What to do in The Sacred Valley

Surrounding Cusco, there are miles of wrinkly mountains and rainbow-hued peaks), waterways and Incan ruins. This area is the Sacred Valley and if adventure is on your lips, you'll enjoy exploring by quad bike or bicycle, hiking, ziplining, and even paragliding... You get the picture! They valley is also an open-air museum of sorts, where you can marvel at the ingenuitive agricultural terraces at Pisac, the superbly-preserved temples of Ollantaytambo, and the sprawling Maras salt pools, which are still mined today.

Explore the Andean forests with Pachamanca lunch

We will start of this adventure heading to the Ollantaytambo ruins. Here you’ll explore a truly impressive archaeological complex, one of the largest in Peru, which is strategically located on top of a mountain and once guarded the road to Machu Picchu. We continue with a visit to Pumamarka, about one hour from Ollantaytambo, where we’ll visit the Pumamarka Ruins, which are believed to have been part of the Wari/Inca empires and are in one of the less visited areas of the Sacred Valley. From there we’ll visit the Choquechaka Conservation Area to learn about Andean Forests and their ecosystems. After exploring these sites and learning about their significance, we’ll enjoy a traditional Pachamanca lunch at the El Albergue Farm’s restaurant. There is the option to finish the tour with a visit to El Albergue’s distillery and coffee roaster before returning to your hotel in the Sacred Valley.