San Pedro Market
Andean fruit, the morning juices and soup for a few soles.
Duration
45 min – 1 hr 30 min
Best time
Between 7 and 10am
Open
Every day
Entry price
Free
The market was built in 1925 on an iron frame attributed to Eiffel's workshop, and it is still the neighbourhood market: locals do their shopping here, and visitors occupy one aisle of it.
The morning fruit juices are the way in — you choose the fruit, drink at the counter, and the second glass is traditionally on the house. The back of the market holds the soups and set lunches, served for a few soles, and it is the cheapest meal in town.
Getting there
Five minutes on foot south-west of the Plaza de Armas, down Santa Clara street. San Pedro railway station is right beside it.
What to bring
- Dry bag
Rules on site
Pickpocketing is common in the tight aisles: bag in front, phone away. For water and juice, ask for no ice in your first days, while your stomach adjusts.
Other places in Cusco
Machu PicchuThe Inca city on its ridge, at two thousand four hundred metres, never found by the Spanish.
Plaza de ArmasThe Inca square turned colonial, with two baroque churches set on Inca walls.
SacsayhuamánTwo-hundred-tonne blocks fitted without mortar, above the city.
Sacred ValleyPisac, Ollantaytambo and the Inca terraces along the Urubamba.