Sun Gate Tour By Horse

THE SUN GATE TOUR BY HORSE 1 DAY

Early in the morning we pick you up from your hotel in Cusco, also from Ollantytambo, so to head towards the town of Ollanatyatmbo. Our van is going  straigh to inca bridge  to cross the urubamba river in ollantaytambo, over there we are going to have our horses weating us.  here also we are doing ready our daypack to start our adventure by horse to sun gate inca building.

If passengers are already in Ollantaytambo:

If you’re already in Ollantaytambo, we’ll meet you in town and then drive straight to the Inca Bridge, where we’ll cross the Urubamba River. There, our horses will be waiting for us. We’ll get our daypacks ready and begin the horseback adventure toward the Sun Gate, a beautiful and historic Inca site.

Roughly  will be 4 hours  to be at the sun gate by horse, from the begin,  this will be little by little up, but with beautiful view to sacred mountain call (wakay willka) or veronica mountain,  Going up by horse you can stop to get your photos to  Ollantaytambo valley also to machu picchu valley too.  along the way we can see local farmer,  farming field, also we can see urubamaba river at the botton of the valley. Along the road we can see the inca tombs, also the important place the inca quarry, why is called inca quarry, because here the incan people found the best material to biuld up ollantaytambo inca site. here you can find beautiful rocks, ready to go to ollantayatmbo, around this inca quarry we can see  incan biuldings before to get to sun gate,  sun gate in at top of the mountain from of the veronica  glacir mountain, Is like entrance to this sacred mountain. after enjoing this beautiful sun gate, we are going down to community cachiccata, where we can take our van to back to cusco city, from cachiccata to Ollantaytambo is abour 10 minutes, after that to cusco is abour 1/30 minutes to be in your hotel in cusco city. this tour by horse is so amazing with alot of histoy along the road,

• Low elevation:  2792 mt /9160.105 ft
• High elevation: 3886 mt /12749.34 ft
• Hiking time:   5 hours
• How many kilometers: 11 km/ 7.3 miles
• Difficulty: moderate challenge