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 pick you up at the airport and transfer you to the sacred valley of inkas (Urubamba town or nearby), so this option helps to try to avoid the strong effects of the altitude sickness because the Sacred Valley of the inkas is located at 2900 m.a.s.l. or 9541 m.a.s.l (please this only reduce a bit the effects and help the body acclimated a bit faster), so still a bit high but better than the 3340 m.a.s.l. or 10857 f.a.s.l. which is Cusco altitude location, also sacred valley has such an amazing geography with beautiful and vibrant culture in order to create this strong and relaxing atmosphere. So today is a recovering day in order to recharge our energy and continue with the visits of the following days

Pick up time: 9:30 am

First drives to Ollantaytambo for approximately 45 minutes, as soon as you arrived to Ollantaytambo, explore the magnificent town, 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 continue to Urubamba in order to enjoy our lunch, and after lunch explore the 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, after that visit Moray the circular terraces where the Inka culture or the Andean culture domesticate so many plants, return to hotel in sacred Valley.

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.

Early in the morning pick you up from the hotel and drive to Ollantaytambo train station located 30 minutes away from the hotel.

so then the ride continue and enter in to Machupicchu areas which one offers very nice views because you will fell how the ecosystem change, as soon as you reach Machupicchu train station you will enter into the cloud forest, this eco system is very unique and very fragile, and it looks like the jungle but is not, also the mountains will get very steep at this point, is a place of dense vegetation and lush area.

Once we reach Machupicchu train station, our staff from the hotel will be waiting for us where we reorganize and leaved our overnight backs and only explore with our day packs Machupicchu inka site. 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

Spend the night in Machupicchu town (in the past called as Aguas Calientes town)

Today is an optional day where you can chose of having a rest and relaxing morning before you return to Cusco from Machupicchu area or make some activities like just return to Machupicchu for your second visit (must be booked entrance fee that cost 152 peruviasn soles or 43 USD ), or if you want a bit more active exploration.

Is possible to do optional hikes in Machupicchu like, Huayna Picchu mountain takes approximately 2 hours round trip hike and also is a bit steep hike too, especially at the end of the mountain, or Machupicchu mountain takes like 3 a half hours round trip it is longer and a bit more challenge than Huaynapicchu and at the end also turns 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)  

Pick up time 09:00am

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.

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 twon 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.

Depending of the fly time, transfer to airport from the Hotel, and fly from Cusco to Lima, in Lima airport wait for your international fly connection.