Cusco: The Best of the Sacred Valley Private Tour

Overview

A comprehensive private full-day Sacred Valley tour covering Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Moray, and the Maras salt pools, with a buffet lunch included.

The most complete single-day Sacred Valley option Voyzo offers — Incan and colonial structures, the weaving demonstration in Chinchero, the circular terraces of Moray, the salt pools of Maras, and the Ollantaytambo and Pisac archaeological sites, all in one full private day with a buffet lunch in Urubamba included.

Highlights

• Pisac Hilltop ruins and market above the Sacred Valley.
• Ollantaytambo A dramatic Inca fortress overlooking a living Inca town.
• Chinchero Ruins and traditional Andean weaving demonstrations.
• Moray and Maras Circular agricultural terraces and centuries-old salt pans.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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About This Tour

A comprehensive private full-day Sacred Valley tour covering Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Moray, and the Maras salt pools, with a buffet lunch included. The most complete single-day Sacred Valley option Voyzo offers — Incan and colonial structures, the weaving demonstration in Chinchero, the circular terraces of Moray, the salt pools of Maras, and the Ollantaytambo and Pisac archaeological sites, all in one full private day with a buffet lunch in Urubamba included.

This is deliberately the fullest single-day Sacred Valley option Voyzo offers, combining five real sites that, individually, anchor several of Voyzo's other Cusco-area tours — worth knowing honestly up front if you're comparing options: it covers the same Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Moray, and Maras stops found split across Voyzo's shorter, more focused Sacred Valley tours, bundled into one long day with a buffet lunch included rather than split across multiple visits.

Pisac's hilltop ruins, among the largest Inca fortress complexes ever built, were shaped under the ruler Pachacutec into a combined military, agricultural, and religious site — its position guarded the valley's southern entrance, and its temples, watchtowers, and terraced cemeteries each had a distinct real function, beyond the colorful market in the village below that most visitors associate with Pisac today.

Ollantaytambo and Chinchero both show the same real pattern of Inca and colonial history layered on top of each other, just in different ways. Ollantaytambo is a still-inhabited Inca town — real families live along its original urban grid — overlooked by a terraced complex that saw genuine combat in 1536, when Inca forces flooded the valley floor and defeated an attacking Spanish cavalry force. Chinchero's central plaza, by contrast, sits directly on the stone foundations of a palace built for Tupac Yupanqui, with a colonial-era church constructed right over the remaining Inca walls — and the town remains a real center of Andean weaving, where techniques and natural dyes, including cochineal insects for deep reds, are passed down through generations rather than performed for tourists.

Moray and Maras close out the day with two very different kinds of Inca-era (and pre-Inca) engineering: Moray's concentric circular terraces, cut into a natural depression above 3,500 meters, are believed to have functioned as an agricultural laboratory, with temperature differences of up to 15°C between its highest and lowest rings letting crops be tested under conditions resembling different altitudes; Maras's roughly 3,000 salt pools, meanwhile, predate the Inca Empire entirely, fed by a naturally salty spring and still worked by local families using the same method as their ancestors. Given the real driving distances between all five sites, this genuinely is a full 12-hour day — the included buffet lunch in Urubamba is there to break it up, and it's honest to expect a late return to Cusco.