South Valley Tour

ITINERARY

This tour of the South Valley in Cusco takes place in the morning every day from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

This is an alternative tour, where we will be able to observe landscapes of great natural beauty and ancestral architecture. We will visit the archaeological complex of Tipon, of Inca architecture, the citadel of Pikillacta of pre-Inca Wari architecture, and Andahuaylillas beautiful chapel of Colonial architecture, known as the “Sistine Chapel of America”; without forgetting the tasty gastronomy along the tour.

TIPON

Archaeological group corresponding to the Inca period, in which you can appreciate an exceptional irrigation system with vertical and horizontal irrigation channels on stepped terraces, the water flows from the subsoil to a source from which it is distributed by the mentioned channels. It was an important agricultural production center.

PIQUILLACTA

Another important archaeological group that corresponds to a period before the Incas, would have been an administrative center of the Wari Empire, it highlights its streets that form quadrants, double-story buildings with stuccoed walls and paved floors.

ANDAHUAYLILLAS

Leaving Cusco to the south after a 45 minute drive we arrive at the town of Andahuaylillas, a traditional village in whose main square stands out its colonial temple, called “The Sistine Chapel of America” for the beautiful baroque painting on the ceiling and walls.

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