Tourist Ticket of Cusco
Cusco is eminently tourist, has many natural and cultural attractions, you can choose extraordinary and wonderful places during your stay, touring the city is a privilege to admire its history.
The most popular tours In Cusco, are the visit to the Sacred Valley, City Tour, South Valley or Maras and Moray, you will have to acquire: the Tourist Ticket.
- – What is the Tourist Ticket and what function does it fulfill?
The tourist ticket Cusco (also known as “BTC”) is an admission ticket for 16 attractive main tourist s, found in and around the city of Cusco. It will accompany you throughout your journey and stay in the city of Cusco. On the front of the Tourist Ticket of Cusco, you will appreciate the different images of the attractions, the expiration date, and a small blank space for your name. On the back of the ticket, you will observe the entrance schedule to the attractions, the rules of use and map with location of the places to visit. It is administered by the Cusco Cultural Integrated Services Committee (COSITUC CUSCO).
Each time you visit a TiVo attract, the ticket will be drilled in each image, and s recommended Do not miss the Tourist Ticket of Cusco. Otherwise you have forgotten or lost you must acquire it again.
The Cusco Tourist Ticket is the only entrance document that will allow you to visit the most important tourist attractions of the city of Cusco.
- – What places can you visit with the Tourist Ticket?
With the Tourist Ticket of Cusco, you can visit 16 tourist sites that are located in and around the city of Cusco (Cuzco).
- Puca Pucara.
Qoricancha
- Pisac
- Ollantaytambo .
- Chinchero
- Moray
- Tipón .
- Piquillacta.
- Monument to the Inca Pachacútec.
- Qosqo Native Art Center.
- Contemporary Art Museum.
- Qoricancha Site Museum.
- Regional Historical Museum.
- Popular art museum.
However, the number of places to visit will vary according to the type of ticket you buy. Since, with a general tourist ticket you can visit all the aforementioned tourist attractions. While, with a partial tourist ticket you can only visit some of these places.
- – Classification of the Tourist Ticket of Cusco.
a) Cusco General Tourist Ticket (BTG Cusco)
Also known as Cusco Integral Tourist Ticket or Cusco Complete Tourist Ticket. It is the most important ticket since it allows you to enter 16 tourist places in the Cusco region:
Chincheros
- Chinchero,
- Monument to the Inca Pachacutec.
- Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Qorikancha Site Museum.
- Regional Historical Museum.
- Puca Pucara.
- Sacsayhuamán.
- Tipón.
- Qosqo Center for Native Art and the Museum of Popular Art.
Note: This entry ticket from Cusco is valid for 10 calendar days and subdivided into:
b) Touristic ticket of Cusco for adult Foreign Tourists (BTCI).
Valid for any adult foreign tourist who is credited with their passport or identification document.
c) Integral Cusco Tourist Ticket for foreign students (BEE).
Valid only for foreign students, not older than 25 years, who are accredited with their updated student card or ISIC CARD international student card.
d) Tourist Ticket of the Integral Cusco for Peruvian tourists (BIN ).
Valid for Peruvian adult travelers who are accredited with their national identity document (DNI).
e) Tourist Ticket of the Integral Cusco for national students (BEN).
General promotional ticket valid for students of Peru who are accredited with their student card (if they are students of superior level) and DNI (if they are students of primary or secondary).
g) Cusco Tourist Ticket
The Cusco Partial Ticket is valid for 1 or 2 days. Allows entry to some tourist areas, grouped into tourist circuits of interest. It is not applicable for students or minors. And it does not have a fee for students.
- – Partial tickets are divided into three types.
a) Tourist Ticket Cusco Partial Saqsayhuamán – Circuit I.
Sacsayhuaman
Archaeological sites found in the archaeological park of Sacsayhuaman :
- Sacsayhuaman ,
- Qenqo ,
- Tambomachay
- Puca Pucara.
b) Tourist Ticket Cusco Partial City – Circuit II.
Attractive attractions located in the historic center of the city of Cusco and in the South Valley:
- Regional Historical Museum.
- Museum of Contemporary Art .
- Site Museum of Qorikancha .
- Monument to the Inca Pachacutec .
- Archaeological Park of Tipón .
- Piquillacta .
c) Cusco Sacred Valley Sacred Tourist Ticket – Circuit III.
Archaeological centers located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas:
- Pisac
- Ollantaytambo.
- – Price of the Tourist Ticket Cusco 2019.
The price of tourist ticket Cusco is in Soles (PEN – PERU). And it has a differentiated rate for both domestic and foreign tourists:
a) Price of the Tourist Ticket Cusco for Foreign Tourist.
| Ticket | Foreign Adult | Foreign student | Validity |
| Integral ticket | $ 30 | $ 21 | 10 days |
| Partial Ticket Circuit I | $ 21 | $ 21 | 1 day |
| Partial Ticket Circuit II | $ 21 | $ 21 | 2 days |
| Partial Ticket Circuit III | $ 21 | $ 21 | 2 days |
- Price of Tourist Ticket Cusco Promotional for National Tourist
| Ticket | National Adult | National Student | Validity
|
| Integral ticket | S / 70.00 | S / 40.00 | 10 days |
| Partial Ticket Circuit I | S / 40.00 | S / 40.00 | 1 day |
| Partial Ticket Circuit II | S / 40.00 | S / 40.00 | 2 days |
| Partial Ticket Circuit III | S / 40.00 | S / 40.00 | 2 days |
- – Where to buy the Cusco Tourist Ticket?
The Cuzco Tourist Ticket can be purchased at the following addresses and times: Counter Central (Avenida El Sol 103 Tourist Galleries). Monday to Sunday from 08:00 – 18:00 Hrs. Tourist Information Office – DIRCETUR (Mantas steet). Monday to Saturday from 08:00 – 12:00 Hrs . / 14:00 – 18:00 Hrs.
In all the places included in the Tourist Ticket (with the exception of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Monument of Pachacútec).
- – Tourist attractions that are not included in the BTC
The Tourist Ticket Cusco does not include admission to the following tourist attractions of interest that are also very visited by travelers:
The cathedral of Cusco.
It costs 25 soles (adult) and 12.5 soles (child or student) and is sold at
the entrance door to the cathedral.
The temple of Santo Domingo (Koricancha).
It costs 15 soles and can be purchased at the entrance door.
The salt mines of Salineras.
You can buy it at the entrance to Salineras. It has a cost of 15 soles.
The colonial temple of Andahuaylillas .
It can be purchased at the entrance door at a cost of 15 soles (foreign tourists) and 10 soles (national tourist).
The Inca temple of Raqchi .
The entrance ticket costs 15 soles and is sold at the entrance door.
In the city of Cusco you can:
Observe the beauty of the city of Cusco from the viewpoints of San Cristóbal and Cristo Blanco, located a few meters northeast of the city of Cusco.
Visit the stone of the 12 angles that is located only a few meters from the main square.
Make shopping in artisanal markets and taste the traditional gastronomy (together with the lo
cal people) in the traditional market of San Pedro.
Walk through the main squares and millenary streets of the city.
Tour the archaeological complex of the Temple of the Moon that is located a few meters from Qenqo and Saqsayhuamán .
On the other hand, if you like to observe the great culture legacy of the Andean culture, you can also visit any of the 10 museums that the city of Cusco has. However, to enter the exhibition rooms of these museums you will have to buy your ticket that can vary between 10 and 15 soles, per Museum.
Advice and Recommendations
The Tourist Ticket cannot be purchased online but only in the mentioned points of sale.
The BTC does not include guidance or mobility only temporary income.
Children up to 9 years old do not pay. And children under 10 to 17 years of age have the right to buy the student tourist ticket.
Visitors of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) do not have any discounts.
The tourist ticket is sold on the day and never runs out.
If within your travel plans you are also visiting Machu Picchu, we suggest you purchase in advance the Machu Picchu Ticket and the Train Ticket to Machu Picchu.
Recommended Tours with the Tourist Ticket
To visit the tourist circuits included in the tourist ticket, we suggest you consider our tours:
City Tour Cusco: Cathedral, Qoricancha , Sacsayhuamán , Qenqo , Tambomachay and Puca Pucará.
Tour Sacred Valley of the Incas : Pisac, Ollantaytambo and Chinchero.
Tour to Moray, Maras and Salineras .
Valle Sur Cusco Tour : Tipón , Piquillacta and Andahuaylillas
