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Explore the Amazon and hike the iconic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Walk the classic Inca Trail and visit the Amazon Jungle on this adventurous 12 night tailor-made itinerary to Peru. Start your adventure in the capital, Lima exploring the city before flying to the Amazon Jungle. Climb a canopy tower in time for sunset, visit a parrot clay lick and search for caimans after night fall. Fly onto Cusco, spending three nights acclimatising to the altitude before starting the 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, arriving at the sun gate at sunrise.Arrival into Lima
Arrival into Lima airport where you are met and taken by private transfer to your hotel.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
Lima - Lima city tour
Explore Lima old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site packed with fascinating historic buildings. Start with a scenic tour in the colonial downtown, which radiates from the Main Square, where you can appreciate the grandiose architecture of the Spanish Empire. Stroll over to the Cathedral, which was begun in the 16th century and took 80 years to build. Then visit the Casa Aliaga, a colonial mansion granted in 1535 by chief conquistador Francisco Pizarro to Jerónimo de Aliaga, one of his captains. This is the only house from that time that still belongs to the same family after all these centuries. Continue to the Larco Museum, located in the traditional Pueblo Libre district, which is housed in a beautifully restored viceregal mansion built on a seventh-century a pre-Columbian pyramid. The museum boasts the most complete pre-Hispanic collection of gold and silver artefacts, as well as pieces of erotic art.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
Lima - Amazon Jungle
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Amazon Jungle excursions
After having breakfast, you will hike for approximately one hour to visit Lake Sachavacayoc, a flooded area that houses particular Amazonian species due to its calm waters. During a canoe trip, you will find turtles, caimans, giant otters and riparian birds, among them the shansho, which has a prehistoric appearance. Next, you will return to the lodge to have lunch, take a short rest, and hike on the ethnobotanical path, where you will learn about the daily use of the natural resources of the jungle as medicines, construction and food. After enjoying dinner, you will take a night trip to see the night fauna.
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Amazon Jungle excursions
After having breakfast, you will take a short hike to a nearby collpa. Collpas are clay deposits that parrots and macaws visit in large quantities to eat this substance, as it helps them clean their stomachs. In this same place, it is possible to watch blue-headed parrots, and Andean cocks-of-the-rocks, a beautiful endemic species. After watching hundreds of birds fluttering around you, you will walk on a path that enters a chestnut forest, as this local nut has become an important income for native communities. After learning how they are harvested and transported, you will return to the lodge.
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Amazon Jungle - Cusco
After having breakfast, a motor boat will transfer you to Puerto Maldonado and then to the airport. On arrival in Cusco you are met and taken by private transfer to your new hotel. Rest of the day at leisure.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
Cusco walking tour
A tour to stretch your legs. San Blas quarter was originally used as dwellings for the Inca nobles, who built impressive stone constructions at a short distance from what used to be Huacaypata and is now the current Main Square. It is still possible to see the unmistakable rigour of the Inca walls at the base of many constructions. Today the quarter is a mix of charming small cobblestone streets that are very popular among craftspeople who sell their works on the street. Among its top attractions is the San Blas Church, a temple that houses a pulpit that is a priceless work of art, a wood carving performed by a masterly indigenous woodcarver.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
Sacred Valley excursion
You will start your tour at Awanakancha, a farm of South American camelids and showroom of textiles, where local families show the entire traditional process of weaving and making garments. You will then visit the Pisac market, which has scores of stands that exhibit and sell products manufactured by the residents of the area. It is possible to find textiles, carvings and replicas of old Inca pieces. After having lunch at a local restaurant, you will go to the Ollantaytambo town, a typical example of the urban planning of the Incas, whose residents still live in accordance with their old traditions. Pachacútec (1438-1471) conquered the town, destroyed it and built a new one in the Inca style, to absorb it as part of his expanding empire. Ollantaytambo shows a huge archaeological complex that, considered one of the most monumental works of the Inca Empire.
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch
Inca Trail Day 1
We pick you up early in the morning from your hotel in Cusco to Piscacucho (Km. 82), which is the start point of the Inca Trail. We will make a stop at Ollantaytambo Town for 15 to 20 minutes. Once we reach Piscacucho, we begin our hike until reaching a nice and quiet campsite near Wayllabamba where you will stay. Lunch will be served on the way. This day we hike 5 - 6 hours (7.7miles). At the camp, dinner will be served and spend the night.
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Inca Trail Day 2
After having breakfast, we begin the most difficult part of the trek, which consists of an abrupt and steep ascent toward the highest pass on the trail known as Warmi wañusca (Dead Womans pass) (4,200m / 13,776ft). Then we begin the descent to our second campsite in Pacaymayo, where we will have lunch and dinner. This day we hike 6 - 7 hours (7.2 miles).
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Inca Trail Day 3
The third day is the longest one, but also the most impressive and the most interesting due the number of archaeological sites and the lush cloud forest area that we cross that is so rich in Andean flora and fauna. From Pacaymayo we climb to Runquracay Pass, and then descend to our lunch stop at Chaquicocha. Next we will continue up an easy climb, until we reach Phuyupatamarca Pass (3,700m / 12,073ft), walk on through the cloud forest until we reach our final campsite at Wiñayhuayna (8,792ft). This day entails 8 - 9 hours and 10 miles of hiking. At the campsite, dinner will be served and then spend the night.
INCLUDES : Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Machu Picchu
After a particularly early breakfast, we depart from the campsite in order to arrive before sunrise to Inti Punku (The Sun Gate); the entrance gate to Machu Picchu. From here, you will experience your first extraordinary view of Machu Picchu at dawn and then descend to the citadel. Walk on to this iconic ancient city, where your guide will lead a 2 hour tour, and then enjoy some time to explore on your own. After visiting Machu Picchu you will take the bus to Aguas Calientes for lunch, and then take a train ride back to Cusco in the evening.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
Departure for the UK
Private transfer to the airport for your flight back to the UK via Lima.
INCLUDES : Breakfast
All prices shown represent a from price per person based on low season travel unless otherwise stated.
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from (date dependent) 1st December 2023 - 15th December 2024
from £4,199pp
from 1st January 2025 - 31st December 2025
from £4,199pp