DETAILED ITINERARY:

Day 1: ARRIVAL IN LIMA

Upon your arrival at Lima´s Jorge Chávez International Airport, our staff will receive you with a warm welcome to Peru. Then, we´ll transfer you, in a private vehicle, to your hotel, where you´ll have a chance to rest at will.

Marriot Hotel

Dinner

Day 2: EXPLORE THE CITY OF THE KINGS

Today, we´ll pick you up at your hotel, and will take you around, in a private vehicle, to visit the city of Lima, starting by the modern districts of Miraflores and San Isidro. Then, we´ll visit Lima´s Historical Center, declared as a World Heritage Site, by the UNESCO, in 1988.

For lunch, we´ll enjoy the “La Rosa Náutica” Restaurant´s exceptional surroundings, as well as its panoramic view towards the Pacific Ocean, and exquisite dishes.

In the afternoon, we´ll visit the Larco Herrera Museum, with its impressive and numerous pre-Columbian collections. Exceptionally, you will get to visit the museum´s reserve deposits, where around 46,000 objects, not exhibited to the general public, are kept.

Afterwards, we´ll go to the Bolívar Restaurant, to enjoy a typical Pisco Sour; Peru´s National Drink.

At dusk, we´ll visit the Water´s Magical Circuit, thus ending the day, in Lima, with an unforgettable touch of magic and enchantment.

Finally, dinner will be served, at your hotel´s restaurant, and will be followed by an excellent night of well-deserved rest.

Marriot Hotel

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: GRADUAL ASCENT TO THE ANDES.

Early, we´ll pick you up at your hotel, to transfer you to Lima´s airport, where a member of our staff will help you with check-in procedures, and will accompany you until you get into the security area, before boarding your flight to Cusco.

Upon your arrival in Cusco, our staff will welcome you to the Incas´ Imperial Capital City, and will assist you with your luggage. Then, a private vehicle will take you, together with your guide, to the Incas´ Sacred Valley.

En route, you will have a chance to sight archaeological complexes, such as Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Pucapucara, and Tambomachay, situated on the city of Cusco´s outskirts. Once in the Sacred Valley, you´ll go by localities like Pisaq, Coya, Lamay and Calca, before getting to Urubamba, where you´ll have dinner and will spend the night at the Tambo del Inca Hotel.  

Tambo del Inca Resort

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: WOMEN WEAVERS OF CHINCHERO SALINERAS DE MARAS

After breakfast, at your hotel, our private vehicle will pick you up, with a guide on board, to go up to the high-plateau´s locality of Chinchero, where you will have the opportunity to witness a traditional Andean weaving demonstration and, if you wish it so, to acquire some authentic pieces, elaborated by local women weavers.

Afterwards, we´ll move on towards the famous “Salineras” of Maras that are open-air mineral salt mines, traditionally exploited by local families, since Incan times. This is a compound of over 3,000 small and shallow pools, through which salt water runs, and in which that salt gets deposited.  

Finally, we´ll visit Moray´s Great Incan Agricultural Laboratory, made-up of huge natural craters the Incas took advantage of, by building circular concentric benched terraces, inside them, to grow numerous plant species proceeding from different parts of their vast territory.

Once back in the Incas´ Sacred Valley, we´ll enjoy a delicious buffet-lunch, at the Tunupa Quinta Restaurant, nearby Urubamba. In the afternoon, you will have free time to rest, enjoy a digestive walk, on your own, or chat with other guests, at your hotel, where dinner will be served.

Tambo del Inca Resort

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: VISIT MACHU PICHU ON HIRAM BINGHAM

Today is this program´s main day. First, a private vehicle will pick you up at your hotel´s door, and will take you to the “Last Living Incan Village” of Ollantaytambo, where you and your guide will board the “Hiram Bingham” Luxury Train, to travel to the pedestrian village of Machupicchu Pueblo (Ex Aguas Calientes).

Upon your arrival, a tourism bus will take you, together with your guide, to the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge Hotel, where you will share a cup of tea, before going on the so-longed-for guided visit of the Incan Sacred City that will last between two and a half, and three hours.

Afterwards, both will get back to the village and, at the indicated time, you will board the Hiram Bingham Train bound to the city of Cusco, with dinner, live music, fashion show and bar on board. Arriving at Poroy´s Railway Station, a private vehicle will transfer you to your hotel, in the Imperial City´s Historical Center.

Belmond Monasterio Hotel

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 6: CUSCO INCAICO AND COLONIAL

At the indicated time, your guide will pick you up at your hotel, and will take you on a visit, on foot, around the Historical Center of the Incas´ Ancient Capital City, then, the Vice-Kingdom´s Capital City and, presently, Historical Capital City of Peru.

At noon, you will have lunch at the Pirwa Restaurant, before leaving the city center, aboard a private vehicle, to go up to Sacsayhuaman´s Archaeological Park, where your guide will give you a complete visit of the Incan Qosqo´s Four Architectural Wonders, which are the Ceremonial Complex of Sacsayhuaman, Ceremonial Compound of Q´enqo, that of Tambomachay, and the Fortified Checkpoint of Puca Pucara.

At dusk, our private vehicle will take you back to your hotel, for a quick resfresh, before going out for a special dinner, at a restaurant with view over Cusco´s Main Square, fully lit-up.

Belmond Monasterio Hotel

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7, 8, 9: IMMERSION IN THE JUNGLE WITH INKATERRA

Today, we´ll make a quick transition between mountains and jungle, with a flight from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, to spend four days at the Inka Terra Lodge, in a private natural reserve, with a whole lot of activities to choose from.

This experience is designed for nature lovers, with its exceptional mega-biodiversity, since the city of Puerto Maldonado has been declared as the World´s Capital City of Biodiversity.

Reserva Amazónica INKATERRA

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 10: RETURN HOME

On the tenth day, we´ll say goodbye to that so strange, yet fascinating world that, without a doubt, will have left us nostalgic and, in some way, changed, in our manner to perceive the jungle and its uncountable charms.

At the indicated time, a motorized river boat will take us back to what will seem to us as the city´s nonsense chaos, where a private vehicle will take us to the airport, and a plane, back to Cusco and, finally, another still, to the city of Lima.

Breakfast