Peru Classic And Mysterious - Cusco - Puno - Paracas Classic And Mysterious Lima - Cusco - Puno - Paracas

Country : Peru City : Lima - Cusco - Puno - Paracas Brand : Travel with Freedom Duration : 12 days - 11 nights Destinations Visited : Lima (4 nights) - Cusco (2 nights) - Sacred Valley (1 night) - Machu Picchu (1 night) - Puno (2 nights) - Paracas (1 Night) Type of Service : Peru Journeys Type of Interest : Culture & Heritage – Archaeology – Scenic Views Level : Easy Category : Tourist - Tourist Superior - Superior - Deluxe Accommodation : Hotels Private Departures : Daily Lima Season : All year Guide : Included Company Representative : Included Language : English Cusco Entrance Tickets : As required Paracas Puno

Day 1: Day 2: finally you will drive through the old streets, Lima Lima where you will have a spectacular view of traditional mansions and Moorish style balconies. You will then continue through An airport officer, properly identified, will You will visit colonial Lima, the Cathedral, classic and modern Lima. Finally, you will be waiting for you with your name on a located in the Main Square, it is in the same enjoy an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean. board. He will help you with everything place as the original building of 1555. After Overnight. related to your luggage, follow the the earthquake in 1746, the Cathedral was previous flights and if at last minute you rebuilt on the same site under the direction : Colonial City Tour Activity of the Day have any reprogramming he will help of Jesuit priest Juan Rehr. Both its facade (Regular/Private - 4 hours) you. Later, he will take you to the hotel, and interior are austere with its remarkable Accommodation : Selected Hotel during the way to the city of Lima he will wooden choir stalls, altars and the tomb of Meals : Breakfast tell you your itinerary and give you the , who died in 1541. Later, Altitude : 144 m.a.s.l. / 472 ft. Lima most important information of the city. you will visit the Church of San Francisco, Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F Cusco Once you are at the hotel, you will rest or its convent, Art Museum, cloisters and enjoy its facilities. catacombs. Day 3:

Accommodation : Selected Hotel Afterwards, you will have a panoramic Lima - Cusco Flight Lima - Cusco|AM| 1 hour 30 min Altitude : 144 m.a.s.l. / 472 ft. view of the Main Square with the Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F Government Palace, the Municipal Hall, This morning, return to the airport for the “Desamparados” Train Station, and your 1 and a half hour flight, over the onto the Church and Convent of Santo worship of water and a resting place for Day 4: Andes Mountains to Cusco, the heart Domingo, a Spanish construction the Inca monarch. Cusco - Sacred Valley of the . You are met at the belonging to the Dominican Order built Kenko, it is said to have been a worship airport in Cusco and transfer to your hotel. upon the foundations of the Inca temple In the morning, you will be picked up from site. There is a huge 5, 9 m high stone of Koricancha or Temple of the Sun. your hotel and will head east, towards the block that looks like a puma. There are In the afternoon, you will be picked up Koricancha (in quechua, site of gold) archaeological complex of Pisac, a journey also passages, canals and stairways from your hotel, and you will start the was the main religious building of the which takes approximately 1 hour and 35 with stone engravings representing City Tour visiting Cusco’s Historical Inca Incas dedicated to the worship of the minutes. We will stop on route to take some animals. Finally, Puca Pucará, which was and Spanish Colonial Monuments, such Sun and whose walls, according to the pictures, and admire the Pucara Bulls on an administrative and military centre as the Main Square, known in Inca times chroniclers, were plated with sheets of the roofs of Andean houses. These small formed by terraces, stairways, passages, as Huacaypata or the Warrior’s Square; gold. Magnificent blocks of finely carved bulls are thought to be amulets that bring turrets and vaulted niches. You will it was the scene for many key events in stone were used in its construction. wealth to each family who owns them; they return to your hotel. Cusco’s history. are usually given as gifts on weddings. Once After, you will visit the surrounding ruins inside the archaeological complex of Pisac, The Cathedral, originally built on the of the city of Cusco: Sacsayhuamán, : Tour of the City & Surrounding Activity of the Day Temples the guide will give a brief explanation of site of the old temple of Suntur Wasi this huge Inca fortress is built on (Regular/Private - 4 hours) the site, then you will be able to appreciate (House of God), now the church of El three overlapping platforms, each of Accommodation : Selected Hotel the magnificent Andean terraces, which Triunfo, a particular interest are the them over 360 m long. Then, onto Meals : Breakfast were built to expand agriculture land, choir cloisters, the pulpit, the engravings Tambomachay, known as the Inca baths. Altitude : 3,399 m.a.s.l. / 11,152 ft. containment terraces and paths. Then you on the altar and furniture. Continue It was apparently a site dedicated to the Average Temperature : 16°C / 61°F will proceed to the artisan market of Pisac, where you will have the opportunity to interact with local people and appreciate : Visit the archaeological complex of the citadel, a huge complex located In the afternoon, you will return to their craftsmanship. Activity of the Day Pisac & The Pisac Market between the mountains and the jungle Aguas Calientes to explore by your own (Regular/Private - 8 hours) and a wonderful challenge to your the village or rest in your hotel where Accommodation : Selected Hotel Next on the itinerary is Urubamba, a 1 hour Meals : Breakfast imagination. you will spend the night. trip, in which you will be able to enjoy the Altitude : 2,800 m.a.s.l. / 9,187 ft. : Tour of Machu Picchu scenery of the Sacred Valley. You will visit Average Temperature : 16°C / 61°F Upon arrival at Aguas Calientes, reception Activity of the Day the local market where you can see the at the train station and transfer uphill (Regular/Private - 3 hours) different types of products and fruit that are to Machu Picchu (approximately 20 Meals : Breakfast - Dinner Accommodation : Selected Hotel grown locally. Buffet lunch. Day 5: minutes). On arrival to Machu Picchu you Altitude : 2,400 m.a.s.l. / 7,874 ft. will begin your tour of the Citadel where Sacred Valley - Machu Picchu Average Temperature : 18°C / 64°F After traveling for 25 minutes, you will Train Ollanta - Machu Picchu |Tourist Class|AM| 2 hours you will appreciate the history of this reach the town of Ollantaytambo, which enigmatic and impressive place. has a distinct Inca urban planning. You After breakfast, you will be transferred Day 6: will then visit the religious, astronomical to the train station to board the Tourist The citadel was built on a very special Machu Picchu - Cusco and military complex with the same Class Train to Machu Picchu, a great spot covered in vegetation between Train Machu Picchu - Poroy Station|Tourist Class|PM |3 hours name. Ancient Peruvians moved boulders World Heritage Site. This archaeological two mountains: the Machu Picchu of nearly 60 metric tons from one site was hidden for centuries, until it (old mountain) and Huayna Picchu Morning at leisure. mountain to another across the river and came to light during the early 1900s, by (young mountain), at the foot of which valley. Finally, you will be transferred to the famous discoverer Hiram Bingham. meanders the Urubamba or Vilcanota (Optional: 2nd Entrances and return your hotel in the Sacred Valley River (lower Jungle featuring abundant Shuttle Bus: US$ 99 per person - Guide Overnight. It is impossible to describe in words, flora and fauna). not included) how you will feel when faced with

In the afternoon, you will be transferred will visit Andahuaylillas and the villages of descend from one of the most ancient to the train station to board your return Pucará, Raqchi. Upon arrival, you will be peoples of the Americas, and still to this train to Cusco. Upon arrival, reception transferred to your hotel, where you will day practise their ancient traditions. Their and transfer to your hotel. spend the night. dwellings made of totora reed, are built on the surface of Lake Titicaca. : Journey to Puno Meals : Breakfast Activity of the Day (Regular - 10 hours) Accommodation : Selected Hotel Afterwards, you will make your way Accommodation : Selected Hotel Altitude : 3,399 m.a.s.l. / 11,152 ft. to the unique Island of Taquile, where Meals : Breakfast - Lunch Average Temperature : 16°C / 61°F time appears to have stopped. The Altitude : 3,811 m.a.s.l. / 12,504 ft. Average Temperature : 12°C / 54°F Mediterranean atmosphere of this place is striking, with its steps of stone and its Day 7: houses centred around the square. Its Cusco - Puno Day 8: indigenous community that lives here has Cusco Puno around 350 families that are descendants In the morning, you will be transferred of the Incas and well-known for their Puno to the local bus station, to board the 1st In the morning you will begin your full textile activities, such as their beautifully class bus to the city of Puno. It is an all day day visit to the floating island, known as woven chumpis (belts), chullos (caps), trip starting at 7:00 hrs. crossing the great “Uros” in Lake Titicaca. Located 4 km / 2.5 and ojotas (and sandals). According to anti plano with the ever presence snow- miles from Puno, the original inhabitants the custom, officials are distinguished by capped Andean Mountains. On route, you of these floating islands are said to black or brown caps.

Day 9: to the bus station to board your regular bus Taquile also offers a magnificent lake Puno - Lima or private car to Paracas (depending of the landscape from where the impressive Flight Puno - Lima|1 hour 30 min selected service), located approximately 4 snowfalls of the Cordillera Real (Real hours south of Lima. mountain chain) can be seen. In the At the coordinated time, transfer to afternoon you will return to the hotel, Upon arrival, take the 1 hour and 40 minute Juliaca’s Airport to board your flight to where you will spend the night. flight over the Nazca Lines. A once in a Lima. Upon arrival reception and transfer lifetime chance to see and to photograph to your hotel : Full Day at Uros & Taquile this immense Pre-Incan astronomical Activity of the Day Islands calendar comprised of extraordinary and Accommodation : Selected Hotel (Regular/Private - 8 hours) mysterious designs that were discovered in Meals : Breakfast Accommodation : Selected Hotel the 1930’s. After the over flight you will be Meals : Breakfast - Lunch Altitude :144 m.a.s.l. / 472 ft. transferred to your selected hotel in Paracas Altitude : 3,811 m.a.s.l. / 12,504 ft. Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F where you will spend the night. Overnight. Lima Average Temperature : 12°C / 54°F

Day 10: : Nazca Lines Overflight Activity of the Day Lima - Paracas - Over flight (Regular - 1 hour 40 minutes) Meals : Breakfast Nazca Lines Accommodation : Selected Hotel Paracas Regular/Private Bus Lima - Paracas|Morning|4 hours Altitude : Sea Level Puno Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F At appropriate time, you will be transferred

Day 11: Arrival and transfer to the hotel. Note: All itineraries are subject to change, Paracas - Ballestas Island - Lima Overnight. due to weather and other conditions. All Regular/Private Bus Paracas - Lima|Afternoon|4 hours times indicated are approximate, and are Please note: Accommodation is not also subject to change. After breakfast, take your two hour included for this day. boat trip to the famed Ballestas Islands : Ballestas Island Excursion to enjoy the sights and sounds of Activity of the Day fascinating Peruvian coastal wildlife (Regular - 2 hours) living there, marine animals like sea Meals : Breakfast lions, Humboldt penguins, and an Altitude : Sea Level Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F endless number of migratory birds. Along the way, there will be ample opportunity to marvel at the Candelabro, Day 12: Lima a mysterious and huge geoglyph that Lima - Departure day stands watch over the Ica coastline.

Later, at a coordinated time, you will be At appropriate time, transfer to the transferred to the bus station to board airport in order to take your international Paracas your regular bus to Lima, (or private flight. transfer to Lima depending of the selected service). Meals : Breakfast

Recommended Hotels What’s Included: Date Cities Category Recommended Hotels Type of Room Meals Tourist Los Girasoles Standard • Brief presentation prior to departure T. Superior Jose Antonio Executive Standard Day 1 Lima - • Private Tours or Regular Tours (Depending of the Superior Casa Andina Private Lima Superior selected tour) Deluxe JW Marriott Lima Deluxe • Transfers in private Tourist Los Girasoles Standard T. Superior Jose Antonio Executive Standard • Bus Regular to Puno Day 2 Lima Breakfast Superior Casa Andina Private Lima Superior • Tourist Class Train to/From Machu Picchu Deluxe JW Marriott Lima Deluxe • Entrance fees Tourist Munay Wasi Standard • English-speaking guide T. Superior Casa Andina Classic Plaza Traditional • Meals as specified & Accommodation Day 3 Cusco Breakfast Superior Sonesta Cusco Standard • Regular tours in Ballestas Island Deluxe JW Marriott Cusco Classic Inca • Regular tour for Overflight Nasca Lines T. Superior Inkallpa Standard • Regular Bus Lima/Paracas/Lima (Only for Day 4 Sacred Valley Superior Sonesta Posada Yucay Standard Breakfast - Lunch Deluxe Rio Sagrado Deluxe Regular Tour) Machu Tourist Superior El Mapi Superior • Private Car Lima/Paracas/Lima (Only for Day 5 Breakfast - Dinner Picchu Superior Machu Picchu Pueblo Superior private tours) Tourist Munay Wasi Standard T. Superior Casa Andina Classic Plaza Traditional Day 6 Cusco Breakfast What’s Not Included: Superior Sonesta Cusco Standard Deluxe JW Marriott Cusco Classic Inca Tourist Casa Andina Tikarani Traditional • Services not specified in the program, extras T. Superior Jose Antonio Puno Standard Breakfast and tips Day 7 Puno Superior Casa Andina Private Puno Superior Lunch • National Flight tickets Superior Libertador Puno Superior • Insurance coverage of personal loss, injury, Tourist Casa Andina Tikarani Traditional illness or damages incurred during your trip T. Superior Jose Antonio Puno Standard Breakfast Day 8 Puno • Personal laundry, dry cleaner, telephone Superior Casa Andina Private Puno Superior Lunch charges Superior Libertador Puno Superior Rates not applicable • Room service and mini Bar Tourist Los Girasoles Standard for bank holidays T. Superior Jose Antonio Executive Standard • Day 9 Lima Breakfast January New Year Superior Casa Andina Private Lima Superior Holy Thursday Deluxe JW Marriott Lima Deluxe March Good Friday Tourist Posada Emancipador Standard Useful Information: T. Superior San Agustin Paracas Standard Easter Day Day 10 Paracas Breakfast May 1 Labour Day Superior Double Tree Paracas Superior Tipping Policy Deluxe Libertador Paracas Superior June 29 St. Peter and St. Paul Tourist Los Girasoles Standard July 28 - 29 Independence Day T. Superior Jose Antonio Executive Standard Tips are not included in the price, however, we August 30 Santa Rosa de Lima Day 11 Lima Breakfast Superior Casa Andina Private Lima Superior want to clarify that tipping is not an obligation. October 8 Battle of Angamos Deluxe JW Marriott Lima Deluxe Each passenger decides for themselves if, and November 1 All Saints Day Day 13 DEPARTURE Breakfast how much, they want to tip. Immaculate December 8 Conception December 25 Christmas In these cases, the corresponding prices will be sent when requested. From Peru: +51 (1) 479 1900 From U.S.A.: +1 (806) 440 0530 From U.K: +44 (0) 20 3371 7756 From Brasil: +55 2139 5621 99

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