Between Cusco and Machu Picchu sits the Sacred Valley — a 100 km river corridor along the Urubamba that most itineraries now treat as a two-day stop rather than a single afternoon. Peruways’ Cusco-based Sacred Valley tours cover the classics plus a few of the quieter sites the big agencies skip.
The standard route hits Pisac (ruins and market), Chinchero (textiles and the colonial church on Inca foundations), Moray (concentric agricultural terraces, probably an Inca crop-testing station), and Maras (pre-Inca salt pans still worked today). Ollantaytambo closes out the day. All of it with PeruWays’ MINCETUR-licensed guides and a modern Mercedes-Benz Sprinter rather than a full-sized tour bus.
Visit Peruways to book your Sacred Valley day. The two-day version — overnight in Urubamba or Ollantaytambo at 2,800m — is the one we recommend; it also helps with altitude acclimatisation before Machu Picchu.
