The most complete private Cusco itinerary: Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and the city itself.
A private 5-day tour combining the Sacred Valley's Pisac and Ollantaytambo ruins, an exclusive Machu Picchu visit, and a dedicated Cusco city tour.
This 5-day private tour begins in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, taking in the archaeological sites of Pisac and Ollantaytambo, continues with a dedicated Machu Picchu visit, and finishes with a Cusco city tour and surroundings. Honest disclosure: as with any Machu Picchu visit, entrance tickets for the classic Circuit 2 route are subject to availability — if Circuit 2 isn't available when you book, Circuit 1 or 3 is offered instead to guarantee your entry.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Cusco to begin the itinerary; private transport throughout.
Hilltop Inca ruins and terracing above the Sacred Valley, with a well-known local market.
A living Inca town with a dramatic terraced fortress still overlooking it.
A dedicated, guided visit to the citadel itself.
A closing exploration of Cusco's own historic center and surroundings.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private 5-day tour combining the Sacred Valley's Pisac and Ollantaytambo ruins, an exclusive Machu Picchu visit, and a dedicated Cusco city tour. This 5-day private tour begins in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, taking in the archaeological sites of Pisac and Ollantaytambo, continues with a dedicated Machu Picchu visit, and finishes with a Cusco city tour and surroundings. Honest disclosure: as with any Machu Picchu visit, entrance tickets for the classic Circuit 2 route are subject to availability — if Circuit 2 isn't available when you book, Circuit 1 or 3 is offered instead to guarantee your entry.
Pisac's hilltop ruins, perched at nearly 3,000 meters above the Sacred Valley, make up one of the largest Inca fortress complexes ever built. Under the ruler Pachacutec, the Incas redesigned the site into a combined military, agricultural, and religious complex — its canals, temples, watchtowers, and terraced cemeteries each served a real, distinct purpose, and its position guarded the southern entrance to the valley along with the routes connecting Cusco to the jungle beyond. Today's Pisac is also home to a well-known market in the colonial village below the ruins, a real draw in its own right alongside the archaeology above it.
Ollantaytambo is genuinely unlike most other Inca sites on this itinerary: it's still a living town, built in the early 1400s under Pachacutec as the Incas expanded their control of the Sacred Valley, and local families still live within its original Inca urban grid, using centuries-old foundations and the same stone water channels that once carried mountain water through its streets. The dramatic terraced structure overlooking the town — often called a fortress, though its primary role was religious, centered on a temple dedicated to the sun god Inti — also carries real wartime history: in 1536, Manco Inca's forces flooded the valley floor below using existing irrigation channels, grounding Spanish cavalry and handing the conquistadors one of their rare defeats before the Incas eventually retreated to Vilcabamba.
The Machu Picchu portion of this itinerary gets dedicated, unhurried time rather than a brief stop sandwiched between other sites — a deliberate choice given how much real history and architecture the citadel holds on its own. As with any Machu Picchu visit today, access runs through the site's numbered circuit system; this tour is booked for the classic Circuit 2 route, the most complete walk through the main urban sector, with an alternate circuit offered only if Circuit 2 happens to be sold out for your dates.
Closing the trip with a dedicated Cusco city day, rather than treating the city as just a gateway in and out, means real time for Cusco's own layered history — colonial architecture built directly over Inca stonework throughout the historic center, a pattern you'll already recognize from Ollantaytambo and Pisac earlier in the trip.
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