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FROM LA PAZ TO LIMA 11 DAYS
(11 days and 10 nights)

 

Daily Departures
Per Person Prices

The package includes: La Paz City tour, Tiwanaku Ruins, Sun Island catamaran, Cusco, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu

Both prices include the flight ticket: Cusco - Lima

FIRST CLASS
$1992 (Double) & $2805 (Single)
Hotels as below

Hotels included in this package
Rey Palace - La Paz
Sonesta Posada del inka - Puno
Novotel - Cusco
El Pueblo Hotel - Aguas Calientes (M.Picchu)
 

TOURIST CLASS
$1546 (Double) & $1898 (Single)
Accommodation as below

Accommodation included in this package
Gloria Hotel- La Paz
Qelqatani - Puno
Plaza de Armas Hostal - Cusco
Presidente Aguas Calientes (M.Picchu)

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This package can be easily customized to suit your needs

Day 1: LA PAZ PICK UP
Upon arrival to La Paz pick up and transfer to the Hotel - rest of day at leisure and overnight (no meals)

Day 2: CITY TOUR FULL DAY
We pick up passengers from the hotel to visit a typical Indian Market, the famous Witch Doctor’s Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church, built in 1.744. The tour continues by the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. Then, we will visit the famous colonial street “Calle Jaén" along with the museums located within the old colonial La Paz, followed by the visit to an archaeological temple from the Tiawanaku Culture. To change scenery, the tour continues to the residential areas of Obrajes, Calacoto and La Florida.
After a lunch in a typical restaurant, The tour ends with a visit to the unique Moon Valley, overnight at Hotel ( B+L )

Day 3: TIWANAKU RUINS FULL DAY
Pick up from your hotel to visit the former Capital of a Civilization that rose around 700 A:D at 72 Km from la Paz. During it's splendour time the Capital of Tiwanaku was the largest in the world and considered to be "the Cradle of American Civilization" This pre Inca ruins started endless archeological debates and the oldest radiocarbon test shows 1,580 B.C On the way you will pass the town of Laja where La Paz was founded in 1548.
Overnight at the hotel (B+L)

Day 4: SUN ISLAND OVERNIGHT LA PAZ - PUNO (PERU) Departure from La Paz around 6:00am, After 3 hours of Scoring Guide, Visit the Cathedral, main Square, you will also visit.
-The Inca garden , the island micro climate provides the ideal location for this garden that during Inca times was full of Andean flowers , water and trees.
-The Inca Steps that was built by the Incas in order to reach the Inca Water spring -The Inca water spring , a natural water spring with 3 different openings of different tastes, this Inca made water fountain is supposed to be a source of ethernal youth.
The Sun Island Inti Wata Complex
½ hour with Bilingual Guide
Visit the Pillcocaina Inca Palace ½ hour
2 ½ Visiting:
- the Native Village of Challapampa, and it’s museum -Chinkana Inca Holy Temple , the island's most spectacular ruins complex, the main feature is the Palacio del Inca also known as "El Labirinto" .This maze of stone walls and tiny doorways overlooks a lovely white beach lapped by deep blue waters.
Inca Sacred Rock, Music and Garland Welcome by Challpampa Natives, visitors wish and offering to the Sacred Lake -Sailing on a typical native fishing boat , these wood made boats are basically used for net-fishing. Carrying about 6 person , the native captain rows or wind sails if it is possible , depending on the weather condition The Sun Island Kallawaya Ancient Cerimony, witchcrafts,natural medicine, art, magic, and millenary traditions are part of the mystic world of the Kallawayas heritage.The purpose of this mystic ceremony is to purify the souls of the Chinkana holy temple visitors , this Ceremony take place in a Inca altar at the top of the hill facing the temple and overlooking the lake.
- Inca Trail soft Trekking
Buffet Dinner and sun Island natives Folkloric Demonstration on board Catamaran . Overnight (B;L;D)

Day 5: CATAMARAN BACK TO PUNO
Catamaran Breakfast on Board – stop and strait to Puno, arrival time approximately 17:30pm.
overnight at the Hotel (B)

Day 6: CUSCO // PUNO
Transfer to the bus station. Ten hour ride to Cusco, across the scenic high Andes landscapes only dotted by small villages and herds of the llamas and vicuñas. a better quality package service on bus, their service includes a guide on the bus, lunch is included, and the bus stops at several places of interest on the way Upon arrival transfer to the Hotel and overnight (B+L)

Day 7: TIME AT LEISURE IN CUSCO - Overnight (B)

Day 8: CITY TOUR IN THE AFTERNOON
At 13:45 you leave on the Cuzco City Tour. This tour includes the major sites of historical interest in Cuzco, such as the famous Inca fort at Sacsahuaman, and the temple of the Sun. Also included in this is a tourist card, giving you access to all the sites in the Cuzco area as a whole (i.e., including outside of the City itself) This tour finishes at 18:00 overnight at the hostal.( B )

Day 9: SACRED VALLEY TOUR
(Note: This Tour is available just on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Sundays) 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 10: MACHU PICCHU FULL DAY
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). Return to Cuzco in the afternoon train and transfer to the hotel (B;L)

Day 11: TRASFER TO LIMA
Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Lima (airfare included)(B)

END OF OUR SERVICES

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 flights and items of personal nature.

 

NOT INCLUDED IN THE FEE
International airfares (NOTE: the La Paz to Lima airfare is included), 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.


Visa Requirement for US Citizens to enter in Bolivia
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if you are North american and have decided visit Bolivia, you must take note of this recent information:

In the first hours of 2007, The Bolivian President Evo Morales suppressed by decree the right of US citizens to enter this country freely, in reciprocity with a similar measure taken by the US government.
Also the citizens of Angola, Bhutan, República de Chad, Congo, Ruanda, Somalia, República Yemen, Indonesia,  China and Taiwán has been affected by this decreee

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