Program 14 Days 13 Nights Lima – Paracas – Nazca - Arequipa – 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. Ballestas Island
Very early in the morning, you will be transferred to the bus station to take the bus to Paracas. This trip takes about 4 hours. When you arrived, around 7: 30 a.m, you will be transfer to the port of Paracas to start your first tour to the ballestas island. At the end of these tours you will be transfer to your comfortable hotel in Paracas to enjoy his facilities.
Day 4. Transfer to Nazca .
In the mid day , you will be transferred to the bus station to take the bus to Nazca. This trip takes about 4 hours. Once you arrived a representative of our company will pick you up and transfer to you comfortable hotel in Nazca. Rest of the day free to explore the city.
Day 5. Nazca lines.
In the morning, after breakfast, you will be transferred to the Nazca airport to take your over flight around the Nazca Lines. This tour takes 35 minutes and includes a guide who will detail the different line figures formed and give you some of the mystical history surrounding these figures. At the end you will be transferred to your hotel and at night you will take the bus to Arequipa. The trip takes abut 10 hours.
Day 6. City tour 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 7. 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 8. Colca Valley .
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 visit the Colca towns Yanque, with its beautiful church and Maca with its interesting geological problem, the lookout points Huayrapunko – a complete view of the terraces and the mysterious lagoons of the valley – Quehuisha – ice melts originated from the Amazons – . Finally you arrive in Chivay, where You’ll have time for lunch and after that you return to Arequipa around 5 pm. Overnight in Arequipa.
Day 9 .
Upon your arrival in Cusco, you’ll be met by an Inka Experience representative and transferred to your comfortable hotel. Take the day to acclimatize to the altitude in Cusco (14,200 ft. above sea level)
Day 10. City tour In the morning, after breakfast, 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 11. 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. After the tour you will transfer to the train station to take your train to Aguas Calientes. When you arrive you will be transferred to the hotel .
Day 12. 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 13.
You’ll have the day to yourselves in the Andean capital to explore on your own. There is much to do in the area that may be of interest such as visiting Maras and Moray, the Southern Sacred Valley, returning to any of the destinations in town that you enjoyed or visiting the local markets and doing some shopping. Overnight in your comfortable Cusco hotel.
Day 14.
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 domestic transportation costs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
*Flights: Arequipa - Cusco / Cusco - Lima
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 Paracas, 1 night in Nazca, 2 nights in Arequipa , 1 night in Colca Valley , and 5 nights in Cusco. • Buffet lunch during the tour to the sacred valley. • 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 Lima – Paracas / Paracas – Nazca / Nazca - Arequipa
Price per passenger in double room at 3-stars hotels $ 1685 Group Service Price in American Dollars.
Quotes are valid as of today’s date and are subject to change until purchased in full. The least expensive schedule and ticketing option has been quoted – if you have a specific schedule preference or would like a more flexible ticketing option, quotes are available upon request.