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COLCA CANYON AND MACHU PICCHU 11 DAYS
(11 days and 10 nights)
Daily Departures
Per Person Prices
The package includes: Lima City tour, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Cusco, Sacred
Valley and Machu Picchu Include the airfare tickets: Lima - Arequipa / Arequipa
- Cusco / Cusco - Lima
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package can be easily customized to suit your
needs
Day 1: LIMA PICK UP
Pick up upon arrival and overnight at the Hotel located in Miraflores, Lima.
(no meals)
Day 2: LIMA CITY TOUR & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM RAFAEL LARCO HERRERA In the
morning Lima city tour , you will be picked up from your hotel at 09 AM.
We will visit the colonial area and to the Plaza de Armas where you will see
the Government Palace, the Cathedral, the Archbishop's Palace and the City
Hall as well as the XVII century church and cloister of San Francisco, a
world cultural heritage . Then we will go to the modern downtown with a view
of the Pacific Ocean and the modern residential suburb of San Isidro .We
will also visit The Archaeology Museum Rafael Larco Herrrera The 18th
century colonial-style museum houses the largest and most impressive ceramic
collection in the world, with about 55,000 pre-Colombian clay pots on
display. The collection concentrates on the refined ceramics of the Moche
Dynasty, the people who lived along the northern coast of Peru between 200
and 700 AD. The Moche culture is recognized as accomplishing one of the
greatest imaginative languages of ancient Peru through the use of creative
pottery, providing clues to all aspects of their civilization without the
use of the written word. One can learn about their religion, agriculture,
transport, dance and music through their ceramic designs and shapes. The
Moche are also renowned for their fascinating erotic pottery and the famous
collection is on display in the separate ‘Erotic Hall’, depicting sexual
practices of several Peruvian cultures in a lifelike, explicit and often
humorous way. At the end of the services transfer to the Hotel (B,L)
Day 3: AREQUIPA
You will be picked up from your hotel in the morning, transfer to the
airport to take the flight to Arequipa (airfare included) Upon arrival
reception and transfer to the selected Hotel. In the afternoon around 3 pm
you'll take the Arequipa half day city tour that includes the visit at the
Santa Catarina monastery The city has fine spanish buildings and many old
and interesting churches built of sillar, a pearly white volcanic material
almost exclusevely used in the construction of Arequipa. The Santa Catalina
Convent is by far the most remarkable sight, opened in 1970 after 4
centuries of mistery. Overnight. (B)
Day 4: COLCA CANYON
At 08:00 a.m. leave Arequipa towards nor west direcction behind snow-covered
Chachani, Yura, small valley with thermal springs, see wild vicuñas in Pampa
Cañahuas national reserve, Alpacas & llamas in Tocra, some bidrs like
flamingoes, ibis, andean gooze, ducks, andean eagle "Kara Kara" view point
of the Volcanoes and snow covered mountains in Patapampa (4,800
m.)(15,000ft.), See the Ampato, Sabancaya, Walca Walca, etc.) Chivay Capital
of the valley. Afternoon visit to the termal springs & pools in La Calera.
(Admission to the pools not included , about $2 per person). Overnight at
the hotel (B,L,D)
Day 5: COLCA CANYON
Early morning after breakfast leave for a full day excursion in the left
shore, beautiful tipical towns, like Yanque & Maca, colonial churches,
gently people with tipical needlework dresses, hundreds of pre inca terraces
still in use with andean growings like corn, qinua, kiwicha (Amaranto), etc.
Lookout of The cross of the condor: see the deep of the canyon and if we
have good luck we will see the flight of the Condor . Stone scale models,
some pre inca graves. Time for lunch.
Return to Arequipa. (18:00 approx. in Arequipa.) Overnight. (B,L)
Day 6: AREQUIPA-CUSCO
Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take flight to Cusco (airfare
included) Upon arrival reception and transfer to the hotel ,rest of the
morning at leisure.
Overnight (B)
Day 7: CUSCO CITY TOUR
In the afternoon: Cusco City Tour From 2 PM to 6.30pm .This tour includes
the Qoricancha (temple of the sun) and the Cathedral.
The tour drives along the Circunvalacion Road up to famous fortress of
Sacsahuaman, then to Q'enqo, Puca Pucara and Tambomachay, including Spanish
and English speaking guide. Include Tourist ticket valid for the entrance to
many museums and ruins as well. Overnight (B)
Day 8: SACRED VALLEY TOUR
(Departure day only on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) You will be picked up
at 8,45A.M. Full day excursion to the Urubamba Valley visiting:The village
of Pisac, a picturesque town of creole and colonial aspect and its lndian
market and craftfair. Lunch provided. In the afternoon you'll visit to the
fortress of Ollantaytambo, an architectural group that in the days of the
Tahuantinsuyo empire was a gigantic agricultural, administrative, social,
religious and military complex, then the Chincero market. At the end Return
to Cusco and overnight at the hotel (B;L)
Day 9: MACHU PICCHU
All day excursion by alpine train to Machu Picchu. At 5:30 am you will leave
the Hotel to the train station , the train leaves at 6:00 am. Travel is in "Vistadome"
Class (formerly "Autowagon"). At 9:40 a.m., you will arrive at the Aguas
Calientes Station, from where you take a 25 minute bus ride to the ruins of
Machu Picchu. Once there, you will have a guided tour, with an English
speaking professional guide. The ruins are on the eastern slope of Machu
Picchu in two separate arcas: the agricultural and the urban. Lunch at the
Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge (included). Overnight at the hotel in Aguas
Calientes town (B,L)
Day 10: MACHU PICCHU
Morning at leisure to explore the are by your own (entrance fee and
transportation not included). In the afternoon you will take the train to
Cuzco. Upon arrival in Cuzco, transfer to the hotel . Overnight(B)
Day 11: TRANSFER OUT
In the morning transfer to the airport to take the flight to Lima (airfare
included) in time to get your international flight connection (B)
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INCLUDES:
All hotel and lodge accommodations based on double or single occupancy. All
scheduled transportation. All transfers. All scheduled excursions with
English-speaking guide services. All entrance fees. Meals and domestic airfares
as specified in the itinerary. B=Breakfast; L=Lunch; D=Dinner.
Note : We can replace above Hotels with other one with the same characteristics
in the case that it becomes necessary for operative and other reasonable causes
NOT INCLUDED IN THE FEE:
International airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess baggage
charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations,
alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any
kind, laundry, phone calls, radio calls or messages, reconfirmation of
international flights and items of personal nature.
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