Travellers can easily spend five days visiting Cuzco and the surrounding area. It’s a city geared to tourism, with lots of hotels and restaurants, but it’s best to respect the altitude if you first arrive – you will need to take things simple for a while. A few of the fascinating sights within reach of Cuzco are the Sacred Valley of the Incas – including the Inca terraces at Ollantaytambo & the markets at Pisac, and a bit additional afield, the immense Lake Titicaca, shared between Peru & Bolivia, the charming colonial city of Arequipa, Colca Canyon (the deepest canyon on the earth), from the place soaring condors can typically be seen, and the Nazca Traces, a mysterious collection of drawings which have been etched into the stony desert – some within the form of animals, akin to a dog, a monkey & birds.
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