Tour Machu Picchu 2 days with Mountain in Train

Itinerary Summary

Tours Day 1: Tour Cusco – Ollantaytambo – Machu Picchu Pueblo

• 10:00 Pick up from your hotel in Cusco Machu Picchu tours for 2 days
• 10:00 to 12:00 bus trip from Cusco to Ollantaytambo.
• 12:58 – 14.40 Train Tour Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village).
• 14:40 Reception at Aguas Calientes station and transfer to the hotel chosen by the customer
  Free afternoon for lunch, visit the village markets, the hot springs of Aguas Calientes,
• 17:00 pm short briefing at the hotel, our guide will visit and will provide guidelines necessary for tours to Machu Picchu
• Overnight in selected hotel in Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village).

Tours Day 2: Tour Machu Picchu – Mountain Machu Picchu – Cusco

• 5:40 am Board the bus to Machu Picchu (Recommended) to see the sunrise or sunrise over Machu Picchu.
• 6:20 am must register control Machu Picchu
• 6:50 to 9:20 a.m. Guided tour of 2 hours professional guide will provide 2 hours of information in the main sectors of Machu Picchu.
• 10 a.m. checked to enter Machu Picchu Mountain to
• 10 am – 1 pm hike climb and enjoyed the scenery taking pictures Mountain Machu Picchu
• 1pm – 4pm tour free time to enjoy the citadel of Machu Picchu and take pictures of this world wonder Machu Picchu.
• 4:30 pm from Machu Picchu take the bus down to the town of Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village) and enjoy lunch or visit the botanical garden.
• 5:40 pm Show up at the train station in Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village)
• 6:20 pm board the train and travel to Ollantaytambo station
• 8:30 arrival at the train station and transfer to Ollantaytambo Cusco tourist bus
• 10:30 pm arrival in Cusco

Detailed Itinerary

Tours 1st day: Cusco – Aguas Calientes “pueblo Machu Picchu”

• At 10 am approx. You will be picked up from the hotel and then go by bus to the town of Ollantaytambo
• At 1 pm You will be taken by train to Aguas Calientes
• At 3 pm Arrive and our transfer will be waiting you at the station for accommodation on the hotel chosen.
*At Afternoon visit the thermal baths or make a stroll in the small town of Aguas Calientes,
• At 8 pm briefing or brief talk with the guide who will inform you about the Machu Picchu tour.

Tours 2nd day: Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu pueblo – hike Machu Picchu – Mountain Machupicchu – Cusco

• Early at 5:40 am , a bus take you to the citadel of Machu Picchu with a trip of 20 minutes, where you will have a 2 hours guided tour in the main sectors of Machu Picchu
• From 10 am -a 1 pm it will be the addressed time to climb the mountain from Machu Picchu and by this way enjoy the beautiful scenery and have a breathtaking view of Machu Picchu in Peru wonder *Then free time until 4 pm that Machu Picchu is closed. In your spare time you can enjoy Machu Picchu in its amplitude size and take pictures.
*It is possible to hike to Machu Picchu at 1:30 and in this case should start waking up at 4:30 am.

At the appointed time take the train to Ollantaytambo where our bus will bring you back approx arriving to the city in 4 hours.

End of the services of Tours Perú Machu Picchu.

Recommendations for the tour

• Bring a small backpack with personal items for the trip to Machu Picchu
• Original passport for travel to Machu Picchu
• ISIC student card valid in case of student
• sunscreen for the trip
• Hat for travel
• Sunglasses for tours
• Rain gear (rainy season)
• Extra money for trips to Machu Picchu
• Swimwear should visit the thermal baths
• Flashlight if you want to do the walk

Important for tours.- note At the appointed time, the night before the tour the Tours Machu Picchu 1 day, will speak at your hotel with our professional guide of Tours Peru Machupicchu.

Availability Tours Inca Trail to Machu Picchu:

This Tours has a limit of spaces per day throughout the year. Ahead of his trip should book their spaces for the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

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A new interpretation of Machu Picchu – Tour Peru:

The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is usually interpreted as a “royal estate” of the Inca ruler Pachacuti. This idea is challenged here by a critical reappraisal of existing sources and a re-analysis of existing evidences of Machu Picchu. It is shown that such evidences actually point at a quite different interpretation in Peru (Tours Peru Machupicchu).

This interpretation is suggested, on one side, by several clues coming from the urban layout Machu Picchu tours, the interior arrangement of the town Machu Piccchu, the ancient access ways, the position with respect to the landscape and the cycles of the celestial bodies in Inca times and, on the other side, by a comparison with known information about the Inca pilgrimage center on the Island of the Sun of the Titicaca lake (Tours Peru). Altogether, the above mentioned clues lead to propose that Machu Picchu was intentionally planned and built as a pilgrimage center connected with the Inca “ cosmovision” (Tours Peru Machupicchu).

Machu Picchu:

This paper analyzes one of the most beautiful and enigmatic achievements ever reached by architecture worldwide Machu Picchu. It is an ancient Andean town whose original name is unknown; it is anyway famous with the name Machu Picchu. Although it may seem strange at a first glance for such a renewed archaeological site Machu Picchu, the reason why the town was built, the date at which it was built, the ruler who ordered its construction, the reason why it was abandoned, in a word, the interpretation of this place are unknown as well (Tours Peru Machupicchu). For reasons we do not know indeed, Machu Picchu was abandoned and forgotten; it was brought again to the attention of the world only with the famous 1911 Hiram Bingham’s expedition tours (see Bingham 1952, or Salazar-Burger 2004 for an up-to-date account Machupicchu). Immediately after its “re-discovery Machu Picchu” the site was enveloped by a halo of mystery (Tours Peru Machupicchu). Bingham by himself thought it to be the “lost capital” of the last Inca reign, Vilcabamba, an interpretation that we know to be untenable today, and various errors and misunderstandings further contributed to the confusion, such as, for instance, a high over-estimate of the percentage of feminine bones found in the burials, a thing that caused the suspicion that Machu Picchu could have been a sanctuary inhabited by Inca’s “Virgins of the Sun” (Tours Peru Machupicchu).

Machu Picchu Living without interpretation schemes is extremely difficult in any science (e.g. Physics) and Archaeology is no exception. Therefore, archaeologists have adopted a scheme, a sort of dogma on the true meaning of the town: the idea that Machu Picchu has to be identified as one of the “royal estates” of the Inca Pachacuti (Rowe 1990) (Tours Peru Machupicchu).

What is today customarily called a Inca “royal estate” was a land property, nominally owned by the king and managed by his family clan. A royal estate was typically composed by agricultural lands and “palaces” meant as residences for the ruler and the elite (Tours Peru Machupicchu). These places were used for amusement (such as hunting) and perhaps also for treating state affairs. A good example of royal estates is Chincero, property of Topa Inca, described in details by the chronicler Betanzos as a property “where to go for recreation” and thoroughly analyzed by Niles (1999). Other important Inca sites have been interpreted as royal estates as well, and in particular Pisac and Ollantaytambo. To the best of the present author’s knowledge, however, there is no textual evidence whatsoever showing that Pisac was a royal estate (Pisac is never mentioned in the Spanish chronicles). More convincing is the case of Ollantaytambo (Protzen 1993) (Tours Peru Machupicchu).

TOURS PUCA PUCARA:

7 kms. northeast of the city, along the road that leads to Pisac tours (30 minutes by car and 2 hours on foot), we find this Inca site whose Quechua name means “red fortress” due to the hue that its rocks acquire with the twilight light, (puca = red, and pucara = fortress or defended place). It would be a military construction composed of superimposed terraces, interior squares, aqueducts, watchtowers, high walls and stairways. However, its presence on the road may also indicate that it was a dairy farm, although its structure does not correspond to the standard layout with which these buildings were built along the Inca roads; Regarding this possibility, there is the version that the Inca lodged his numerous entourage there every time he decided to visit the baths of Tambomachay. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)

The site occupies another of the typical rocky areas that stand out in the plain of Sacsayhuamán tours. And it shows towards the western side a facade on a free area as a small square. On the opposite side, a building of considerable height rises whose main characteristic is its strategic location since it dominates the entire surrounding territory. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
The builders built three walls of irregular plan that establish three levels for the site. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)

The first wall has a sinuous layout that carefully avoids cutting the protruding rocks. Towards the north side and behind the outer wall, there are six rooms of different sizes, arranged in an irregular way so as not to touch the stones that make up the wall. To the west, there is a high trapezoidal square accessed by a staircase. tours The plaza was surrounded by buildings on two sides. The nine regular rooms in this open space do not seem to belong to a fortified area. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
A second wall surrounds the central elevation. Between this and the first there are wide platforms that extend towards the south and the east. Behind the second wall there are three atypical rooms for Inca architecture, since two of them do not have a rectangular plan, but a trapezoidal one. The third wall surrounds the top and there are no traces of its buildings. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)

TAMBOMACHAY TOURS:

The archaeological site of Tambomachay is located 8 km (15 min.) Northeast of Cusco, by paved road, and 1 km from Puca-pucará. It is located on the slopes of a hill near the main road to Antisuyo, on the Tambomachay river. It is also known as the Tambo de la Caverna and occupies an area of ​​437 square meters, located on 3,700 meters of altitude.

Apparently it was the Inca’s favorite spa, but at the same time, it was one of the pillars of his defensive system in the Cuzco Valley (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

The name comes from two Quechua words: Tampu, which means collective accommodation and Mach’ay, which means place of rest. However, according to other references, the word “machay” means “caves”, which would describe the peculiar environment of the place in which these natural rock formations are appreciated, which according to indigenous tradition, were the object of veneration or magical practices . (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

Formed by a set of finely carved stone structures, aqueducts and waterfalls from nearby springs and hot springs (which is thought to be related to the cult of water), it is one of the pillars of the Andean worldview. It is considered one of the shrines of the first ceque of Antisuyo.

According to the chronicles, it was the Inca Yupanqui hunting ground, which suggests that it was an area very rich in animal species.

Description
The monument is notable for its architectural excellence. There are four walls or stepped terraces attached to the hill, built on the basis of irregular polyhedra of carved stone, masterfully assembled, and that form three parallel platforms. On the last one a thick wall is erected (15 meters long by 4 meters high) adorned with four niches on average. In front of the construction there was a circular tower that must have had defense and communication purposes.

Water worship
Water itself was revered as the source of life. Tambomachay has an extraordinary hydraulic system.
Two aqueducts artistically carved into the rock carry and maintain a constant flow of clean, clear water throughout the year. that comes from a pool that is at a higher level. This network of underground channels discharges its waters into a small stone pool at the lowest level. This pool had to be a liturgical fountain, where the Inca worshiped water with the greats of the Empire. The “Ñusta Bath” has a lot of similarity to that of Ollantaytambo, made of perfectly assembled stones, with carved edges and gutters for drainage. Although today it is an open-air work, the foundations seem to indicate that it was originally an enclosed area. It is entered through four double-jamb trapezoidal portico platforms tour peru.

From the river you can see two thick walls that cut the supporting wall. One of them faces the river and has two large niches, the second, almost perpendicular to the first, has a door with a double jamb. This type of door was used by the Incas to highlight the importance of a place. Through this door, one reaches a small room in which the water that emerges from the bowels of the river is visible. Of what remains no doubt is the perfection in the carving of the channels. The sound of the water, the tranquility and peace of the environment, as well as the closed and collected form of the space in which it was built, give Tambomachay a peculiar atmosphere. In addition, it is a great example of the ability of Andean architects to harmonize buildings with the landscape.

TOURS PISAQ:

Today P’isaq constitutes one of the most important Archaeological Parks in the region. It is located approximately 30 km (18.6 miles) northwest of the City of Cusco, possibly its name derives from a type of partridge that is very common in this area known as “p’isaqa”. Some scholars suggest that the pre-Hispanic city had the shape of a “p’isaqa” that represented the local fauna.

Today there is also a colonial town named P’isaq in the lower part of the valley, established as a result of the “Indian Reductions” famous for which the Quechuas united in the small towns. The Inca City is on the upper side of the mountain. It was classic among the Incas from the most fertile areas to reserve land for agriculture before building towns or from the “Andes” the Mountains derive from “Anti”) they were their worst enemies. Today it is still possible to see the surrounding wall that protected the most important area of ​​the city. Towards the end of its area there were immense cultivation terraces that provided much food for its inhabitants. There are also aqueducts that provided water for agricultural development. It seems that these drinking waters of the inhabitants were harnessed on the upper side of the mountain and were transported through the channels of the subsoil. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

There are two possibilities to get to the Inka archaeological colonial town:
Through a walk, taking the street on the western side of the current church and passing through the embankment and the mountain, it is a hard walk due to the altitude and the incline that require one to be in good physical condition.

On the other hand, take a car that must follow kilometer 8. (5 miles) to the northeast – town to the parking lot from which it will be necessary to follow 1.5 km (1 mile). (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
The second possibility is the easiest and most popular. Almost all the original names of the different sectors of P’isaq are unknown; the current names were in some chronicles. Today, archeology and history are trying to decipher the mysteries of the site through logical deductions and comparative studies that declare the analogies with some other known elements. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
There Inca architectural classification where today it is possible to establish the roles of almost all buildings but there are many aspects that will remain as eternal enigmas. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
“Qanchisraqay” (qanchis = seven, raqay = inclosure) is one of the districts of P’isaq that is outside the fortified city, at% Km. (0.3 mile). This sector is also known as “Kanturaqay”, whose name is related to our national flower “kantu”. It is made up of many buildings with walls of the “pirka” type, that is, made with mud and stones. There are here some ‘’kanchas” (apartments) for non-noble people who must have cultivated the low land; Around there are also some remains of aqueducts and sources of supplying water for the people who lived in the area. From this place there is a panoramic view towards the bottom of its valley that seems to be narrow but staying here one discovers that they are wide. Its location on the edge is exceptional to see where the tombs of its largest pre-Hispanic cemetery in the region are. Today this cemetery is known as “Tankanamarka” (tankay = to push, marka = place; it can be translated as “place of launch”), and according to some estimates it must have contained approximately 10,000 graves that were looted. In the Inca belief it was declared that once the person died they began another new life; consequently their mummies were kept with all their properties and necessary food.
When the conquerors arrived, they learned about the Inca beliefs about the tombs and began with the diabolical desecration, looting the jewels, metals and precious stones. P’isaq currently contains looted tombs, some mummies are still inside but not their jewels and the elements of daily life. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

Continuing with the march, and crossing the surrounding wall named Amarupunku (amaru = snake, punku = door) that still keeps its lintel is the district known as K’alla Q’asa (k’alla = cut, q’asa = step ) also named as Hanan P’isaq. Intiwatana is the most important district of P’isaq, it corresponds to the ceremonial center or the religious complex of the city with constructions of “sedimentary” type walls; That is, the polished stone joint has a rectangular outer surface. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
Its location at the top of the mountain is extraordinary and visually dominates much of the sacred valley of the Incas. This sector must have been made up of various temples such as the Qorikancha of Cusco with urns for the different deities (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

The lack of information makes it difficult to know that each temple worshiped two gods. In the central part of its complex there is a semicircular building with a straight lateral wall and the main door is towards the south, by deduction and analogy it is established that this was the Temple of the Sun in P’isaq. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
On the two side walls of its ascending entrance there are small hands carved in the stone. Via Descending from the Sun Temple stairway to the southwest side there is another conical notch that was used with the “Intiwatana”. To the west there is a carved stone altar that represents the three Andean phases of the religious world: the sky, the earthly world and the subsoil. This sculpture was possibly used as an aid for solar observations (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

In this complex there are some other temples with very good quality walls. Its specific tasks are unknown; But, today the tradition is trying to put their names, without any documentary support (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

In this area there are also streams and remains of well-carved fountains that, due to their quality and location, must have had strictly religious duties such as water, which was a special deity among the Andean people and that always had its streams, fountains and deposits. for your worship.
Approximately 20 meters (65 feet) in front of the main gate of the complex there is a special fountain. On both sides of its spillway there are two notches that appear to be handles; Due to its position it perhaps served as a bathtub to take “ceremonial baths” to purify the body. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
From this area there is a partial view of the Urubamba River that flows in a straight line approximately 3.3 km (2 miles), in Inca times this river was completely channeled from P’isaq to Ollantaytambo. The objective of its channel was to gain farmland and protect it, covering a length of approximately 90 km (56 miles) in the valley today in many sectors there are remains of the side walls of the channel. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
Going down the staircase to the southeast of the “Intiwatana” is the district of P’isaqa which has a semicircular shape. It has walls with carved stones, some of the “pirka” type, and some others absolutely made with adobe. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)

Here is a layout of “kanchas” (apartments). From the extreme south of this sector it is possible to see on the steep surface some “pukaras” (defensive towers) “qolqas” (warehouses) made with adobe. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day)
From this sector, there is a road to the south to go down the colonial town of P’isaq that offers an interesting panorama, to get to the parking lot it is necessary to take the road to the north. (Tours Machupicchu 1 day).

The Andean Páramo Project (PPA – PERU TOURS):

The Páramo Andino Project is a regional initiative (Venezuela tour, Colombia tour, Ecuador tour and Peru tour) that runs between 2006 and 2011 with financing from GEF-UNEP-PERU-TOURS. It is coordinated by the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN-TOURS-PERU) as the umbrella for a network of institutions in each of the four countries for the tour. The presentation of this initiative can help us to think about strategies for the implementation of the GRI-PERU TOURS initiative because the páramo ecoregion is a natural landscape that has an ordering function of regional interventions for the tour, similar in this sense to the function that is proposed for GRI-PERU-TOURS within the framework of the Regional Biodiversity Strategy for the tour in Cusco, Sacred Valley, Machupicchu.

The goal of the PPA-TOUR is the conservation and sustainable use of the biodiversity and water services of the páramo ecoregion through its establishment of participatory management plans that serve at the same time the objectives of the sustainable development of rural communities in the Northern Andes in Peru Tours. These plans are underpinned by policy actions, training and education that are linked at the local, national and regional levels for the tour. This goal of managing community territories with integrated conservation and development purposes is similar to the objectives of the GRI-PERU TOURS initiative of promoting a network of conservation sites with a focus on cultural landscapes during the tour in Cusco and Valle. Sacred of the Inkas.

It must be taken into account that a tour, one of the three cross-border areas of its Páramo Andino Program in Peru, the corridor located between Loja and Piura for a tour, precisely coincides with the GRI-PERU TOUR route. In this section there are the Podocarpus National Park (Ecuador Tour), the Columbo Yacuri protective forest and the Tabaconas-Namballe National Sanctuary for a tour. Also, as we explained above, there are numerous important areas for bird conservation (IBA-TOUR PERU) in this travel corridor. The relationship between the GRI-PERU-TOUR route and the border corridor of páramo between Ecuador and Colombia, specifically the Ecological Reserve of El Ángel and the Indigenous Territories of Chiles, remains to be specified for a tour of 1 day or more. days.

There are also other investment initiatives in the Ecuador-Peru Tour cross-border area. For example, in the Peru Tour, the Government of Finland has made a donation to the Government of Peru Tour (administered by the National Fund for Protected Areas by the Peruvian State, PROFONANPE-PERU-TOUR), for the development of the section of the GRI- PERU-TOUR adjacent to the Tabaconas-Namballe Tour National Sanctuary. Likewise, the Catamayo-Chira-Tour Binational Basin Project executed within the framework of the Binational Plan with funding from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI-PERU-TOUR), also includes the execution of conservation and sustainable development actions in the high areas of the páramo that coincide with the GRI-PERU TOUR in the aforementioned sites. Finally, in the Peruvian area of ​​this section, the “Program to Support the Sustainable Development of the Area of ​​Influence of the Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary” (CESPERU-TOUR) is being initiated with the support of the Belgian Technical Travel Cooperation.

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