Positioned at the tail end of the Sacred Valley that leads to Machu Picchu, Cusco is a popular starting point for tours into the Andes and a fascinating city in its own right. Formed in the shape of a puma by the Incas around AD 1100, Cusco boasts the title of the oldest continuously inhabited city of the Americas. With SAAT’s Cusco tours you will experience a city lined with both Inca ruins and Spanish colonial architecture. Cusco offers a range of churches, monasteries and other historical buildings to visit as well as many hotels and bars. Still rich in their ancestral traditions, locals sell beautiful textiles and handicrafts traditional to Peru. Nestled high in the Andes Mountains, Cusco has noticeably thinner air that can leave even the fittest traveler a little out of breath. However, with our range of Cusco tours you'll have the time to acclimatize and explore this incredible ancient city.