is an experience combining history, adventure and culture. It begins in Lima, exploring its historic center and gastronomy. Then, in Cusco, you visit Inca temples and the magical Sacred Valley before embarking on the challenging 4-day Inca Trail, culminating with the arrival at the impressive Machu Picchu. Finally, in Nazca 2 days, a flight over reveals the enigmatic Nazca Lines. A perfect itinerary to discover the greatness of Peru in a short time.

ITINERARY

First Day: City Tour in Lima

✔️Welcome and transfer from Lima airport to the hotel.
✔️City tour in the city of Lima. (from 2:00pm to 6:00pm)
✔️Overnight stay in Lima hotel.

Once you arrive in Peru our personal will welcome you in the hall of the airport and transfer you to the hotel. After resting for a while we'll start visiting the most interesting places of the " City of Kings": the Cathedral, Pizarro's Tomb, the Catacombs of San Francisco, passing through the Congress, the Palace of Torre Tagle.

the residential areas of Orrantia, San Isidro, where we will visit the Huaca Pucllana, we will enjoy a spectacular sight of the Pacific Ocean. Rafael Larco Herrera Museum, where you will find a great quantity of preincaica pottery including the World biggest collection of erotic Huacos, then we' ll spend the night at the Hotel.

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Second Day: Welcome and tour in Cusco

✔️Breakfast

✔️Transfer from hotel to the airport in Lima.

✔️Trip on plane Lima to Cusco (1 hour)

✔️Transfer from the airport to hotel in Cusco.

✔️Coca tea at the hotel

✔️City Tour Catedral Cusco Sacsayhuaman Qoricancha Tambomachay ... (13:30 hrs - 18:30 hrs.)

✔️Night in selected hotel in Cusco

We'll be waiting for you at the airport in Cusco on your arrival date , take you to the hotel where you will rest for an hour , you'll have a cup of coca tea and we will pick you up from your Hotel in the afternoon (13:30 hrs) to start with the tour around Cusco and outskirts.

Tour around Cusco and outskirts: We pick you up from your Hotel to start visiting the following attractives , with a professional guide:

The Koricancha Palace and Convent of Santo Domingo Religious center known as "The Temple of the Sun" where you will admire the impressive engineering used in its construction.

The Cathedral: Colonial religious monument of extraordinary artistic value.

Sacsayhuaman: Built at 3 Km. From the city of Cusco, impressive stone fortress with an excellent architecture, Famous for its huge carved stones some of which are at 9 m/ 30 feet off the floor,with a weigh of 350 tons. Here is where the Inty Raymi or Fiesta del Sol is held in June Every year.

Qenqo: Ceremonial and ritual center, amphitheatre where sacrifices were made.

Puca-Pucara: An old tambo (resting place), monitoring place throughout the Inka Empire Routes.

Tambomachay: At 7 Km. From the city of Cusco, ceremonial center of cult to the water, known traditionally as the place where water rests excursion time: around 5 hours.

Frequency : everyday in the afternoons.

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Third Day: Cusco: Inca Trail start

✔️Breakfast

✔️Transfer from hotel to the airport in Lima.

✔️Trip on plane Lima to Cusco (1 hour)

✔️Transfer from the airport to hotel in Cusco.

✔️Coca tea at the hotel

✔️City Tour Catedral Cusco Sacsayhuaman Qoricancha Tambomachay ... (13:30 hrs - 18:30 hrs.)

✔️Night in selected hotel in Cusco

Meet at the office at 05:45 hrs to board the bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable). The journey to trailhead at km 82 takes approximately 3 hours. We will enjoy breakfast along the way. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and many other factors, but you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. After lunch, we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to our first camp (3000 mtrs). This first day has us walking through the valley. It starts at 2380 mtrs with a small climb to a platform overlooking the Incan site Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica.

Approx 14km walking - 6 hours

Paracas

Fourth Day : inca trail

✔️Inca Trail to Machupicchu 4 days and 3 nights

✔️The last night in selected hotel in Cusco

Day 2 is the most difficult day as you walk from about 3000 mtrs to 4200 mtrs "the highest pass of this trek (Dead Woman Pass). You can walk at your own pace, stop to get your breath whenever you like. You'll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo. Campsite at 3600 mtrs. You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of the pass for approximately US$120.00. You must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items. Please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service.

This is the coldest night. +2/+4 degrees Celsius (December); -3/-5 degrees Celsius (June) Approx 12km walking - 7 hours

Paracas

Fifth Day : Inca Trail

✔️Inca Trail to Machupicchu 4 days and 3 nights

✔️The last night in selected hotel in Cusco

Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins and incredible paved trail (and more importantly for your lungs, there is a lot more down than up!!!). There are about 2000 stairs descending from Phuyupatamarca to Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees). If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. Guided tours of all the ruins. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna (2700 mtrs).

Take extra care of your personal belongings in this campsite as all the tours camp near here. As usual always keep your daypack with valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostal near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.

Approx 16km walking - 6 hours

Paracas

Sixth Day: Inca Trail: Cusco

✔️Inca Trail to Machupicchu 4 days and 3 nights

✔️The last night in selected hotel in Cusco

Get up extremely early to arrive at Intipunku, "The Gate of the Sun," and view the first sun illuminating majestic Machu Picchu. It is still a 20 min walk down from here to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. Take your photos now before the 10:30 hrs crowds arrive. Your tour of Machu Picchu should finish between 10:30 hrs and 11:00 hrs and you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu (it will take at least 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day, so start immediately after your tour. Or just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machu Picchu.

Important:

If you want to access to the Huayna Picchu mountain, contact us.

Paracas

Seventh Day: Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas

✔️Inca Trail to Machupicchu 4 days and 3 nights

✔️The last night in selected hotel in Cusco

This tour starts around 09:00 hrs., we pick you up at your Hotel, we have a guided tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, over the Vilcanota river, with a panoramic view of Pisac an old Inca City and a visit to the Inka market in this village, where we will have the chance to know in a closer way its people customs and get good bargains with the handycrafts and souvenirs sellers, afterwards we'll head for Urubamba, traveling on the borders of the river Vilcanota.

We'll have lunch at a restaurant in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the afternoon we visit the fortress and citadel of Ollantaytambo, built to watch the entrance to this part of the valley and protect it from the jungle habitants invasions. We'll have the chance to walk by the narrow streets and have a clear knowledge of how this militar, religious and cultural center was during the Inca empire.


On the way back to Cusco we will stop by the colorful village of Chinchero , where we will find the ruins of the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House, we will appreciate its well preserve Inca wall in the man square and you will visit the beauty Colonial Temple with invaluable portraits, built over Inca Bases. Then we return to Cusco.

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Paracas

Eight Day: Flight from Cusco to Lima and Tourist Bus Trip to Paracas:

✔️Breakfast at the hotel.
✔️Transfer from the hotel in Puno to the Juliaca airport (one hour).
✔️Plane trip from Cusco to Lima (1 hour).
✔️Transfer from the Lima airport to the bus terminal in Paracas.
✔️Travel by sleeper bus, cruise service, from Lima to Paracas. (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.).
✔️Transfer from the Paracas bus terminal to the hotel.
✔️Overnight stay in Paracas.

This day, according to the schedule of your flight from the city of Cusco to Lima, you will be transferred to the airport.

Upon arrival in the city of Lima, our staff will be waiting for you with a sign with your name to transfer you from the airport to the bus terminal to board the bus that will take you to Paracas, travel time 4 hours, arriving in Paracas our travel agency staff will transfer you to your hotel.


Eight Day: Tour Ballestas Islands, Huacachina sandboarding 

✔️03:45 Bus trip with Cruz del Sur: Lima to Paracas (2nd floor)
✔️07:00 Arrival in Paracas and transfer to the travel agency. Breakfast not included.
✔️08:00 am. Maritime tour to the Ballestas Islands

On the tour of the Ballestas Islands, you will visit the different islands for two hours. During this tour you will be able to appreciate the figure of the Candelabra, a gigantic figure engraved in the desert of the Paracas Peninsula. On the Ballestas Islands you will be able to appreciate up close a fabulous marine fauna, such as large colonies of sea lions on the beaches and rocks as well as seals. It is also possible to see groups of Humboldt penguins in small caves, as well as a great variety of coastal birds such as cormorants, boobies, pelicans, seagulls, and grackles. Additionally, you can appreciate rock formations and the beauty of the Pacific Ocean, great for artistic photos.

✔️10:00 Return to Paracas and transfer to the bus station. 11:00 Transport from Paracas to Ica. 12:30 Arrival in Ica and transfer to the hotel and pick up for the start of the City tour.
✔️1:00 pm start of our tour, meeting point in the city of Ica, you will take the Ica and Countryside tour + Buggy ride in the Huacachina desert. During the tour we will see and visit:

"El Catador" Winery and Restaurant: The most touristic winery in Ica, we will visit its facilities to taste its wines, piscos, cachinas and learn about the elements used to make Piscos and Wines in an artisanal way, you will also have time for lunch, lunch not included, here you will find typical food from Ica.

Visit to the Plaza de Armas of Ica: Ruins of the Luren Temple and Alameda de Luren

Huacachina Oasis: we will enjoy an impressive landscape where we will find the Huacachina Lagoon surrounded by immense dunes, a natural oasis in the middle of the desert and surrounded by beautiful palm trees.

To end our full day in Huacachina we will take an exciting and fun Buggy or sand car ride in the Huacachina desert, where the practice of Sandboarding is included, crossing a large part of the desert up and down the dunes; The Ica desert in Huacachina offers one of the most beautiful desert landscapes in South America, with whimsical sand formations formed by the wind, and with a beautiful view of our Peruvian Andes in the eastern part. Our professional driver will make stops so that you can appreciate the landscape, as well as take pictures. Then we will drive our vehicle to the top of a large dune where our instructor guide will show you how to practice the sport of sandboarding. Finally we will return to the Huacachina lagoon and if the weather conditions are favorable we will enjoy watching the sunset in the desert.

The tour ends in Ica at approximately 6:30 pm.

✔️Approximately 6:30 pm. Transfer to the bus terminal. 7:30 pm Trip from Ica to Nasca.
✔️Transfer from the Nasca terminal to your hotel
✔️Overnight stay in Nasca.

Paracas

Ninth day day: Nazca Lines

✔️Breakfast at the hotel
✔️Transfer to the Nazca airfield
✔️Flight over the Nazca Lines (35 min).

We will pick you up from your hotel at the time indicated by your transfer agent to drive you to the Nazca airfield and begin the flight over the Nazca Lines for approximately 35 minutes.

Flight over the Nazca Lines
From the sky we will observe the majestic lines and figures of the Pampas de San José, which have 500 hectares and have been studied for many years by Dr. María Reiche (According to Dr. María Reiche, who has dedicated much of her life to the study of these lines, this is the largest Astronomical Calendar in the World). The Nazca Lines are mysterious traces made.

From the Nazca Aerodrome we will board a small plane that will take us to the mysterious Nazca Lines where we will see 12 figures: whale, trapezoid, monkey, dog, condor, spider, hummingbird, gannet, parrot, hands, tree, and the most mysterious The Astronaut among others in large dimensions that reach from 15 to 300 meters each and with a depth of approximately 30 centimeters. The flight lasts approximately 30 - 35 minutes.

Time for lunch and personal activities (Lunch at the expense of the passengers).

  • 13:20 Hrs. Transfer to the bus terminal.

  • 14:00 Hrs. Bus trip from Nazca - Lima (Duration 6.45 Hrs.).

  • Transfer to the Lima Hotel.

 

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Nazca
Nazca

Tenth Day: Transfer from the hotel in Lima to the airport and farewell
 

✔️Breakfast at the hotel.
✔️Transfer from the hotel in Lima to the international airport.

Transfer from the hotel in Lima to the international airport.

END OF SERVICES

INCLUDED

what the package includes per person:

✔️2 transfer to Lima Airport Hotel
✔️1 City tour to the "City of Kings"
✔️1 night in selected hotel in Lima including breakfast (as accommodation)
✔️3 Nights at selected hotel in Cusco including breakfast (as accommodation)
✔️1 night in selected hotel in Nazca includes breakfast (according to accommodation)
✔️1 night hotel in Paracas includes breakfast (according to accommodation)
✔️1 flights Lima - Cusco (1 hour)
✔️1 flights Lima to Cusco (1 hour)
✔️1 airport transfer to Cusco hotel.
✔️1 City tour of Cusco and Surroundings (Afternoon 13:30 hrs - 18:30 hrs)
✔️1 show typical music and dances of Cusco (from 19:00 hrs to 20:00 hrs)
✔️1 andalusia Tour Inca Trail 4 days and 3 nights.
✔️1 Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas 1 includes lunch (Full day 08:00 hrs - 19:00 hrs)
✔️1 Transfer from the hotel in Lima to the bus terminal in Lima
✔️1 bus ride from Lima to Nazca (08:00 hrs - 13:00 hrs)
✔️1 Travel by bus to Nazca Paracas (13:00 hrs - 17:00 hrs)
✔️1 flight to the Nazca Lines (40 minutes)
✔️1 Tour to the Ballestas Islands
✔️1 bus ride from Lima to Paracas (13:00 hrs - 21:00 hrs)
✔️1 Transfer from the bus terminal to hotel or airport.

PRICE

PRICE PER PERSON IN DOUBLE ACCOMMODATION

PricesHotels
USD 2275in 4 stars hotel: Exclusive/Dorado/CasaAndina/Novotel/Suites - Expedition
USD 1990in 3 stars hotel: El Ducado/San Agustín/Samay/Riviera - Expedition Train
 USD 1890in 2 stars hotel: El Porta/Sol Plaza inn/Hatun Wasi/Carlos V - Expedition Train

PRICE PER PERSON IN SIMPLE ACCOMMODATION

PricesHotels
USD 2810in 4 stars hotel: Exclusive/Dorado/CasaAndina/Novotel/Suites - Expedition
USD 2375in 3 stars hotel: El Ducado/San Agustín/Samay/Riviera - Expedition Train
 USD 2100in 2 stars hotel: El Porta/Sol Plaza inn/Hatun Wasi/Carlos V - Expedition Train

PRICE PER PERSON IN TRIPLE ACCOMMODATION -2016:

PricesHotels
USD 2270in 4 stars hotel: Exclusive/Dorado/CasaAndina/Novotel/Suites - Expedition
USD 1940in 3 stars hotel: El Ducado/San Agustín/Samay/Riviera - Expedition Train
USD 1840in 2 stars hotel: El Porta/Sol Plaza inn/Hatun Wasi/Carlos V - Expedition Train

 

Optional servicesprices 
To go by Panoramic Train you must addUSD 65reserve ahead
To go by Hiram Bingham Train you must addUSD 480reserve ahead

Important - Hotel booking is subject to space availability.