Arrival in Lima
Arrival to Lima in the evening. At arrival, meeting with a staff member and transfer to hotel in Miraflores in the Northern Part of Lima. The hotel is located in a nice, safe area with plenty of restaurants and shops.
Checkin and relax.
Included meals: None

Visit to Lima City & Natural History Museum
CITY TOUR IN LIMA:
Private services (5 hours)
Experience the capital of Peru through a diverse tour including the old center of Lima with the beautiful decorated squares surrounded by architecture from the colonial age.
As Peru is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, the visit to the museum will make you appreciate the Andean and pre-Colombian art even more.
Entrance to the Cathedral and San Francisco included.

Afterwards continue the tour to the Natural History Museum
The natural history museum is dedicated to scientific research and the exhibition of species of flora and fauna world heritage found in Peru, visited mostly by children and which is a source of learning par excellence.
Its facilities are under the supervision of the Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos de Lima. The natural history museum is made up of 4 large rooms (botany, zoology, geosciences and ecology) to discover the diversity of research carried out by its technical staff.
Included meals: Breakfast

Travel to Arequipa & “Reality Tour”
Private transfer to airport. Flight to Arequipa. Meeting with staff and transfer to hotel.
REALITY TOUR IN AREQUIPA AND SANTA CATALINA CONVENT (Half a day)
Private services (4 hours)
During this unique experience you learn more about the social problems of Arequipa. First, you visit the outskirts of the city, where people’s livelihood still depends on extracting ignimbrite stones, which have been used for most of the constructions in Arequipa. The extraction still takes place by hand. Subsequently, you continue to a typical local restaurant and market, to gain a better feeling of how daily life of the working class looks like.
On the way back to city center, you make a short stop to visit a kindergarten for the children of this neighborhood. Then, from a viewpoint nearby, you have an excellent view of the geology of this region, which is special because of the active volcanoes located not far from Arequipa. This half-day tour ends in the city’s old town, with a visit to the Santa Catalina Monastery to discover another rough reality, this time from the past.
Please be aware that the Kindergarden is closed on Sundays!
Included meals: Breakfast

Colca Canyon
COLCA TOUR 2D/1N
Shared services
After breakfast pickup from the hotel. Drive to Chivay. Our first stop is in the National Reserve of “Pampa Cañahuas”. The second stop is at a restaurant called the Chinitos at 4000 meters in height. Here you can use the restrooms and have a caca leave tea. Enjoy the view over the volcanoes Misti and PichuPichu, Chachani.
Continue the trip towards Colca. Next stop is on the pampas of Toccra where you can appreciate gaps and water from underground and observe lamas, alpacas and some Andean birds.  Next stop is the viewpoint Pata Pampa at 4900 meters high. From here you can see 8 volcanoes that form a circle of fire. From here descend to Chivay, the most important town of the Colca Valley. Chivay is at 3650 meters high. Lunch will be in Chivay (not included).
After lunch, check in to hotel and relax.
In the afternoon there is a visit to the hot spring, called La Calera (entrances not included).
In the evening there will be an optional tour to a club where you can get to try some typical food, drinks and enjoy the folkloric show.
Included meals: Breakfast

Colca Canyon & Puno
COLCA TOUR 2D/1N
Shared services
After breakfast pick up from the hotel. Drive an hour and half to the Condor´s Cross, where you can see the Colca Canyon and the flight of the Condors.
During the way you will get some beautiful views of the Colca Valley with its terraces for agriculture. On the way back we will visit the lookout Huayra Punko where we will had a magnificent view across to the valley of Colca. The third stop is the lookout Antahuilque where you can see the amphitheater-shaped terraces.
The last stop is a visit to the town of Maca. Return to Chivay around midday where we have time for lunch.
After lunch continue the journey to Puno. It’s a 5 hour tour that will take you through more infinite and beautiful landscapes. You will drive through most of the Peruvian “altiplano” and in the way we will do some stops like Chinito, lagunillas where you can see beautiful landscapes with a lagoon and birds. Arrival to Puno in the afternoon.
The transfer from Colca to Puno is without guide.
Included meals: Breakfast

Luquina community (Titicaca)
Private services
Luquina is a small and rarely visited rural community in the peninsula of Chucuito. It takes around 1 and a half hour’s boat ride from the town of Puno.
The local families from Luquina share with us their peaceful existence, each family lives on a small piece of land where they also keep their domestic animals. Sometimes they have donkeys, pigs, sheep and hens in a little barn next to the house.

8:00: The tour starts in Puno. We transfer you from the hotel to the dock in Puno. We embark on a boat journey towards Taquile Island and later on to the community of Luquina. On the way to Taquile, we stop by the floating Islands of Uros for a guided interpretation of the local way of life of the Uro people.

11:30: We arrive in Taquile Island and start a soft hike up to a community where we will enjoy a textile and cultural exhibition where a native guide will provide and interpretation of the traditional clothing and textile designs from Taquile.

12:30: Lunch in Taquile Island.

13:30: We return to the dock to continue our trip to the community of Luquina.

15:00: Upon our arrival in Luquina, we will be greeted and welcome by the friendly members of the community. We will immediately notice their beautiful bright typical clothing and enjoy the sound of their musical instruments. As part of the community based tourism initiative, travelers cans spend time with the locals, gaining and insight into such daily activities as farming, fishing sailing and cookery. Some groups have been able to play soccer and volleyball against the locals; such sport activities are the favorites of local children and young people to share with the visitors.

19:00: A delicious dinner made of local produce will be served in the host family house: Quinoa soup and a tasty potato and vegetable stew with rice. Communication might be difficult as the local people speak mostly Aymara and some Spanish but they are very warm and gracious. Gesturing and smiling works often very well!

20:00: In the evening, the community will offer us a chance to enjoy their Andean music played with traditional instruments and we will be more than welcome to try to join the local group for either dancing or playing a local musical instrument. Do not be surprised when you will also be given the opportunity and privilege to try on the local dress and costumes.
Night in a local family house.
Included meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Luquina community (Titicaca)
Private services

8:00: After breakfast, the morning will be filled with more activities such as hikes around the community and through the paths crossing the small farmlands or sailing on a fishermen’s boat around the peninsula’s cliffs.
For those who love trekking, there is an option to do a one hour hike up to a lookout point. The hike can be tough, because of the altitude, but the views are worthy reward. The vastness of Lake Titicaca is breathtaking and the sight is graced with the small, terraced farms, adobe buildings and a peaceful lakeshore’s beach.

13:00: lunch time (not included)

14:00: After lunch our host families will wave goodbye as we embark again on the boat back to Puno and to continue on the next adventure.

15:30: We arrive in Puno dock and we will be transfer to our hotel.
Included meals: Breakfast

Travel to Cusco
TOURISTIC BUS FROM PUNO TO CUSCO
Shared services
Morning transfer to bus station.
6:40 am Departure (Puno) 3800 meters of altitude. Terrestrial Terminal of Puno.

8:50 am Pucará Museum 3900 meters of altitude. Pucará was the first regional population nucleus in the Titicaca basin north of the lake during the Late Formative Period (500 BC-200 AD), which provides valuable information about the origins of the Andean civilization in the highlands. During its heyday, it covered more than a square kilometer and housed thousands of bureaucrats, priests, artisans, farmers, shepherds, and possibly warriors. The Pucará style is identified by impressive monolithic sculptures with a variety of geometric, zoomorphic, and more intricate anthropomorphic images, multi-colored ceramics in a variety of ritual and domestic forms.

11:00 am — La Raya — 4335 meters of altitude. Abra La Raya (La Raya) is the watershed between the valley that flows into Lake Titicaca and the valley that leads to Cusco and the Sacred Valley. The altitude is 4,338 meters (14,232 feet).

11:35 am — Marangani Buffet Lunch — 3552 meters altitude. Sicuani is a relatively large city of the highlands. The city is an important intersection, with the road to Puno / Arequipa passing through here. This city is surrounded by beautiful snowy hills. Afterward, you have a buffet lunch in our exclusive restaurant with a family atmosphere.

1:00 pm — Raqchi “Temple of Wiracocha” — 3225 meters of altitude. The most important building within the complex is the “Wiracocha temple” that according to the ancient chroniclers was built by the Inca Wiracocha in honor of the invisible Superior God of the Andean people: “Apu Kon Titi Wiracocha”. The “Wiracocha Temple” is a great construction for that age. Architecturally it is classified as “Kallanka”, that is, a tall building completely covered with straw (wood and “ichu”). Externally it is 92 meters long (302 feet) and 25.25 meters wide (83 feet).

3:30 pm — Andahuaylillas “Sistine Chapel of America” — 3122 meters of altitude. There, you will find the church of San Pedro Apóstol de Andahuaylillas, built by the Jesuits in the 16th century. Like other Spanish and religious constructions of the time, it was built on top of a huaca or sacred place for the Incas. Made of adobe and brick, the church is a small structure consisting of a single nave, apse and bell tower. But there is a reason why it is known as the Sistine Chapel of America.

5:00 pm – Arrival (Cusco) – 3400 meters of altitude.
At arrival transfer to hotel in Cusco.
Included meals: Breakfast, lunch

City tour & Chocolate Workshop
CUSCO CITY TOUR & SURROUNDINGS (half a day)
Private services
Time to explore magical Cusco! This beautiful city has an interesting history, both from Inca and colonial times. You start this half-day tour at Cusco’s main square, which was called Huacaypata (Warriors Square) by the Incas.
While the guide tells you more about the history of this special place, you can admire the city’s cathedral that was built between 1560 and 1664 with the red granite stones from the Inca Fortress of Sacsayhuaman. The cathedral is without doubt one of the most impressive buildings in Cusco, and not only from the outside: the historical buildings hosts one of the most significant collections of gold and silver work of the colonial period.
Next, you continue to Koricancha and the Convent of Santo Domingo. The convent was built on top of the most important Inca temple dedicated to the worship of the sun, with walls covered with gold leaf. Wandering through the streets of what once was the capital of the Inca Empire, you feel like you are traveling through time.
After exploring Cusco, you head to the nearby ruins, such as the Sacsayhuaman Fortress with its immense temple walls made out of huge stones constructed in a zigzag pattern; the red fort Puca Pucara; the Qenko Amphitheater, and Tambomachay, the Inca baths. Full of new knowledge about the history of the Incas, you return to your hotel in Cusco.

CHOCOLATE WORKSHOP
Private service (2 hours)
Learn the entire chocolate-making process starting with the cocoa tree from the Peruvian jungle and make your own chocolates (120 g) with milk or dark chocolate and more than 15 different flavors to choose from.
Prepare three drinks during the workshop: a cocoa tea, a sacred drink of the Mayas and the European hot chocolate.
Get your own handmade chocolates, made the way you like and bring them back to your friends and family.
The workshop lasts 2 hours and you can pick up your chocolates 45 minutes after the end of the workshop.
Included meals: Breakfast

Sacred Valley: Pisaq, Awanacancha & Ollantaytambo
TRADITIONAL SACRED VALLEY TOUR WITH AWANACANCHA
Private services
The Sacred Valley, located between Cusco and Machu Picchu, was unquestionably an important area for the Incas. Its agreeable climate and fertile plains create the perfect conditions for growing crops. For the Incas, this region was also on the route to the jungle and had therefore a key role in trading fruits and plants of the tropical lowlands. Today, the Sacred Valley remains a lush agricultural region supplying the city of Cusco with many agricultural products.
With this full-day tour, you start the day with visiting the Pisac Andean market, where thousands of people from the region come to sell and/or buy agricultural products and handicrafts. It is an interesting experience offering you new insights in the cultural of this region and, of course, you also have time to do some shopping!
You also have the opportunity to get to know Awanacancha, a place where you can see several species of Andean camelids such as llamas, alpacas, vicunas and guanacos. The locals will show you their traditional weaving and dyeing techniques while telling about this ancient tradition. It is not only interesting for you; this demonstration also contributes to keeping traditional textile arts alive.
In the afternoon, you visit the Ollantaytambo Ruins. These famous ruins are named after Ollanta, a warrior who fell in love with an Inca princess but was not allowed to marry her. One of the best preserved sites of this area is known as Hanan Huacaypata and is north of the main square. This ruin exists out of elegantly crafted stone walks. The tour is concluded with a stop at Chinchero, a village specialized in textile products that also has an interesting Inca history. Afterwards, you are brought to your hotel in Ollantaytambo.
*The order of the visits may change.*
Included meals: Breakfast, lunch

Sacred Valley: Mountain Bike or Rafting
Choose between one of the following tours:

MOUNTAIN BIKING TO MARAS AND MORAY
Private services (Full day)
After we pick up our passengers from their hotels, we will travel for 1 hour approximately until the community of Chequerec (Chinchero), where we will begin our adventure on bicycles, going around Huaypo Lake, towards the archeological group of Moray.
We continue our tour by a bridle path that leads us to the village of Maras, where we will enjoy our picnic lunch; from here the road is downhill.
After lunch we continue riding to the salt mines of Maras. After visit the salt mines, we continue the descent towards the Sacred Valley of the Incas, ending the tour in Tarabamba.
From this point we board our transportation to return to hotel in Ollantaytambo.

RAFTING OLLANTAYTAMBO
Shared services (full day)
We will pick up our passengers in their respective hotels, to start the trip to the Sacred Valley, for approximately 01: 15hrs, we will arrive at our Adventure Center, located at Km 84 of the Urubamba – Ollantaytambo road, where we have a private, exclusive jetty for our clients, with bathrooms, changing rooms, showers, private parking and a hectare of beautiful gardens. Here you will receive the safety talk and we will start the tour on the river for approximately two hours of adventure and fun.
At first we will find calm waters where we can practice the guide’s instructions, on the descent we will find the fast “The Station” and at the end “The Slipper ”, all the time we will be accompanied by a wonderful landscape while appreciating Inka platforms currently used by local farmers and fishermen in their daily work.
In the afternoon we will return to your hotel in Ollantaytambo.
Included meals: Breakfast

Sacred Valley: Zip Line & Viaferrata
ZIP LINE & VIA FERRATA
Private services
This tour has been made to offer an amazing MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE for people without any experience. It will be an experience of a lifetime.
It is a combo for both activities, you will climb 400 meters of via ferrata and descend the mountain using 6 zipwires (150 mts to 700 mts).
After the tour, return to hotel in Ollantaytambo.
Included meals: Breakfast, box lunch

Inca Trail 2d/1n (soft hike)
INCA TRAIL 2 DAYS / 1 NIGHT
Shared services
Luggage allowed: A daybackpack with 8 kilos per person. Rest of luggage , must be left at your hotel.
The tour starts with pickup at hotel around 8 am.
After our arrival at KM 104 by train, the Royal Inca Trail begins with a hike to Chachabamba (2270m/7448f), where our guide will inform us about the previous function of this archaeological site. Thereafter, we will reach Wiñayhuayna (2650m/8694f), the most important archaeological site besides Machu Picchu. After that our trail continues towards the Sun Gate “Inti Punku”, a nice viewpoint from which we can enjoy the nightfall on Machu Picchu (2400m/7874f). Since we have to continue our walk to our hotel in Aguas Calientes, we will only spend little time in the sanctuary of Machu Picchu on the first day.
Level of difficulty: Moderate Hiking time: 06 hours Total distance: 12 km
The Inca Trail does not operate in February due to the rainy season.
Included meals: Breakfast, box lunch, dinner

Inca Trail 2d/1n (soft hike) & Machu Picchu
Shared services
We will leave our hotel in Aguas Calientes towards Machu Picchu after breakfast at about 5:30am by bus. We are leaving that early because at this time the site is less crowded and the morning is a good time to enjoy the calmness and the ancient spirit of the best-known archaeological site on the continent.
After our arrival at the citadel around 6:00am, our guide will give us detailed information about Machu Picchu and the history and culture of the Inca. Thereafter, you will have enough free time to enjoy and explore the site on your own (f.ex. go to the Inca Bridge, explore the variety of buildings or climb Huayna Picchu for an amazing panorama picture).
A bus takes you down to Aguas Calientes. We will leave Aguas Calientes in the afternoon. Return to Cusco by the end of the day.
Level of difficulty: normal Hiking time: 2 hours Total distance: 4 km
Included meals: Breakfast

Departure
Transfer to airport in Cusco.
End of tour.
Some might want to extend the trip with one of our interesting jungle tours.
Included meals: Breakfast