Cusco Traditional Package 5days
Puno
Arequipa
City Tour + Santa Catalina Convent
Colca Canyon
3 Days / 2 Nights
Lima
Trujillo
Chiclayo
Inca Empire - History
The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including large parts of modern Ecuador, Peru, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and north-central Chile, and southern Colombia into a state comparable to the historical empires of the Old World.The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages and dialects of Quechua were spoken.
The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu which can be translated as The Four Regions or The Four United Provinces. There were many local forms of worship, most of them concerning local sacred "Huacas", but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti the sun god and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such as that of Pachamama. The Incas considered their King, the Sapa Inca, to be the "child of the sun.
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Cusco Treks Package
12 Days / 11 Nights
AM: After breakfast transfer from the hotel to Lima airport in order to take the plane to Cusco, the flight takes 1 hour and 20 minutes
Arrive in Cusco and transfer to the hotel
PM: pick up from the hotel for the City Tour, visit the Cathedral, the Temple of the Sun “Qoricancha”, the most important religious site of the Inca period.
Inca Trail
4 Days / 3 Nights
At 6:00 a.m., we pick the group up from the different hotels. Depart from Cusco and travel to Urubamba, stopping briefly at Ollaytaytambo, where you could buy last minute gear and personal items. Then we move in to Piskacuchu (Km 82) the begging point of the Inca Trail. We will have lunch in Miskay and relax a bit before hiking to our first campsite.
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