8:30 am. We pick you up at your accommodation, to start our bus trip to the town of Chinchero (3,730m). Upon arrival in Chinchero, we will visit a craft production center, where we will learn about the natural dyes used to make traditional textiles (if your trip is scheduled for Sunday, you will have the possibility to visit the traditional market, where agricola products brought from the high Andean fields, the Sacred Valley, and the Amazon jungle). Then we will meet with our guide to receive information about the archaeological site of Chinchero, and after it we will begin our walk along the Inka Trail, heading to the town of Urquillos (2,800m), in the Sacred Valley.
We will enjoy a walk in the middle of vegetation, and an attractive view of the Sacred Valley, until we reach the town of Urquillos after 2:30 hours of walking. In this valley we will find the great Inca agricultural terraces, known for producing the best corn in the world, known as “giant corn”. We will visit the site and then we will transfer in our transport to a traditional house, where they make “chicha”, a drink that has been consumed since the time of the Incas. Here we will know, step by step, how this drink from the Andes is made, which is also called the “beer of the Inkas”. Lunch.
Finally, we are going to visit Ollantaytambo, an ancient town, with buildings from the Inka period, where the local people currently live. After the visit to the town, we go to the station, where we will wait for the train that will take us to Machupicchu.
(*) Optionally, before Ollantaytambo we can visit the Craft Beer Factory of the Sacred Valley.
