Peru Kingdoms 13 days - 12 nights Kingdoms Lima - Trujillo - - Puerto Maldonado - -

Country : Peru City : Lima - Trujillo - Chiclayo - Puerto Maldonado - Cusco - Puno Brand : Travel with Freedom Chiclayo Duration : 13 Days - 12 Nights Type of Service : Peru Journey Type of Interest : Culture - Archeology - Nature - Short Hikings Level : Easy to Moderate Trujillo Category : Tourist Superior Accommodation : Hotels & Eco lodge Tour Escort : Included Language : English Entrance Tickets : As required Season : All year Puerto Maldonado Lima

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Arequipa Perú: A wonderful cultural, historical and natural experience, come to know this country in this new version of our Classic Peruvian Wonders.

Live the legend with us, now with a Northern visit and Jungle Stay, completing this extraordinary experience with Machupicchu and the Lake Titicaca. Day 1: transfer to your hotel. Then, you will Meals : Breakfast Arrival to Lima. visit one of the most important Accommodation : Selected Hotel archaeological complexes on Peru’s north Estimated Time : 5 hours : 120 km. round trip coast. It was built through a lengthy Total Distance Arrival to Lima, reception & transfer to distance. cultural sequence which began in the your hotel. Overnight. Altitude : 34 m.a.s.l pre-Ceramic period, some 5 000 years Average Temperature : 21 ºC ago. El Brujo consists of three large Accommodation : Selected Hotel buildings: the ancient , Estimated Time : 40 minutes Day 3: Total Distance : 20 km. Huaca El Brujo, belonging to the Mochica Culture, and Huaca de Cao Viejo, which Trujillo Altitude : 154 m.a.s.l Trujillo Full Day Sun & Moon Temperature : 19 ºC features embossed figures and murals. Pyramid - Huaca Dragon & Finally, you will visit the ACPP (Peruvian . Lima Day 2: Paso Horse Breeders Asosiation) where you will be amazed by a Peruvian Paso Lima - Trujillo - El Brujo - Peruvian horse exhibition with Lunch. In the morning, you will visit Huaca Paso Horse Exhibition. del Sol y de la Luna: The , Return to your hotel in Trujillo. a pyramid 20m high, according to the tradition was built in only 3 days using At a coordinated time, transfer to Lima 250 000 people and 70 million blocks of airport to take flight to Trujillo. Upon : Visit Archeological Site Activity of the day Show of Peruvian adobes. The , located your arrival to Trujillo, reception & Paso Horse Exhibition in front of the Huaca del Sol, is smaller.

In some of its adobe walls still exist Finally, you will visit Huaca Dragon, a Day 4 paintings where appears the Ai-Apaek temple dedicated to the Rainbow, located Trujillo - Royal Tombs of Sipan - Sican God. Archaeologists have discovered a 5 km from Trujillo and considered as tomb with more than 40 dead soldiers. a ceremonial place by researches and - City of Chiclayo - Back to Lima related to the fertility. Its decorations After you will have Lunch in Huanchaco show dancing warriors and the figure of a Departure from Trujillo visiting Tumbas beach, an ancient Chimú port with its dragon. Overnight in Trujillo. Reales Museum, which is a modern Chiclayo colonial church located at the highest building with pyramidal infrastructure. : Cultural & Educational It looks like a flattened pyramid formed point of the port and famous for its Activity of the Day Trujillo ancient pre Inca “Caballitos de Totora”, Activities by five prisms that are held together by straw boats which are still used by local Meals : Breakfast - Lunch leaning planes, with each prism bearing a Accommodation : Selected Hotel fishermen. replica of the banners found in the Tomb Lima Estimated Time : 8 hours of the Lord of Sipán. Their colours, red and Total distance : 15 km. yellow, are similar to those used by the In the afternoon you will visit , Altitude : 22 m.a.s.l Moches throughout their decorations. located 4 Km to the north of Trujillo, Average Temperature : 19 ºC an ancient city which once housed a population of 50,000, complete with The aim of the museum is to recreate streets, houses, water tanks, pyramids and the atmosphere of the temples of that temples, a great urban centre and now civilisation, serving as a museum as well declared a Cultural Patrimony by UNESCO. as a mausoleum and resting place for the

Lord of Sipán and his companions. It was Accommodation : Selected Hotels Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado opened on November 8, 2002 and is one Estimated Time : 6 hours Headquarters. Upon arrival from Lima of the most sophisticated museums in Total Distance : 210 km. or Cusco, we will welcome you at the the region. Altitude : 22 m.a.s.l airport and drive you ten minutes to our Average Temperature : 19 ºC Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While Visit the Sicán Museum located in the enjoying your first taste of the forest village of Ferreñafe with its display of Day 5: in our gardens we will ask you to pack Sicán culture along with an interesting only the necessary gear for your next display of tombs from the Sicán nobility. Lima - Puerto Maldonado - Lodge few days, and leave the rest at our safe Lunch Included. deposit. This helps us keep the boats and Arrival & Reception by Guide. Your guides cargo light. Arrival to Chiclayo. You will be then are biologists, tourism professionals, Lima Puerto dropped off at Chiclayo Airport. or community members. Unless noted Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters otherwise, our guides speak English. You to Port. Skirting Puerto Maldonado Arrival to Lima, reception & transfer to assign guides at 6:1 ratio in Tambopata Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to your hotel. Overnight. Research Centre. This means groups the Tambopata River Port, entering the smaller than 6 people will be merged Native Community of Infierno. The port : Cultural & Educational with other groups under one guide. If you Activity of the Day is a communal business. Activities would like a private guide or a guide in Meals : Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner a language other than English please let Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port yours know. to Refugio Amazonas. The two and a : Walk around the Lodge Canopy Tower. A thirty minute walk from just about every plant and tree you see Activity of the Day half hour boat ride from the Tambopata See Caiman at night tour Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter serves a purpose. Port to Refugio Amazonas will take us Meals : Box Lunch - Dinner scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered past the Community of Infierno and Accommodation : Refugio Amazonas staircase running through the middle Then you will have an Ethno botanical the Tambopata National Reserve´s Altitude : 183 m.a.s.l / 600 ft. provides safe access to the platforms Tour, along this trail we will find a variety checkpoint and into the buffer zone of Average temperature : 30°C above. The tower has been built upon of plants and trees that are used by the this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit. high ground, therefore increasing your local population with at least the same You have a box lunch. Day 6: horizon of the continuous primary forest variety of purposes. We will learn about extending out towards the Tambopata the medicinal (and other) uses of Ajo- Upon arrival, the lodge manager Puerto Maldonado: Oxbow Lake - National Reserve. From here views of Sacha, Yuca de Venado, Uña de Gato, will welcome you and brief you with Canopy Tree - Ethno botanical Tour mixed species canopy flocks as well as Charcot-Sacha, Para-Para, among several important navigation and security tips. toucans, macaws and raptors are likely. others. Breakfast, then you will visit Oxbow Lake Dinner. Caiman Search; you will be out where you will paddle around the lake After your lunch you will visit the farm Dinner. Tambopata National Reserve at the river’s edge at night, scanning the on a canoe or a catamaran, looking for located just five minutes downriver Lectures, Nightly lectures prepared by shores with headlamps and flashlights to lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin, caiman from the lodge lies a farm owned and the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover catch the red gleams of reflection from and hornerd screamers, hoping to see managed by charismatic Don Manuel conservation threats, opportunities caiman eyes. the otters which are infrequently seen from the neighboring community of and projects in the Tambopata National here. You will also be rewarded with Condenado. He grows a variety of Reserve. Overnight at Refugio Amazonas Overnight at Refugio Amazonas overhead sightings of macaws. popular and unknown Amazon crops -

: Oxbow Lake to your hotel. Overnight. of the old temple of Suntur Wasi (House Activity of the Day Canopy Tree of God), now the church of El Triunfo, a Ethno botanical Tour Meals : Breakfast particular interest are the choir cloisters, Meals : Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner Accommodation : Selected Hotel Accommodation : Refugio Amazonas the pulpit, the engravings on the altar Altitude : 3,3399 m.a.s.l Altitude : 183 m.a.s.l / 600 ft. and furniture. Average Temperature : 18°C Average Temperature : 30°C Continue onto the Church and Convent of Santo Domingo, a Spanish construction Day 7: Day 8: Cusco. belonging to the Dominican Order built Lodge - Puerto Maldonado - Cusco upon the foundations of the Inca temple Puerto of Koricancha or Temple of the Sun. Maldonado Breakfast, Transfer Boat from Refugio Free morning for personal activities. Koricancha (in quechua, site of gold) Amazonas to Tambopata River Port; was the main religious building of the then transfer from Tambopata River In the afternoon, you will visit Cusco’s Incas dedicated to the worship of the Cusco Port to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters Historical Inca and Spanish Colonial Sun and whose walls, according to the then transfer from Puerto Maldonado Monuments, such as the Main Square, chroniclers, were plated with sheets of Headquarters to Airport. (Depending on known in Inca times as Huacaypata or gold. Magnificent blocks of finely carved airline schedules, this may require dawn the Warrior’s Square, it was the scene for stone were used in its construction. departures.) many key events in Cusco’s history. Arrival to Cusco, reception and transfer The Cathedral, originally built on the site After, you will visit the surrounding ruins of the city of Cusco: Sacsayhuamán, Meals : Breakfast eucalyptus, deep canyons and orchids are also Meals : Breakfast this huge Inca fortress is built on Accommodation : Selected Hotel part of the scenery. Accommodation : Selected Hotel three overlapping platforms, each of Estimated Time : 4.5 hours Estimated Time : 8 hours them over 360 m long. Then, onto Total Distance : 10 km. This stone citadel, located 112 km from Total Distance : 75 km. aproximately , known as the Inca baths. Altitude : 3,3399 m.a.s.l Cusco, was discovered by Hiram Bingham Altitude : 2,430 m.a.s.l It was apparently a site dedicated to the Average Temperature : 18 ºC in 1911. The citadel was built on a Average Temperature : 18 º C worship of water and a resting place very special spot covered in vegetation for the Inca monarch. Kenko, it is said Day 9: between two mountains: the Machu Day 10: to have been a worship site. There is a Full Day Trip “ The Picchu (old mountain) and Huayna Picchu Trip to Puno by Bus. huge 5,9 m high stone block that looks Lost City” In the Expedition Train (young mountain), at the foot of which like a puma. There are also passages, meanders the Urubamba or Vilcanota In the morning you will be transferred canals and stairways with stone engravings River (lower Jungle featuring abundant to the local bus station to board the representing animals. Finally, Puca Pucará, Early in the morning, you will be transferred to flora and fauna). On arrival, Tour of regular tourist class bus to the city of which was an administrative and military take the Tourist Class train from the Sanctuary. In the afternoon, you Puno, an all day journey, crossing the centre formed by terraces, stairways, to visit the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. will return to Cusco by train. On arrival great anti plano with the ever presence passages, turrets and vaulted niches. Spectacular train journey crossing valleys, you will be transferred to your hotel. of the snow capped Andean Mountains. Return to your hotel. Overnight in Cusco. mountains and typical communities. The Overnight in Cusco. altitude will descend from 3,500 to 1,500 On route, you will pass by the villages of Pucará, Racchi and Andahuaylillas. : City Tour Cusco & m.a.s.l. crossing two different regions from : Visit one of the seven Activity of the Day Surroundings the sierra to the rainforests. Snow peaks, Activity of the Day wonders of the world Please note that if you prefer you can Machu Picchu take the train to Puno, instead of the

bus. Departures available on: Monday, in Lake Titicaca. Located 4 km from are distinguished by black or brown caps. Wednesday and Saturday. On arrival Puno, the original inhabitants of these Taquile also offers a magnificent lake you will be transferred to your hotel. floating islands are said to descend from landscape from where the impressive Overnight in Puno. one of the most ancient peoples of the snowfalls of the Cordillera Real (Real Americas and still to this day practise mountain chain) can be seen. In the : Archaeology Sites their ancient traditions. Their dwellings afternoon you will return to the hotel. Activity of the Day Pucara, Racchi, made of totora reed are built on the Overnight in Puno. Andahuaylillas surface of Lake Titicaca. Afterwards, you Meals : Breakfast - Lunch will make your way to the unique Island Activity of the Day : Culture & Heritage Accommodation : Selected Hotel of Taquile, where time appears to have Meals : Breakfast - Lunch Estimated Time : 8 hours stopped. The Mediterranean atmosphere Accommodation : Selected Hotel Total Distance : 389 km Estimated Time : 8 hours Altitude : 3,815 m.a.s.l of this place is striking, with its steps Total Distance : 75 km approximately Average Temperature : 10 º C of stone and its houses centred around the square. Its indigenous community Altitude : 3,815 m.a.s.l Average Temperature : 10 ºC Cusco Day 11: that lives here, around 350 families are descendants of the Incas and known Puno Full Day Uros & Taquile Tour. for their Textile activities, such as their Day 12: beautifully woven chumpis (belts), Puno - Juliaca - Lima. In the morning you will begin your full chullos (caps), and ojotas (and sandals) day visit to the Floating Island of Uros and according to the custom, officials Transfer to the airport for flight back

to Lima to connect to your flight back to Lima. Arrival to Lima, reception & Transfer to your hotel. Overnight.

Meals : Breakfast Accommodation : Selected Hotel Altitude : 154 m.a.s.l Average Temperature : 19 ºC

Day 13: Lima - International departure.

Lima At a coordinated time, transfer to Lima airport

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