Our Cusco Peru Guide shares almost eleven years of experience traveling in this incredibly diverse country.
After our wedding in 1998 we started a website to show our Cusco Peru honeymoon photos. We were enchanted and returned as tourists every chance we got, created maps, wrote travel articles and answered questions simply because we enjoyed it.
In 2004 we published the first Budget Travel Map of Cusco Peru and went into business with Cusco City Guide Knows Peru best!. Soon we had quite a few visitors a year and hundreds of e-mails asking us to reserve travel packages like the adventures described on CuscoPeruGuide.com.
By popular demand in 2009 we joined forces with a small travel company (Peru Travel and Living) owned by friends who are equally dedicated to personal service, reliability, quality and value so you can buy Cusco Peru Guide tours and Machu Picchu Guide from us.
Of course we also still give free advice and strive to maintain the best map and tourism information on the internet for planning trips on your own plus complete itineraries ideal for first time Cusco Peru Tours.
Cusco Peru Guide sections include practical information like:
- weather
- safety
- health tips
- money
- airports
- packing
We round it out with fun articles about adventures like Inca Trail Tours, Rain Forest Amazon and other natural wonders, Cusco Peru food and recipes, pictures, and travel stories.
So whether you’re considering traveling independently, choosing an all inclusive hotel, taking a jungle adventure, looking at exquisite inca architecture or you just want a green clean air relaxing experience up in the Andes. Cusco Peru Guide Adventures takes you back in time to re-live Incan history and learn the local culture through Incan stone art, cuisine, and local family interaction.
Whatever your passion, Cusco Peru Guide Adventures will ignite your imagination and expand your horizons with unimaginable Andean country beauty, unsolved Nazca Lines mystery, Incan Architecture inspiration, and Wild Amazon Forest diversity.
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Handpicked for their extensive knowledge and unparalleled expertise in their respective fields, Cusco Peru Guides are dedicated to enhancing your travel experience.
In addition to your Cusco Peru Guide, your tour will be accompanied by professional and highly-skilled specialist guides consisting of historians, archaeologists, artisans, and naturalists. These remarkable men and women offer keen insight and a unique personal perspective to each and every one of their ” Cusco Peru Guide Adventure Tours in Peru”.
Machu Picchu, located 50 miles northwest of Cusco, Peru, is one of the greatest man made wonders in one of the most beautiful settings in the world. This Peruvian national treasure is situated high between two mountain peaks offering breathtaking vistas of the mountain area and of the Urubamba River, 2000 feet below the ruins.
Machu Picchu (Machu Picchu Guide) are the most spectacular archaeological ruins in the Western Hemisphere. Considered a very spiritual place the world over, countless International travelers make their pilgrimage to this unique locale to experience its incredible surroundings and marvel at Inca know-how pertaining to constructing this mountain city without modern technology. Machu Picchu is an engineering feat on par with the Pyramids of Egypt or the Coliseum in Rome. The structures were built with expert cutting ability with stones placed so close together a quarter could not pass through them.
Translated as old peak, Machu Picchu may have been a sanctuary in the mountains for Inca leader Pachacuti Yupanqui who reigned during its construction between 1460 and 1470. It also could have been used for religious purposes. Machu Picchu contains 200 buildings of temples, storage facilities, and housing. The town was ignored by the Spanish during their conquest of the Incas and forgotten for almost 400 years until the early 20th century.
While at Machu Picchu expect to see one of Peru’s national symbols, the llama. Llamas are curious creatures who are not shy around humans and will typically come close to individuals and smell them. They are peaceful, intelligent and typically used during the Inca period and since as pack animals.
Machu Picchu is not a heavily visited tourist site with only 400,000 visitors per year, but it is just awe-inspiring as the Grand Canyon. This is Peru’s must-see destination and should be visited at least once during a lifetime.
Nearby Cusco is the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere that still exits. This 3,000 year old city was the capital of the Inca empire and is currently a thriving city of several hundred thousand residents. Cusco offers hotels, restaurants, and museums galore. Some of the landmarks of the city are the Inca palaces, the grand Cusco Cathedral, and the Main Square where many historical events have occurred throughout the city’s history. The Scared Valley is also an area with impressive Inca ruins and unparalleled beauty. It was also a center of corn production. The fascinating villages of Pisac, Urubamba, and Ollantaytambo can be visited during a day trip from Cusco.