BUS PUNO TO CUSCO OR VICE VERSA
TOUR IN GROUP $ 50 US
TOUR BUS WITH STOPS VISITS + BUFFET LUNCH.
A bus trip, it’s a better way to enjoy the “ Altiplano” highlands, we start in Puno slowly ascending up La Raya pass over 4,335 meters above sea level, and then going down to Cusco elevation 3400 m.o.s.l.
Now days there are many different bus companies who arrange this bus ride, we can recommend you some of them like:
Puno.- 6:30am depart from Puno the city on The shores of Titicaca lake where the legends tell the first Incas emerged
Pukara.- short stop in a little Pre-Inka museum with monoliths around 2000 years old.
La Raya high pass 4335 m.o.s.l. border between Cusco and Puno, beginning of the sacred valley of Incas.
Sicuani. - On this country side city we enjoy a buffet lunch which will give you a taste of the exquisite Peruvian cuisine.
Rajchi Wiracocha´s temple.- An archeological complex made by the Incas people during the XV century, also there an area of Colcas storages made to preserve potatoes, quinua, corn etc.
Andahuaylillas Church. Considered to be the Sixtine Andean Chapel of America, this small Church holds one of the most impressive examples of the colonial Architecture and paintings.
Cusco.- Welcome to the center of the Incan empire ( 5.30pm arrival)
BY DIRECT BUS. $25 US
A good alternative if you like to get Cusco early, this a direct bus from Puno to Cusco or Vice versa, a comfortable bus, it does not stop, except for toilette facilities. Departs at 8am, arrives in Cusco at 3 pm. (Or vice versa)