Program 13 Days 12 Nights Lima – Arequipa – Cusco – P. Maldonado 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 .
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 6.
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) Overnight in your comfortable Cusco hotel.
Day 7. 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 8. 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 9. 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 10
Start your journey arriving to Puerto Maldonado and checking-in at the INKATERRA LOUNGE (BUTTERFLY HOUSE), where our staff will welcome you and give you the necessary information for your stay. Navigate by outboard motorized canoe along the Madre de Dios River to Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion (approximately 25-minute navigation). You will enjoy LUNCH with organic ingredients and native flavors. After lunch, take a walk through CONCEPCION TRAILS, our inside property nature trails, where you will discover and learn about primary and secondary rainforest, its components, uses, transformations by the human being, and its relevance for the world.
At dusk navigate by outboard motorized canoe, at the TWILIGHT RIVER excursion. Sailing on the Madre de Dios River, you will learn about its ecosystem, Amazonian creeks, nocturnal animals’ behavior, and the southern constellations. In the evening enjoy a nice DINNER at the dining room in the Casa Grande.
Day 11
New experiences are ahead and after taking a nutritious buffet BREAKFAST, get ready for a long trek through terra firma into the Tambopata National Reserve towards LAKE SANDOVAL. Here you will understand why Madre de Dios is called the biodiversity capital of Peru, while learning about the Reserve’s conservation efforts and the lake’s formation. Navigate by dugout canoe across this mirrorlike oxbow lake that is home to the endangered giant river otter , blue and yellow macaw , red howler monkey , black caiman, and one of the world’s biggest fresh water scaled fish, the paiche. Back to the lodge for LUNCH, and later on the INKATERRA CANOPY WALKWAY & ANACONDA WALK awaits for you. Take a 20-minute ride by outboard motorized canoe to the Inkaterra Canopy Walkway Interpretation Center where you will learn about its construction and the conservation projects of ITA-Inkaterra Asociacion (NGO).
Ascend one of the two 98-foot towers (30 m.) and cross the 7 hanging bridges that connect the treetops at 91 ft. high (28 m.). Enjoy the breathtaking vistas and get the chance to watch white-throated toucans, woodpeckers, trogons, squirrel monkeys and the three-toed sloth . After descending keep on feeling the incredible primary rainforest energy going along the 200-meter wooden bridge over the aguajales swamps. You will learn about the fauna and flora of this flooded ecosystem. At night get ready for an adventure at the HIDDEN RAINFOREST excursion, where you will explore the Amazon rainforest that gives way to nocturnal animals who display intriguing behavior patterns, and enhanced senses as adaptation mechanisms. Listen to nocturnal living nature sounds, and penetrate this hidden world. Return to the lodge and enjoy a nice DINNER.
Day 12
The sun rises once again and after an early BREAKFAST, you will take part of the INLAND COLLPA excursion. Walk 15 to 20 min. Towards one out of four clay licks at Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion. Learn about this mammal inland collpa activity and the difference between collpas according to their location, while looking for footprints and traces of animal activity on the clay lick salted walls, such as the agoutis (Dasyprocta variegate), peccaries among others. You will be able to use the “blinds” especially designed to observe the normal routine of the local fauna without disrupting the environment. Then continue with our NATIVE FARM excursion where you will be able to learn local techniques of cultivation and taste some of the products. Getting back to Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion you will have LUNCH. Get a rest and get ready for the COCHA water excursion. Enjoy a dugout canoe ride on the Inkaterra Hacienda Concepcion cocha lake. Try native fishing applying the “catch and release” techniques, as you enjoy the scenery observing hoatzins , a diversity of fly catchers, and gray-necked woodrails .
Disembark at the remains of Fitzcarrald steam boat, learn about its history and how it inspired Inkaterra to ask Werner Herzog to film the award-winning “Fitzcarraldo”, best director at Cannes, 1982. You will be able to participate in the INLAND COLLPA during the evening, where you will see different species and their night routines by observing through our “blinds”. End up your day with a pleasant DINNER.
Day 13.
After BREAKFAST buffet, take a ride back to Puerto Maldonado by outboard motorized canoe. Arrive at the INKATERRA LOUNGE (Butterfly House) where you may wait for your flight back to Lima. In Lima , take your flight back to home. Safe Journey home!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
*Flights: LIM – ARQ / ARQ – CUZ / CUZ P .Maldonado / P. Maldonado - LIM
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, 2 night in Arequipa, 1 night in Colca Valley , 4nights in Cusco, and 3 nights in Puerto Maldonado • Full board in Puerto Maldonado • 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.
Price per passenger at 3-stars hotels in double room: $ 1653
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