First I would to thanks GloboSapiens and other travelers, and hope that my report below will help, please feel free to ask I will be happy to answer all your questions.
2 weeks before my trip I contacted Yure Chavez (yure_c@yahoo.com), a local well known and recommended travel agent-guide. He and his company were great, since the beginning I was thrilled with the trip he planned and led, the whole trip was very well organized and ran smoothly. I highly recommend him and his travel company: Peru Trek 4 Good http://yurechavez.blogspot.com/ Day 1: We arrived to Cusco and took it easy with the altitude, but just in case bought Acetak (acetazolamida 250 mg), which is exactly the same as Diamox. Yure waited for us at the airport and gave us a nice briefing about the city, restaurants, shops, the altitude problems, etc, etc. Day 2: We had a full day tour and visited: El Mercado Central or The local food market, this is a very interesting area where we saw mostly locals socializing and buying all kinds of food and handicrafts, we enjoyed very much the different sectors and took great pictures with different types of people, fresh food, the chirimoya fruit was our favorite!. Later we visited some of the Incan streets, The Temple of the Sun and The Cathedral. At noon we had a break for lunch, we used a nice restaurant called Tunupa and had great views of the Plaza de Armas (main Square) In the afternoon with a van we visited the 4 incans ruins of Tambomachay, Kenko, Puca Pucara, and Sacsayhuaman which was the highlight. At the end of the tour we visited a very nice local school and dropped some gifts I was recommended to take. Dinner was at other very good restaurant with delicious food called: Ciciolina. You should make reservations.
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Day 3: We took a full day Sacred Valley tour, first we stopped at Awanacancha, this is like a cooperative – shop which is trying to recover and keep alive people’s amazing old techniques for doing beautiful colorful textiles. We saw and took great pictures of alpacas, llamas, vicunas and guanacos and also saw farmers from different villages weaving wonderful textiles. Later we visited the amazing Pisac ruins, the loop took us 2 hours at a good pace. Also we visited the Pisac handicrafts & food market, good place to buy some souvenirs and to taste the delicious white corn on the cob.
What's really great:
Lunch was near Urubamba village at a nice restaurant called Alhambra, great food with good variety of vegetables meats and nice desserts.
After lunch we visited the fascinating old Incan town of Ollantaytambo, where we saw the Incan streets, some still with water aqueducts and drainage channels, we visited a local family saw and learned how they live and bought nice dolls.
Finally we visited the religious sector where we saw amazing constructions with huge granite boulders, joined together with no mortar; you could not introduce anything between the joints!!
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