MOUNTAIN BIKING IN CUSCO - MARAS - MORA (Full day tour)

Mountain Biking in Cusco - Maras - Moray
(full day tour)
There are fabulous sights to be found all around Cusco and along the Sacred Valley of the Urubamba River.  You're at the heart of the old Inca empire - or more accurately - at the navel of the world as these empire builders believed. But one of the top attractions is a simple bike ride through the country - taking a break from sightseeing in order to savor the pace of life up on the altiplano. Beautiful but bleak.

Itinerary
The bike tour comes along with helmets and gloves.  Our guide let us through Cusco's bumpy cobblestone streets to a bus station where our bikes were tossed up on the roof.
A popular ride is across the farmlands and pastures of Chinchero, where you veer around bulls and nod to farmers plowing their fields with oxen or herding sheep.  
Lunch was out of a brown bag at the Moray Rings -- an ancient agricultural lab where the Inca's would test various crops for suitability to the 11,000-foot elevation of Cusco.  Then we were off down a series of mule paths and craggy trails to the Maras’s salt mines.  Oh, but above and before you rise the dazzling white peaks of the Cordillera Vilcabamba, marching north and south in the continent-long spine of the Andes.  You savor the intensity of the sun, whose radiance is magnified by your journey on the roof of the world.  You wrap it up at the village of Pichingoto-Urubamba to catch the local bus back to Cusco where, perhaps a dinner of la trucha or lomo saltado awaits you at a plaza restaurant. It's a good ride.

Included:

• Helmets and gloves
• Bike rental
• Professional bilingual guide
• Box Lunch
• Guided visit of Maras and Moray
• Entrance fees

We recommend that you take:

• Short pants or suitable clothes to bike
• Warm clothes
• Sun block
• Hat, sunglasses, cap and accessories
• Waterproof rain jacket or poncho
• Backpack for carrying items for daily use such as cameras, water bottles, etc.

If you wish to visit the archeological places, writ us to our e-mail:
info@peruandtravel.com

Costs run - for a full day trip

For the more daring, there's a 5 day tour, 250-km ride from Pisaq all the way down the slope of the Andes to the Manu Biosphere Reserve and the beginning of the Amazon jungle.  The route runs along either single-track lanes or a narrow road, shared with trucks. 

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