Andean Explorer

Itinerary Lima (2), (3), Puno (2) DAY 1 LIMA Fly to Lima, a city of changes, a place of complex where the Inca fought their last battles. Lunch contrasts and showcase of all Peru. More than 400 years is included in today’s tour. ago, it was named Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings) DAY 5 CUSCO Travel by train to Aguas Callientes, Highlights by conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Your courier will meet situated at the foot of the Ruins. Take you at the airport and escort you to your hotel. a bus up to the ruins for a guided tour that includes • Lima City Tour DAY 2 LIMA Today’s guided Lima City Tour includes the lunch. The natural surroundings and the mystical • Larco Herrera Main Square, the Cathedral, and San Francisco Convent atmosphere make this place unique and unforgettable. Museum and Catacombs. Learn about the craftsmanship of Machu Picchu was built with its constructions following • Sacsahuaman Peru’s forgotten Pre-Columbian civilizations at the Larco the natural curves, dips and rises in the land. See the Fortress Herrera Museum, where you will see magnificently houses, temples, palaces and altars; all surrounded by crafted pieces of art, including ceramic pieces, textiles, terraces cut into the mountainside that were used for • Cusco City Tour jewelry, and the Mummies Hall, where you can get an agriculture. Return by train to Cusco for a dinner that • Full Day Sacred idea of how ancient Peruvians worshipped their dead. includes a colorful Andean Folklore Show. Valley Tour Savor a delicious Peruvian Dinner at one of the best DAY 6 PUNO Travel by train to legendary Lake Titicaca, • Ollantaytamo local restaurants tonight. nestled high in the Andes. You will pass through a Ruins DAY 3 CUSCO Fly to Cusco, mythical capital of the Inca picturesque, winding river valley with villages and • Machu Picchu Empire. This afternoon visit Sacsayhauman Fortress in cultivation, then the landscape opens out and the Tour the surrounding mountains, a jewel of . railway line climbs past snow peaks to La Raya pass • Andean Folklore On to Q’ enquo, a rock sanctuary with a monolithic altar (14,000 ft.), one of the highest rail lines in the world. Dinner representing a puma; the red fortress of Puca-Pucara; Arrive in Puno, a city perched at a breathtaking 12,400- and , a beautiful fountain fed by a spring ft. above sea level, legendary birthplace of the founders • Scenic Train Ride to Puno forming a series of basins. Also tour the City of Cusco to of the . see the Main Square and the Santo Domingo Church or DAY 7 PUNO Take a boat tour of Lake Titicaca, • Lake Titicaca the Koricancha (Temple of the Sun). Dinner tonight is in Boat Tour the highest navigable lake in the world. See the a restaurant on the Plaza Major, with a magnificent view extraordinary Floating Reed Islands, home to the Uros • Floating Reed of the twin-towered cathedral, one of the first buildings Indians, who still live as their ancestors did a thousand Islands of the constructed by the Spaniards in 1560. years ago. Take a short walk on one of these islands Uros DAY 4 CUSCO Take a full day excursion through the constructed entirely of “totora,” a bulrush that grows • of breathtaking scenery of the Andean mountains to the at certain parts on the shore. Return to Puno and tour Sillustani Tour of the Inca (Urumbamba). Visit the Indian the mysterious pre-Inca burial towers, the intriguing market town of Pisac, founded during colonial times, Chullpas of Sillustani. and set at the foot of a hill crowned by the ruins of DAY 8 DEPART Transfer to the airport at , then an Inca city. Here you will have time to shop for craft arrive in Lima for your flight home, filled with memories items. Also visit , an archaeological of your days as an Andean Explorer.

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