A personalized Sacred Valley day built around Pisac, Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero.
A private full-day Sacred Valley tour visiting the Pisac ruins and market, the Ollantaytambo fortress, and Chinchero, by private vehicle from Cusco.
A personalized private day trip through the Sacred Valley by private vehicle, visiting Inca archaeological ruins and traditional markets in Pisac, Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero without the hassle of navigating on your own. Travelers heading onward to Machu Picchu can opt to be dropped at the Ollantaytambo train station or a Sacred Valley hotel instead of returning to Cusco.
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, with the option to be dropped off at the Ollantaytambo train station or a Sacred Valley hotel instead of returning to Cusco.
Hilltop Inca terracing and a well-known local market.
Inca fortress ruins and a living Inca-planned town.
A traditional Andean weaving town with its own ruins.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private full-day Sacred Valley tour visiting the Pisac ruins and market, the Ollantaytambo fortress, and Chinchero, by private vehicle from Cusco. A personalized private day trip through the Sacred Valley by private vehicle, visiting Inca archaeological ruins and traditional markets in Pisac, Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero without the hassle of navigating on your own. Travelers heading onward to Machu Picchu can opt to be dropped at the Ollantaytambo train station or a Sacred Valley hotel instead of returning to Cusco.
Pisac sits at the southern gateway to the Sacred Valley, its ruins stretched along the crest of a ridge above 2,970 meters (roughly 9,750 feet), about 32 kilometers from Cusco. The site splits into several linked sections — including Qalla Q'asa, often called the citadel, built onto a natural spur overlooking the valley below — combining agricultural, religious, and military structures. Archaeologists believe it was built no earlier than about 1440 under the Inca state, and like much of the Sacred Valley it was damaged by Spanish forces in the early 1530s. The steep hillside below the ruins is still terraced, and local farmers continue to work some of those same terraces today. Down in the modern town, Pisac's market runs on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — a private tour gives you the flexibility to time your visit around it rather than being locked into a fixed group departure.
From Pisac, the route continues to Ollantaytambo, one of the only places in Peru where you can walk through a town built on its original Inca street grid, still inhabited today. Above the town, Temple Hill (often loosely called a fortress) was actually built primarily for religious and astronomical purposes, with an unfinished sun temple, massive stepped terraces, and ceremonial baths cut into the hillside. Ollantaytambo also holds a rare distinction in Inca history: in 1537, Manco Inca's forces defeated an advancing Spanish expedition here, using the high terraces and a flooded valley floor to repel the attack — one of the few battles the Inca actually won against the conquistadors.
The day finishes in Chinchero, a village built directly on top of what was once Inca ruler Tupac Yupanqui's personal estate. A 17th-century colonial church, the Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat (sometimes spelled Monserrat), was raised straight onto the original Inca stone foundations still visible beneath it. Chinchero is equally known today for its weaving — a textile tradition with roots that trace back thousands of years in the Andes — and local women here demonstrate the full process by hand, from washing and spinning raw wool to dyeing it with plant and mineral pigments and weaving it into traditional patterns.
Because this is a private vehicle and guide for your own group, the order and pace of these three stops can flex around your own interests — more time at the ruins, more time at the market, or a faster pace if you're heading straight on toward Machu Picchu from Ollantaytambo station.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.