Program 11 Days 10 Nights Lima – Arequipa – Puno – Cusco www.inkaexperience.com
Day 1. Arrival to Lima.
Upon
your international flight arrival, you’ll be met and transferred to your comfortable Lima hotel. You’ll have the day to relax and enjoy the coastal capital of Peru including it’s museums and restaurants. Overnight at your comfortable Lima hotel
Day 2. City tour , Fountains & Dinner Show.
In the morning after breakfast, you will
have your first tour of the day around the city. This excursion offers the best combination of the different attractions in Lima and its three historical periods: pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary.
At the evening, Fountains of Lima & dinner show. Guided excursion to the ―Magical Water Circuit‖ the largest water fountain compound in the world, certified by Guinness World Records. Here you will enjoy a wonderful display of water, light, music and images presented at Reserve Park, one of Limas’ most beautiful urban areas. After the tour Spend an unforgettable evening enjoying a wonderful buffet dinner and spectacular show featuring the most important manifestations of dances, music and Peruvian folklore at Dama Juana Restaurant .
Day 3. City tour After breakfast at your hotel, you’ll be taken to the airport for your flight to Arequipa. Upon your arrival you’ll be met and transferred to your comfortable Arequipa hotel. After your check in you’ll take a city tour. The duration of this tour is approximately 3:30 hours, normally you visit the church LA COMPAÑÍA and the famous San Ignacio chapel very well decorate by the native artist, with its impressive Andean Baroque style and also its monastery that normally we called LOS CLAUSTRUOS DE LA COMPAÑIA, where young men entered who wanted to become priests. After that you will visit the beautiful main square, with its CATHEDRAL with its impressive front of Classic style where we enter. The interior demonstrates us a French pulpit, a Belgian organ of big size, Italian decoration. We continue towards the Santa Catalina MONASTERY where you will visit the most famous constructions of the Colony made for women, who wanted to become nuns. It is a city in miniature.
Day 4. Colca Valley
A bus picks you up from your hotel between 08.00 and 08.30 a.m. The bus takes you on the road to Yura heading towards the Valley of the Colca. This road, a trip of 4 hours towards your first night destiny, is half asphalted and half of sand. The 4 hours trip is not direct, but highlighted with stops at the most important places. The first stop will be at the National Reserve of Aguada Blanca and Salinas, a place where you can observe the famous vicuñas and the other side of the volcanoes of Arequipa. The second stop will be at the Police station where a Passengers list will be given to them and after that you continue until the third stop, the restaurant El Chino, where you can use the bathrooms, drink a coca tea – good for stomach and altitude – and a place where you can appreciate the stone wood formations. The fourth part is a place where you can see llamas and alpacas, domesticated by the man in the heights. The fifth stop is on the highest point called Patapampa 4800 meters above sea level. Here is where you can observe 8 volcanoes forming a circle of fire. Later, you descent Chivay have lunch and rest in your hotel. You have time off after lunch, visit the market of Chivay, rest or stay in the hotel. In the afternoon you visit the hot springs of LA CALERA, where you can bathe in one of the pools with water temperature of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius and in the source 80 degrees Celsius. You return to your hotel at night and optional you visit some folkloric peñas in the town of Chivay.
Day 5. Colca Valley – Puno
After breakfast around 6.00 am you leave to the Condor Cross at 6.30 am, where you can observe the Canyon of the Colca and the flight of the Condor. From Chivay it is approximately one hour and a half driving. You’ll stay there about 1 hour. Taking the same road back to Chivay, you will visit some towns. When you arrived to Chivay you will take the bus to Puno. This trip takes 6 hours . Upon your arrival to Puno, you’ll be met and taken to your confirmed Puno hotel on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Overnight at your comfortable Puno hotel.
Day 6 Uros - Taquile
Fill up on a tasty breakfast at your Puno hotel in preparation for a full day tour of Lake Titicaca. You’ll start your expert-guided tour by visiting several of the famous floating islands. These islands are made of bundles of reeds woven together by the Uros people. In the afternoon you’ll visit the natural island Taquile where you can enjoy a simple lunch (not included) and meet the local people while your guide introduces you to their unique traditions and collective society. You’ll also see several Inca and pre-Inca ruins on the hillsides. You’ll take a boat back to your hotel and have the evening to enjoy Puno at your leisure. Overnight in Puno.
Day 7
Raqchi
After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to Puno’s bus station for your trip to Cusco. You’ll take a fascinating tourist bus trip through the Andes, where you’ll visit the archaeological sites Andahuaylillas, Raqchi, La raya and Pucara, stop for lunch, and have moments to take pictures of some of the best scenery the country has to offer. Upon your arrival to Cusco, you’ll be met and taken to your confirmed Cusco hotel . Overnight at your comfortable Cusco hotel.
Andahuaylillas
Pucara
Day 8. City tour You’ll have the morning to explore the Andean capital on your own. In the afternoon, you’ll take a guided tour of the city and surrounding area. You’ll visit the cathedral, main plaza, ruins of Sachsayhuaman, Koricancha, Puca Pucara, Qenko, and Tambomachay. You’ll also get a taste of the mixture between the Inca architecture and Spanish colonial architecture dominated by the city. You’ll have the evening to yourselves. Overnight in your comfortable Cusco hotel.
Additionally
In the afternoon, after lunch, we require an hour of your time and offer you the opportunity to help children living in a shelter in the city of Cusco. We will be given a donation and transferred to the shelter in a private car to release the grant and get involved in the social part that the company promotes. (Optional activity)
You can bring
donation The shelter is an association working since 1997 in Cusco for the rights and interests of children in need. Home to children in situations of parental or social difficulty deprotection temporary or permanent inability of the family to care for them. They come from the Family Commission, Family Courts , etc. They take children from 0 to 17, avoiding separate sibling groups. They support the integration of children with disabilities. Attending their material, educational, emotional and spiritual needs in the most possible familiar environment .
Any you think
convenient, new or in condition.
All is received.
good well
Day 9. Sacred Valley
Your full-day Sacred Valley tour begins with a scenic drive to Pisac, where you will visit its famous, lively market. Hundreds of traditionally-dressed artisans and sellers journey from surrounding villages to sell their crafts and produce at this market. Ceramics, carvings, weavings, and jewelry are popular items. You will stop in Urubamba where you will have some free time to explore the town and have lunch (included). Continue to the ancient and serene town of Ollantaytambo, which has been continuously inhabited since the 13th century, and visit its impressive hillside fortress ruins. Enjoy the breathtaking scenery during your return trip to Cusco. Overnight in Cusco.
Day 10. Machu Picchu
You’ll have an early morning wake up to begin this exciting day. Your guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to the train station for your trip to Aguas Calientes. Upon your arrival to Aguas Calientes, you’ll take a short 30-minute bus ride to the citadel of Machu Picchu. In the afternoon, you’ll have a 2-hour guided tour of the citadel. Throughout the day, you’ll have the chance to explore the ruins on your own. In the late afternoon you’ll take your return train to Cusco where you’ll be met and transferred to your Cusco hotel
Day 11
After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the Cusco airport for your flight to Lima. In Lima , take your flight back to home. Safe Journey home!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Passport requirements • A passport valid for 6 months after the date of your arrival to Peru is necessary for all travels Included • Excellent quality hotels based on U.S. standards • 2 nights in Lima, 1 night in Arequipa, 1 night in Colca Valley, 2 nights in Puno and 4 nights in Cusco. • Buffet lunch during the tour to the sacred valley • Buffet lunch during the trip Puno- Cusco. • Dinner Show in Lima. • All breakfasts • All tours stated in the itinerary • Multi-lingual, professional tour guides • All transfers and entrance fees • Machu Picchu Expeditions train From / to Ollantaytambo. • Bus tickets Arequipa –Puno / Puno – Cusco.
Price per passenger at 3-stars hotels in double room: $ 1430
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