3 DAYS CUSCO MACHU PICHU TOUR

Description

3 DAYS CUSCO MACHU PICHU TOUR

In our Best-selling tour package, the 3 Days Basic Tour Cusco Machupicchu / Cusco Machu Picchu 3 Day Tour. Join us to visit Cusco city, the cradle of an Inca empire capital, and Machu Picchu, Peru’s main tourist destination and a Wonder of the World. Cusco Machu Picchu 3 Day Tour. It is an express tour package that allows you to tour Cusco city and Machu Picchu. Highly recommended for those travelers who do not have enough time in Cusco, Peru.

Visit the highlights of the Imperial city’s historic center and its surroundings: The imposing Main Square, Cathedral, Sun Temple (Qorikancha), and Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Park (Q’enqo, Pukapukara, and Tambomachay). Also, take a beautiful train journey to Machu Picchu, Peru’s greatest tourist icon. This program starts and ends in Cusco city.

Highlights

Explore Cusco, the Peruvian history.
Take an amazing train journey to Machu Picchu.
Discover the lost city of the Incas hidden between the Andes and the Amazon jungle.
Enjoy your nights in the best, carefully selected hotels.
Book your tour with the expert local Cusco tour operator.
Enjoy an unforgettable experience with our professional local driver and guide.

Itinerary

Arrival in Cusco and City Tour.

Upon arrival at the Cusco airport in the morning, one of our hosts will welcome you and escort you on your transfer and check-in at the hotel. Afternoon, together with your professional tour guide, embark on an exciting and unique 6-hour tour and discover the most emblematic places inside and outside the Imperial City.

Visit the Main Square, preceded by the statue of the ninth emperor of the Inca empire and the Incredible Jesuit and Cathedral churches. Then, stroll inside the Cathedral and admire the beautiful religious decoration of precious metals and wood. Afterwards, visit the temple of the Sun or Qorikancha (golden enclosure), the administrative, religious, military, and astronomical center during the Inca time. Later, leave the city to visit Sacsayhuaman fortress and take a look at the mysterious polygonal style cyclopean walls with perfect inlays, and finally return to your hotel.

Cusco – Tour to Machu Picchu – Cusco

Today, take a full-day tour to Machu Picchu, a human cultural and natural heritage and a wonder of the world.

Our staff will pick you up from your hotel in Cusco at 3:45 am, then you will be transferred by tourist minibus to Ollantaytambo train station. Take the 6:10 am train and make a breathtaking journey through the Urubamba River valley, surrounded by huge mountains, until you reach Machu Picchu village (Aguas Calientes).

Upon arrival at the Aguas Calientes town Train station, you will be greeted by one of our hosts and a professional tour guide who will escort you on your Machu Picchu tour, the lost city of the Incas. Passing the Machu Picchu checkpoint, head to the lookout point (watchman’s house), from where you can enjoy the breathtaking panoramic view of Machu Picchu in perfect harmony with nature. Also, take excellent photographs that will immortalize your experience, and then walk through the urban area highlights.

After the Machu Picchu Inca citadel tour, catch the bus to the Aguas Calientes town and have lunch on your own. Later (2:55 pm, 3:20 pm, or 6:20 pm), take your return train to Ollantaytambo. Upon arrival, be greeted by our staff, and continue your trip back in a tourist minibus to Cusco city.

Flight Cusco – Lima – Return Home.

Breakfast at the hotel and 2.20 hours before your flight departure, our staff will pick you up and assist you to the Cusco airport. If your flight departs in the afternoon, take advantage of your free time to explore more of Cusco city or do some souvenir shopping.

Include

What’s included in the Cusco Machu Picchu 3-Day Tour?

Private transportation. Airport – hotel and vice versa.
Tourist mobility on all tours
Professional English or Spanish-speaking tour guide
Tourist train tickets from Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu and vice versa.
All entrance tickets to the places to visit in the itinerary (City tour, Cusco, and Machu Picchu)
Round-trip Consettur bus tickets from Machu Picchu village (Aguas Calientes) to Machu Picchu Citadel.
Tourist transportation from Cusco – Ollantaytambo train station – Cusco.
2 nights’ accommodation in a 3-star hotel with breakfast (in Cusco).
Meals: 2 breakfasts at the hotel.
First aid kit and oxygen.
Regular or private tour.
Permanent assistance.

What’s Excluded in the Cusco Machu Picchu 3-Day Tour?

Meals not mentioned are not included
All airline tickets (our professional team can help you book them).
Travel insurance. We recommend that you take out your travel insurance.
You should bring altitude sickness pills with medicine, and personal items.
Entrance fees to Huayna Picchu and the Mountain (optional).
Tips (optional)

Recommendations

Recomendations

To do the Cusco Machu Picchu 3-Day Tour, we recommend that you take into account the following:
Book the Cusco Machu Picchu 3-day tour one to three months in advance, especially if you plan to travel between May and September, which is high season. Therefore, Machu Picchu and Train tickets tend to sell out.
Make sure your flight arrives at the Cusco airport before 11 am.
Let us know if you have any mishaps or delays upon arrival in Cusco.
Before and upon arrival in Cusco, take pills for altitude sickness (soroche). In your hotel in Cusco, also take the infusion of coca leaves, it will help you to acclimate better and not feel the annoying headache, dizziness, and vomiting. Avoid coffee, alcoholic beverages, and cigarettes, as they impede the good assimilation of oxygen.
In Cusco, in the early morning and at night, wear warm clothes. Especially on the second day of the itinerary.
To travel by train to Machu Picchu, leave your heavy suitcases at the hotel in Cusco. The train company only allows you to travel with personal luggage. If you wish to travel with your heavy luggage, you will have to pay a supplement to the train company and go through a long process to send it by freight train.

Packing List

Things to bring on the Cusco Machu Picchu 3-day tour:
A small personal backpack for the tours (max. 25 liters).
All tickets that will be given to you in Cusco (tourist tickets of the places to visit, also train and Consettur bus tickets).
Personal document with which you made the tour reservation (passport, ID card, student card, or other).
A raincoat or poncho for the rainy season (November to April).
Hat and cap for the cold and the sun.
Sunscreen (April to October)
Mosquito repellent (Machupicchu).
Bottled water
Personal medication and pills for altitude sickness (soroche).
Extra money (PEN)
Cameras and others

Price

From $ 600 dollars per person

The price depends on the options taken by each passenger, please contact us to send you an updated price based on your specific request. Please send us the following information and we will respond within 24 hours with the updated price.