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PERU TRAVEL PLANNER
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THE WHOLE PERU
10
DAYS (10 days and 9 nights)
Daily Departures
Per Person Prices
This package includes: Lima, Nazca Lines, Cusco, Machu Picchu,
Puerto Maldonado.
Lima - Cusco
Cusco - Puerto Maldonado
Puerto Maldonado - Lima
This
package can be easily customized to suit your
needs
DAY 1: LIMA PICK UP
Reception in the Lima airport and transfer to the Hotel located in
Miraflores, Lima. (No meals)
DAY 2: LIMA CITY TOUR AND GOLD MUSEUM
You will be picked up from your lima hotel at 9am approx, you will begin
with a drive to the Park of Love in Miraflores, the modern downtown with a
view of the Pacific Ocean. The tour then continues to the modern residential
suburb of San Isidro, followed by a drive to 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. The tour ends with a visit to the
XVII century church and cloister of San Francisco, a world cultural heritage.
We will take a lunch in a typical restaurant, and then we will visit the
Peruvian Gold Museum a fine collection of pre columbian gold handicraft, and
the weapon collection on the second floor, at the end transfer back to your
hotel. (B, L)
Day 3: NAZCA FULL DAY TOUR
You will be picked up from your Hotel in Lima at 5:00 am, we will provide a
driver and a minivan, the ride will take around 6 hours each way . On the
way we will visit the Museum of the site. The Maria Reiche tomb and we will
stop at the Over view of Nazca. Cut into the stony desert are large number
of lines, not only parallels and geometrical figures, but also designs such
as a dog, an enormous monkey, a bird with a wing span of over 100 meters, a
spider and a tree. The lines, that represent some sort of vast astronomical
pre-Inca calendar, are best seen from the air, we will take a half hour
flight above the Lines (Airfare included), after the over flight we will
take some time to rest and we will have lunch (included) before to come back
to Lima. Overnight. (B;L)
DAY 4: LIMA - CUSCO
Transfer to the Lima airport for the flight to Cuzco (airfare not included).
Upon arrival at Cusco airport you will be met and driven to Hotel, where you
are advised to rest for a while to acclimatize to the altitude. In the
afternoon Cusco City Tour From 1.45pm 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 Sacsayhuaman , then to Q'enqo ,
Puca Pucara and Tambomachay Including Spanish and English speaking guide.
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).
Hotel Overnight. (B)
Day 5: CUSCO / MACHU PICCHU (*Overnight in Aguas Calientes)
All day excursion by train to Machu Picchu. At 5:30 am you will leave the
hotel to the Poroy station to take the 6:57 am train. Travel is in "Vistadome"
Class (formerly "Autowagon"). At 9:52 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 (B, L).
Day 6: MACHU PICCHU / CUSCO
Morning at leisure to explore the ruins on your own (bus ticket and entrance
fees not included for this day on the rate). Relax at the local hot springs,
and enjoy the enormous beauty of Machu Picchu that certainly deserves an
extra day. In the afternoon you will take the train to Cuzco. Upon arrival
in Cuzco, transfer to hotel. (B).
DAY 7 SACRED VALLEY TOUR (SHARED SERVICE: TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY)
Breakfast. You will be picked up at 8:15 am. Full day excursion to the
Urubamba Valley visiting: the colorful Indian market in Pisac where a
mixture of color, tradition will be able appreciated The Valley has a
distance of 31 km (19 miles) of Cusco, and one altitude of 2,970 ms (9,700
p), Pisac where we will visit the market, and is located to the entrance of
the Sacred Valley followed by Ollantaytambo, the older town continuously
occupied of the American continent. The narrow streets of Ollantaytambo,
along with their channels that have not varied from the time Inca, evoke
their ancestral inheritance, lunch in a typical restaurant on the evening
and then the Chinchero market. At the end, return to Cusco at 6:30pm approx.
The night is free for you to eat in a restaurant of your choice; although we
always have plenty of suggestions for you should you require them. (B, L)
DAY 8: CUSCO - PUERTO MALDONADO
Transfer from hotel to the airport for your flight to Puerto Maldonado (airfare
not included). Upon arrival transfer from Puerto Maldonado airport to the
river port on the Madre de Dios River. A 25 minutes journey down the Madre
de Dios River by motor canoe brings you to the riverside trailhead to
Sandoval Lake Lodge. From here the trail takes you on a 2-miles
(3,2-kilometers) walk through secondary forest, until we reach a small canal
where we board canoes and are paddled 220 yards (201 meters) through a
flooded forest of 100-foot (30-meters) tall Mauritia palms. As the canal
opens onto the shimmering surface of the lake, we transfer to a catamaran
and are leisurely paddled across half the lake to the lodge. After lunch and
a brief rest to avoid the early afternoon heat, we will learn about the
history of the lodge and the philosophy of its founders. Then we once again
board the catamaran and set off to explore the entire west end of the lake.
Here, in the flooded palm forest we drift to the sounds of hundreds of
Red-Bellied Macaws as they return to the palm forest for the night. This
macaw species is found locally in parts of the Amazon, always living in
flooded palm forests such as the beautiful palm stand at Sandoval Lake. At
500-800 birds, this flock of macaws at Sandoval Lake is currently the
largest reported in the world for this highly-specialized macaw. As night
falls we will look for the large and extremely rare Black Caimans. If it is
a clear starlit night, we will also be able to float in the middle of the
lake to marvel at the brilliance of the sky and listen to the sounds of the
forest. We return to the lodge for a short video or slide presentation and
dinner. At any point, you could step out from the bar to admire the wide
variety of nocturnal moths, beetles and praying mantis attracted to our
black light in the lodge clearing. For those with lots of energy, our guide
will take us on a short night-walk into the forest behind the lodge. (B;L,D)
DAY 9: LAKE SANDOVAL
PA pre-dawn wake-up call will enable us to be on the lake for sunrise and a
hopeful encounter with the family of Giant Otters who frequent the lake and
are most active at this time of day. Sandoval Lake offers abundant wildlife
including over 40 species of birds resident to its lake margins, most of the
fish-eating water birds around the lake actively fish in the early morning
as well, and this outing should provide excellent views, of the prehistoric-
looking Hoatzins, These are easy to observe and also photograph from the
paddled canoes or catamarans. After returning for a late breakfast we set
off into the cool under story of the tall virgin forest near the lake to see
some towering wild Brazil Nut trees and a demonstration of how our hosts
collect, open and commercialize this important natural product. After lunch
and an hour or so to relax we once again board the catamaran to explore the
eastern part of the lake, where we might see one or more of the five species
of monkeys who live in the forest near the lake, such as the Brown Capuchin
Monkey and Squirrel Monkey. Before dinner we will again enjoy an informative
natural history video or slide presentation. We will leave after dinner to
try and spot some Black Caimans on the lake, or to go on a short night walk
through the primary forest. (B, L, D)
DAY 10: TRANSFER OUT
After early breakfast we leave near dawn and we take a final, shorter paddle
around the west end of the lake to try and glimpse the Giant Otters before
returning by motor canoe for the 35 minutes return trip to the Puerto
Maldonado Airport, taking advantage of valuable early morning wildlife
activity along the river. From here you fly to Lima (airfare not included).
(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 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
Nasca lines airport tax USD14 per person, International and domestic 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.
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