17 DAYS ACTIVITIES IN PERU.

Day 1: Lima

Upon your arrival at Lima Jorge Chavez international airport you will be met by our local agent and transferred to your accommodation, located in Miraflores the nicest area of Lima.
Overnight in Lima – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 2: Journey Lima – Paracas by Tourist bus (3.5 hours)

6:15: you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the bus station to board the tourist bus to Paracas.
11:00: upon arrival in Paracas you will be met by our local agent and transferred to your Hotel.
Free afternoon to enjoy and relax in the beach!
Overnight in Paracas – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 3: Boat trip to Ballestas Islands

Early morning: you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to Paracas harbour where you will board the motorboat to Ballestas Islands; It’ll be lasting the round trip just 2 to 2.5 hours; this morning you will observe seabirds flying around, colonies of sea lions, and Humboldt penguins, on the way you will appreciate the candelabra, a pattern etched into the sand and rock of a hill.
After the boat trip you will board the tourist bus to Ica.
11:00: Bus journey Paracas – Ica
12:00: Upon arrival in Ica, you will be met by our local representative and transferred to your Hotel.
In the afternoon, you will enjoy a visit to Huacachina Oasis and have a sand dune buggy ride!
Overnight in Ica – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 4: Bus journey Ica – Nasca

11:30, you will be transferred to the bus station to board the tourist bus to Nasca.
Upon your arrival in Nasca you will be met by our local representative and transferred to your hotel.
Overnight in Nazca – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 5: Flight over Nasca Lines (35 Minutes)

Morning: Flight over the fantastic Nasca Lines for panoramic views of a monkey, a fish, a spider, a hummingbird and many drawings and geometric figures on the desert visible only from the air. The mystery of these huge figures in the desert continues even today.

Afternoon: tourist bus journey Nasca – Arequipa (9 hours)
13:00 Pm. You will be transferred to the bus station to baord the tourist bus to Arequipa.
Upon arrival in Arequipa you will be transferred to your hotel.
Overnight in Arequipa –At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 6: Arequipa – day to relax and acclimatize to the altitude (7,626 ft)

Afternoon: Guided tour of Arequipa
Arequipa was built from the white sillar rock that spewed out from Misti Volcano, one of a trio of imposing volcanoes looming behind it, due to that is called the “City of White”. The soft, porous quality of Arequipa’s sillar lent itself to make and intricate baroque facades, which combined western motifs of mermaids, grapevines and shells with New World elements such as parrots, papayas and jungle vegetation; the best example of this style is the façade of the Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus near the Plaza de Armas. Arequipa is Peru’s second largest urban area and one of the country’s most prosperous.
9:00 Walking Tour (around the downtown to see the massive twin-towered Cathedral which has the Giant Golden Monstrace, Santa Catalina Convent, Juanita Mummy Museum, Yanahuara the look up point to take picture the Majestic Misti Valcano)
It includes: Entrance fees and guide
Overnight in Arequipa –At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 7: Colca Valley tour and private Trek into the Canyon.

After an early breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and start the amazing trip to Chivay and Canyon; on the way you pass through Pampa Cañahua Park where you will see the unique South American camelids like the elegant Vicuñas, Alpacas, Llamas, Guanacos and Vizcachas. This trip offers spectacular views of the most impressive Andean Volcanoes Sanctuary like Misti, Chachani, Ampato, etc.

14:00 Right afternoon the well relaxing Galeras Hot Springs

Overnight in Chivay. At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 8: Cruz Del Condor-Arequipa – Puno

The Sacred Condor.- “Watching Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) soar over Colca Canyon, It is easy to see why the Incas and other highland peoples considered it a sacred bird. It flies for hours without flapping its wings using only thermals to spiral so high into the sky that it can disappear from sight. The Andean condor is the largest flying bird in the world, with a weight of more than 10 kg and a wingspan of over 3 meters. But apart from its size, the condor is easy to spot because of the white ruff around its neck, the fingerlike feathers at the end of its wings. The condor’s main food source is carrion, which it is able to detect from thousands of feet up in the air because of its extraordinary eyesight and sense of smell”; written by Peter Frost.

06:30 After an early breakfast, you will be driven to Cruz del Condor to observe the soaring of this majestic Bird; From Chivay to Cruz del Condor is about 60 km (1.5 hours). Cruz del Condor is the best spot in the world to see them –usually around 07:30 a.m. again at 09:30 a.m. and sometimes in the late afternoon. The best season to see them is in the nonrainy months between April and December. After the flight of the Condor, you will continue enjoying views of the deepest canyon of the world with its Andean terraces, which have been used by the local farmers since pre-Inca times for farming.

After lunch, you will board the bus to Puno.
Upon arrival at Puno bus station you will be met by our local representative and transferred to your Hotel

Overnight in Puno. At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 9: Boat trip to Lake Titicaca/Overnight on Amantani Island

After Breakfast, you’ll be transferred to Puno harbor to board the motor boat and start your adventure on the highest navigable Lake in the world, our first stop will be on the floating impressive Totora reed Islands of The Uros where you will see how these pre-Incan people live in; we continue our journey through the lake till Taquile wheren you’ll have the lunch, after that we go on to the next island, Amantani Island where you will learn about the Aymaras and spend the night with a local family of this Pre-Inca culture.
Overnight on Amantani Island – Home stay
(B, L, Dinner) included.

Day 10: Amantani Island (12960 ft) – Puno

After breakfast, we have to come back from Amantani Island to Puno an average of 3.5 hrs. then the afternoon free to enjoy city or if you prefer we can go to see the Aymara Pre-Inca funerary chamber of Sillustani
Overnight in Puno – At your Selected Accommodation (B)
(B,) included. Lunch and dinner by your own.

Day 11: *Tourist bus journey Puno – Cusco (11,100 ft)

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the bus station to board the tourist bus to Cusco and have one of the most fabulous journeys through this beautiful route with spectacular views of the Andes Mountains and countryside, a memorable travel experience through the high Altiplano region! The bus journey includes visits to La Raya, Pukara, Raqchi, Andahuaylillas and Tipon.
Upon arrival at Cusco bus station you will be met by our local representative and transferred to your Hotel.
Overnight in Cusco – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 12: Guided tour of Cusco and nearby Inca Ruins

In the morning day off to relax
13:30: this afternoon your guide will pick you up from your hotel and show you the highlights of Cusco, the colonial cathedral, the great temple of Korikancha and the 4 impressive Inca ruins around Cusco: Sacsayhuaman the giant boulders of the Royal House of the Sun, Qenko the rock outcraft which used to be the temple of the Mother Earth, Pucapucara an Inca lodging Site and Tambomachay known as the Baths of the Inca.

Overnight in Cusco – At Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 13: Guided tour of the Incas’ sacred valley

Sacred Valley of the Incas was the counterpart of the Milky Way so Incas were able to set their construction or setlements following the patterns of the Milky Way: it means Incas saw in it black clouds of Snake, Puma, Condor, llama, alligator, shepherd, partridge, toad, etc; so along this valley one can see the setlements’ outlines in the shape of these constellation. Cusco has the outline of Puma, Ollantaytambo of a llama and even Machupicchu the outline of Alligator.

08:30: Cusco to Pisaq Ruins (the proper name of Pisaq is P’isaqa which means partridge) It’s located at 36 km of Cusco to explore in it colosall terraces for agriculture, these terraces are not in using anymore because they have been expropriated by the government; It’s also really nice to see the largest inca cementery, incan residences located on top of the mountains which were a kind of Pucara or redoubt. Pisaq Market located at the botton of the ruins is not a tipical market anymore, 10 years ago it used to be but nowadays more than tipical is a commercial markets. Urubamba town, located one hour down of Pisaq Market, is a especial place to have the lunch, there are crew of customers who are just coming to enjoy the Andean Gourmet. Ollantaytambo ruins, located half an hour down from Urubamba, is really awesome cause it’s been designed in the shape of a llama; It’s the sole place to talk about the Incan Architecture, the techniques to move the giant boulder from quarry to there, the techniques to template or match these boulders on the walls, the techniques to split the giant boulders form the main mass and so on.

Overnight in Ollantaytambo – At your selected accommodation (B, L)

Day 14: Private Inca trail hike to Machu Picchu.

06:30 After breakfast, you will be transferred to the train station to board the train to Km 104, It’s just 90 minutes to get there the starting point of our short trek to Machu Picchu. After passing the check point, we will have the hiking gradually till Wiñaywayna Ruins (Which means Forever Young in Quechua Language), in total the hiking from the trailhead (km 104) to Machupicchu is 12 miles away. The elevation of Km 104 or Chachabamba Ruins is 2000 m.a.s.l. and Winayhuayna Ruins is 2670 m.a.s.l. and Cusco much higher 3400 m.a.s.l. From Winayhuayna to Machupicchu the pathway is terrific but also gentle, well paved the whole inca trail with massive boulders, this known as Mini Inca Trail too is part of the Classic Inca Trail.  After lunch, It’ll be nearly Winayhuayna, we continue our hiking through the last part of the Inca trail to Intipunku (Sun Gate at 8,957 ft/2,730 m) and we’ll have the most beautiful picture of Machu Picchu; we arrive in the Lost City late in the afternoon, but our private tour will be the next morning so we have the bus journey down to Aguas Calientes.
Overnight in Aguas Calientes – At your Selected Accommodation (B,L)

Day 15: Guided tour of Machu Picchu.

You will take a short bus journey to Machu Picchu, It’s just half an hour to get there. You will have a guided tour of the most amazing and mysterious of all Inca Sites, you will learn about the history of this site, who lived there, how it was discovered in modern times and why the Spaniards never found it, but what’s Machupicchu for?. There are many answers but the pretty admissible one has been proposed by Jesuit priest Bernabe Cobo, writing in 1654, one hundred years after the conquest as a kind of “Shrine”, the shrines of Cusco’s sacred landscape; some were natural feature of the land, such as springs, rock outcrops, caves and lakes: others were constructed sites such as houses, walls and water channels which were associated with events in inca mythology; but not only this there are many theories proposed by local and stranger scientists. You will have some insight into the various features of the city and after that, you will have some free time to really enjoy yourself alone in this spectacularly located site, one of them is the unfinished Inca Bridge built on the cliff. A lifetime experience that will stay with you forever! After enjoying Machu Picchu, you will board the bus to Aguas Calientes, where you will have lunch before the train journey to Cusco.
Afternoon: Train and bus journey back to Cusco.
Upon arrival in Cusco, you will be transferred to your Hotel.
Overnight in Cusco – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 16: Cusco

Free day to rest and explore Cusco by your own.
Overnight in Cusco – At your Selected Accommodation (B)

Day 17: Flight Cusco – Lima

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the airport to board your morning flight to Lima.
Upon arrival at Lima airport, you will be met by our local agent and transferred to Miraflores, the bustling, cosmopolitan area of the city from where you will start your afternoon Lima tour.

Lima City Tour
After lunch, you will be driven downtown into the city of the Kings; your English speaking guide will show you the colonial houses adorned with Moorish-style balconies, Plaza San Martin, Plaza de Armas, the baroque cathedral, Palacio de Gobierno (Governors Palace), the Archbishop’s Palace with its big carved wooden balconies, and the convent of San Francisco. Underneath the convent lie extensive catacombs that served as the cementery for the whole of Lima during the colonial period!

Evening flight back home
You will be picked up from Miraflores center and transferred to the airport to board your flight back home.

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