The circuit that we present below was idealized for those people who want to know the wonders of southern Peru, its archaeological and cultural heritage and centers of great concentration of energy power, in this adventure you can also enjoy the Inca roads that were of great importance to the people of the Andes.
Wonders of Peru is one of the best alternatives for excursions and is well known throughout the world, so it is satisfying and comforting for those who want to break away from the traditional, putting a little more effort to know this enigmatic culture surrounded by landscapes and sacred mountains.
The Experiential circuit that is part of this circuit, is one of the best options of excursion and super known by the whole world, satisfactory and comforting for those who wish to break with the traditional, putting a little effort and sweat to know this enigmatic culture surrounded by landscapes, sacred mountains, its beautiful people and magical customs.
Program:
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DIA |
DESTINY |
ACTIVITIES. |
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01 |
Lima |
Transfer in Lima |
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02 |
Lima |
Dinner show |
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03 |
Lima |
Free day to develop free activities. |
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04 |
Paracas & Ica |
Full day in Ballestas Islands and Ica. |
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05 |
Nazca |
Overflight in the Nazca Lines. |
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06 |
Arequipa |
City tour. |
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07 |
Arequipa |
Chivay. |
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08 |
Arequipa |
Colca Canyon. |
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09 |
Puno |
Excursion to Titicaca Lake and overnight in floating islands of Uros |
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10 |
Puno - Cusco |
Sun Route. |
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11 |
Cusco |
City tour in the afternoon. |
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12 |
Cusco |
Full day Willoq + Overnight in Aguas Calientes. |
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13 |
Aguas Calientes. |
Excursión in Machupicchu. |
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14 |
Cusco |
Free day to develop free activities. |
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15 |
Cusco |
Transfer from Cusco hotel to the airport |
Trip observations:
Welcome, reception and transfer to the selected hotel.
Overnight in Lima.
Breakfast at the hotel - Free morning.
19:00 Hours.
At the scheduled time in the evening, we will transfer you to a theme restaurant, where you will enjoy of a Buffet Dinner + a spectacular show of typical Peruvian dances.
The restaurant La Dama Juana is the perfect choice for this night. Our assigned driver will pick him up and transfer him to the restaurant. You will have as an option a variety of typical Peruvian dishes in a full buffet dinner. Enjoy the show and the exquisite dinner.
After the dinner show, our driver will be waiting for you to take you back to the hotel.
22:00 Return to the hotel.
Overnight in Lima.
Ideal day to carry out free activities.
Overnight in Lima.
2:50 - Time for pickup from hotel.
We will pick you up at the hotel and transfer you to the bus station to Paracas. The bus will leave at 4:00am approximately and after 3 hours, we will arrive in Paracas.
8:00am after a nice welcome in Paracas, we will start the Ballestas Islands Tour. From the Paracas beach resort; you can visit the Ballestas Islands by boat where sea lions, guano birds, penguins and a diversity of marine fauna live. In the course of the tour, you will see a very enigmatic figure, El Candelabro, immortalized on the side of a hill, is a geoglyph of rocky formation eroded by the wind and the sea. It measures about 120 meters long and is known as the Three Crosses or Trident. The best way to appreciate it is from the sea.
Around noon, we will take the bus back to Paracas and head to Ica for about 3 hours. When we arrive in Ica we will continue with the tubular excursions in the dunes of the Huacachina, being a fantastic adventure in the middle of the desert where we will enjoy the high and low dunes and where you will be able to feel the adrenaline on these natural roller coasters of the desert.
In the same route by the desert you will be able to practice the sandboarding, our guide will instruct you so that you can do it of safe form and if in case you do not have experience in this sport, our guide will instruct it in such a way that you will feel safe to do it.
At about 06:00 pm we will take the bus to Ica where we will spend the night.
Overnight in Ica.
Breakfast at the hotel.
At the agreed time in the morning, we will pick you up from the hotel and leave for the Nazca airfield where we will board a light aircraft for an unforgettable aerial excursion over the Nazca Lines.
Our bilingual guide (Spanish / English) will assist you at all times until you board the plane.
This flight over the Nazca Lines will extend over most of the famous lines located in the Nazca Desert, whose surface is marked by the gigantic drawings and geometric figures that you will be able to appreciate along the way.
The flight over the Nazca Lines is for approximately 35 minutes and this is the best way to appreciate the extraordinary and fascinating intrinsically drawn lines that have been a mystery for many years. We will be able to appreciate the different figures drawn on the surface of the Nazca Desert, with perfectly stylized animal and plant representations, distributed in a large maze of lines, trapezoids, triangles and spirals that have lasted for almost 2000 years. This place is one of the most incredible legacies that a culture has left behind and that can only be appreciated from the sky at an altitude of 1500 feet.
At the end of the flight, we will have time to have lunch and take a bus to Arequipa at 2:30 pm, arriving at our destination at approximately 11:30 pm.
We will be assisted on our arrival in Arequipa and transferred to the hotel where we will spend the night.
Overnight in Arequipa
Breakfast at the hotel.
We will have the morning free to be able to rest, to walk a little for the center of the city and lunch.
Arequipeña (optional and additional tour)
Around 2:00pm, you will be picked up from your hotel to start the tour through the Arequipa countryside. This interesting tour begins with a visit to the monuments architectural and most beautiful natural viewpoints that surround the white city. Our mobility will go to the outskirts of the city where we will visit the beautiful Mirador de Sachaca, which will offer us a spectacular natural panorama of Arequipa and its volcanoes.
Our vehicle will continue towards the Mansion of the Founder, a beautiful construction from the colonial period, where the founder of the city of Arequipa, García Manuel de Carvajal lived in the 15th century. To finish we will travel through a spectacular Andean landscape and arriving
This is the Sabandia Mill, a majestic construction made of volcanic rock known as sillar, in the place you will appreciate an old stone mill that was built in the year 1785. The tour ends at 06:00pm in the city center.
Overnight in Arequipa.
Breakfast at the hotel.
08:00am - 08:30am
At the scheduled time of departure to Chivay. We will start the tour by the road to Yura. Where we will admire the natural and cultural landscape of this area, we will border the majestic Chachani volcano. We will continue through the Salinas and Aguada Blanca National Reserve until we reach Pampa Cañahuas, in where the guide will explain about the flora and fauna of the zone, we will be able to appreciate the natural habitat of the South American camelids within them LA VICUÑA.
We will continue the tour until we reach a small stop in Patahuasi (house at the top) to drink the hot coca tea, very for height where we will be. We will continue the journey to the bofedales where different species live of both migratory birds to the area according to season.
We will continue our journey until we reach Patapampa, the highest point of the trip located at 4900 m.a.s.l. which I also know how to viewpoint of the Andes, here you can see different volcanoes like Misti, HualcaHualca, Sabancaya, Ampato, Ubinas and Chachani.
At midday we will be arriving at the town of Chivay where we will have lunch and stop at followed by a transfer to the hotel, you will have some time to rest and then meet up and visit the thermal baths of La Calera.
These open-air baths have thermal water where you can enjoy a very relaxing moment, after the bus tour of the tomorrow.
After a prudent hour, we will return to the hotel so that we can rest and spend the night in the town of Chivay.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Pick up time from hotel - 06:00 am. approx.
After enjoying a delicious breakfast at the hotel, we will leave for the Mirador de la Cruz del Condor, where you will be able to observe the majestic flight of the condors and the depth of the canyon. On the way we will make a stop in the town of YANQUE to observe its colonial church, Wititi dances as well as the typical costume of the area. On the way back to Chivay we will visit the villages of PINCHOLLO, MACA, ACHOMA, where the guide will explain the different customs of the area as well as the Lito models, colonial churches and terraces.
Arrival to Chivay - 11:30 am approx.
Lunch - 11:45 am approx.
At 01:30 pm approx. - We will board the bus to Puno.
The bus stops during the trip to Puno, where we will appreciate a little more of the fauna and flora on the way to Lake Titicaca.
Upon arrival in Puno, we will be assisted and transferred to the hotel of your choice.
Hotel night in Puno.
Breakfast at the hotel
On this day, we will have the wonderful experience of spending the night in Uros, free of pollution, noise and relaxing located 30 minutes from the city of Puno, spend the night and family together on the floating islands of the Uros.
The rooms in this magical place are built as the whole island based on reeds overlooking the lake, hardwood floor and decorated and implemented with fabrics and crafts, to sleep in Uros with comfortable mattresses with cushions decorated with textiles.
The excursion starts at 07:45am with transportation from your hotel to the port. From there we go to the floating islands of Uros. We see 2 of the 60 islands, go inside the house and trips in traditional boats made of cane can be organized. After a 3 hour boat trip we arrive at the island Amantani. On arrival, you may see local families running down the hill towards you. There you will meet the family designated to host you that night. With them, you will have a typical lunch made of natural products. During the afternoon, you will be able to do some inter-cultural activities until dinnertime. After dinner, you will see a very typical show of the locals.
You will spend the night in this wonderful place, the next day you will be able to taste the exquisite typical breakfast of the place, and then you will leave the rooms and return to the city of Puno.
Our native rural lodging to sleep in Uros has reception the 24 hours, restaurant, garden, bar, counter of tourist information, keeps baggage and sample of crafts
Overnight in Uros.
You will be picked up from your hotel, or from the agreed upon place, to be transferred to the bus station in the Puno terminal
Our tour to Cusco will last 10 hours approximately, where we will have 4 excursions and guided visits to the most interesting places of the south of the altiplano visiting the temple of Andahuaylillas or Sistine Chapel of America, the Inka temple of Raqchi, the pass of La Raya at 4335 meters above sea level and the Inka Aymara museum of Pukara.
Each visit lasts from 20 to 40 minutes, where you can ask questions, take pictures and explore the attractions of the place, making this an unforgettable experience.
We will arrive in Cusco at 4:30pm, be picked up from the bus station and be transferred to the hotel where we will spend the night
Hotel in Cusco
Breakfast at the hotel.
Morning free to acclimatize or do some shopping.
City tour in Cusco.
Our transfer will visit you at your hotel to take you to the starting point of your tour, between 13:00 and 13:30. The tour starts at the Cathedral of Cusco, decorated with fine carved woodwork and impressive altars and beautiful paintings, made by the hands of local artists from the Cusco School, who keep hidden elements of indigenous thought.
Then we will take a short walk through the streets of the historical center towards the Qoricancha or Temple of the Sun considered an indigenous religious sanctuary.
Where we will appreciate the fine work of lithic technology made by the Incas, with the highest level of cutting in hard stone without being able to insert a sheet of paper and that in spite of the earthquakes remain stable to date. After the visit to the Qoricancha we will board the bus that will take us to Sacsayhuaman located 3km. from the city of Cusco, Sacsayhuaman offers us a panoramic view of the city of Cusco, Sacsayhuaman was built with large blocks of limestone weighing from 25 to 130 tons. It is integrated by three terraces superimposed in a serpentine form (zigzag).
We will also arrive at Qenqo, which means labyrinth, is located one kilometer from Sacsayhuaman, establishes a construction based on limestone that shows stone sculpture in 500 mts2 accompanied by structures that according to historians served for the study of astronomy, religion and embalming and / or mummification.
Then we will know Puca Pucara: coming from two Quechua words that mean Puca (red) Pucara (fortress) "red fortress", strategic place for control and surveillance of access and exit of the Imperial city of Cusco, which was used as a territorial border to divide the regions and establish the regimes of displacement.
Finally, we will visit Tambomachay: a resting place, located 9 km from the city of Cusco, better known as the Baths of the Inca because of the water sources, or also known as the waters of eternal youth because of the constant flow of its waters, which offers us part of the Inca trail that goes from Cusco to Machupicchu. This city tour in the city of Cusco ends at 6:30 pm approximately near the Plaza de Armas.
Overnight in Cusco.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Enjoy and live, the customs and Inca traditions of the community of Willoq and Patacancha, planting, sewing, cooking and have fun with their typical dances. The tour starts at 06:00 in Cusco and ends around 19.00h (full day)
After enjoying an exquisite breakfast. We will pick you up at your hotel in Cusco at 6:00 am in the direction of Ollantaytambo (living Inca city), there we will make a brief stop to visit the city, the tour begins at 06:00 in Cusco and ends around 19.00h (full day)
Learn, interact, share the customs and traditions of this Inca community, planting, sewing, cooking and having fun with their typical dances.Willoq, is an indigenous community of the Andes, located in the valley of the Patacancha River, belonging to the district of Ollantaytambo, province of Urubamba, Cusco.
It is rich in flora and fauna, being able to find 60 species of birds and more than 700 species of plants. In Willoq there is still a direct descent from the last Incas which can be corroborated by the current surnames of the local people, like Yupanqui, Sinchi, Pukha, Huamán, Cusipáucar, Tupha, among others.
Located to 14 km of Ollantaytambo, once in Willoq our friends of the place will receive us with a welcome drink (mate of coca or muña) and their folkloric dance, immediately they will show us and they will share their customs and traditions and daily activities (textile shop, agriculture, gastronomy, etc...) the approximate duration of the activity is of about 3 to 4 hours, next we will have a typical lunch of the place and after a rest and some coexistence, we will return to Ollantaytambo to take the train toward Aguas Calientes
Once we arrive in Aguas Calientes, our staff will be waiting to transfer you to the hotel.
Overnight in Aguas Calientes.
Breakfast at the hotel.
Pick up from hotel 05:00 am.
Very early in the morning we will board the bus to Machu Picchu. At the archaeological site, we will immerse ourselves in the enigmatic beauty and incomparable Inca engineering perfection of the site, which has made it one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. We will have a 2-hour guided tour accompanied by a specialist guide who will explain the history of the site.
After the tour, we will take the bus back to Aguas Calientes. There, you will have time for lunch before we have to take the train back to Ollantaytambo, where our tourist class transportation will be waiting to take us back to the city of Cusco.
10:30 pm arrival in Cusco.
Transfer to the Hotel
Overnight in Cusco.
Breakfast at the hotel
Day off for personal activities.
Overnight in Cusco.
Breakfast at the hotel
At the appropriate time, transfer out.
End of our Services
Water for the first day of Inka Trail, but on the way it is possible to buy bottles of water from local familie
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