Sacred Valley Day Tour from Cusco via Ollantaytambo
From €24 per person
See availability →A Sacred Valley day tour from Cusco across six stops, from Chinchero's weaving to Moray, Maras, Ollantaytambo and Pisac, with lunch and a market stop in Urubamba.
On this Sacred Valley day tour from Cusco, your guide picks you up in the hotel lobby and the day opens in Chinchero, where you learn how natural fibres are spun and dyed with plants and minerals. From there you go to Moray, whose circular terraces created different microclimates and served the Incas as an agricultural laboratory, and then to the Maras salt ponds, thousands of pools filled by a spring underground, and still worked today.
Lunch is in Urubamba, the heart of the valley, with time to wander through a local market of regional products and handicrafts. In the afternoon you walk up to the fortress of Ollantaytambo, an Inca town where people still live and the original street plan survives, with cobbled streets and stone temples.
- Pisac, with Inca ruins on the hillside and a colonial town below, known for its artisan market, on selected itineraries
- An option to end the tour in Ollantaytambo and take the train towards Aguas Calientes, if you are heading to Machu Picchu
Otherwise the day finishes back in Cusco's main square. The tour includes pickup, shared transport, the buffet lunch in Urubamba and a guide in English or Spanish. The tourist ticket and the salt mine entrance are paid separately, as are drinks and tips.