During your visit to Cusco, you need to see and travel the huge Sacred Valley that host the most important places or ruins like Ollantaytambo and their ruins. That they are immense stones and the city is the last living Inca city in whole region of Cusco.
That the reason why, the Sacred Valley has become one of the most important tourist centers in Peru. Apart from the incomparable historic wealth, the area of Urubamba offers infinitive possibilities to enjoy for the tourist: trekking, thermal baths, rafts or kayaks rides, paragliding or hang gliding, horsing, climbing, etc. Lately they have developed participating tourist programmes inviting the visitor, for instance, to work in a terrace or collect salt from the salt pools. The Sacred Valley also holds two of the most important handicraft markets of Cusco: Pisac and Chinchero.