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COLCA
CANYON AND MACHU PICCHU 10 DAYS
(10 days and 9 nights)
Daily Departures
Per Person Prices
The package includes: Lima
City tour, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Cusco, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu
Include the airfare
tickets: Lima - Arequipa / Arequipa - Cusco / Cusco - Lima
This package can be easily customized to suit your needs
Day 1: LIMA PICK UP
Pick up upon arrival and overnight at the Hotel located
in Miraflores, Lima.
(no meals)
Day 2: LIMA CITY TOUR & ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM RAFAEL
LARCO HERRERA
In the morning Lima city tour , you will be picked up
from your hotel at 09 AM.
We will visit 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 as
well as the XVII century church and cloister of San
Francisco, a world cultural heritage . Then we will go
to the modern downtown with a view of the Pacific Ocean
and the modern residential suburb of San Isidro .We will
also visit The Archaeology Museum Rafael Larco Herrrera
The 18th century colonial-style museum houses the
largest and most impressive ceramic collection in the
world, with about 55,000 pre-Colombian clay pots on
display. The collection concentrates on the refined
ceramics of the Moche Dynasty, the people who lived
along the northern coast of Peru between 200 and 700 AD.
The Moche culture is recognized as accomplishing one of
the greatest imaginative languages of ancient Peru
through the use of creative pottery, providing clues to
all aspects of their civilization without the use of the
written word. One can learn about their religion,
agriculture, transport, dance and music through their
ceramic designs and shapes. The Moche are also renowned
for their fascinating erotic pottery and the famous
collection is on display in the separate ‘Erotic Hall’,
depicting sexual practices of several Peruvian cultures
in a lifelike, explicit and often humorous way. At the
end of the services transfer to the Hotel (B,L)
Day 3: AREQUIPA
You will be picked up from your hotel in the morning,
transfer to the airport to take the flight to Arequipa
(airfare included) Upon arrival reception and transfer
to the selected Hotel. In the afternoon around 3 pm
you'll take the Arequipa half day city tour that
includes the visit at the Santa Catarina monastery The
city has fine spanish buildings and many old and
interesting churches built of sillar, a pearly white
volcanic material almost exclusevely used in the
construction of Arequipa. The Santa Catalina Convent is
by far the most remarkable sight, opened in 1970 after 4
centuries of mistery. Overnight. (B)
Day 4: COLCA CANYON
At 08:00 a.m. leave Arequipa towards nor west direcction
behind snow-covered Chachani, Yura, small valley with
thermal springs, see wild vicuñas in Pampa Cañahuas
national reserve, Alpacas & llamas in Tocra, some bidrs
like flamingoes, ibis, andean gooze, ducks, andean eagle
"Kara Kara" view point of the Volcanoes and snow covered
mountains in Patapampa (4,800 m.)(15,000ft.), See the
Ampato, Sabancaya, Walca Walca, etc.) Chivay Capital of
the valley. Afternoon visit to the termal springs &
pools in La Calera.
(Admission to the pools not included , about $2 per
person). Overnight at the hotel (B,L,D)
Day 5: COLCA CANYON
Early morning after breakfast leave for a full day
excursion in the left shore, beautiful tipical towns,
like Yanque & Maca, colonial churches, gently people
with tipical needlework dresses, hundreds of pre inca
terraces still in use with andean growings like corn,
qinua, kiwicha (Amaranto), etc.
Lookout of The cross of the condor: see the deep of the
canyon and if we have good luck we will see the flight
of the Condor . Stone scale models, some pre inca
graves. Time for lunch.
Return to Arequipa. (18:00 approx. in Arequipa.)
Overnight. (B,L)
Day 6: AREQUIPA-CUSCO
Breakfast and transfer to the airport to take flight to
Cusco (airfare
included) Upon arrival reception and transfer to the
hotel ,rest of the morning at leisure.
Overnight (B)
Day 7: CUSCO CITY TOUR
In the afternoon: Cusco City Tour From 2 PM 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 Sacsahuaman, then to Q'enqo, Puca
Pucara and Tambomachay, including Spanish and English
speaking guide. Include Tourist ticket valid for the
entrance to many museums and ruins as well. Overnight
(B)
Day 8: SACRED VALLEY TOUR
(Departure day only on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) 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 9: MACHU PICCHU
All day excursion by alpine train to Machu Picchu. 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). Overnight at the hotel in
Aguas Calientes town (B,L)
Day 10: MACHU PICCHU
Morning at leisure to explore the are by your own
(entrance fee and transportation not included). In the
afternoon you will take the train to Cuzco. Upon arrival
in Cuzco, transfer to the hotel . Overnight(B)
Day 11: TRANSFER OUT
In the morning transfer to the airport to take the
flight to Lima (airfare
included) in time to get your international flight
connection (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 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 international
flights and items of personal nature. |
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