Cusco 04 Days / 03 Nights

ASOCIACIÓN PERUANA DE OPERADORES DE TURISMO RECEPTIVO E INTERNO PERUVIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOMING TOUR OPERATORS III Cumbre América del Sur - Países Árabes (ASPA) February 16, 2011 LIMA - PERU CODE PROGRAM DEPARTURE DATES Apo17-ASPA-2-11 A View of Cusco * Apo18-ASPA-2-11 Wonders of Cusco * Apo19-ASPA-2-11 Northern Peru: Moche Route: Chiclayo & Trujillo * Apo20-ASPA-2-11 Nazca Lines & Paracas * Apo21-ASPA-2-11 Iquitos & the Amazon * Apo22-ASPA-2-11 Delfin River Cruise–Amazon River * Apo23-ASPA-2-11 Delfin II River Cruise–Amazon River * Apo24-ASPA-2-11 Aqua River Cruise–Amazon River * *Programs could be booked before or after the III ASPA Event ASOCIACIÓN PERUANA DE OPERADORES DE TURISMO RECEPTIVO E INTERNO PERUVIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOMING TOUR OPERATORS A VIEW OF CUSCO Apo17-ASPA-2-11 (03 days / 02 nights) DAY 01 LIMA - CUSCO (D) Upon your arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. Coca tea is widely offered at the hotels as it helps relieve altitude sickness. Balance of the morning at leisure to relax and gradually adjust to the altitude. Your comprehensive afternoon tour includes the beautiful Koricancha or Sun Temple, the Cathedral, as well as the impressive Fortress of Sacsayhuaman and the amphitheater of Kenko. This is followed by a visit to Puca Pucara, a strategically located 'red fortress' that dominates the entire area before visiting Tambomachay, with its two distinctive aqueducts that to this day continue to provide clean water to the area. Welcome dinner show. Overnight (selected hotel). DAY 02 CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO (B,L) In the morning, transfer to the train station of Poroy or Ollantaytambo, to board the train to the marvelous citadel of Machu Picchu. Upon arrival to “Aguas Calientes”, final train stop, we have a short walk in order to catch the bus transfer to Machu Picchu Citadel, starting our guided visit. Lunch will be served at Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge Hotel. At proper time, return the same way to the take train to Cuzco and transfer to your hotel. Overnight (selected hotel). DAY 03 CUSCO - LIMA (B) At proper time, transfer to the airport for your flight back to Lima. ASOCIACIÓN PERUANA DE OPERADORES DE TURISMO RECEPTIVO E INTERNO PERUVIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOMING TOUR OPERATORS WONDERS OF CUSCO Apo18-ASPA-2-11 (04 days / 03 nights) DAY 01 LIMA – CUSCO (D) Upon arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire Coca tea is widely offered at the hotels as it helps relieving altitude sickness. Balance the morning at leisure to relax and gradually adjust to the altitude. Your comprehensive afternoon tour includes the beautiful Koricancha or Sun Temple, the Cathedral, as well as the impressive Fortress of Sacsayhuaman and the amphitheater of Kenko. This is followed by a visit to Puca Pucara, a strategically located 'red fortress' that dominates the entire area before visiting Tambomachay, with its two distinctive aqueducts that continue to provide clean water to the area up to date. Welcome dinner show. Overnight (selected hotel). DAY 02 CUSCO - SACRED VALLEY (B, L) – ONLY TUE – THU - SUN This morning we drive to the Sacred Valley to visit Pisaq and Ollantaytambo. In Pisaq, visitors and people from remote communities dressed in their traditional and colourful attires attend Pisaq market and barter their products. Today, the market also has a tourist element, so there is an opportunity to buy souvenirs. Lunch. Leaving Pisaq, we drive along the Sacred Valley to Ollantaytambo, where the Temple of the Sun (formed of six gigantic monoliths, whose total weight exceeds 50 tons) and the Terrace of the Ten Niches stand out. Ollantaytambo is the site where the only successful Inca battle against Spanish conquerors took place and the only town in the area that still maintains its original Inca layout. Return to Cusco. Overnight (selected hotel in the Sacred Valley). DAY 03 SACRED VALLEY - MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO (B,L) In the morning, transfer to the train station of Ollantaytambo, to board the train to the marvelous citadel of Machu Picchu. Upon arrival to “Aguas Calientes”, final train stop, we have a short walk in order to catch the bus transfer to Machu Picchu Citadel, starting our guided visit. Lunch will be served at Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge Hotel. At proper time, return the same way to the take train to Cuzco and transfer to your hotel. Overnight (selected hotel). DAY 04 CUSCO - LIMA (B) At proper time, transfer to the airport for your flight back to Lima. ASOCIACIÓN PERUANA DE OPERADORES DE TURISMO RECEPTIVO E INTERNO PERUVIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOMING TOUR OPERATORS NORTHERN PERU: THE MOCHE ROUTE CHICLAYO & TRUJILLO Apo19-ASPA-2-11 (03 days/ 02 nights) DAY 01 LIMA - CHICLAYO (L) Arrive in an early morning flight from Peru’s capital to the northern city of Chiclayo, and after some rest time we start our visit to the mud-brick pyramid that made world headlines in 1987 with one of the most sensational discoveries of recent archaeology, known as Huaca Rajada” -- the “Cracked Pyramid” and its Site Museum. We return to Chiclayo for a delicious lunch of Peru’s northern-style cuisine. After these sensational experiences we continue on to Lambayeque, to visit the Royal Tombs of the Sipan Museum. This modern building, representing the style of a Moche pyramid, was built to house the stunning and priceless objects unearthed at Sipan. We will be able to appreciate the incredible array of precious symbols and images, stones and shell necklaces, ear-plugs and headdresses that were worn and displayed at Moche ceremonies, and also learn what is known of their meaning. This astonishing visit ends at an “animated waxworks” exhibit of the lords and retinue of the Moche court, allowing us to glimpse and imagine the world of an unfamiliar but dazzling civilization that thrived here at a time when Europe was sliding into the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire. We return to Chiclayo for an overnight stay. DAY 02 CHICLAYO - TRUJILLO (B/L) In the morning, departure to an oasis of calm at “Túcume”. Here we will be able to watch the chronological sequence that followed the fall of the Moche, at a site where their descendants, the “Sicán” culture, continued to amass millions of adobe bricks for the building of mighty pyramids -- including the longest of its kind in the world, at more than 700m/2,300ft -- but were now influenced by highland tribes, and began to abandon their old ways. We can also visit the small, intimate and low-tech site museum, to enjoy the excellent collection of excavated objects, dioramas of daily life, and models of the pyramids. On our way, we continue to the archaeological site of El Brujo: This site was featured in National Geographic magazine after the sensational discovery of the mummy of a tattooed priestess buried with a variety of ceremonial and military accoutrements. An extraordinary array of multicolored murals dating from seven or more phases of ASOCIACIÓN PERUANA DE OPERADORES DE TURISMO RECEPTIVO E INTERNO PERUVIAN ASSOCIATION OF INCOMING TOUR OPERATORS construction depicts both scenes from the daily lives of the Moche, and gory rituals of sacrifice. We continue to Trujillo and arrive to Huanchaco, where we will have a chance to try the superb seafood of Trujillo at one of the restaurants, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. We will then visit the great “Chimú” center of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built. It was, in fact, an elite settlement, a series of nine enormous palaces belonging to successive rulers of the “Chimú” realm. At the Tschudi palace enclosure we enter a labyrinthine series of courtyards lined with clay friezes of fish and ocean birds, and walled in places with an open meshwork adobe building style believed to represent fishing nets. We visit inner patios, residences, administrative buildings, temples, platforms and storehouses, and a huge reservoir where “sunken gardens” may have produced specialized crops for the “Chimú” nobility. Overnight in Trujillo at selected hotel. DAY 03 TRUJILLO - LIMA (B/L) We begin our day visiting the “Huaca de la Luna”, and the “Huaca del Sol”, two huge flat-topped pyramids built by the Moche culture between 0 and 600A.D. The “Huaca de la Luna” is an extraordinary demonstration of what patient long-term archaeology can achieve. Here, at a site that has been well known and frequently looted for centuries, excavations have revealed layer upon layer of ancient construction, uncovering wall after wall of colorful friezes that were intentionally buried by the Moche, and had not seen the light of day for one-and- a-half thousand years. Bloodthirsty fanged deities and exotic gods in the form of spiders, snakes felines, octopi and other marine creatures rub shoulders with lines of dancers, warriors and naked prisoners, as well as scenes of ritual combat. Visit to the Site Museum of de Moche's “Huacas”, a modern museum that serves as center of interpretation of the “Huaca de la Luna” (Pyramid of the Moon) and of one of the principal cities of the Moche Culture. Meeting artisans of the Moche Valley. We will enjoy a delicious lunch at a Restaurant located near the “Huacas” or Pyramids of the Sun and of the Moon in which we will be offered typical Peruvian northern food. In addition we will appreciate a spectacular view of the performance of the Peruvian Paso Horses. Return to Trujillo for a short City Tour through the historic center of Trujillo, a city whose heart still pulses with colonial splendor. We visit the immense main square and the spacious mansions built by Spanish and Creole gentry during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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