Stretching from Pisac in the South to Machu Picchu in the north, the Sacred Valley is a cornucopia of majestic and steep mountains, ancient ruins, rushing rivers, craft markets, terraced hillsides, good food and native people who value and take care of their homeland.
Posted By : 7sloane
This was the single most disappointing part of our trip to Peru. When we called the tour company the day before to reconfirm the pick up time of 7am on the ticket, we were told between 6:30-7am. We were not picked up until 7:15 and were told we were the last stop. Had we known that, we could have eaten breakfast and would have come up later, closer to 7. Since we were the last stop, all seats were taken so we were unable to sit together despite there being other single people whom the guide should have asked to move to allow us to sit together for what amounted to a 12 hour day.
We booked an English tour and we were the only 2 non-Spanish speakers. A bilingual tour would have been fine but the guide had pretty good English - not great - however he spoke at length in Spanish for several minutes and only then, spoke for a much shorter time in English. I suggested he speak a few sentences in Spanish and then the same in English which he did for a short while and that was better. He also didn’t accompany us after giving us some cursory info so we were pretty much on our own. We asked questions of other tour guides and eavesdropped to hear more info.
The textile stop was interesting but he did not enforce the other passengers returning to the bus at the time he said. This happened repeatedly at every stop and eventually we were so late that we didn’t even get to go to our last stop in Pisac which was what we were looking forward to the most. AND we had to pay for tickets that included that stop. So wrong. Instead he took us to yet another souvenir shop that sold jewelry. After a full day of being accosted by street sellers, this was the last thing we wanted to do.
The bus was so hot and repeated requests to turn on the AC were ignored. There was a baby onboard with a dirty diaper that the mother changed on the bus and the heat just aggravated the odor.
All in all, we were so looking forward to the Sacred Valley tour but it was not a good experience. Unfortunately we won’t be coming back so we’ll have to rely on our photos and the few details we learned.
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Posted On : 2024-04-27 22:45:02 
Posted By : I2391TAchrisf
Roger calsin our tour guide was great fun , enthusiastic and professional. He was so passionate. He made the trip interesting and enjoyable
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Posted On : 2023-07-16 16:23:17
Posted By : Zuhaib_S
One thing that really made this trip complete was the impeccable knowledge and wisdom of our guide Willy. He was absolutely amazing from start to finish, great humor, patience, and shared his deep knowledge of the Incas, told us their tales and not only shared their spirituality, but discussed modernity and science.
Because of the context we were given, I truly felt like I was visiting not just beautiful places, but being surrounded by history, heritage, and culture.
It was a life changing trip! Willy is one of the best!!!
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Posted On : 2023-06-04 20:53:47 
Posted By : Pamela N
A wonderful and well organised tour from Cusco. We visited five sites as a part of the tour which was a very nice orientation to the Inca civilization and local traditions. The guide was very well informed and spoke good English. It was well worth the time and money.
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Posted On : 2023-01-09 09:05:50
Posted By : manuelpS7411OB
A perfect day tour from Cusco, included visitis to five archaeological sites with a lunch stop at a local restaurant in Urubamba. karen was very friendly and managed this tour incredibly. She was very nice in explaining the local traditions and culture and gave us a detailed insight into the Inca history and how the Spanish conquest affected them. It was a perfect tour to get an intoduction.
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Posted On : 2022-12-20 14:47:41
Posted By : Sandy2330
The ruins are amazing, history of area is fascinating. Tour guides were wonderful. But we are in our late 70’s. Found walking the terrain difficult & tiring.
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Posted On : 2022-12-19 20:11:18
Posted By : geraldc388
Great people that did their best during the political turmoil. There where numerous roads closed due to people striking. The driver and guide did their best to maneuver around and take us to other sights instead of stoping the tour short, we were able to see all but one stop but got to see a couple more not listed.
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Posted On : 2021-07-25 00:00:11
Posted By : thepistolanne
This was our first day trip in Peru and exceeded our expectations by far. The biggest part that stood our to us was that my fiance speaks almost no Spanish and I speak only a little so we expected to just trail after the group and try our best to pick up bits and pieces of the information. While everyone else in our group spoke Spanish as a native language, our guide was kind enough to take the time to translate to English for us throughout the trip and made us feel better about our shortcomings with the language barrier. This was an informative trip and while we ended up absolutely exhausted at the end of the day (being in moderate shape at best), we had a lot of fun. We covered 5 sites in all, including getting to visit the Maras salt flats so it was fairly fast paces in order to see all of these sights in the one day. I do recommend bringing some extra soles for merchandise along the way along with any additional entry fees; we also found out that the Boleto Turistico (a ticket needed to see various sights including the Sacred Valley) could be purchased onsite at the first stop in case anyone didn't get one at the main square beforehand.
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Posted On : 2020-03-08 19:41:41
Posted By : WilliamL4358
This tour was well worth doing to see more than Machpicchu on our trip. We felt the tour guide was a bit in a hurry at times and we would've loved if we could've had some more time on some sites but this cannot be helped since we got to see so much in one single day. Nonetheless, the guide was friendly and keen on telling the group the history behind each of the places we visited. The buffet lunch was really good, awesome Peruvian food. It was a very long day bit it was definitely well worth since we were short in time and with this tour, we managed to see so much. This added a lot of good memories to our Peruvian trip, thanks
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Posted On : 2020-02-27 22:37:52
Posted By : David B
This tour packs in the sights and manages to cover them all very well. Our guide was very good at covering everything in both English and Spanish in a very balanced manner.
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Posted On : 2020-02-06 17:15:00
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