TRANSPORT IN CUSCO

TAXIS
Cusco is full of taxis and these are cheap, moving around the city center will cost between S / 4 and
5 soles, and are your best option to move at night. It is advisable to hire the services of a taxi company,
if you are going to move at night, or from your hotel to the airport or upside down.
You can hire taxis to move to nearby archaeological sites or to tour the Sacred Valley; However,
touring the Sacred Valley on a guided tour is one of the best experiences in South America.

Bus

If you want to go deeper into the customs of the people of the city, you can choose to travel by bus,
also called “micros”, “combis” these run through all the streets of the city. It will cost you around an
S / 0.80 sol, move from one end of the city to the other. It is unlikely that you need to travel by bus
while you are in Cusco, but if you must, know that most transportation companies have bus stops on
Ayacucho street in Cusco (very close to the Plaza de Armas), from here you can take a bus. bus to
any part of the City; Getting around by taxi is much faster and more convenient, but it will cost you
some more money.

There are buses that go from Cusco to the cities of the Sacred Valley, such as Pisac, Urubamba,
Ollantaytambo, etc. These depart from small terminals, located in Puputi Street, in Grau Avenue and
in Pavitos Street, in Cusco, these will cost between S / 5 and S / 10 soles.

train
Unless you are going to get to Machu Picchu by the Inca Trail, know that the train is the only way to get
there, the station to take trains to Machu Picchu are located in the cities of Poroy and Ollantaytambo, in the
Sacred Valley of the Incas; from here you will travel the valley, to the town of Machu Picchu, also called
Aguas Calientes; the small town below the entrance to the National Park of Machu Picchu.

Cyclist
The cyclist in the cusco have Little importance … only in some places of the city have cycle routes for
example in san sebastian and the via expresa. The only days where people use bicycles are on Sundays
because of the few cars that are in the city because there is not traffic
In April 2007, I and a friend set out to visit Quillabamba for a week, where another friend of ours resides. The original plan
was for me and my partner to take the night bus to the terminal to arrive in Quillabamba the next day.
However, we had the great idea of traveling during the holidays for Easter. That meant that all the tickets had already been
sold since very early.
We had no choice but to wait a few minutes to take a bus at about 11pm where I barely managed to get any sleep since the
bus put the air conditioning to full.
As soon as we arrived, we shot out of the bus. We look for a motorcycle in the city of Quillabamba, to get to our friend's
house. However, great was our surprise when we found out that there was no motorcycle in the area
After a while analyzing, we could only do something to go on foot and call our friend.
The three-hour hard walk was partly stifling because of the tenacious heat of the city, but we had the "blessing" of meeting
our friend. Even so, despite stopping halfway to lunch, that was not enough to mitigate the fatigue and discomfort of
traveling for so many hours.