Day 1 LIMA (Friday)
Reception and transfer to your hotel. Optional tours to museums or to visit the city and surrounding sites. Overnight at hotel, lunch and dinner on your own.
Day 2 ICA /NAZCA (Saturday)
Early departure by coach to Ica . Arrival and check-in at your hotel.
Afternoon optional flight over the Nazca lines. Lunch and dinner on your own, overnight at hotel.
Day 3 PARACAS / LIMA (Sunday)
After breakfast a vehicle will take you to the National Reserve of Paraca . A chance to take a boat ride to Islas Ballestas, a small island teeming with marine bird life as well as sea-lions. After lunch the bus will take us to Lima. Overnight at hotel, dinner on your own.
Day 4 - 5 PUERTO MALDONADO (Monday-Wednesday)
Transfer to the airport for your flight to Puerto Maldonado in the rainforest of Southeastern Peru. Meet and greet at airport and canoe transport to your lodge. Most entail orientation talks on arrival, walks through trails in the forest led by naturalist guides, night time excursions on dug-out canoes, float rides to watch fauna on the shore line and in the canopy layers. All meals are included as well as transportation in vehicles and canoes. On the third day you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Cusco.
Day 6 CUSCO (Wednesday)
On arrival in the course of the morning from Puerto Maldonado, you will be transferred to a hotel, rest of the morning free to acclimatize, lunch on your own. Afternoon tour of the city and nearby ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Tambomachay and visit the main sites in the city - Inca temples and colonial churches. Overnight at hotel, dinner on your own.
Day 7 SACRED VALLEY / OLLANTAYTAMBO (Thursday)
Full day excursion to visit the main sites in the Sacred Valley of the Incas with guided tours of the archaeological remains. Lunch on route, and overnight at a local hotel, dinner on your own. Depending on hotel availability additional activities can be organized from some of the country inns.
Day 8 MACHU PICCHU (Friday)
Early transfer from your hotel to the train station in the Sacred Valley, for your two hour ride down the Urubamba gorge as it changes from mountain vegetation to cloud forest, arrival at the station of Machu Picchu Pueblo. A bus ride will bring you to the citadel for a full day guided visit, with lunch included and afternoon return to the village where we will spend the night at a local hotel, dinner on your own.
Day 9 MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO (Saturday)
Early rise for those who want an optional visit to the ruins. The other option is to stay around the village and undertake shopping, relax in your hotel room or take a walk in the surrounding cloud-forest. Lunch on your own. Afternoon train return to Cusco, where we will arrive in the evening. Transfer to your hotel, dinner on your own.
Day 10 CUSCO/OUT(Sunday)
After breakfast transfer to the airport for your ongoing connecting flight to another destination inside the region or back home.
OPTIONAL TOURS:
- Inka Trail 2D/1N
- Inka Trail 4D/3N
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