Arrival to Lima

Fly to Lima, capital city of Peru, located in Peru’s narrow coastal desert between the Pacific Ocean beaches and the towering Andes mountains. We meet you at Lima’s airport and transfer you to a comfortable hotel for overnight.

Pick up time: 9am

Lima capital city of Peru, it has a privileged location with such amazing and reach sea and sea food, and also very good connections with the Andes and the jungle places of Peru, that is why Lima is a real gastronomical capital in south America and also in the world too, beside of all this amazing privileged, this city offer to you an amazing combination of history and that is why is divided of Lima the old and the modern area, so tour with as this old are where is located Plaza Mayor or the main square, in where is located our presidential palace and the cathedral of Lima, them make a walk to San Francis monastery, visit inside the catacombs which it was the cemetery of Lima during the colonial time, also walk along the very intact and colonial streets, so all this rich history of this city center area is consider UNESCO heritage.

Free afternoon, and be host in hotel located in Miraflores district, which is the modern area

Early fly from Lima to Cusco, in the morning arrive to Cusco the former capital of the ancient Inkas, Cusco is located at 3340 meters / 10,857 feet above sea level.  We transfer you to your hotel. Is important to rest in order to adjust to the altitude, after this rest we star our walking exploration of the city, one of our first places to see is the Cathedral of Cusco which is possible to enjoy all this colonial art which is a big influence of Spain and the catholic religion but also is possible to understand the fusion of the colonial Spanish time with the influence of the pre-Columbian era, which make the mixture of what Peruvians is now days, after this wonderful visit we continue to Koricancha the magnificent ancient inka temple, which the foundations still possible to see the original and most important architecture of flourishing time of inkas, in between this two places is possible to see the magnificent plaza de armas of Cusco (main square), walking through the original inka streets that last till now days, and the vibrant life of this wonderful city, so Cusco is so important of the history not only for Peru also for the world, that is the reason why was declared UNESCO heritage in the 1983.

Spend the night in Cusco,

Pick up time: 9:00am

In the Morning we tour the Inca monuments outside of the city, visit Saqsayhuaman the enormous fortified temple with its massive ramparts of hewn stone, also the Q´enqo where the inkas carve in the same natural formation of rock the sacrificial table, Puka Pukara the inka fortress, this exploration is taken during the morning, so return to Cusco and free afternoon.

Please tonight must repack an overnight back in order to bring on next day to Machupicchu, according with train companies your overnight pack must be 5 kilos or 11 pounds of weight (please this weight is a reference, the train company never check the weight, they just want make sure you don’t bring big lugged because of the space of the train car, also you can bring your carry on if you want, beside this carry on or overnight back, also you are allow to bring a day pack per person), the rest of the lugged we leaved at the hotel.

Pick up time: 8:00am

First drive to Moray for approximately 1 hour, along the drive is possible to enjoy and see this magnificent mountains part of the Andean range, one stop along the way in order to appreciate this wonderful landscapes, as soon you arrived to Moray visit the circular terraces where the Inka culture or the Andean culture domesticate so many plants, after this exploration visit Maras salt mine where the peasants from the countryside of Maras work making polls of salt and selling their products in the market around the sacred valley and even in Cusco city, we continue to Urubamba for our lunch, and after lunch we arrived to Ollantaytambo, explore this magnificent site where many buildings display original Inca stone foundations. The adjacent Sun Temple offers some of the finest stone construction with huge boulders of rocks that where brought from almost 8km (5 miles) long, after this exploration we drive to the train station catch the train from Ollantaytambo station to Machupicchu Pueblo or town (in the pass call Aguascalientes) one hour a half trip buy train ride we arrived to Machupicchu pueblo

In the morning, we climb by bus to Machupicchu to have a tour, for most people the highlight of the trip is the visit the greatest inka site in the world, the lost city of Machu Picchu. This is one of the architectural and engineering marvels of the ancient world, in a mountain setting of staggering immensity. The Spaniards never found it, the Incas left no records about it, so Machu Picchu remains a great enigma, a city lost for centuries in the jungle, then board the train in the afternoon for the ride along the Urubamba River to Ollantaytambo train station and from here transfer buy car to Cusco, spend the night in Cusco.

Is possible to do optional hikes in Machupicchu, Huayna Picchu mountain takes approximately 2 hours round trip hike and also is bit a steep hike too specially at the end of the mountain, or Machupicchu mountain takes like 3 a half hours round trip it is longer and bit more challenge than Huaynapicchu and at the end also turns very steep, there is limits of places for those two hikes, so we have to book in advance if you want some of those specially Huaynapicchu mountain. Also, must add another different entrance ticket which the cost is 200 Peruvian soles or (55 US dollars)  

Spend the night in Cusco

Pick up time 09:00am

Drive to Pisaq town and visit the huge Inca site above the village, Pisaq is very large monument and very beautiful location so is possible to explore in very slow and gentle way but is an optional hike you can do, so hardly recommend you if you have the conditions to do the hike of 2 and a half hours to the sun temple (inti watana) or even to the town of Pisaq 3 to 4 hours, so is going to be optional, lunch in Pisaq town and in the afternoon before to return to Cusco explore and enjoy the small local market. Arrived to Cusco at 5pm.

Spend the night in Cusco

Early flight from Cusco to La Paz in Bolivia.

In the morning relax and rest a little bit more.

La Paz city tour: in the afternoon at 2:00 pm we take a city tour, we can take the highest cable car cross the city from north to south and visit the moon valley, and  the plaza Murillo where is located the par lament and the presidential house.

In the morning very early pick up from hotel in order to drive to airport in alto La Paz and fly for 45 minutes till Uyuni, so here our 4 wheel drive will pick up us from airport.

Today is another highlight day of the trip, because this amazing natural formation is very unique and also the altitude is over the 3600 m.a.s.l. or 11844 f.a.s.l. our land cruiser 4 WD drive will pick up us and continue to the salt flat of Uyuni, in here is possible to do the most beautiful and surreal pictures, you don’t have to have a sophisticated cameras to made, also the amazing view of salt flat is spectacular, with it 9000 square kilometers it looks a real salt sea, we will drive until the fish inland, visit this calcarium formation of fossils for 30 minutes, from the top section is possible to see how big is this salt plain of Uyuni, after this visit drive to our hotel

We drive through the salar de Chiguana, a thin salt crusted plain, along the road is possible to see many calcarium formation, and from the distance is possible to see the active volcano in Bolivia call Ollague, the land scape is very beautiful, so is possible to see many mountains still part of the Andes in south America, also we are going to arrive and cross many lagoons a long this drive one of that is Canapa, and the Hedionda lagoon, the color of the lagoons are turquoise colors it is a places who host a small groups of Flamingos, and ducks, we enjoyed our lunch near this lagoons, after this stops we arrived to our hotel located in the Siloli desert

Early in the morning we take our car and driving through Siloli desert, in where is possible to find and see the natural formation cause buy winds and famously named “stone three”, it is an inspiration to say that mother nature is the most great artist on earth the location of this place is very high over the 4500 m.a.s.l. or 14805 f.a.s.l., right after this visit we enter in to the national reserve named “reserve Eduardo Avaroa” here we stop to see one the most beautiful lagoon in Bolivia in Spanish call Laguna Colorada or red lagoon, the red color of the waters give the name to this lagoon, so also host one of the most larges population of flamingos (3 kinds of them), after this stop we continue in order to arrive to the green lagoon, so along the way we cross the Salvador Dali desert, named like that because some of the paintings of this famous artist are like this desert, after our stop at the green lagoon we reach the border with Chile and switch the cars into another one from Chile side and drive 45 minutes to San Pedro de Atacama, very small town in the middle of the desert, so we rest here

In the morning at 07:00 am, we take local bus to Calama arriving in Calama at 08:30 am, then transfer from the bus station to the airport and wait for the fly that leaves at 09:45am, and arriving in Santiago at 11:50am, overnight in Santiago.