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Arrival
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Cusco
airport
(tel 222611 or 222601 for information) is 4km south of the city centre. You can either take a taxi from outside the arrivals hall ($3-5 to the city centre) or a colectivo combi from outside the airport car park (frequent departures), which goes to Plaza San Francisco via Avenida Sol and Plaza de Armas. Note that the airport is full of tour touts, who should be avoided. If you're coming in from Juliaca, Puno or Arequipa by train, you'll arrive at the Huanchac
train station
in the southeast of the city; you can hail a taxi on the street outside (around $1 to the centre), or turn left out of the station and walk about a hundred metres to Avenida Sol, from where you can either catch the airport colectivo detailed above, or walk the eight or nine blocks up a gentle hill to the Plaza de Armas, from where it's easy to get your bearings.
The phone code for Cusco and the surrounding region is tel 084.
Apart from Cruz del Sur, who have their own independent depot at Avenida Pachacutec, a few blocks east of Huanchaq railway station and Avenida Sol,
inter-regional and international buses
arrive and depart from the rather scruffy Terminal Terrestre, southeast of the centre, close to the Pachacutec monument and roundabout (
ovalo)
and roughly halfway between the Plaza de Armas and the airport. Taxis from here to the city centre cost $1-2, or you can walk to the Pachacutec
ovalo
and catch a colectivo uphill to either the Plaza San Franciso or the Plaza de Armas; otherwise, it's about a half-hour walk.
Regional buses
from the Sicuani, Urcos and Paucartambo areas stop around blocks 15 and 16 of Avenida de la Cultura, from where it's a bit of a hike, so you'll almost certainly want to take a taxi ($1-2) or bus or combi colectivo ($0.3) to the centre. Almost all Sacred Valley buses come and go from
avenidas
Tullomayo or Huascar, which run parallel to each other and are also close to Huanchaq but are nearer to the centre (or a $1 taxi ride). Other useful information
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Peru,
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