It may happen that our travelers, for a variety of reasons, will spend one or two days more here in Cusco City, in the middle or after finishing their tours. On this article we will give them a complete guide to enjoy to the fullest their extra time or free day in Cusco City, our wonderful, full of history and reinvigorating town. What to do in Cusco City if you’re going to stay here a little longer.
What to Do: Plenty of Eating Options in Cusco City for Your Free Day
Foodies adventures: San Pedro Market Food Court
We are sure it would be great, in case you have a free day in Cusco City, to take the chance and get some rest from the tours. One amazing option is exploring what our delicious gastronomy has to offer. For breakfast, if you want to know typical Cusco City, we recommend you go to the Mercado San Pedro (San Pedro Market), where you will find all kinds of yummy natural juices, in all types of mixings, and additional Peruvian ingredients, like algarrobina. Or typical brews like chicha, maca or quinua, very nutritious, accompanied by a variety of sandwiches.
For lunch, Cusco city offers a complete range of Peruvian food, for instance the classic cebiche or any sea food, and also a whole variety of typical meals, like caldo de gallina (hen soup) or arroz con pollo (rice and chicken), all of them delicious.
There are also several places with very good vegan meals. Contact us for more information.
For the night, you can enjoy many international food and buffets on downtown, while talking maybe about your wonderful Machu Picchu tour. You can not let the opportunity to try our renowned gastronomy pass you by!
Enjoy Cusco City’s Downtown Rich History on Your Free Day
Spend your free day going by the Main Square
Cusco City’s downtown is a really wonderful place, it resembles a small European town, many people say. You will find travelers from all over the world, and the atmosphere is very cosmopolite, lively and relaxing, it cannot be any other way, almost everybody is on vacation!
Continuing with our what to do guide, the Plaza de Armas (Main Square) is a great place to walk or to sit down and take the view, very illustrating and relaxing. Maybe having some rest after your Classic 4-Day Inca Trail. It was the core of the Inca empire, all their leaders lived there, and had their palaces on what now are Catholic churches that the Spaniards built. It is the nucleus of the city, full of history, social life, eating and shopping.
You must also take the time to walk around downtown: it’s an area with plenty of amazing architecture, both Inca and Spanish, typical handicraft stores, peaceful parks where you can really relax, all kinds of restaurants and bars, you will sometimes feel like traveling back in time to the 16th century a.D., it’s quite amazing indeed. It’s a safe place, with patrolling and many tourists around.
Enjoy Cusco City’s Amazing Cultural Life: What to Do
Our city always offer great cultural attractions, mostly the very rich folklore inherited from pre-Inca and Inca times: typical dances and Andean music for example. Also wonderful museums and theaters, all keeping alive the vast legacy of our Inca ancestors. There are also many religious celebrations throughout the year, which include masses, processions and festivities with typical food and drinks.
Painting in Cusco street depicts the history of the city
And the good news is that most of those events are free, you would be able to enjoy much of our culture just by using some of your time if you have a free day in our incredible city.
Enjoy Your Free Day Taking Lots of Unforgettable Pictures
Cusco City is surely an ideal place for taking all kinds of unforgettable pictures! Another what to do valuable tip. The town is full with mighty, beautiful and historical backgrounds for taking the best pictures: the massive Inca walls, stones and temples, the Spanish churches inside and out, our wonderful Andean landscapes and wide open skies, people in typical Inca costumes walking with their llamas, our parks and squares, avenues and gardens.
Take an extra chance of getting the best pictures of the nearest ruins in the Cusco City Tour.
Take many pictures in your free day!
We are sure Cusco City will give you many wonderful pictures, to impact and get lots of likes and comments on your social internet, and also have an album of great, cherished memories from the Inca highlands.
To sum it up, relaxing around Cusco City is a great option if you happen to spend a free day in our very welcoming town, you’d have many really rewarding things to do and amazing places to go. Please support the ESNNA initiative, a partnership with the Peruvian government to finally eradicate tourism-related sexual work of teenagers and children.
Our professional staff is ready to give you all the additional information you may want on what to do for having the best of times on your free day in our millenary city, the core of the great Inca civilization!
