Boleto Turistico

Boleto turistico – General

This is the most popular ticket, giving you entrance to all 16 places in and around Cusco.

Boleto turistico – Circuito 1

These are the archaeological sites that you will visit on the Cusco city tour. With some of the horseback tours you will need this ticket as well, so be sure to ask first.

Boleto turistico – Circuito 2

You will need this ticket if you want to go on the Valle Sur tour or go to the museums and/or dance show. Note that the ticket is only valid for 2 consecutive days.

Boleto turistico – Circuito 3

These are the archaeological sites that you will visit with the Valle Sagrado tour and the Maras Moray tour. If you are planning on doing them both, please note that the ticket is only valid for 2 consecutive days.

Which ticket will you need?

First of all, there are 16 attractions you can visit with the ticket. You will find a list below. There are 4 different tours for which you will need the ticket: the City tour, the Valle Sur tour, the Maras Moray tour and the Valle Sagrado (Sacred Valley) tour. We recommend you to buy the boleto turistico general if you are planning to go on 2 or more of these tours. Or if you plan to go one 1 of these tours and visit the dance show and/or the museums. But if you are planning to do only the Valle Sagrado and the Maras Moray tour it is less expensive if you buy the boleto turistico – circuito 2.

If you decide to buy the boleto general be sure to plan your trips within a time span of 10 days, as the ticket is only valid for that long.

List of all 16 sites

Sacred Valley of the Incas:

• Pisaq
  • Thirty-three kilometers from the city of Cusco, it includes a set of buildings corresponding to the period of the peak of Inca development where the religious, urban and agricultural sector can clearly be distinguished. It has one of the largest cemeteries in Tawantinsuyo. The town of Pisaq is also well known for its Sunday market.
• Chincheros
  • Thirty kilometers from the city of Cusco, this district is surrounded by a magnificent landscape flanked by the snow-capped mountains of Chicon and Wequey Willca or Verónica. In the Archaeological Park you can find the remains of what was the royal estate of Túpac Inca Yupanqui and next to it a beautiful colonial temple built on Inca bases.
• Moray
  • At first glance it appears to be a kind of amphitheater, but in reality it was an agricultural experimental center corresponding to the Pre-Inca and Inca times, made up of hills, natural depressions of various dimensions where there are concentric platforms, artificial plains, canals, aqueducts and two water reservoirs located in the upper part of the complex.
• Ollantaytambo
  • Ninety-four kilometers from the city of Cusco, considered a monumental work of Inca architecture, it was a military, religious, administrative and agricultural complex. The main temple stands out, partially destroyed where the front stone canvas formed by perfectly assembled pieces can be seen.

Cusco:

• Municipical museum of contemporary art – Museo Municipal de Arte
  • Founded in 1995, it has two exhibition rooms where traveling exhibitions are presented, works by contemporary artists such as Hilario Mendivil, Edilberto Mérida, Antonio Olave among others.
• Regional Historical Museum – Museo Histórico Regional
  • It was the house of the renowned Cusco chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Chimpu Ocllo. It has 13 rooms on the first level with paleontological and archaeological objects from the pre-Hispanic period. On the second level, cultural assets from the viceregal, republican and contemporary periods are exhibited.
• Qoricancha museum – Museo de Sitio del Qoricancha
  • The museum has five rooms, in which it exhibits a collection of archaeological objects found on the Qorikancha esplanade such as ceramics, lithic and metallurgical objects, as well as cranial trepanations and mummies. You can also see models of what Qorikancha could have been like in its heyday.
• Popular art museum – Museo de Arte Popular
  • It exhibits sculptures, ceramics, photographs, and other works of art by renowned contemporary Cusco artisans. They are examples of grotesque and religious crafts, typical dances, Manuelito children and more; made with original typical elements.
• Folkloric dance show – Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo (Danzas Folkloricas)
  • Founded in 1924, its purpose is the conservation and compilation of Folk Music and Dances from Cusco and Peru. Currently, it has in its repertoire 50 dances, a hundred melodies from Cusco, a large collection of traditional costumes and musical instruments. Its cast is made up of 70 artists. The Qosqo Center presents daily folk music and dance shows from various provinces, districts and communities of Cusco, as well as a museum of typical costumes and musical instruments.
• Monument of Pachacuteq (viewing point) – Monumento de Pachacuteq
  • Built in 1991, it is a building with a nine-level cylindrical base and a height of 22.40 meters that serves as a pedestal for the 11.50 meter high bronze statue. At different levels there are passages from the history of Inca Pachacuteq. From the top of the monument you have a panoramic view of the Cusco valley.

Archaeological sites around Cusco:

• Saqsashuaman
  • Two kilometers from the city of Cusco (3,500 meters above sea level) Saqsayhuaman etymologically means satiated falcon or marbled head. In the complex you can see zigzagging megalithic walls, bases of towers, aqueducts, tunnels, ceremonial temples, artificial lagoon, slide and the esplanade where the “Inti Raymi” sun festival is currently staged.
• Q´enqo
  • Three kilometers from the city of Cusco. Etymologically it means labyrinth. It has a semicircular square with nineteen niches and a stone monolith in the central part. There is also a labyrinth-shaped passage that leads to the underground galleries. In the upper part of the rock you can see stone prominences, channels and zoomorphic figures.
• Pukapukara
  • Six kilometers from the city of Cusco and at an altitude of 3,580 meters above sea level, it etymologically means “Red Fortress.” It served military and administrative control functions, as well as a place where the delegation that accompanied the Inca, who was heading to Tambomachay, stayed.
• Tambomachay
  • Its name means “Place of Rest”, it is known as the Inca baths, it was a temple dedicated to water where you can see aqueducts, terraces, canals and water sources through which it flows constantly throughout the year. It is said that this complex was the place where the Inka stayed when he went hunting.

South of Cusco:

• Tipon
  • Considered an icon of hydraulic engineering, it comprises a set of agricultural terraces, long staircases, water channels carved in stone and beautiful ornamental water fountains. According to legends, Tipon was one of the royal gardens that the Inca Wiracocha ordered to be built.
• Pikillacta
  • They are Pre-Incan archaeological remains built during the height of the Wari Culture (500 or 900 years AD). This large urban and ceremonial center of almost two kilometers in length is made up of a citadel surrounded by embankments and walls up to seven meters high. It includes the city of Pikillaqta itself plus 23 other groups associated by proximity and functionality. In the same environment is the Huacarpay or Muyna lagoon.

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