Trip to Peru by Tucano Peru Best of Peru Guaranteed Fixed departure - Minimun 2 passengers Every Sunday The Best of Peru Lima - Arequipa - Puno - Cusco Country : Peru City : Lima - Arequipa - Puno - Cusco Brand : Peru Journeys Duration : 12 days - 11 nights Destinations Visited : Lima (3 nights) - Arequipa (1 night) - Colca Canyon (1 night) - Puno (2 nights) - Cusco (3 nights) - Sacred Valley (1 night) Type of Interest : Culture & Heritage - Archaeology - Scenic Views Level : Easy - Moderate Accommodation : Selected Hotel Category : Tourist - Superior Group Departures : Every Sunday Season : All year Guide : Included Languages : English Lima Cusco Entrance Tickets : As required Puno Arequipa Day 1: (Sun) Lima as the original building of 1555. After Afterwards, you will visit the Rafael the earthquake in 1746, the Cathedral Larco Museum. Founded in 1926, it has Upon arrival, on the first day of your trip was rebuilt on the same site under the the largest private collection of pre- to Peru, you will be welcomed by our direction of Jesuit priest Juan Rehr. Both Columbian art in the world. The collection personnel at Lima airport and transferred its facade and interior are austere with its concentrates on the refined ceramics to the selected hotel. After check in you remarkable wooden choir stalls, altars and of the Moche Dynasty and the people will have a briefing in which you will be the tomb of Francisco Pizarro, who died who lived along the northern coast of handed your “Travel kit” which includes in 1541. Later, you will visit the Church of Peru between 200 and 700 AD. You will all your travel documents such as itinerary, San Francisco, its convent, Art Museum, learn about their religion, agriculture, flight, train and bus tickets, and hotel cloisters and catacombs. transport, dance and music through their information. Overnight. ceramic designs and shapes. Finally you Lima Afterwards, you will have a panoramic will be transferred to your hotel. Rest of Accommodation : Selected Hotel view of the Main Square with the the day is at leisure. Overnight at Lima. Altitude : 144 m.a.s.l. / 472 ft. Government Palace, the Municipal Hall, Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F : Half Day Colonial Lima the “Desamparados” Train Station, before Activity of the Day driving through the old streets, where you (Group Service - 3 hours) will have a spectacular view of traditional Level : Easy Day 2: (Mon) Lima Meals : Breakfast mansions and Moorish style balconies. Accommodation : Selected hotel In the morning, you will visit colonial You will then continue through classic Altitude : 144 m.a.s.l. / 472 ft. Lima and the Cathedral. Located in the and modern Lima and will also enjoy an Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F Main Square; it is in the same place amazing view of the Pacific Ocean. Day 3: (Tue) Lima - Arequipa places of interest are the Main Square, of the city of its three volcanoes: Misti, Flight Lima - Arequipa - Morning - 1hr 27 min the Complex of San Francisco, which Chachani and Pichu Pichu. Overnight at is comprised of a public square, two Arequipa. At the coordinated time, you will be temples (the Church of San Francisco and : City Tour & Convent of Santa transferred to the airport for your flight to the Temple of the Third Order), a convent Activity of the Day Catalina (Group Service - 3 hours) Arequipa. On arrival you will be transferred and the Fierro Foundation (where there is a museum and a handicraft market). The Meals : Breakfast to your hotel. Accommodation : Selected Hotel Cathedral is located in the main square. Altitude : 2,335 m.a.s.l. / 7,661 ft. In the afternoon, you will begin your City The old cathedral was destroyed by fire in Average Temperature : 22°C / 72°F tour, including the famous Santa Catalina 1844. It was restored in 1868 by Arequipa- native Lucas Poblete in Neo-renaissance Convent, the most important in Peru. A Day 4: (Wed) Arequipa - walled citadel of more than 20,000m2 style with French influence, and it is which for four centuries, served as the considered to be one of the biggest in Colca Canyon Lima only physical world for several generations South America. of Cloistered nuns. Early in the morning, departure by land Finally, the Spanish Colonial district of on your excursion towards the Colca Arequipa During the city tour you will visit the Yanahuara, 2 km from the city’s centre, Valley driving across Pampa Cañahuas Church Cloisters of the Company, a grand consisting of narrow cobblestone streets at the Aguada Blanca National Reserve, collection of Domes, Arches, which can all and old white volcanic stone houses. From habitat of herds of Vicuñas and stopping be found in its galleries and Alters. Other the viewpoint there is a magnificent view at the Mirador de los Andes, the Crater of Chucura, the Mirador de Chivay, where Day 5: (Thu) Colca The mountains surrounding the area beautiful pre-Columbian terraces still Canyon - Puno provide a very quintessential scene of the being cultivated by native Collaguas can Peruvian Andes. There will also be small be observed. The highest point of the little farms with sheep and llamas along Early in the morning departure to the road is at 4350 m.a.s.l. After the arrival in the way. You will also border the altiplano “Condor’s Cross” from where the great Chivay you check in at your hotel. lake of Lagunilla with a variety of wild Andean bird, the Condor, may be spotted birds and flora passing by the towns Santa flying in circles above still farmed green pre- In the afternoon, visit the hot springs of Lucia and Juliaca- Puno. Arriving at Puno, Hispanic terraces. Enjoy the impressive La Calera. Overnight at Colca Canyon. you will be transferred to your hotel panorama of the Colca Canyon, one of the where you will spend the night. deepest in the World (3,180 mts.). On the : Journey Arequipa - Colca Activity of the Day way, visit to the Mirador of Wayrapunko, (Group Service - 5 hours ) : Excursion Cruz del Condor Meals : Breakfast Antahuilque, Choquetico, where we will (Group Service - 4 hours) Activity of the Day Accommodation : Selected Hotel find the famous Hanging Tombs. - Journey to Puno (Group Service - 6 hours) Altitude : 3,400 m.a.s.l. / 11,155 ft. Meals : Breakfast Average Temperature : 16°C / 61°F At the Town of Yanque, visit its beautiful Puno Accommodation : Selected Hotel church and its characteristic cobbled stone Arequipa Altitude : 3,811 m.a.s.l. / 12,504 ft. streets among other attractions, then, Average Temperature : 12°C / 54°F return for the town Maca and arrive to Chivay, and continue to Puno. (Driver Only) Day 6: (Fri) Puno around 350 families that are descendants Day 7: (Sat) Puno - Cusco of the Incas and well-known for their Regular Bus- Puno to Cusco|Tourist Class|AM| 10hrs In the morning you will begin your full textile activities, such as their beautifully day visit to the floating island, known as woven chumpis (belts), chullos (caps), In the morning, you will be transferred to “Uros” in Lake Titicaca. Located 4 km / 2.5 and ojotas (and sandals). According to the local bus station, to board the Tourist miles from Puno, the original inhabitants the custom, officials are distinguished by Class regular bus to the city of Cusco. It is of these floating islands are said to black or brown caps. a full day trip starting at 7:00 a.m., crossing descend from one of the most ancient the great anti plano with the ever presence peoples of the Americas, and still to this Taquile also offers a magnificent lake snow-capped Andean Mountains. On route, day practice their ancient traditions. Their landscape from where the impressive you will pass by the villages of Pucará, Racchi dwellings made of totora reed, are built snowfalls of the Cordillera Real (Real mountain and Andahuaylillas. Lunch is included. on the surface of Lake Titicaca. chain) can be seen. In the afternoon you will return to the hotel, where you will spend the Upon arrival, you will be transferred to Afterwards, you will make your way night. Overnight at Puno. your hotel, where you will spend the night. Cusco to the unique Island of Taquile, where : Full Day Uros & Taquile Islands time appears to have stopped. The Activity of the Day Meals : Breakfast - Lunch (Regular - 8 hours) Mediterranean atmosphere of this place Accommodation : Selected Hotel Puno Meals : Breakfast - Lunch Altitude : 3,399 m.a.s.l. / 11,152 ft. is striking, with its steps of stone and its Accommodation : Selected Hotel Average Temperature : 16°C / 61°F houses centered around the square. Its Altitude : 3,811 m.a.s.l. / 12,504 ft. indigenous community that lives here has Average Temperature : 12°C / 54°F Day 8: (Sun) Cusco - Sacred Valley centuries has attracted local traders and : Full Day Sacred Valley : Pisac, communities. The altitude will descend to remote communities from all over the Activity of the Day Market & Ollantaytambo 1,900 m.a.s.l. crossing from the sierra to (Group Service - 7 hours) valley, dressed in their traditional and the cloud forests. In the morning, at around 08:30, you will Meals : Breakfast - Lunch be collected from your hotel and driven colourful costumes enjoy the opportunity Accommodation : Selected Hotel overland to the Sacred Valley. On the to interact with local people, appreciate Altitude : 2,800 m.a.s.l. / 9,186 ft. Upon arriving at Aguas Calientes, way you will stop to take some pictures, their craftsmanship, handicrafts and local Average Temperature : 15°C / 59°F reception at the train station and transfer and admire the Pucara Bulls on the roofs fruit and vegetable stalls.