DAY 1 – WELCOME TO LIMA, ¡CAPITAL OF PERUVIAN GASTRONOMY!

Upon arrival at Jorge Chavez International Airport, ANDINA AMAZONICA will take care of your personalized assistance in the country. Your host guide will be waiting for you with a sign and your contact name, ready to assist you and take you to your hotel. During the trip to your hotel, your guide will give you an introduction of our city, the benefits that the capital has and some tips so that you can make the most of your stay in the capital. This day will be for relaxing, sightseeing and enjoying the city at your own pace.

DAY 2 – BUGGY ADVENTURE & SANDBOARDING!!!

This day the adventure starts very early to leave the city to our first activity in “Paracas”, where after a delicious breakfast, we embark for the sea excursion to the famous and incredible “Ballestas Islands”.

After having fun for a couple of hours, we continue the excursion, this time visiting one of the famous traditional vineyards, cradle of our flagship drink “Pisco” and also Wine, where in the tour, you will be able to taste the different brands, flavors and qualities of these blessed drinks made of distilled grapes. At lunch time, you choose the place and the exquisite dishes to taste with the recommendations of our host guide.

After lunch, we visit the “Oasis of Huacachina”, after a rest and the photographic shots, ¡we start with the real adventure on wheels! With our Buggy we will go through the beautiful dunes in endless fun, not enough with this activity, they will be waiting for us for the next activity of Sandboarding, where we will slide downhill, taming the sand waves and dodging the difficulties on it.

By sunset and de-stressed by so much fun, we return to the city of Lima in our transportation and with our host guide, arriving at night to our hotel and ready for a well deserved rest.

DAY 3 – FLYING OVER THE CUSQUENIAN ANDES TO THE SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS

After a well-deserved rest at the hotel in Lima and a very substantial buffet breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel to take you back to the airport in Lima city where you will board the flight to the Sacred Capital of the Incas, ¡Cusco!

The flight will take approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes, from the plane you will be able to appreciate the geography and all the scenic landscape of the Andes, with the mountain ranges, snow-capped mountains, lagoons, plateaus, valleys and ravines.

Once you land at the airport in the city of Cusco, our host guide will be waiting for you to take you to the charming “Sacred Valley of the Incas”, on the way and taking advantage of the day we will visit places of tourist interest such as: “La Granja de llamas” (very entertaining and cultural place for children and adults, where you can appreciate and interact with South American camelids). Then and depending on the physical and biological condition due to the altitude, we continue the trip to “Pisac”, visiting the archaeological part that shows the agricultural terraced road worked in the mountain and adapted to the geography of it.

Pisac is characterized by having not only a great part of the original Inca constructions, but also at a glance you can appreciate the cemeteries or common tombs dating from ancient times, not to mention the spectacular view it boasts for being an Inca citadel built on the peak of the mountain.

After an appetizing lunch, we continue our journey to the hotel, located in the heart of the Sacred Valley, Urubamba. One of the most beautiful family hotels in our city, ideal for the stay of our youngest guests.

DAY 4 – EXPLORING THE SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS

After a warm night and an excellent breakfast, your guide will pick you up from the hotel to start the adventure and get to know a part of our fabulous Sacred Valley of the Incas, this day we will visit 3 places considered icons of the Sacred Valley:

The “Salineras de Maras”, where we will observe all the active pools and worked by man since ancient times until today, the guide will give you complete information about why and how the pools are fed with salt water from inside the mountain, the process and salt harvesting.

Then we visit the archaeological site of “Moray”, considered as the Inca laboratories, where our ancestors captured all their agricultural knowledge related to atmospheric phenomena, astronomy and the lunar calendar to study, understand, develop and genetically modify the native products of the coast, highlands and jungle, which is why today the Peruvian territory produces more than 4,000 varieties of potatoes, national pride!

After an appetizing lunch in one of the most elegant restaurants in our valley, we travel through the mountains, with panoramic views of the Sacred Valley, heading northwest to visit the Architectural Complex of “Ollantaytambo”, an excellent place to learn about Inca architecture and engineering, embodied by our ancestors in the elaboration and work of the stone blocks for the construction of the Great Temple of the Sun. Ollantaytambo is a clear example of the ability of the Andean man to build architectural wonders without using today’s sophisticated technology.

In the afternoon, we return to the hotel and spend the rest of the day enjoying its services, surroundings and facilities.

DAY 5 – MACHUPICCHU, ¡WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD!

Finally, the long awaited day has arrived! After an energetic breakfast, your guide will pick you up to go to the train station, board the train and travel for an average of 1 hour and 40 minutes to the wonder of the modern world. On the train ride, you will enjoy dreamlike panoramic views, traveling parallel to the sacred river of the Incas (Vilcanota or Urubamba), appreciating the fields, local populations, villages, mountains, snow-capped peaks and of course the domestic flora and fauna of each place.

Once in the town of Machu Picchu, your guide and you will board the buses that will take you to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a majestic icon of Peru, with a lot of religious and astronomical symbolism, considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983.

Your guide will share with you the history, geography, archaeology and more of the legacy of our ancestors, taking you back to pre-Hispanic times and thus understand the importance and magnitude of what was the most important civilization in South America. After a tour of approximately 3 hours, we return to the town of Aguas Calientes to enjoy a magnificent lunch and settle in the hotel and rest.

DAY 6 – SECOND DAY AT THE WONDER OF THE WORLD

After a well-deserved rest and a revitalizing breakfast, your guide will pick you up from the hotel to start the second day excursion in the wonder of the modern world, this day will be a day of adventure and climbing, as we will conquer the skies, ¡we will climb to the top of the mountain Huayna Picchu or young mountain! Representative icon of the Inca citadel of Machupicchu.

After achieving our goal of reaching the top of Huayna Picchu Mountain, where we can enjoy a 360° landscape, observe the majestic mountains, snow-capped peaks, the beauty and grandeur of Machu Picchu, we take the bus back to town for an appetizing lunch before boarding the train that will take us back to Ollantaytambo, where our driver friend will be waiting to take us in our van to the historic city of Cusco and rest at the hotel.

DAY 7 – IMMORTAL CUSCO

After having renewed and recharged our energies in Machu Picchu, the beautiful city of Cusco awaits us, with more history and that in a glorious past was the capital of the empire of the Incas, with loving and super friendly people, alpacas and llamas touring the city with tourists, art galleries, craft stores, popular markets, churches, museums, Inca and colonial buildings, etc. that catalog our city as the most beautiful city in all of South America.

This day and with our guide, we visit the most outstanding points of our city as “Sacsayhuaman”, considered the most important architectural portent of the city, whose constructions boast blocks of Megalithic style of dry fittings, considered the Temple of the Sun and later destroyed by the Spanish crown so that its blocks are used for the construction of the Cathedral.

Then we will take a walk through the most typical and traditional streets of our city, visiting the famous neighborhood of “San Blas”, the street of the “stone of the 12 angles” until arriving to the “Plaza de Armas”, where we will visit “The Cathedral”, a colonial jewel of the city, in wich interior we can fin the most valuable treasures like canvases dating from the 17th to the 20th century, most of them made by indigenous hands, as well as cedar woodwork, which together show the fusion and / or symbiosis of both cultures, a legacy for the Cusqueños.

Finally, and after the recommendations of our guide friend, you will have the afternoon free to have lunch, visit the rest of the city at your own time and style, enjoy a different sunset from the main square of the city, visit a bar with live music, have dinner in a nice elegant restaurant before resting at the hotel.

DAY 8 – RAINBOW MOUNTAIN

Resting, after a very good night in the hotel and this time, very early in the morning, our guide and driver will pick you up from the hotel to travel to the south of the city, where we will visit one of the most amazing natural and geographical attractions of the planet, a place that represents the perfect sample of the geological formation of our Andes: The mountain of colors “Palcoyo”.

Leaving the hotel we will take a couple of hours to reach our first stop, where we will have a tasty breakfast, then we will continue the trip for a couple of hours more to the Mountain of Colors, observing on the way the peculiar populations of colonial style, the different colorful costumes of its inhabitants, the constructions of adobe houses and red tile roofs, small squares dominated by its colonial temples, etc.. Leaving the paved road behind, we continue our journey on a dirt road for a couple of hours more, appreciating this time the rural life, peasant communities scattered along the road, precarious adobe houses that are crumbling by the passage of time, corn and potato fields, schools and some improvised soccer fields.

Once we arrive at our destination, we will begin the hike at your pace, without demands or pressure, since we have the day to enjoy our adventure in the mountains. We will visit the site and take our time for photographic shots, being able to clearly appreciate the pigments that were formed over the years by the presence of oxides, minerals, temperatures, glaciations, atmospheric erosions, among others. Returning to our van, we will head back to the restaurant for an energetic lunch and then return to the city of Cusco to rest in your hotel and enjoy more of Cusco by night.

DAY 9 – BACK TO LIMA

Today we say goodbye to the wonderful city of Cusco, taking with us all the magic, affection and energy of a culture that has survived the passing of time and its external influences. After picking you up from your hotel, your host guide will accompany you to the airport and help you check your luggage until you are dropped off at the boarding gate.

Once you land at the airport in Lima, your host guide will be waiting for you to pick you up and take you on a tour of the city, taking advantage of the fact that your connecting flight to your country is in the evening, your guide and driver will show you around the city, accompany you to enjoy an exquisite Creole style lunch and at sunset, accompany you to the magical circuit of the waters, where you can enjoy a show of water, lights and sound. An unforgettable night to say goodbye to the country.

To end our services, our host friends will see you off, take you to the international airport and help with boarding, leaving you safely ready to take your flight.

End of our services.