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.

Hotel: Lima

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.

Hotel: Lima

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

Hotel: 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

Hotel: Cusco

Early flight from Cusco to Arequipa and once arrived transfer to your hotel and started to exploring this magnificent city.

Hotel: Arequipa

Pick up time 9:00am

In the morning exploring the fascinating Santa Catalina Convent, where it is so interesting to explore and big influence of the catholic religion during the colonial time, so here we are going to have an amazing explanation buy the local tour guide of the convent. We also visit the museum call “Santuarios Andinos” in where is located “mummy Juanita” the Inca mummy recently recovered from the top of Ampato Volcano and all the sacred offerings that it was with her, after this visit explore this amazing city, one of the most beautiful cities of Peru country, the city center consider a UNESCO heritage, offers such an amazing architecture a mixture of baroque and neo-classic architecture and also with its white color buildings because of the stone formation of the area call sillar which it is a volcano ash stone, give the popular name in Peru the white city (in Spanish ciudad blanca), so is very relaxing place where is wort to stay longer if you could.

Free afternoon

Hotel: Arequipa

Leave the hotel at 08:00 am Drive to Colca, with a stop in Aguadas Blancas vicuña reserve (4400 m.a.s.l. or 14476 f.a.s.l.) in where is possible to see along the way many farms of Alpacas and lamas in the distance, the land scape also is very beautiful along the drive, also we will reached the “el mirador de volcanes” located at 4990 m.a.s.l. or 16417 f.a.s.l. (volcanoes sightsee) our highest point a long of our trip, and from here is possible to see this very important volcanoes at the same time most of them snow caped mountains part of the western slope Andes of Peru, one of the most important is the Misty Volcano but also is possible to see the Ampato volcano in where in the years of 1995 where found the inka maiden of Ampato named popularly a mommy Juanita, amazing history around her. We spend one night in Colca canyon arriving here around 1:00pm for enjoyed our lunch. In the afternoon we visit an open-air hot spring

Hotel: Chivay town

We visit the Cruz del Condor, a lookout near the deepest part of the Colca Canyon, where condors spiral up on the morning thermal air currents, a long driving also is possible to observe terracing complexes, colonial churches, and a vibrant folk culture with distinctive costumes and housing styles. In the afternoon arrive to Puno.

Hotel: Puno

We leaved the Hotel at 7:30 This tour will do in shared group tour.

The highest navigable lake in the world at 3,856 m/12,650 ft., Lake Titicaca is intensively settled around its whole margin. We transfer to the port and board a motor launch for the 2 hours cruise and visit the astonishing Uros flouting Island after visit this magnificent island continue to Taquile Island.  Taquile’s rocky, terraced slopes rise precipitously from the waters in the center of the lake; We spend a delightful morning hiking on the island and after that in the afternoon return to the City of Puno. Spend the night in Puno Hotel

Hotel: Puno

Pick up time: 6:30 am

in the morning we drive couple hours before we reach the border in between Peru Bolivia (Kasani) once we pass the checking control area we drive to this beautiful town call Copacabana located at the shore of the Titicaca lake, once we leave this point we arrived to the stretch of Tiquina formed also buy the lake Titicaca so we have to get off from our car and take a small bout to cross this stretch, and after this continue driving la Paz we drive another 3 hours approximately to La Paz, arriving around 5 or 6 pm in La Paz

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. Right after the tour transfer to the airport and take the flight to Uyuni. In uyuni airport transfer to Hotel and sleep in the salt hotel

Hotel:Uyuni

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, so this place is also consider a natural UNESCO listed site, 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

Hotel: San Pedro de Atacama

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.

Hotel: Santiago de Chile

In the morning local exploration around Santiago, walk to the main square, also can go to San Cristobal mountain from where you have almost an entire view of the city, after this transfer to airport and fly home