# The best day trips from Cusco

Sacred Valley, lakes and coloured mountains around the old Inca capital.

- 31 votes · 11 items
- Oct 18, 2025 · agustina ledesma
- https://even.best/en/l/3910/the-best-day-trips-from-cusco

## Top 11

1. **Machu Picchu** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — By train from Cusco or Ollantaytambo on a long day.
2. **Rainbow Mountain (Vinicunca)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Coloured stripes above 5,000 metres.
3. **Chinchero** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Weavers and a colonial church on Inca walls.
4. **Sacred Valley** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Pisac, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero in one circuit.
5. **Ollantaytambo** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Inca fortress and a town with Inca layout.
6. **Palccoyo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alternative rainbow mountains, less crowded.
7. **Maras and Moray** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The salt pans and circular Inca terraces.
8. **Pisac** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Craft market and ruins above the valley.
9. **South Valley (Tipón, Pikillaqta, Andahuaylillas)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The 'Sistine Chapel of the Americas' and Inca canals.
10. **Humantay Lake** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Turquoise lake below Salkantay.
11. **Waqrapukara** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Inca fortress above the Apurímac canyon.

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