Day 1: (✈) / Arrival In Lima
Arrival at Lima International Airport. Reception by your guide
Transfer to the hotel located in the Miraflores district in a private service with English speaking tour guide.
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Lima
Day 2: Lima (✈) / Cusco
Breakfast at the hotel
After breakfast, pick-up at the hotel to start your city tour of Lima in a shared service with english speaking tour guide. We will begin with the modern part and have a panoramic visit of Huaca Pucllana, belonging to the Lima culture. Then, we head to downtown Lima to explore the colonial part. Visit the Plaza de Armas and the catacombs of San Francisco. The monastery has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. It is a Spanish Baroque-style religious building. We will end this visit at the Love Park, located in front of the Pacific Ocean.
Return to the hotel.
Free lunch
Transfer to Lima airport to take your Lima / Cusco flight in a private service
Flight Lima / Cusco
Arrival in Cusco and transfer to your hotel in a private service with a driver only
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Cusco
Day 3: Chinchero / Maras / Moray / Sacred Valley
Breakfast at the hotel
The tour includes visits in a shared service with english speaking tour guide (the 5* program has this service privately) to three tourist centers in the region, located near Urubamba. We will start with a brief stop in the town of Chinchero for about 20 minutes. Next, we will visit Moray, a formidable archaeological complex composed of overlapping terraces that form a large agricultural laboratory. Finally, we will visit the town of Maras and its salt mines, composed of more than 3,000 pools, which are traversed by a stream of saltwater that nourishes them and, with the action of the intense sun, coarse salt crystals emerge, which are later harvested.
Free lunch . Afternoon at leisure
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in the Sacred Valley
Day 4: Sacred Valley / Machu Picchu / Cusco
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the Ollantaytambo station in a private service (with a driver only) to board the train to the town of Machu Picchu, also called Aguas Calientes. After the train journey, you will arrive at the Machu Picchu station where our staff will greet you, accompany you to our office to introduce you to your guide, and then assist you in boarding the bus that will take you to the entrance of the citadel. The guided tour is led by our expert guides in a shared service with english speaking tour guide (the 5* program has this service privately), who will ensure you have a memorable experience and achieve what you came for (nature, history, photographs). At the end of the visit, our staff will assist you in boarding the train back to Cusco.
Free lunch
Reception at the Cusco train station and transfer to your hotel in a private service (with a driver only)
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Cusco
Day 5: Cusco: Free Day Or Optional Excursions
Breakfast at the hotel
Day at leisure to enjoy the city of Cusco or optional excursions.
Free lunch and dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Cusco
Day 6: Cusco / Puno (Andahuaylillas, Raqchi, La Raya)
Breakfast at the hotel
After breakfast, transfer to the bus station to take the tourist bus that will take you to the city of Puno in a shared service with English speaking tour guide. Along the way, we will enjoy the landscape of the Peruvian Andes and make several stops to visit the main tourist attractions, such as:
Andahuaylillas: Known as "The Sistine Chapel of America" due to the beauty of its frescoes, gold leaf work, and paintings of the Cusqueña school it houses inside.
Raqchi: The Temple of Wiracocha is one of the most important sites in Raqchi, with its 92 meters in length and 25 meters wide. It also has a central adobe wall about 15 meters high.
Lunch inlcuded
La Raya: On the way from Puno to Cusco, you will find this magnificent halfway point or border between Cusco and Puno called La Raya. After visiting La Raya, we will continue our journey.
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Puno
Day 7: Puno / Lake Titicaca / Puno
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the port of Puno where we will board the motorboat in a shared service with english speaking tour guide. Along the way, we visit the floating islands, inhabited by the legendary Uros, fishermen who have made the use of Totora reeds a lifestyle. Next, we will head to Taquile Island, then slowly make our way back to the city. We will observe an indigenous community that preserves ancestral ways.
Lunch of local trout on Taquile Island
After lunch, we take a three-hour boat back to Puno.
Transfer to the hotel from the port of Puno in a shared service with English speaking tour guide
Free dinner
Overnight at the hotel in Puno
Day 8: Puno (✈) / Lima / Departure
Breakfast at the hotel
After breakfast, transfer to Juliaca airport to take your flight back to Lima
Flight Juliaca / Lima
Arrival in Lima and international connection
