8 Days - Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu & Puno

LIMA

• Meet on arrival at the airport and transfer to selected hotel.
• Overnight

LIMA - CUSCO

• Breakfast
• Transfer to the airport for flight to Cusco.
• Upon arrival, meet and transfer to selected hotel.
• Afternoon tour of the city including the best of Cusco: the Koricancha Temple (Temple of the Sun) and the Cathedral with its magnificent chapels and baroque altars and paintings from the Cusquenian School. The tour also includes the surrounding ruins: the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, the Inca bath of Tambomachay, Puca Pucara and the amphitheatre of Kenko
• Overnight

CUSCO - URUBAMBA - CUSCO

• Breakfast
• Full day excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Incas (Pirvate services). Visit Maras, the principal salt production center since Inca times, extraordinary spectacle of the terraced white salt mines. At a short distance, towards the west are the circular terraces of Moray built by the Incas in order to create different micro- climates for agricultural purposes.
• Buffet luch in a countryside restaurant.
• Continue to the north to visit Ollantaytambo, a fortress built during the Inca Empire, excellent sample of military architecture.
• Then, Visit the village of Pisac and attend the local agricultural open-market where artisans from all over the area congregate to sell their crafts.
• Return to Cusco
• Overnight

CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO

• Breakfast
• Early transfer to the train station for a Vistradome train ride across the Andes to Aguas Calientes (2400m/7500ft) at the foot of the mountains.
• Then short transportation to the entrance of the ruins where the guided tour of the Lost City will star.
• Buffet luch at Machu Picchu Sanctuary lodge.
• Afternoon return in Vistradome train and transfers to your hot.
• Overnight

CUSCO - PUNO (ONLY MON-WED-SAT)

• Breakfast
• Transfer to train station
• Departure on the Andean Explorer train to Puno.
• Lunch on board. Arrive in Puno and transfer to selected hotel.
• Overnight.

PUNO

• Breakfast
• Full day to visit Uros and Taquile islands (Shared boat with private English speaking guide). We will board a small boat and venture out onto the waters of Titicaca Lake. Visit to one of the native Uros communities located on a man-made floating island in the lake.
• The Uros people live totally interwoven with the "Totora" reed which grows abundantly in the shallows of the lake
• Continue to Taquile. The community here lives in perfect harmony with the environment. "Taquileños" wear colorful traditional clothes which they make themselves and maintain a strong air of group individuality. Men always seem to be walking around the island knitting the woolen caps they wear. Women weave traditional clothes, which are among the most beautiful Peru's.
• Lunch based on set menu at Taquile.
• In the afternoon, return to Puno
• Overnight.

PUNO - JULIACA - LIMA

• Breakfast
• Transfer to the airporto for flight to Lima
• Upon arrival, meet and transfer to selected hotel.
• A 3-hour afternoon sightseeing tour of Colonial and Modern Lima passing by outstanding monuments such as the Government Palace,
• The City Hall and the Cathedral (closed on Sundays) at the Plaza Mayor. Visit the 17th century San Francisco Convent.
• Before returning to the hotel, short tour of the modern districts of San Isidro and Miraflores where there is a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean.
• Overnight.

LIMA - OUT

• Breakfast
• Transfer to the airport for you intenational flight.