We will pick you in your hotel Cusco after breakfast in our private transportation to begin the South Valley Tour Cusco experience, this private tour to Tipon, Pikillacta from Cusco take you in some of the most beautiful ancient constructions that are somewhat off the beaten path. We start driving through the city of Cusco towards the South Valley of Cusco.
Our first stop will be in TIPON one of the great marvels of Incan hydraulic engineering, famous for its aqueducts, canals, fountains which are laid out over the terraces all of them carefully made by Quechua people “Incas”, Tipon also have of the most elaborate examples of agricultural terracing created by the Incas and it is made up of baths, a temple complex, canals, aqueducts, and terraces, Tipon Archeological Complex is located 24 km southeast of Cusco is definitely one of the lesser visited sites in the Cusco area but it is equally as impressive as those in the Sacred Valley. Nowadays, Tipon Archeological Complex has been distinguished as a marvel of civil engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineering.
We next stop is PIKILLACTA a pre-Incan archaeological site that belongs to Wari culture and it was built around 700 to 900 years AD, the pre-Inca site was once a cult headquarters and an administrative center for the great pre-Incan Wari culture, In addition, in the area, you can see qolcas (Werehouses), temples, narrow streets and buildings up to four stories high. Pikillacta pre-Incan archaeological is a fine example of their planned urban engineering, the other attraction nearby is the gateway to the city of Cusco, Rumicolca, The pre-Incan wari.
