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Cusco

Peru · 13 quests

History

5 quests
Machu Picchu, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Machu Picchu
Nobody agrees on what it was built for
Saqsaywaman, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Saqsaywaman
No mortar holds these giant stones together
Inkilltambo, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Inkilltambo
Its terraces hide shrines cut from the rock
Qorikancha, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Qorikancha
Gold once covered these temple walls
Sapantiana Aqueduct, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Sapantiana Aqueduct
A water channel once crossed these stone arches

Nature

2 quests
Piuray Lake, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Piuray Lake
The Andes rise beyond a broad highland lake
Picol, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Picol
The city soon gives way to open highland

Food

3 quests
Roast Guinea Pig, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Roast Guinea Pig
The roast arrives with its head still attached
Pisco Sour, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Pisco Sour
Egg white gives this drink its white cap
Lomo Saltado, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Lomo Saltado
Why are fries in this stir-fry?

Sport

1 quest
Garcilaso, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Garcilaso
Its football teams share a ground named for a writer

Party

2 quests
Molly's, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
Molly's
The night starts with strangers at the bar
La Chupiteria, Cusco🇵🇪 Cusco
La Chupiteria
Tiny glasses set the pace after dark

Peru

Photo quests in Cusco

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Cusco holds 13 quests across five categories, led by History with five — though only just, with three in Food behind it. The categories with nothing in Cusco so far are Art and Beach.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Cusco quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Cusco the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Cusco

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Cusco

How many photo quests are there in Cusco?
13, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (5), Food (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in Art and Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Machu Picchu, Piuray Lake and Roast Guinea Pig.
What is there to do in Cusco beyond the obvious?
2 of the 13 quests in Cusco are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Cusco holds two at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Machu Picchu and Picol, which fall under History and Nature.
Can you do all the Cusco quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 13 is 65 km from the middle of the Cusco list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Cusco quests can you do for free?
11 of the 13 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 13 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Cusco means two quests: Machu Picchu and Picol.
How do I prove I visited a place in Cusco?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Cusco is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Machu Picchu fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Cusco sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.