Cusco

Where should I stay?

Where should I eat?

• Mercado Central de San Pedro · San Pedro · Food market: Cusco's main market, with cheap set lunches, fresh fruit juices, soups and stalls of local produce and breads.
• Pachapapa · San Blas · Andean Peruvian: Courtyard restaurant known for traditional dishes, including cuy (guinea pig) roasted in a wood-fired oven.
• Cicciolina · Centro Histórico · Mediterranean-Peruvian: A long-running upstairs restaurant and tapas bar using Andean ingredients in Mediterranean-style dishes.
• MAP Café · Centro Histórico · Contemporary Peruvian: Fine dining in a glass box inside the courtyard of the Museo de Arte Precolombino.
• Limo · Plaza de Armas · Peruvian-Nikkei: Ceviche, tiraditos and pisco sours on a balcony overlooking the Plaza de Armas.
• Jack's Café · San Blas · Café: A popular café for big breakfasts, sandwiches and coffee near the San Blas steps.
• Green Point · San Blas · Vegan: A well-known vegan restaurant with good-value set lunches and creative plant-based dishes.

What should I do?

• Qorikancha · Centro Histórico: The Inca Sun Temple, with fine stonework visible beneath the colonial Santo Domingo convent.
• Barrio de San Blas · San Blas: A hillside artisans' quarter of steep cobbled lanes, workshops and cafés, with a carved pulpit in its church.
• Museo de Arte Precolombino · Centro Histórico: A compact museum of pre-Columbian ceramics, gold and silver from across Peru, set in a colonial mansion.
• Vinicunca (Montaña de Siete Colores) · Pitumarca: A striped mineral mountain at about 5,000 m, usually visited on a long day trip with a high-altitude hike.
• Sacred Valley day trip · Valle Sagrado: A day tour linking Pisac's market and terraces, Ollantaytambo's fortress and the Maras salt pans and Moray.