07:00 to 07:45 hrs. Hotel pick up.
09:00 hrs. First part Qorikancha or Temple of the Sun, beginning of the Inti Raymi tour with the ceremony called “Salute to the Sun”. In this area the first rituals are performed where you will have access to the tribune of the esplanade of the Qorikancha.
11:00 hrs. Second part of the Main Square of Cusco, is the second point of celebration of Inti Raymi. Here takes place the ceremony “Meeting of the times and ceremony of the coca leaf”, where the Inca and his entourage gather in the great Ushnu or ceremonial stage. This staging is mostly visualized standing up. Duration approx. 1 hour.
13:30 hrs. Third Part Esplanade of Sacsayhuaman, is the third epicenter of the Inti Raymi and the central ceremony.
The most important festival of the Inca Empire to worship the Sun God, the source of life. Thanks were offered for the year’s harvest and worships were made for good weather and the following year’s crops.
The festival features groups of musicians and dancers representing the different Inca sectors who are dressed in distinctive clothing of their sector. Acllas or virgin women pour flowers before the Inca makes his arrival to the main balcony accompanied by his Coya and his court, dressed in traditional costumes decorated with gold and singing songs, spiritual rituals and worship.
Cold Lunch or Box Lunch, in the afternoon return to Cusco.
Time of culmination 16:30 hrs.
In the Inca empire, for the Winter Solstice the “Inti Raymi” or “Festival of the Sun” was celebrated. It was the most important festival in Inca times, it was celebrated on the occasion of the winter solstice – the Andean new year “Apu Inti” also known as “Apu P’unchau” (God Day) in the Huacaypata square in the city of Cusco. The religious, festive, ceremonial, social and political importance was such that the festival spread throughout the Tahuantinsuyo (the pre-Hispanic empire of the Incas)”.
The Andean New Year begins on June 21, with the winter solstice and the beginning of a new agricultural cycle (new planting season). This is the moment chosen for the celebration of the Amazonian Andean New Year, the amautas “Andean priests” have found the key point for the return of the reordering of the earth.
This celebration is perfectly integrated in our culture, and nothing has been able to unroot it from our hearts. The ancient indigenous farmers were governed by the observation of various astronomical phenomena to guide them in the moments that should start the various agricultural and livestock work, such as planting, harvesting and shearing of Andean camelids.
It is the moment of the beginning of a new year, with the voice of our ancestors, in the eternal song linked to the heart of Mother Earth and the Universe “Pachamama and Pachakama”.
With the brightness of the first rays of Sun and the hope of unity of the universe that inspires us to unify our hearts in the joy of life and to understand the sacred journey.
In this new time it is important that we assume the generational responsibility of being beings and bridges that are an active part of the reordering of life in this process of Pachakuti.
Today, every June 24th in the Inka city the feast of the Sun is celebrated, the Quechuas seem to wrap themselves in the mantle of the past, and the times of the Tahuantinsuyo seem to return. Once again it is the Inca the ruler with the scepter and the ceremonial cup in his hand pays homage to the Sun God who is invoked to obtain abundant harvests and to keep hunger away.
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Our office is located right in the beautiful Plaza de Armas of the historic capital of the ancient Inca Empire, Cusco.