Private Cusco Walking Tour: Inca Museum, Qorikancha and San Pedro Market

Sightseeing  :  Peru  :  Cusco  :  Cusco  :  Walking Tours

This fabulous half day tour takes you around all the most important sites of Cusco, including visits to the Inca Museum, the Temple of the Sun (Qorikancha) and San Pedro Market. This tour is a must-do when visiting Cusco and is usually one of the first ports of call for all visiting tourists.We will visit the Inca Museum, home of thousands of years of Andean culture. Here we will become more familiar with the origins and beginnings of Andean civilizations.

Continuing with the tour we will move onto the temple of QoriKancha, the famous Sun Temple of Qosqo, that was and still remains the pinnacle of organization, architecture, and religion of Inca civilization. During its construction they had already achieved the greatest advances of their time, and this temple may have been the exact representation of the center, or "Navel of the World" and therefore the center of the world, as dictated by the pre-Hispanic Andean cosmovision.

The walking tour also visit the following places:

-Plaza de Armas / Main Plaza, which is home to the main cathedral and colonial houses
-Plaza Nazarenas
-The twelve angle stone
-San Pedro local market