Arrive in Lima

Meet with our representative, who will drive to your hotel

Special food tour of Lima

Arrive in Lima, the capital of Peru. Founded by the Spanish near the Pacific Ocean, Lima is situated along Peru's central coast, on both banks of the Rimac River, at the foot of Cerro San Cristobal. It was established as the Spanish counterpart to Cusco, the inland capital of the conquered Inca Empire.

Our representative will meet you at the airport and drive you to your hotel in central Lima. In the nearby Barranco neighborhood, you'll find excellent, affordable restaurants offering a mix of Western and South American cuisine, including fresh seafood and traditional Peruvian dishes like ceviche.

In the afternoon, meet your private guide for a special food tour in one of Lima’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Sample over 15 Peruvian foods and beverages, interact with locals, and learn how to prepare famous dishes like ceviche and Pisco Sour while discovering the historical and cultural stories behind each dish.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Mercure Ariosto Hotel

Arrive in Puerto Maldonado, meet with our representative

City bus tourTravel to Puerto Capitanía

Riverboat down Madre de Dios River

Reach Ecoamazonia Lodge for drinks and lunch

Hike along trail to Caimán Cocha

Amazon sunset and dinner at the lodge

Upon your arrival in Puerto Maldonado, Peru 's capital city of biodiversity, we will welcome you at the airport. Then, we'll start our program with a visit around the city via bus.

Afterwards, we will go to Puerto Capitanía, to board a motorized riverboat, and we'll navigate on the Madre de Dios River. During the journey, we will submerge into a fascinating natural environment, if we are lucky, we will witness Ronsocos, Caimans,Turtles, Herons, Cormorants and other animal species in their natural environment.

Arriving at the Eco Amazonia Lodge, we will enjoy an exquisite welcome drink, we'll get settled in our bungalows and will have lunch together.

CAIMÁN COCHA

Once satisfied, you will be conducted by our specialized tour guide through an interpretive trail conveniently signposted to the Caimán Cocha, a small lake with an abundant presence of specimens of Black Caiman (Melanosuchus Niger) and Caiman (Caiman Crocodilus).

At the end of the evening, you will witness the spectacular sunset in the Amazon, an experience full of intensities overwhelming color ranges. Upon returning to the lodge, a delicious dinner will await you, and enjoy free time to share unforgettable moments at the bar, equipped with an excellent game room and all the drinks you can imagine

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

HOTEL STAY: Eco Amazonia Lodge

Breakfast

Trail hike into the forest

Reach Lake Apu Victor

Hang out on the observation deckLunch back at the lodge

Head to Monkey Island

Jungle sunset and dinner at the lodge

The morning begins with the sound of beautiful bird songs from the Amazon. A hearty breakfast will provide the energy for a morning full of new experiences.

LAKE APU VICTOR

After breakfast, we'll start to hike towards the depths of the forest, on trails especially prepared, with bridges to cross gorges and rivers. During the journey we will observe the flooded forest and a variety of flora and wildlife, and continuing we'll get to the majestic Lake Apu Victor with its crystal-clear waters, surrounded by marshes and giant trees.

Afterwards, we'll go up to the Observation Deck, from which we'll enjoy a panoramic view on the lake, observing parrots, macaws, toucans, camungos, shanshos, herons and other animals, such as caimans, turtles, etc., and if we are lucky, we'll have a chance to observe the giant otter, one of the rainforest's most spectacular animals. After several hours, we will head back to the lodge to enjoy lunch together.

MONKEY ISLAND

In the afternoon, accompanied by our specialized guide, we will visit Monkey Island, a unique place in the heart of Madre de Dios River, five minutes away from the Lodge. During the hike, we will observe extraordinary landscapes, with an exuberant flora sheltering a variety of monkey species, in their natural habitat, such as maquisapas, capuchins, small lion monkeys, frailes, and cotos.

Finally, we'll complete our visit of the island, enjoying the sunset, with the most impressive dusk in the jungle. Back to the lodge we conclude the day with a pleasant dinner.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

HOTEL STAY: Eco Amazonia Lodge

Return to Puerto Maldonado

Flight to city of Cusco

Meet with your driver to take you to the hotel

Walk through San Blas Quarter

Depending on the flight time, you will cruise back to the town of Puerto Maldondo and from there fly on a short flight to the city of Cusco in the heart of the Andes.

Upon landing at the airport, you will be met by the private driver, who will take you to your hotel located in the heart of Cusco's Old Town. Then go for a walk in the city's most special neighborhood, the San Blas Quarter (San Blas) The picturesque which is one of the pleasant places in the city for aimless wandering or recreation.

Many artists live in the district and have a bohemian atmosphere, and unlike other areas of the city, it is not yet flooded with tourists. It's nice to walk around the borough's alleys, be impressed with the architecture, enter the galleries and designer shops, sit in the many cafes and restaurants and go out in the evening to perform at one of the neighborhood's pubs.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

HOTEL STAY: San Agustín Plaza Hotel

8 am breakfast

Visit the Holy Valley

Visit the Viacha community in Fisk Archaeological Park

Meet with a family to learn their cultureCommunity-organized lunch

Hike down from Viacha to Pisaq Archaeological SiteVisit village of Pisaq (depending on time/energy)

After breakfast at 8 am, you will meet the private guide and we will take you away from the worn path, and give you a chance to see the Holy Valley from a different perspective.

In the morning you will visit the Viacha community on the higher slopes of Fisk Archaeological Park.

Here, Julian and his family will welcome you and invite you to spend the morning with them. They will show you their beautiful place and share more about their daily culture and activities. Exciting aspects of the rural Andes that you can learn about include tubing and camel fiber interweaving.

Then enjoy a simple but still delicious community-organized lunch with a mountain view before starting the hike down the mountain from Viacha to the Pisaq archaeological site.

This trip takes about an hour and offers spectacular scenes of the entire valley. Depending on your time and energy, keep going to the village of Pisaq, a lovely place with a colorful market.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Tierra Viva Valle Sagrado Urubamba Hotel

7:30 am breakfast and pickup

Travel to Chinchero

Explore Inca ruins and visit local textile center

Archaeological sites of Moray

Salt pools of Maras in the Sacred Valley

Visit community of Mullakas Misminay

Pachamanca (ancestral food) for lunch

After breakfast, we will start this nice journey of Experienced-Based Tourism in Mullacas Misminay with the gathering of our customers from the hotel pick up 7:30 am, then we will travel to the nice Inca town of Chinchero.

Here we will visit a nice textile center and the Inca ruins of Chinchero, following the schedule of this nice tour we will go to visit the archeological sites of Moray and Moray the salt pools in the Sacred Valley.

After those tours, we will go to the community of Mullacas Misminay where you will be welcome with music, dances, and their typical clothes to take us to the small houses of this nice village the lunch going to be the ancestral food the Pachamanca it is a typical dish based on beef, chicken with ingredients such ashuacatay, chili, cumin, pepper and other spices, as well as additional original Andean products such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, cooked only on the basis of preheated stones which makes the taste different from the typical food of the city.

In the end we will be returned to the hotel.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Tierra Viva Valle Sagrado Urubamba Hotel

This morning you will go out with the private van and guide to an ancientInca village called Ollantaytambo, a small secluded village that was anInca administrative center and retained its traditional deer as a Colombian cow. Visit the Inca Sun Temple over looking the village and the valley.

You will then meet members of the Patabamba community who speak the quechua language and are dressed in traditional clothing, from which you will learn about the ancient Inca culture and the way they manage to sustain it today. You will also learn weaving methods and fabric coloring.

Then watch locals kneel on the ground to pray for the Virgin Mary, as it did, in a celebration where they will rescue pigs and potatoes, they will pour the first drop of wine on the ground for "Pachamama." This is the Christian answer that the Indians found for the continuation of Native American tradition and rituals, after the Spanish conquerors banned them in the 16th century from worshiping the traditional gods and forcing the Christian religion on them. This practice, like other Native American customs and ceremonies, merged into the customs of the Catholic religion and became part of the routine of Christian Indians. All of these have made religion in Peru the most colorful.

Then, drive to the train station and take the train to the famous Machu Picchu site.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Tierra Viva Cusco Machu Picchu Hotel

This morning, after breakfast at 7 am, you will come up with the private guide to the most famous site in Peru, where you will find "The Lost City"–Machu Picchu, one of the most impressive historical sites in the world. It is one of the only Inca cities left almost intact and not destroyed by the Spanish. The Incas benefited from the peaks of the Andes (2,430 meters) and built heavy and massive stones from the early 15th century, but mystical and rumored legends shredded that the Machu Picchu was a holy place from earlier times.

Tour the site with a private guide, go up to the guard's cabin for observation, visit the quarry, the three-window temple, and the observation site of the ancient astronomers.

At the end of the tour, get back to the town and get on the train to Ollantaytambo and then from there on a private trip to the city of Cusco, which you will arrive in the evening.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: San Agustín Plaza Hotel

Today enjoy a private trip to Cusco where you walk the streets and reach the city center which is Plaza de Arms Square, next to the square is the Baroque-style cathedral. Look at the Koricancha Sun Temple, previously covered with gold, and now only the stone carvings remain.

Continue on a tour of the surrounding sites, the impressive Saqsayhuamansite This is a fortress–a temple built of the world's largest chiseled stones, And Tambomachay–The Inca Baths where the sacred spring comes from which the faith gives the bath in which eternal youth. Cusco is a paradise for shopping lovers. This may not be the place to buy luxury fashion brands, but other than that, in Cusco's markets you can get everything–crafts, alpaca wool clothing, pottery, jewelry, wooden musical instruments, housewares and more. Dinner show at the restaurant Tunupa.

Located in the heart of the majestic Inca city of Cusco, we offer you an impressive view of the main square and its surroundings. Open your senses with our recipes and exotic fusion of flavors, accompanied by an artistic exhibition of our PreInca culture in the gallery of the Museum/Restaurant.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / -- / Dinner

HOTEL STAY: San Agustín Plaza Hotel

We will pick you up very early in the morning around 5 am from your hotel in Cusco and after a three-hour bus ride, we will able to reach the Vinincunca Andean community, where we will have our breakfast,After it we will start our climb up until the seven color mountain, the climb up will take us three hours and a half, after time to enjoy the mountain we will continue with our way down until the community to have our lunch and after lunch bus ride back to Cusco.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Wear coat or warm clothes.

Sunscreen, 90+ factor.

Warm clothes.

Sunglasses.

Walking sticksIn the rainy season bring a raincoat.

Hike/trekking shoes.

Water

*horses not included.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: San Agustín Plaza Hotel

Depending on the time of the train ride, take the private driver to the train station and take a direct train ride through the Andes to the Titicaca Lake area (Lago Titicaca), which extend sat the foot of the Royal Ridge (Cordillera Real). The lake is considered the highest freshwater lake in the world, which crowns it with the title of "Highest Water Hope in the World Possible Cruise."

The train ride from Cusco to Puno is one of the most scenic and picturesque train trips inPeru and takes about 10 hours. It will take you through the Andes, offering stunning views of the Andes, picturesque landscapes and traditional villages along the way.

Upon arriving at the train station in the charming town of Puno, which lies on the shores of Lake Titicaca, you will meet the private driver and drive to your hotel which is right in front of the lake and enjoy the spectacular views.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Sonesta Posadas Del Inca

Today you will prepare to discover a more authentic side of Lake Titicaca. At 7:15 am you will meet the private guide and take a "fast boat" across Puno Bay and towards Taquile Island.

About an hour and a half later, you will reach a secluded section of the southern island of Taquile, where you can explore the less touristy side of Taquile, and enjoy a virgin sandy beach, there you will have plenty of time to relax and feel the tranquility of Titicaca. Then take a walk through the Pre-Inca Trail with spectacular views leading you to a family of local weavers to learn about the art of textiles and their symbolism declared by UNESCO as a world heritage.

Then, leave Taquile and make your way to Luquina a picturesque community on the Chucuito Peninsula where you will enjoy a special lunch.Relax a little on the Luquina coastline and then head back to Puno. Along the way, stop in the tourist islands, but still interesting, Uros' floats. Here, locals will be happy to show you a little of their local culture and strange island.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / Lunch / --

HOTEL STAY: Sonesta Posadas Del Inca

Depending on the flight time, the private driver will meet you and head towards the airport in the city of Juliaca. On the way, you will stop to visit the Sillustani burial site, instead of buried tribes and royalty occupied by the Inca people and is still used to this day for a hidden ritual site.

After the visit you will arrive at the airport and fly to Lima and connect to your international flight back to the country.

MEALS INCLUDED: Breakfast / -- / --

HOTEL STAY: N/A