry permits yourself. The fixed itinerary and included logistics mean you move through six days without negotiating transport or timing.