Quad biking in Maras, walking tours, Andean ceremonies and slower routes through the Sacred Valley. Small groups with guides who live in the region.
These are not the standard coach itineraries. They are shorter groups, slower pacing and routes that go where the buses do not stop. Some of them exist because a guide asked to run them.
Aymara baptism and cleansing ceremonies led by local paqos, between Cusco and Puno, from five to twelve days. They are real ceremonies with real officiants, not a performance arranged for visitors.
Three thousand salt ponds worked by hand since before the Incas, and the circular terraces of Moray, reached on four wheels instead of a bus. Half a day from Cusco.
The city on foot, at the pace the altitude actually allows, through San Blas, the market and the streets that still carry Inca foundations under Spanish walls.
The full lists are on Andean ceremonies, Cusco day tours and day trips from Cusco.