Type of Tour: Culture, History, Journey by car and train.
Good For: Travellers who want to visit Machu Picchu Inca site by train and car.
Difficulty: Nothing
Consideration: AVAILABLE ALL YEAR.
Useful Information:
- Above all, your safety.
- Tour for everybody who wants to visit Machu Picchu by the Sacred Valley.
- Tour in the Sacred Valley.
- Take many photos while we are driving through the sacred valley visiting the archaeological sites.
- Your belonging is gonna be transported on the car and train.
- Enjoy an amazing sunrise of Machu Picchu early on day 2.
- Observe and delight the flowers and birds in Machu Picchu.
- Visit the Inca sites that we are going to enjoy in the journey of sacred valley to Machu Picchu.
- Take shortcut without a hike to this sacred city of Machu Picchu.
- You must be prepared for a lot of mosquitoes the lost city of the Incas (Machu Picchu).
- Visit Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu just in 2 days.
- Sleep in a Hotel the night before Machu Picchu.
- We are using local staff and natural resources.
- Local company with sustainable responsibility.
- Briefing with Sparrow Explorer agent in our office or your hotel.
Includes:
- Pick up from your hotel by your professional tour guide.
- Professional trilingual tour guide (English — Spanish — Quechua).
- Professional Assistant tour guide (for groups over than 12 people).
- Entrance fee to Machu Picchu.
- Bus Transportation from Cusco to all Sacred Valley tour.
- Train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town).
- Meals (01 breakfasts, 01 snacks and 01 dinners).
- 3*** stars hotel in Aguas Caliente.
- Bus tickets from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu.(way up)
- Tour in all Machu Picchu Archaeological site.
- Train from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo.
- Bus tickets from Machu Picchu to Aguas Calientes (way down).
- Car Transportation from Ollantaytambo to Cusco.
- VEGETARIAN FOOD IS OPTIONAL WITHOUT EXTRA COST !!!
Not Included:
- Single supplement fee (hotel room).
- Entrance fee to Sacred Valley Inca Sites
- First breakfast (Day 1), lunch and dinner (Day 2)
- Entrance fee for Huayna Picchu Mountain.
- Tips (appreciations).
- Extra snack.
- Travel insurance.
Day 1: CUSCO – PISAQ – OLLANTAYTAMBO – AGUAS CALIENTES
We are going to pick you up at your hotel around 8.00 am and drive you to Pisac to see our first Inca ruins. However, on the way to this site we are going to do couple stops for enjoy a textile place and feed and take some pictures with the llamas, alpacas, guanacos and vicuñas likewise few more minutes you will have the chance to see from a nice viewpoint part of the Sacred Valley with Snow-capped mountains and farming lands in the bottom. after keep driving finally our first Inka ruins Pisac you can see magnificent Inca remains, the ancient architecture and engineering of the Inca temples are breathtaking. Our tour guide is gonna explain this amazing place for around 2 hours in order to visit the town where we can find a local market and some indigenous people are still exchanging their products with another-ones also you have the opportunity to buy some souvenirs for your family or for gifts. Anyway, our next stop is Urubamba where is our stop to enjoy our lunch (not included) at one of the local restaurants. From Urubamba, it´s just 25 minutes to get to the last Inca ruins known as Ollantaytambo (Inka Fortress). This ruin was built with pink granite rocks and another unbelievable question that of course our tour guide is gonna explain to you it will be how they transport the weight of the huge rocks around 100 tons which were used as part of the Temple of the Sun. After your tour, you have extra time to walk and explore this Inka town before having a dinner which you can have in any one of the local restaurants. In the evening you will head to the train station which is 10 minutes walking from the main plaza of this town, your train will depart at 7.00 pm to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town), and is a 02 – hour journey. When you arrive in Aguas Calientes (2000 m / 6000 ft above sea level), the town for Machu Picchu, our representative will meet you just outside the train station and take you to your hotel.
Day 2: AGUAS CALIENTES — MACHU PICCHU — CUSCO CITY
We have to wake up very early in the morning of the five days in order to see the sunrise in Machupicchu (if the weather allows) We’ll start with breakfast at the hotel and then head to the bus that will take us to Machupicchu archaeological site. just after getting into Machupicchu we’re going to good spot to take amazing and unforgettable pictures for your Facebook profile. Afterward, your guide is gonna explain you for 2 hours tour in all Machupicchu site and if you want to visit the place by yourself the guides are gonna explain you at that moment. but, before your tour guide will provide your bus ticket for Aguas Calientes town from where you´re going to meet with your tour guide where he is gonna give you tren tickets and explain how to take the train in order to back to Cusco. If you´d like you to have the chance to climb up to Huayna Picchu Mountain that takes around 50 minutes to wreathe summit. From this please you can see Machu Picchu and you will feel as you never did from this, please. But if you want to hike to this mountain just let us know in advance (cost for it $ 20 dollars extra).
Altitude Sickness
It’s common to start to wondering about altitude sickness if you thinking to come to Peru, especially in Cusco. however, It’s easy to figure out this problem. You just need to spend a few days in Cusco drinking plenty of water and coca tea.
This is the High Altitude Symptom
headache, tiredness, dizziness, nauseas, tingling, loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, vomiting. Please, If you feel any of this problem contact our company or call a doctor in order to help you. but, this symptom usually is gonna be temporal just you need to drink plenty of water and coca tea. However, some times our customer prefers pills and in that way, we suggest you have an (acetazolamide or dexamethasone) and come a few days before to Cusco.
Weather
In general, the weather here in the andes is unpredictable and that is the way why we suggest to our customers have to be ready for a rainy or sunny day. although, if you have waterproof clothes for sure it’s gonna helping us so much.
First Aid Kit
All of Our mountain guides have their first aid kits and a lot of training in first aid in the mountains and every year they received classes of doctor with the most frequent problems as a (diarrhea, cuts, headache, scrapes,etc.) at the same time they have an oxygen tank in order to help you to feel much better. However, It’s fine if you thinking to bring your own first aid kit for the trek.
Travel Insurance
Always is gonna be a good idea to have travel insurance for your tour or trek and more if you thinking to travel for a few weeks or more of one month. Although, for sure you need to have one if you have any serious illness just in case if something happens.
Please, if you don’t have one is fine.
Environmental Impact
This company is a travel agency that protects our environment. because, as you know the biggest problem that we have been suffering on our planet is global warming. but, we’re a sustainable company that we use a biodegradable staff and at the same time, our principal job is to teach to everyone protect this home (earth planet).
Community
The most important for us is our workers and of course, it means their families of the communities that everybody feels so proud of all of then. because, they still keep having our culture and thanks to all of those things is possible to know more knowledge about our ancestors as their traditions, behaviors, customs, etc. However, our job is to help all of then with books, computers, buildings and with the most important points teaching to everybody how important is our culture and protect everything left by our ancestors. because We think that “Love just the things that you know” and that’s why we have to help to all of then. However, We have to keep teaching not to loss their behaviors or customs in order to preserve and conserve this amazing Culture Inca.