Peru Vacation 10 Days

Very early around 3:30 a.m. we will pick you up from your hotel to board the bus to the south of Peru, specifically Paracas; where through a boat you will visit the “Paracas Peninsula”. After lunch, we will travel by bus to the Huacachina Oasis, where you can also experience sandboarding. After the tour, we will transfer to your hotel in the city of Ica to spend the night.

Today we continue our trip to Nazca. After breakfast, we will drive for approximately 2.5 hours to the airport, where we will take a 30 minute flight over the incredible Nazca Lines.

During this flight over the Nazca Lines, we will be able to see the most fascinating figures such as: monkey, hummingbird, tree, parrot, astronaut, dog, condor and others. After the flight, we will head to Ica where we will visit the beautiful Huacachina Oasis. After lunch, you can enjoy a blue-green oasis surrounded by palm trees, surrounded by sand dunes where you can have a wild and unforgettable sand buggy ride and sandboarding adventure. After enjoying the view of a beautiful sunset in the desert, we return to Lima, where you can prepare for your flight to Cusco the next day and spend the night in a hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel, the transfer will pick you up from the reception to take you to the airport, where you will take your flight to Cusco (Flight not included). The flight must land in Cusco. After landing in the imperial city, you will be transferred to your hotel in Cusco.

In the afternoon, you can enjoy a guided tour of this charming city, once the capital of the Inca Empire. The tour begins with a visit to the Convent of Santo Domingo, which was built over the remains of the Inca Temple of Qoricancha, one of the most important areas dedicated to the worship of the sun. Ancient chronicles say that its walls were covered and filled with gold leaf representations of nature. Later, visit the cathedral, the most impressive monument of the main site of the city. Then go to the hills of Cusco, where the fort of Sacsayhuaman is located; its impressive walls offer a breathtaking panoramic view of Cusco. Night in Cusco

The guide will pick you up at your accommodation in Cusco early in the morning. We start the trip to Ollantaytambo where we will have breakfast then we will travel by bus to the highest place of the trip: Abra Malaga (4350 masl), next to the snowy Veronica to make the descent on bicycles to Huaman Marca – Santa Maria (1890 masl), finishing this activity we are ready to have a delicious lunch.

After a break, we will continue our adventure doing canoeing in the Urubamba River, not too dangerous, but not too boring either, perfect for having fun. Finishing this incredible activity we will have a short walk to Quellomayo, to a local house where we will enjoy dinner served by a native family who will offer us an experience with coffee and achiote.

After breakfast, we head to the Inca Trail where we start walking for approximately 4 hours through the high forest among the abundance of flora and fauna. In this area it is possible to see many types of plants, orchids, birds and other wild animals, a paradise of biodiversity in the Inca jungle.

We will continue our hike along the Inca trail after lunch made by a local community with fruits and tubers native to the area.

The hot springs of Cocalmayo will be the trophy where we will relax and enjoy its soothing waters and then go to bed.

The next morning; after a good breakfast, we start the hike from Hidroelectrica to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Pueblo). Along this flat trail you will find beautiful waterfalls, diversity of wildlife along the beautiful Urubamba River, following the hike we will arrive to a restaurant where we will enjoy a delicious lunch and take a short break.

This hike lasts about 3 hours; then upon arriving at our destination for the day, we will enjoy a great dinner where we will have an informative talk about our upcoming excursion to the citadel of Machu Picchu. Then you will have the night free to explore the town of Aguas Calientes.

If you like to feel pure adrenaline, in Santa Teresa we can take the zip line service, with six cables of 800 meters long approx. each reaching a maximum speed of 80 km / h, then we cross a suspension bridge and do a light rock climbing to finish this activity, the bus will take us to Hidroelectrica where we will enjoy our lunch. We can relax here for a while, then continue the route to Aguas Calientes.

The group will wake up early to go to Machu Picchu, following an ascending route through the high forest, where we will have the opportunity to see the sunrise.

The guide will show us the sanctuary of Machu Picchu for 2 hrs. approx. Afterwards the group will be free to enjoy Machu Picchu by themselves.

We return walking (3 hrs. 30 min. approx.) to Hidroeléctrica where our bus will be waiting for us until 3:00 pm to take us back to Cusco city, arriving around 10 pm.

Note: There is the possibility to spend one more night in Machu Picchu town paying US$ 30.00 extra, and return the next day (if you want to climb Huayna Picchu or Mountain paying an additional US$ 30.00) is a good idea because you will have an unforgettable experience.

The perfect tour in private or in groups, consisting of a pick up at Plaza Regocijo, where the trip to Racchi will begin.

Racchi is located in the middle of a Peruvian paradise where we will start the adventure in Tirolesa.

You will feel as if you were flying through the air while you can admire the Andean nature, the sacred valley of the Incas and the living culture of the Racchi community.

After the 4 zip lines in total, we will head to Cruzpata, from where we will continue by ATV to the first stop at Moray, an archaeological site where the Incas used to acclimatize seeds. The gigantic circular depressions in the surface of the ground, with their respective irrigation channels, were believed to be an agricultural research center of the Incas. The average temperature difference between the top and bottom of the depressions reaches up to 15 ° C in the main depression of approximately 30 meters deep.

Then we head to the salt mines, passing through a typical Spanish village called Maras. The locals still use these salt mines, extracting the salt naturally.

Today, after breakfast, drive on your own (transfer not included) to the Cusco airport for your flight back to Lima – and then home.