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Sacred Valley Full Day Tour from Cusco: Ruins & Markets

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Duration9h–10h

GroupUp to 16

LanguagesEN · ES

PickupAt your hotel

Nine hours in the Sacred Valley: four Incan sites, one lunch, no logistics

You're picked up from your hotel at 8 a.m. and driven through four major Sacred Valley sites—Pisac's ruins and market, Ollantaytambo's living Incan streets, Chinchero's textile center, and the Alpaca Center—with a buffet lunch and professional guide included. The return to Cusco is around 5 p.m., and every fee and meal is covered upfront, so you only decide where to walk and what to buy.

9h–10h

Step-by-step itinerary

Pick up from hotel at 8:00 a.m.
Visit Alpaca Center and weaving cooperative
Enjoy view at Mirador Taray
Explore Pisac village and artisan market
Drive to Urubamba for lunch
Visit Ollantaytambo Inca site and streets
Tour Chinchero terraces and textile center
Return to Cusco by 5:00 p.m.

The Experience

Most people visiting Cusco spend a day figuring out how to reach the Sacred Valley—renting a car, negotiating with drivers, timing the sites themselves. This Sacred Valley tour skips that entirely. You're picked up at 8 a.m. from your hotel and driven straight into the highlands, where the first stop is the Alpaca Center, a working weaving cooperative near the Urubamba River. You walk among llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos while weavers show you how they've worked the looms for generations. Ten minutes later you're at Mirador Taray, a viewpoint where the entire Sacred Valley opens below you—mountains, terraced fields, the river cutting through. The air is thin up there, and the quiet is the kind that makes you stop talking.

From there the day moves through Pisac, a village 33 kilometers east of Cusco built around Incan ruins and a sprawling artisan market where locals sell textiles, ceramics and alpaca goods directly. You have time to walk the market, buy something, sit with the vendors. Then it's a drive along the valley to Urubamba for lunch at a local restaurant—a buffet of Peruvian dishes, with vegetarian options if you've requested them at booking. The guide eats with you, not separately, and will answer questions about what you're tasting and why. After lunch comes Ollantaytambo, called the Last Living Inca City because people still live in the original Incan stone houses on the original Incan streets. You walk those streets, see how the construction works, understand that this isn't a ruin you're visiting—it's a town that never stopped being inhabited.

The final stop is Chinchero, known for textiles. You visit Incan terraces, a colonial church, and a textile center where weavers demonstrate the ancient techniques—natural dyes, hand looms, patterns that have survived five centuries. By 5 p.m. you're back in Cusco. The professional guide is native to the region and speaks English; the transportation is private for your group; all entrance fees, lunch and taxes are already paid. You don't arrange anything on the day itself.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup at 8 a.m., a professional native guide, private transportation for your group, entrance fees to the Alpaca Center, Mirador Taray, Pisac ruins and market, Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero textile center, a buffet lunch at a local restaurant with vegetarian options available, and return to your hotel around 5 p.m.
A pre-departure briefing happens the night before at 6:30 p.m.
All taxes are included in the price.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleInfant seats availableNot for heart conditions

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Is this one for you?Choose this if you want the main Sacred Valley sites in one day without arranging your own transport, buying tickets separately, or timing the stops yourself—the fixed schedule and included guide are what fit four major sites and lunch into a single afternoon.