Lima – Colca Canyon & Machu Picchu

Upon your international flight arrival, you’ll be met and transferred to your comfortable Lima hotel.

You’ll have the day to relax and enjoy the coastal capital of Peru including it’s museums and

restaurants.

Overnight at your comfortable Lima hotel

Upon your arrival you’ll be met and transferred to your comfortable Arequipa hotel. After your check in you’ll take a city tour.

The duration of this tour is approximately 3:30 hours, normally you visit the church LA COMPAÑÍA and the famous San Ignacio chapel very well decorate by the native artist, with its impressive Andean Baroque style and also its monastery that normally we called LOS CLAUSTRUOS DE LA COMPAÑIA, where young men entered who wanted to become priests.

After that you will visit the beautiful main square, with its CATHEDRAL with its impressive front of Classic style where we enter. The interior demonstrates us a French pulpit, a Belgian organ of big size, Italian decoration. We continue towards the Santa Catalina MONASTERY where you will visit the most famous constructions of the Colony made for women, who wanted to become nuns. It is a city in miniature.

A bus picks you up from your hotel between 08.00 and 08.30 a.m. The bus takes you on the road to Yura heading towards the Valley of the Colca. This road, a trip of 4 hours towards your first night destiny, is half asphalted and half of sand. The 4 hours trip is not direct, but highlighted with stops at the most important places. The first stop will be at the National Reserve of Aguada Blanca and Salinas, a place where you can observe the famous vicuñas and the other side of the volcanoes of Arequipa. The second stop will be at the Police station where a Passengers list will be given to them and after that you continue until the third stop, the restaurant El Chino, where you can use the bathrooms, drink a coca tea – good for stomach and altitude – and a place where you can appreciate the stone wood formations. The fourth part is a place where you can see llamas and alpacas, domesticated by the man in the heights. The fifth stop is on the highest point called Patapampa 4800 meters above sea level. Here is where you can observe 8 volcanoes forming a circle of fire. Later, you descent Chivay have lunch and rest in your hotel. You have time off after lunch, visit the market of Chivay, rest or stay in the hotel. In the afternoon you visit the hot springs of LA CALERA, where you can bathe in one of the pools with water temperature of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius and in the source 80 degrees Celsius. You return to your hotel at night and optional you visit some folkloric peñas in the town of Chivay.

After breakfast around 6.00 am you leave to the Condor Cross at 6.30 am, where you can observe the Canyon of the Colca and the flight of the Condor. From Chivay it is approximately one hour and a half driving. You’ll stay there about 1 hour. Taking the same road back to Chivay, you visit the Colca towns Yanque, with its beautiful church and Maca with its interesting geological problem, the lookout points Huayrapunko – a complete view of the terraces and the mysterious lagoons of the valley – Quehuisha – ice melts originated from the Amazons – . Finally you arrive in Chivay, where You’ll have  time for lunch and after that you return to Arequipa around 5 pm.

Overnight in Arequipa.

Upon your arrival in Cusco, you’ll be met by an Inka Experience representative and transferred to your comfortable hotel.

Take the day to acclimatize to the altitude in Cusco.

In the afternoon, after lunch, you’ll take a guided tour of the city and surrounding area. You’ll visit the cathedral, main plaza, ruins of Sachsayhuaman, Koricancha, Puca Pucara, Qenko, and Tambomachay.

You’ll also get a taste of the mixture between the Inca architecture and Spanish colonial architecture dominated by the city.

You’ll have the evening to yourselves.

Overnight in your comfortable Cusco hotel.

Your full-day Sacred Valley tour begins with a scenic drive to Pisac, where you will visit its famous, lively market. Hundreds of traditionally-dressed artisans and sellers journey from surrounding villages to sell their crafts and produce at this market. Ceramics, carvings, weavings, and jewelry are popular items.

You will stop in Urubamba where you will have some free time to explore the town and have lunch (included).

Continue to the ancient and serene town of Ollantaytambo, which has been continuously inhabited since the 13th century, and visit its impressive hillside fortress ruins.

After the tour you will be transferred to your comfortable hotel in Ollantaytambo.

You’ll have an early morning wake up to begin this exciting day.

Your guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to the train station for your trip to Aguas Calientes.

Upon your arrival to Aguas Calientes, you’ll take a short 30-minute bus ride to the citadel of Machu Picchu.

In the morning, you’ll have a 2-hour guided tour of the citadel .

Throughout the day, you’ll have the chance to explore the ruins on your own.

In the late afternoon you’ll take your return train to Cusco where you’ll be met and transferred to your Cusco hotel

After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the  Cusco airport for your flight to Lima.

In  Lima , take your  flight  back to home.

Safe Journey home!

End of our services

Passport requirements

• A passport valid for 6 months after the date of your arrival to Peru is necessary for all travels

Included

IN LIMA

• 1 night in Lima. (includes breakfast)
• Private transfers between airport / hotel / airport

IN CUSCO

• 3 nights in Cusco ( Includes breakfast)
• 1 nights in the Ollantaytambo (Includes breakfast)
• City tour & Sacred valley tour in group service
•  Machu Picchu tour in private .
• Buffet lunch during the tour to the sacred valley
• Machu Picchu Expeditions train service to Ollantaytambo.

IN AREQUIPA

• 1 night in Chivay ( includes breakfast)
• 2 night in Arequipa (includes breakfast
• Colca valley tour
•  Private city tour ( cathedral + Santa Catalina convent)

Our program includes

• Multi-lingual, Professional tour guides
• All transfers and entrance fees
• Travel Insurance