Top Cusco Day Trips

This tour was great. We had the perfect weather and the mountain was amazing! The colours and views were breathtaking. We continued to red valley and it was worth it. A little challenging but so rewarding. If it’s a cloudy day maybe the colours on Rainbow Mountain don’t stand out as much but we had full sun and no clouds and I found the colours stood out more than I expected. Very satisfied. Definitely recommend.

This was a really early start (and I doubted, at first this decision) However, it was the best decision! Pickup at our hotel was around 3am but we slept a bit in the van. After the stops to pick up up passengers, we journeyed a few hours where stopped for breakfast. Then we headed one more hour to the base camp of the ATVs. The sun was dawning and it was cold. Bring hats, gloves and a winter coat . We were outfitted with the atv and headed to Rainbow Mtn. - so much Fun! About 20 minute ride . At Rainow Mtn, we were given some time to walk around to the different pictures sights &just take it in. I will say there were no crowds at this time so it was very serene. Perfect blue skies graced our day. After our Atv back (again so much fun and better than walking) we boarded the van and stopped for lunch at the same place for breakfast. A little bumper to lumper traffic back into Cusco slowed us down a little. But I must say that arriving back in the early afternoon gave us the whole day to keep exploring Cusco :) This was a great excursion and highly recommend if the early departure isn’t a factor. It was awesome to see Rainbow Mtn before all the crowds showed up and it was a wonderful sight to see and experience.

This was the first tour for us in our Peruvian vacation, and what a wonderful start. Our tour guide Vidal contacted us the afternoon before to schedule pick. The next morning everything worked like clock work. Vidal and the driver arrived precisely when they said they would. Luckily for us, my boyfriend and I were the only ones on this tour so it felt more personal and we immediately liked our tour guide. We settled entrance fee payments and we started our Sacred Valley tour journey. Vidal was so informative and helpful from the get go. He volunteered his information and we could tell how much he enjoyed his job and how passionate he is about his country. Our first stop was Chinchero to feed the llamas, alpacas and guinea pigs, this was my first experience with them and how lovely it was, there we also witnessed the production and hand weaving process which was so interesting and informative. As we carried on with our adventure we stopped to take pictures of the beautiful sites. Vidal explained to us many things about the People and area we drove through. Then we arrived at the Salt mines which is such a very unique and interesting place. I could not get over the landscape of where we were, then we learned about how the salt mines work which was so informative, after Vidal took many photos of us we left the salt mines and headed to our next site Moray. On the drive there we stopped to buy some of the salt harvested from the mines, Peruvian chocolate which are amazing and refreshments, again the Peruvian country landscape takes my breath away, so the drive was always enjoyable for me. Moray what a historical place, the intelligence behind these ruins is so fascinating. We got may beautiful photos here as well. Then driving through mountains and fields of barley we traveled to Ollantaytambo. Another fascinating and intellectual place, a place of engineering before its time. Vidal climbed and walked us through all of the many fascinating rooms of the ruins, teaching us all the intricacies of the carved granite, the view from up in these ruins down on the valley and mountains surrounding is breath taking. Our lunch was at the beautiful hotel Sonesta Posadas Yucay, the lunch was amazing, the hotel was amazing, friendly staff. We had a lovely lunch before our long, beautiful journey home. I totally recommend this tour, everything about it was enjoyable.