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Lodging: Cusco offers all categories of lodging, including five-star hotels with very good restaurants.

 

Activities: Visits to archaelogical sites, museums and churches, arts and crafts markets, experiential tourism, ecoturism, trekking, cilcling excursions, river-rafting, mountain climbing, bunge jumping and horse-riding. Other features are the gastronomy, variety of popular fiestas and the tradicional markets of Chinchero and Pisac.

Tourist Services: Several categories of restaurants, rental of equipment for trekking, camping and rafting. Transport (car, bus), guiden tours.

 

Minimun Length of Stay: 3-4 days for the main attractions in the city of Cusco, Sacred Valey and Machu Picchu.

 

Recomendations: Visitors need to get used to the high altitude. Eat easily-digestible food and drink coca tea (called mate de coca) to ward of high altitude sickness of soroche.

 

Attractions: The Catedral, The Compañía Church and Santo Domingo Convent. The Sacred Valley includes the remarkable archaeological areas of Pisac and Ollantaytambo. The archaeological complex of Choquequirao is 185 Km. (114 miles) from Cusco, with a main square, storage buildings, terracing systems and ceremonial platforms.

 

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