Cuzco Travel Guide Cuzco Travel Guide

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HISTORY OF CUSCO

 

HISTORY OF CUSCO
The origins of Cusco are lost in the dark night of pre-history. Archaeological excavations reveal that a primitive population already lived in the area around 3 thousand years ago.There are many legends about the origin of the Twantinsuyo (the Inca). One of them tells how, Manco Cápac and his sister and wife Mama Ocllo, half gods and children of the Inti father (the god of the sun), emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca with the mission to found a new Kingdom that would improve the conditions of life in the townsLegend holds that Manko Qhapaq and the tribe that accompanied him, received a divine mandate when they left the sacred lake Titikaka to look for the promised land where there, the gold staff given to him by his father the Sun, would sink in the ground as a sign of fertility. The followers of Manko were somehow descendent tribes of a great civilization, The Tiahuanaku, who had achieved great advances in astronomy, agriculture, architecture, and had inhabited the surrounding areas of lake Titikaka. They were superior villages that had a civilizing mission, and who were also carrying an ancient Religious tradition based on the principles of AYNI, that is, the capacity to share.The tribes that occupied the Cusco valley, and who made their pakarina (mythical place of sacred origin) on the hill, Huanakauri - the place where the gold staff given by the Sun had sunk - lived for many years in a process of convocations, calling on the villages, sharing their culture, teaching their traditions.However, due to its great cultural and historical significance, Cusco received innumerable demonstrations of worldwide acknowledgement, as from 1978 during the 7th Convention of Majors from Great Worldwide Cities, carried out in Milan, Italy, where Cusco was declared as the "Cultural Heritage of the World". In 1983, UNESCO granted it the title of "Cultural Heritage of the Humanity".

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Program Duration Highlights
RAFTING IN URUBAMBA RIVER 2 DAYS (private service) 2 Days and 1 Nights Cusco, Rafting in Urubamba River, Camping, Chuquicahuana
RAFTING IN URUBAMBA RIVER FULL DAY Full Day Urubamba River, Rafting
HORSEBACK RIDING TO TIPON FULL DAY  Full Day Full day horseback riding to Tipon ruins. Oropesa, Cusco
HORSEBACK RIDING IN CUSCO SURROUNDINGS Half Day Horseback riding to Sacsayhuaman, Q'enko, Puka Pukara, Tambomachay
CUSCO CITY TOUR HALF DAY Half Day Cusco, archaeological centers and museums

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