DAILY DEPARTURES Inka Express is a VIP bus service to Puno with lots of years of experience in the tourist transport service, providing daily transport with guided tours from Cusco to Puno. The sites visited on route are: ANDAHUAILILLAS, RAQCHI AND PUKARA.
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ITINERARY:
Transfer at 06:20 am from your Hotel in Cusco (hotel details required please) to Bus Terminal.
On route we stop first a church of ANDAHUAYLILLAS, Also known as the Sixtine Chapel of South America built by the Jesuits in the 16th century. Like other Spanish and religious constructions of the time, it was built on top of a Huaca, or sacred place for the Incas civilization. Paintings of the famoous Cusco Paint School from XIV,XV century.
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As we continue north towards Cusco we stop at RAQCHI. The most important building inside the complex is the "Wiracocha temple" that according to the old chroniclers was built by the Inca Wiracocha in honour to the Superior God invisible for the Andean people: "Apu Kon Titi Wiracocha". Architectonically it is classified as "Kallanka", that is, a high building completely covered with straw (wood and "ichu"). Externally it is 92 meters long (302 feet) and 25.25 meters wide (83 feet).
Abra LA RAYA (La Raya Pass) is the watershed between the valley that drains into Lake Titicaca and the valley that leads down to Cusco and to the Sacred Valley. The altitude is 4338 m (14,232 feet).
LUNCH in Sicuani.- Sicuani is a relatively large highland town. It is a major intersection, with the road to Puno/Arequipa passing through here. This town is surrounded by some very pretty hills. Here we have a buffet lunch in our exclusive restaurant with family atmosphere.
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PUKARA is the last site visited before arriving to Puno, was the first regional population center in the northern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Formative Period (500 BC- AD 200), providing valuable insights into the origins of Andean civilization in the highlands. During its peak it covered over a square kilometer and housed thousands of bureaucrats, priests, artisans, farmers, herders, and possibly warriors. The Pukara style is identified by impressive monolithic sculptures with a variety of geometric, zoomorphic, and anthropomorphic images plus intricate, multi-colored pottery in a variety of ritual and domestic forms.
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Approximately at 5 pm arrive to Cusco. (Bus Terminal,10 minutes from the centre of Cusco)
Meals: Buffet Lunch in Sicuani town.
Maximum Altitude: 4338 meters (14,232 feet)