Machu Picchu Tours Adventure 4 Days

Cusco information

The city of Cusco or known as Empire of the Incas is the main tourist destination of Peru and one of the most important in South America. Cusco is considered a magical city because when you arrive and take a walk around the Plaza de Armas or Main Square you are impregnated with its mysticism, culture, colonial churches and much more. Our agency counts on City Tour in Cusco so that you can know the city. Cusco is located on the valley of the Huatanay River, in the southern highlands of Peru, and owes the name of “navel of the world” (Qosco in Quechua) to having been the center of a vast network of roads that went to each of the four regions that formed the “four parts of the world or Four Suyos” according to the Andean worldview. Of course, Cuzco is also a colonial city, with splendid churches and old mansions. Many consider that it is precisely that special mixture that makes it a charming and attractive city for all visitors.

Machu Picchu Information

Due to the enormous cultural and natural attraction of the Inca citadel and its spectacular landscapes, in 1981 the Peruvian state declared it a Protected Natural Area. In 1983, UNESCO declared it a Sanctuary and a World Heritage Site. The citadel of Machu Picchu is located to the northwest of Cusco, approximately 112 kilometers by train, between an impressive geography of steep mountains separated by narrow valleys and deep ravines. Machu Picchu is important, because in addition to its archaeological value, it has a great variety of ecosystems within its limits.

Machu Picchu is surrounded by a mysterious nature and has kept many researchers confused for years. They Machu Picchu – Lost city of the Incashan used many myths and symbols from the Inca culture to explain the position of many fantastic cities and temples of the Sacred Valley. Fernando E. Elorrieta Salazar and Edgar Elorrieta wrote a book entitled, “The Sacred Valley of the Incas, Myths and Symbols”.

These brothers investigated why Machu Picchu was built there and made some revolutionary discoveries. The Incas had a cosmological vision of their existence, they followed myths and legends and everything was sacred. Sacred was related to the word, “huaca” which had a variety of meanings, and could mean something sacred such as a temple, a consecrated place, Machu Picchu – Living quarterscosas which seemed to exist outside the natural order, and remarkable things due to their exceptional beauty, or things which became sacred due to their natural energy, such as sculptures of humans, animals, and so on.

Rainbow Mountain

La Montaña de 7 Colores or Montaña Arco Iris (Rainbow Mountain) or better known by locals as Cerro Colorado, is located in Vinicunca, province of Quipicanchis, department of Cusco. Its geological formations reveal all its splendor, in contrast with the blue sky forming a formidable barrier between the coastal desert and the Amazon jungle, dominated by the beautiful Ausangate (6384 m), one of the great apus of this region.

The mountains of Vinicunca is one of the spectacular places of the mountain range of Vilcanota, awaits a natural coloration, this coloration is given by the presence of sedimentary stones in erosion. The impressive thing is how the stones have been formed to form a set of seven colors.  The height of the mountain is approximately 5,000 meters above sea level.

Humantay Lake

Cusco without a doubt does not stop surprising us since in it are the most curious and uncommon landscapes sometimes we can even say almost interplanetary landscapes as the mountain of colors place that you can know about them here that is the mountain of colors.