Travel Peru - South America visit Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu and Puno 8 Days

First Day:

• Welcome at the Lima airport and transfer to the Hotel
• Pick up of passengers from their hotels
• City tour in the "City of Kings" - Daily departures in the afternoon (Duration 4 hours).
• Tour of the residential districts of Miraflores and San Isidro
• Tour through the Historic Center of Lima and its main streets, squares and monuments
• Visit the convent of Santo Domingo
• Return to your hotel
• Night at the selected hotel.

Second Day:

• Breakfast at the Hotel
• Flight from Lima to Cusco (1 hour)
• Welcome and transfer from the airport in Cusco to the Hotel.
• City Tour around Cusco and outskirts ( 13:30 hrs - 18:30 hrs)
• Night at the Hotel.

Third Day:

• Transfer from hotel in Cusco to the train station
• Journey by train from Cusco to Aguas Calientes (4 hours).
• Lunch in Aguas Calientes.
• Free day (Optional: Visit to Machu Picchu on your own).
• Overnight at hotel in Aguas Calientes.

Fourth day:

• Ascent by bus to Machu Picchu.
• Guided tour in Machu Picchu from 07:00 hrs to 09:00 hrs.
• Optional: Walk to Huayna Picchu (3 hours, without guide).
• Lowering bus to Aguas Calientes.
• In the afternoon return to Cusco by train.
• Transfer from the train station to your hotel.
• Overnight at the Hotel in Cusco.

Fifth Day:

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas (08:00 hrs - 19:00 hrs)
• Night at the Hotel in Cusco

Sixth Day:

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Transfer from the Hotel to the Bus station -Cusco to Puno.
• Guided Tour Cusco- Puno (08:00 hrs - 18:00 hrs)
• Night at the Hotel in Puno

Seventh Day:

• Breakfast at the Hotel
• Tour to lake Titicaca, Uros Island, Taquile
• Night at the Hotel in Puno

Eighth Day :

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Tour to the Chullpas of Sillustani.
• Transfer from the hotel in Puno to the airport in Juliaca (one hour).
• Flight on plane from Juliaca to Lima (1 hour)

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Los Turistas Peruanos que cuenten con su DNI vigente tienen un descuento de USD 20.00 en el costo del tour en el ingreso a Machupicchu.

For the 5 stars category packages, for the night in Aguas Calientes the hotel booking will be made in 4 stars hotels as there are not 5 stars hotels in this little village.

Included in the tour:

• Airplane tickets Lima - Cusco and Juliaca - Lima
• Transfer from the airport to the hotel.
• Tour around Lima.
• Tour around Cusco and outskirts (13:30 hrs - 18:30 hrs)
• 7 Nights at Hotel
• 7 breakfasts.
• 2 lunches(in Sacred Valley, on the trip to Puno)
• Tour to Machupicchu (06:00 hrs - 20:00 hrs)
• Tour to Sacred Valley of the Inkas (08:00 hrs - 19:00 hrs)
• Transfer from the hotel to the bus station (Cusco to Puno).
• Guided Tour from Cusco to Puno (08:00 hrs - 18:00 hrs)
• Tour to lake Titicaca, Uros Island, Taquile
• Tour to the Chullpas of Sillustani.
• Transfer from the hotel in Puno to the airport in Juliaca (one hour).
• All the transports for the described services
• Service of transfers and attendance every day.

DESCRIPTION DEL TOUR 8 DAYS 7 NIGTHS: LIMA-CUSCO-SACRED VALLEY-MACHUPICCHU LAKE TITICACA

First day:

We will begin our tour through the modern residential districts of Miraflores and San Isidro. We will visit the financial center, the Golf, El Olivar, the Huaca Pucllana (the pre-Inca ceremonial temple in the shape of a pyramid) and the Love Park on the Malecón de Miraflores. Continuing with our tour, we will go to the Historical Center of Lima, we will know the Plaza San Martin, its balconies and old houses, the Plaza Mayor with its most important buildings and finally we will enter one of the most important convents of the seventeenth century. A complete tour with the comfort and attention of a modern tourist service. (Photo: Lima main square)

Second day:

City tour Cusco and outskirts You must be in the airport of Lima at least two hours before your flight leaves to Cusco,you only have to approach to the airline counter and display your ID's to check in, the flight to Cusco lasts 1 hr and 10 minutes, In Cusco " The Archaeological Capital of America ", Our staff will be waiting for you to drive you to the Hotel, where you will drink coca tea then you can rest for a while. Around 1:30pm we'll pick you up from your Hotel to start visiting the following attractives with a professional guide. This tour ends at 18:30 hrs

The Koricancha Palace and Convent of Santo Domingo: Religious center known as "The Temple of the Sun" where you will admire the impressive engineering used in its constructionThe Cathedral:Colonial religious monument of extraordinary artistic value. Sacsayhuaman: Built at 3 Km. from the city of Cusco, impressive stone fortress with an excellent architecture, famous for its huge carved stones some of which are at 9 m/ 30 feet high,with a weigh of 350 tons. Here is where the Inty Raymi or Fiesta del Sol is held in June Every year.

Qenqo: Ceremonial and ritual center, amphitheatre where sacrifices were made.

Puca-Pucara: An old tambo (resting place), monitoring place throughout the Inka Empire Routes.

Tambomachay: At 7 Km. From the city of Cusco, ceremonial center of cult to the water,known traditionally as the place where water rests. (Photo: Plaza of Cusco's Weapon in the night).

Third day: Free day in Machu Picchu "The Lost City of the Incas"

We will pass by your hotel in Cusco 1 hour before the departure of your train, and take you to the station, located in the town of Poroy, then we board the train of the company "PERURAIL" and begin the journey from Poroy - Cusco to the town of "Aguas Calientes" (2000 m) which has a duration of 4 hours.

Upon arrival at Aguas Calientes, we will go to our hotel, our guide will look at night to provide information needed for the day of your tour, if you wish you can visit the Hot Springs or buy crafts of place.

Fourth day : Tour Machu Picchu - Huayna Picchu

Early in the morning the next day we go to the bus station to climb 400 meters high, by a zigzag way for 30 minutes to reach the incredible wonder of the world "The Sanctuary of Machupicchu", known as "The City lost of the Incas "When you reach the citadel of Machu Picchu, we pass the control, where our tickets will deliver revenue and begin our guided tour, visiting the Main Plaza, the Circular Tower, the Sacred Solar clock, the royal quarters, the temple of the Three Windows and various cemeteries around for more than two hours. Optional: you can do the trekking to the summit of Huaynapicchu or the Mountain sector, this will take a few hours, in which you can enjoy the scenery and take some breathtaking views (This visit is without a guide). In the afternoon we will take the bus back to Aguas Calientes and head to our hotel, to take bags, and come to the station with anticipation to return to Cusco where we will be waiting at the station Poroy to transfer you to your hotel.

Fifth day:

Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas This tour starts around 09:00 hrs., we pick you up from your Hotel, we have a guided tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, over the Vilcanota river, with a panoramic view of Pisac an old Inca City and a visit to the Inka market in this village, where we will have the chance to know in a closer way its people customs and get good bargains with the handycrafts and souvenirs sellers, afterwards we'll head for Urubamba, traveling on the borders of the river Vilcanota.

We'll have lunch at a restaurant in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the afternoon we visit the fortress and citadel of Ollantaytambo, built to watch the entrance to this part of the valley and protect it from the jungle habitants invasions. We'll have the chance to walk by the narrow streets and have a clear knowledge of how this militar, religious and cultural center was during the Inca empire.

On the way back to Cusco we will stop by the colorful village of Chinchero , where we will find the ruins of the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House, we will appreciate its well preserve Inca wall in the man square and you will visit the beauty Colonial Temple with invaluable portraits, built over Inca Bases. Then we return to Cusco.

Sixth day:

TOURIST TRIP FROM CUSCO TO PUNO, VISITING RAQCHI After breakfast, we will drive you to the bus station to start with our trip to Puno this tour lasts around 8 hours you will have 4 guided visits, Andahuaylillas's temple or South American Sixtine Chapel , the Inka temple of Raqchi, Buffet lunch in Sicuani,La Raya at 4335 m.a.s.l and the Inka Aymara museum of Pukara. Every visit has a duration of 20 or 40 minutes, where the passenger will be able to make questions, take photos and walk a for a while, doing our trip very pleasant .Then we will arrive in Puno, and our staff will drive you to the Hotel. (Photo: Raqchi).

Seventh day:

TOUR TO THE TITICACA LAKE, UROS ISLAND AND TAQUILE Early in the morning you will be picked up from your hotel by our local guide and then transferred to the harbor. We start off our boat excursion of Lake Titicaca by visiting The Uros Floating Island, a small community that has lived on these reed Islands for decades. Centuries ago the small indigenous Uros tribe conceived of the islands as a way to isolate and protect themselves from rival tribes, the Collas and the Incas. The Uros people harvested the reeds in the shallows of the lake, bundled them together tightly and built floating island platforms complete with reed houses and canoes, creating in this way their own little world. After strolling around the floating Islands, we continue our journey towards Taquile Island (2 hour aprox.), a traditional Quechua speaking community, full of ancient agricultural terraces and some ruins dating back to the pre-Inca times. The Taquile population was relatively isolated from the mainland until 1950s, and the notion of the community and family is still very strong among them. At the top of the Island, you will have free time to explore this place on your own and afterwards you will meet the group for lunch at one local restaurant. After lunch, we will descent to the harbor to take our boat back to Puno. We will be back in Puno by 17:00 hrs. approximately. (Photo : Uros Island on the Titicaca Lake in Puno)

Eighth day:

CHULLPAS OF SILLUSTANI AND FLIGHT JULIACA TO LIMA After Having breakfast and once we're ready we will head to Juliaca's Airport ( 1hr from Puno) ,but on the way to the Airport we will visit the Chullpas of Sillustani for around 30 minutes.The archaeological site of Sillustani is located 22.3 miles away from the city of Puno (34 Km., 35 minutes drive) and at an altitude of 12,858 feet (3,840mts.) above sea level. This visit allows visitors to enjoy stunning highland landscapes and imposing pre-Inca architecture. The site is strategically positioned on the top of a peninsula surrounded by a beautiful lagoon called Umayo lagoon.

The archaeological site of Sillustani was a cemetery built in the XIII century by a civilization that occupied the area before the Inka domination. The creators of the imposing burial towers are known as Kolla people. The most imposing burial towers were built for the chiefs and priests. For our ancient cultures, the cemeteries were important resting places for the deceased people. Therefore, our ancestors would strategically choose for burial ground exceptionally beautiful spots. Cemeteries were considered sacred places.

After all this we will get to Juliaca's Aiprot , we will display our IDs and get checked in , then we will fly to Lima as our adventure ends.

(Photo: Chullpas of Sillustani in Puno)