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The Sacred Valley's highlights, at your own pace, with no commission-store stops.
A leisurely private full-day Sacred Valley tour from Urubamba and Ollantaytambo, covering the Ollantaytambo fortress, Maras salt pools, Moray, and Chinchero ruins.
A private, leisurely full-day tour built for travelers who have a real day to spend exploring the Sacred Valley in depth. Unlike standard bus tours, this route skips the commission-store stops that pad out many group itineraries — you get to explore the real Sacred Valley at your own pace with a local guide.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Pickup available from Urubamba or Ollantaytambo accommodations for a leisurely full-day route.
An impressive Inca fortress and temple complex overlooking a still-inhabited Inca town.
Thousands of small salt pools worked since before Inca times.
Concentric circular terraces believed to have been an Inca agricultural laboratory.
Ruins and traditional weaving demonstrations in this Andean textile town.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A leisurely private full-day Sacred Valley tour from Urubamba and Ollantaytambo, covering the Ollantaytambo fortress, Maras salt pools, Moray, and Chinchero ruins. A private, leisurely full-day tour built for travelers who have a real day to spend exploring the Sacred Valley in depth. Unlike standard bus tours, this route skips the commission-store stops that pad out many group itineraries — you get to explore the real Sacred Valley at your own pace with a local guide.
Ollantaytambo anchors this itinerary, and it's worth understanding what you're actually seeing: the dramatic terraced structure above town is often simply called a fortress, but historians note that's something of a simplification — its main function was religious, centered on a Temple of the Sun with intricately carved stone walls, even though the site genuinely did see combat in 1536, when Manco Inca's forces flooded the valley floor and handed the Spanish one of their few real defeats during the conquest. Unlike most Inca sites, Ollantaytambo is also still a living town, with local families occupying homes built on the original Inca foundations and water still running through the same centuries-old stone channels.
The Maras salt pans predate the Inca Empire by centuries — the terraced pools were first built by earlier Andean cultures, with some estimates putting their origin as far back as the Chanapata or Wari periods, roughly 500 years or more before the Incas themselves rose to power. Today around 3,000 individual pools, each fed by a naturally salty spring and worked by local families using the same evaporation method as their ancestors, still cover the hillside in a genuine, living piece of pre-Columbian engineering rather than a museum piece.
Moray's concentric circular terraces, cut into a natural depression at over 3,500 meters, are increasingly believed by researchers to have functioned as a real Inca agricultural laboratory — the depth and orientation of the rings create distinct microclimates, with temperature differences between the top and bottom terraces reaching as much as 15°C (27°F), letting the Incas test crops under conditions that mimic dramatically different altitudes in one compact site. It's a theory supported by the site's design rather than settled fact, but a compelling one given how deliberately engineered the terraces are.
Chinchero closes out the day with a different kind of history: its central plaza sits directly on the stone foundations of a palace built for Tupac Yupanqui, Pachacutec's son, and the colonial-era Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat was built right over the remaining Inca stonework, a layering you can see plainly in the walls. The town is also a genuine living center of Andean weaving, where techniques and natural dyes — cochineal insects for deep reds and pinks among them — are still passed down from mother to daughter, which is what the included demonstration is actually showing you, not a staged performance for visitors. Worth knowing honestly: this route overlaps with Voyzo's comprehensive "Best of the Sacred Valley" tour on these same four sites, which adds Pisac and a buffet lunch on top in a longer day from Cusco — this version is built instead for travelers already based in the valley who want a more leisurely pace without that extra stop or the round trip to and from Cusco.
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