OVERVIEW
PERU IN WEEK
DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN LIMA
At the beginning of Peru in Week tour, our staff will welcome you at Lima´s airport and take you to your hotel located in one of the important districts of Lima – Miraflores. This is a paradise-like place with beautiful beaches washed by the Pacific Ocean. In the hotel, you will be given 2 hours off to settle and/or rest because later your Tour Guide will take you for a walk around the magic places of Miraflores and Barranco neighborhoods – up to your preference (À la Carte Tour). At night, our team will give you a surprise with exquisite and diverse Peruvian cuisine. Finally, you overnight in the hotel.
DAY 2: LIMA – CUSCO – SACRED VALLEY
After breakfast at the hotel, we will pick you up as we will transport you to the airport in Lima to take a flight to Cusco. After 1 hour and 20 minutes, you will land in Cusco, the archaeological capital, where our staff will pick you up. As the city lies at too high an altitude, we take you to a hotel in the lower placed Sacred Valley of the Incas. The valley is known for having a cozy and nice climate so you get acclimated in this way. Also, it prides itself on an overwhelming and varied landscape, consequently, many hotels are set there. You are given a short break in your hotel. So you can get ready for the next step: a Pisaq Private Tour.
Pisaq is the largest and magical Inca complex after Machu Picchu. Pisaq consists of extraordinary agricultural terraces, water channels, temples, and a residential area. Besides that, it offers fascinating views of the Sacred Valley. Upon the tour, your Tour Guide will take you to the Colonial and nowadays´ Pisaq Town where you will have a lunch break (s/he can recommend you a nice restaurant). After the break, we visit the most colorful artisan market appreciating local fabrics, cloths, ceramics, jewels, and other arts. Then, we will return to the hotel visiting some gatherings of a crop on the way while learning about the history of the Andes.
DAY 3: MARAS – MORAY – SALINERAS
Many monuments can be found around the Sacred Valley, for instance, Maras, Moray, and Salineras. These places are located in the higher parts of the valley allowing observation of the Andean mountain range with its snowy peaks. Today, we will tour the places. Firstly, we will visit Maras – a colonial town typical for its houses with coats of arms and shields of important local families.
Secondly, we will see the unique and admirable site of Moray. In spite of that, it seems like an amphitheater, but circular, it served for agricultural, experimental purposes of the Incas because each terrace was supposed for a different kind of crop. This beautiful place is undoubtedly one of the engineering feats that emphasized the Inca culture.
Lastly, we will continue passing a beautiful landscape towards Salineras meaning the salt mines. The mines offer us a breathtaking view of their 3,000 small pools which sources of salt sprout in a liquid form from the subsoil to the surface. The local people have been making use of their ancestral technique (handled over for thousands of years) to capture the salt till nowadays. On the way back to the hotel, we stop at Huaypo Lake to enjoy a picnic lunch.
DAY 4 PERU IN WEEK: MACHU PICCHU
After breakfast in the sacred valley, we will move to the train station, we will take the most luxurious train with an excellent quality service, which will last 2 hours and 30 minutes, to the town of Machu Picchu.
On the way you will be accompanied by typical dances on board the train, with a service of food and drinks that you want, all passing through a landscape of high jungle between the mountains until we reach Aguas Calientes, which then together with our guide We will go to Machu Picchu.
The highest expression of Inca architecture, where it will be part of the history of this majestic setting, in our sight we can see beautiful constructions divided into 2 sectors by a stone wall, the agricultural sector, where you can see the agricultural terraces that overlook the valley and the urban sector, where the temple of the sun, the temple of the chosen women, the temple of the condor and three windows, each with finely crafted architecture, is found, all imposing before the eyes of man. Our guide will explain each thing in detail that you want, taking you through history to the past, also visiting the Inca bridge, it will depend on you to spend all day at the Machu Picchu Sanctuary, return to the City of Cusco.
DAY 5 PERU IN WEEK: CUSCO (FREE DAY)
Cusco is a wonderful and safe city, where every street has got prettiness and history. This day, you have a chance to enjoy the city up to you. However, you will have a Tour Guide and transport available for your use. So you can visit museums, go shopping, have lunch in any restaurant, enjoy the historic streets of the city where you can find not only Colonial buildings but also Incan constructions. You can explore traditional neighborhoods, carved stone walls, Inca roads, water fountains, and so on. In the evening, we invite you for a dinner folklore show. Overnight in the hotel.
DAY 6: CUSCO – LIMA
After breakfast, we will stop at your hotel to pick you up and take you to two very important archaeological sites of the city of Cusco: Sacsaywaman and Qenqo. First off, we visit Sacsayhuaman (translated from Quechua in two ways, as a “mottled head” or a “satisfied hawk”) – an Inca site with impressive constructions made of giant stones weighing up to 120 tons. The mystery of its construction is in three levels surrounded by an esplanade. Secondly, we will go to Qenqo, a magical religious place where we will be able to observe an immense rock and inside of it, an altar. The altar is characterized by being carved in the same rock that is in the underground part. Afterward, we will observe the Inca calendar (also carved in a rock), where our Tour Guide will explain to us all the useful information.
After having enjoyed the beautiful imperial city of the Incas and the wonder of the world, we return to our hotel to do check-out. Then, we are transported back to the airport of Cusco to take a flight to the capital of Peru – Lima. Our staff will await you there and take you to your hotel in the Miraflores district. After check-in, we spend the afternoon on a private Lima City Tour exploring the historical center. You spend the last night in the hotel.
DAY 7: LIMA – DESTINATION CITY
You have your last breakfast in the hotel and then our staff accompanies you to the airport of Lima to say goodbye. The end of Peru in Week tour.
We hope that your dreams of vacation in Peru will have come true with X Travel Peru and we will look forward to meeting you soon again in the future!
ITINERARY
PERU IN WEEK
DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN LIMA
- Pick-up at the airport of Lima.
- Transfer to your hotel (in Miraflores district).
- “À la Carte Tour” around Miraflores and Barranco neighborhoods.
- Dinner surprise!
- Overnight in your hotel.
DAY 2: LIMA – CUSCO – SACRED VALLEY
- Breakfast and pick-up from your hotel.
- Transfer to Lima´s airport.
- Flight to Cusco.
- Transport to your hotel in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
- Guided tour to the archaeological Inca complex in Pisaq.
- Visit the craft market of Pisaq.
- Overnight in your hotel.
DAY 3: MARAS – MORAY – SALINERAS
- Breakfast at your hotel.
- Transport to Maras – a colonial town.
- Visit of Moray – an Inca agricultural experimental center consisted of circular terraces.
- Guided tour of Salineras – salt mines made up of 3,000 small pools.
- Transport to your hotel.
- Overnight.
DAY 4 PERU IN WEEK: MACHU PICCHU
- A very early breakfast.
- A luxury train ride to the town of Aguas Calientes.
- Arrival to Aguas Calientes.
- Boarding a bus taking us up to the citadel of Machu Picchu.
- Private guided tour of the jewel of Incas – Machu Picchu!
- Relax at this Incan site.
- Bus ride downhill to the town of Aguas Calientes.
- In the afternoon, a return by luxury train to the Cusco City.
- Transfer to your hotel.
- Overnight.
DAY 5: CUSCO (FREE DAY)
- Breakfast at your hotel.
- Free day to explore the Cusco City on your own; however, you will have a Tour Guide and transport available to use!
- Overnight in the hotel.
DAY 6 PERU IN WEEK: CUSCO – LIMA
- Breakfast at your hotel.
- A tour to Sacsayhuaman and Qenqo (two very important Inca sites in Cusco!).
- Transport to your hotel to do check-out.
- A transfer to the Cusco´s airport.
- Flight to Lima.
- Transfer to your hotel in Lima (Miraflores district).
- Lima City Tour.
- Overnight in your hotel.
DAY 7: LIMA – DESTINATION CITY
- Breakfast at your hotel.
- Transfer to the airport of Lima.
- End of Peru in Week tour.
OPTIONAL
OPTIONAL:
- Climb to the Machu Picchu Mountain, a mountain situated above the Inca citadal accessible by a 1.5 – hour climb. Here you are able to take those postcard-like photos of Machu Picchu. It costs USD 15 extra. Please note that the booking needs to be done at least 1 month in advance due to a limited number of tickets!
- Wayna Picchu – a mountain situated above the Inca citadal accessible by the 45-minute climb. It serves to take some panoramic photos of Machu Picchu. It is an extra USD 25. Please note that the booking needs to be done at least 3 months in advance due to a limited number of entrances!
- Sun Gate (the end of the traditional Inca Trail) and the Inca Bridge. These two spots enable you to see Machu Picchu from another point of view and take some pictures. There is no need for special booking, no admission fee is required. However, we need you to advise us in advance if you wish to do these alternatives as it requires a minimum of extra 2 hours!
INCLUDED / NOT INCLUDED
IN THE TOUR PERU IN WEEK, INCLUDED:
- A return flight ticket Lima-Cusco-Lima.
- Transfer airport/hotel/airport in Lima, Cusco, and Sacred Valley.
- Transfer hotel/railway station/hotel.
- A private vehicle transport during all the tours.
- 2x night in a 5* hotel in Lima.
- 2 nights in a 5* hotel in Sacred Valley.
- 2 nights in a 5* hotel in Cusco.
- A professional Tour Guide during all the tours.
- A la Carte Tour in Lima – a private tour.
- Lima City Tour – a private tour.
- Pisaq Private Tour.
- Maras-Moray-Salineras Private Tour.
- Machu Picchu Private Tour.
- Cultural Cusco City Private Tour.
- Boleto turístico (a tourist ticket enabling you to enter all tourist attractions that we will visit in Cusco and Sacred Valley).
- Entrance ticket to Machu Picchu.
- Shuttle bus up and down to Machu Picchu.
- Luxury train service transport (Hiram Bingham) during the Machu Picchu Private Tour.
- Buffet breakfast in every hotel.
- Picnic lunch during the Maras-Moray-Salineras Tour.
- 1x dinner show in Lima.
- 1x dinner show in Cusco.
IN THE TOUR PERU IN WEEK, NOT INCLUDED:
- Meals not mentioned.
- Drinks.
- Tips to local staff.
- Flights not mentioned.
- Personal expenses.
WHAT TO BRING
WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU TO THE PERU IN WEEK TOUR?
- Original passport (it is checked at the Machu Picchu entrance gate!),
- Luggage,
- Light and comfortable clothes (especially, for the part spent in Lima and Machu Picchu where the weather is warm),
- Warm clothes such as jacket, sweaters, long trousers (particularly, for the time spent in Cusco),
- Sufficient number of socks and underwear,
- Raincoat/poncho (especially, from November to March),
- A cap/hat,
- Walking shoes,
- Sandals,
- Swimsuit (in case, you like to swim).
- Sun cream,
- Sunglasses,
- Insect repellent
- Camera,
- Toiletries,
- Towel,
- Paper towels,
- Bottled water,
- Pocket money (to buy souvenirs or refreshments).
- Personal medication (if applicable).
PRICE
PERU IN WEEK
The price depends on the number of participants, accommodation availability, travel dates, and other preferences. Please inquire about a personalized price.