PERU TOUR 5
Lima - Sacred Valley - Machu Picchu - Tambopata Rainforest
9 days / 8 nights
9 day escorted tour of Peru including Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Amazon Rainforest. Available in hostels with several lodges available. Departures every Saturday throughout the year. English speaking tour leaders.
Itinerary
Day 1 Lima.
Arrival and transfer to the hostel of your choice.
Day 2 Lima.
After breakfast, full city tour of Colonial and Modern Lima, by group air conditioned bus with one of our professional bilingual tour guides. This tour includes a visit to see Lima’s colonial Churches, including the Cathedral, San Francisco Convent with its Catacombs; San Martin square and the Main Square (Plaza de Armas), which is flanked by the Government Palace, the City Hall and the Cathedral. You will also visit Lima’s residential areas: San Isidro district with its Olive Groves Park and Miraflores district with its Central Park. You will also take a pleasant drive along the Costa Verde, Lima’s Ocean front, for a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean. Return to your hostel. Free evening.
Day 3 Lima - Cusco.
After breakfast, early flight to Cuzco. Upon arrival reception and transfer to your hostel. By the afternoon, a guided tour around the 4 ruins surrounding Cuzco: the Sacsayhuaman Fortress, whose structure is built in such a way that a single piece of paper will not fit between many of the stones; Kenko, the name of this small but fascinating ruin means Zigzag, it’s a large limestone rock riddled with niches, steps and extraordinary symbolic carvings, including the zigzagging channels that probably gave the site its name; Puka Pukara, which is composed of several lower residential chambers, storerooms and an esplanade with panoramic views; and Tambomachay, which consists of a beautifully wrought ceremonial stone bath, channeling crystalline spring water through fountains that still functions today. Continue to the city tour of Cuzco, the Main Square, the Cathedral and the Koricancha or Temple of the Sun, which in Inca times was literally covered in gold and silver. Return to your hostel. Free evening.
Day 4 Sacred Valley
Full day to Urubamba, better known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Sacred Valley is generally understood to include everything between Pisac and Ollantaytambo, parallel to the Urubamba river, or Vilcanota River or Wilcamayu, as this Sacred river is called when passing through the valley, also a visit to the village of Pisac and Pisac Ruins; The village is well known for its market every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, an event which attracts heavy tourist traffic from nearby Cuzco; Pisac Ruins are famous for the agricultural terraces, which sweep around the south and east flanks of the mountain in huge and graceful curves, almost entirely unbroken by steps, which require great maintenance to avoid erosion. Enjoy a great buffet lunch at the Alhambra Restaurant, after a visit to Ollantaytambo; which it’s the best surviving example of Inca city planning, with narrow cobblestone streets that have been inhabited since the 13th century. Return to Cuzco by the traditional market of Chinchero. Accommodation at your hostel.
Day 5 Machu Picchu.
Early departure start by Expedition train to Aguas Calientes, a Magnificent guided visit to Macchu Picchu; which means "Old mountain" often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas" and mentioned as “One of the Seven Wonders”, this fabulous city was built around the year 1450, forgotten for centuries, the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a North American historian. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Surrounded by lush cloud forest, the citadel perches in a mist shrouded mountaintop. After the tour, free time to enjoy this spiritual wonder. A great occasion to see Wayna Picchu (Young Peak); the most famous of several short walks, or the Intipunku (Sun Gate); which its where the Inca Trail ends, both give you a magnificent view of the whole sanctuary. (Note: Wayna Picchu its open from around 7am until 1pm, and you must return by 4pm). Accommodation at your hostel.
Day 6 Machu Picchu.
As you know one day is not enough to explore the sanctuary in its entirety, that’s why this is a great opportunity to return on your own to see the sunrise and much more (note: the first bus departs from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu at 5:30am). Return to Cuzco in the afternoon by train and transfer to your hostel.
Day 7 Cusco - Tambopata Rainforest.
Transfer to the airport for the flight to Puerto Maldonado. Reception and transfer to the Tambopata River harbor in Puerto Maldonado for the canoe trip to your rainforest lodge. After arrival, a complete briefing at the lodge before visiting a 35 meters scaffolding tower for a spectacular view of the river, the surrounding forest, and an opportunity to observe birds from the canopy, including parrots, toucans and macaws. Return to the lodge.
Tambopata Rainforest
Day 8 Tambopata Rainforest.
Early rising at dawn, for a visit to the Tres Chimbadas oxbow lake. Here we will take a long, easy canoe ride around the lake looking for giant river otters, turtles, hoatzins, and wading birds. The giant river otters that are seen in Tres Chimbadas belong to a resident family of nine. Return to the lodge for lunch before embarking on your afternoon outing to the community’s ethno botanical center. We will hike the trails around the centre with one of the residents who will explain the everyday uses of forest resources in medicine, construction, food and fiber. Return to your lodge.
Tambopata Rainforest
Day 9 Tambopata Rainfores - Puerto Maldonado - Lima.
After an early breakfast, departure on our boat back to the city of Puerto Maldonado. Transfer to the airport for our return flight back to Lima and connection flight back home.
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Our Price Includes:
- Hotels accommodations in the resorts and hostels of your choice, including breakfast and taxes.
- All transfers, tours, meals and excursions as per itinerary with local English-speaking.
- Train tickets
- all entrance fees.
- Medical Insurance
Our price does not include:
- International air travel.
- All national flight tickets.
- Domestic and international airport taxes.
- Meals not mentioned in your itinerary.
- Personal expenses such as telephone bills, laundry, etc.
Details of your trip to Peru:
If you go to high altitudes you may suffer “Soroche” (altitude sickness), bring diamox or ask your doctor for advice, just in case.(See more details).
Checked-in luggage weight limit on domestic flights is 20 kg (44.09 lb). The fee for excess luggage is US$1.8 per kilo.
Carry-on luggage for domestic flights cannot exceed 8 kg (17.64 lb).
Insurance against theft, loss, illness and/or accident.
In addition to your carry-on, you can bring with you a personal item such as a purse, a lap top, a video camera or a diaper bag (when traveling with an infant).
The Expedition train to Machu Picchu limits passengers to a small luggage of no more than 11 pounds or 5 kilos per person.
The regular rate for tips is $5 or more, at your discretion.
The exchange rate is about 3.00 soles per dollar.
Airport taxes for national flights are $6.05, payable at the airport.
Airport taxes for international flights are $30.25, payable at the airport.
View Peru will assist you in every step of your trip, so please feel free to call us at any time, day or night, if necessary.
IMPORTANT:
We reserve the right to make changes in the schedule of the trip without prior notice, due to changes in climate conditions, river water levels, flight or bus arrival and departure times or any other unforeseeable reason that may develop, in order to make the best of the trip.
We would be pleased to arrange additional free days to your tour, if you so desire, in order to give you more time to explore things, or places that may be of particular interest to you