7-Day Peru Private Journey

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
LIMA
1 stop
1
Basilica Catedral De Lima
Arrival in Lima, meet and greet at the airport, transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon we will have a tour through Lima’s streets and plazas. Starting at the Love Park in Miraflores, with a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean, and then heading to the Huaca Pucllana, ceremonial center of the Lima culture. After this, we go on to the Main Square where the Government Palace and the Town Hall are located. We will visit the Cathedral and explore the Santo Domingo Convent, along which corridors San Martin de Porras and San Rosa de Lima used to walk around in 17th century, and where their remains rest today. Overnight in Lima.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 2
LIMA
2 stops
2
Museo Larco
Larco Museum, located 30 minutes from Lima’s city center. The museum, named one of the Worlds 25 Best Museums by Tripadvisor’s Traveller’s Choice Awards, has many different displays that offer visitors a journey through the beauty and history of Peru’s ancient cultures. Meanwhile, the warehouse contains an impressive amount of ceramic pieces that depict faces, objects, fruits, birds, and many other aspects of day-to-day life in ancient Peru.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
Circuito Magico Del Agua
We will continue our visit by heading to an antique Tavern, where we will delight our palates with some delicious Peruvian sandwiches not to be missed, accompanied by a drink made of Pisco, our flagship liquor. Near the dusk, we will go to the Magic Water Circuit, the greatest spectacle of fountains and lights of Latin America. It is a wonderful spectacle of cyber ornamental fountains and interactive in which achieves a perfect conjunction and harmony of water, light, music and pictures. Holds the recognition and distinction in the world to have obtained the Guinness World Record as the complex of largest fountains in the world and the highest source of the world in a public park.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
LIMA/CUSCO
3 stops
4
Sacsayhuaman
Transfer to the airport and flight to Cusco. On arrival, meet and greet, transfer to hotel. We will climb up the Archaeological Park of Sacsayhuaman, andin the afternoon, we will start our excursion visiting the fortress with the same name, a beautiful place that radiates peace and quiet, where we will be able to admire the huge rocks measuring up to 4 meters high that were used in its construction. We will then head for Q'enqo, and ancient temple of the Puma, where we will be able to appreciate an altar for sacrifices in the inner part of a huge rock, and then Tambomachay, sacred fountains of life and health. On the way we will have a panoramic view from Puca Pucara, a watchtower that controlled the entrance to the city.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
5
Qorikancha
The Temple of the Sun “The Korikancha”, on top of which the Saint Dominique Convent was built. A legend tells that his temple was entirely lined in gold sheets that marveled the Conquerors upon their arrival
1 hour • Admission ticket included
6
Cusco Cathedral
The Cathedral that reassures invaluable colonial paintings and other works of art such as the Cross that arrived with the first conquerors.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 4
CUSCO/SACRED VALLEY
1 stop
7
Sacred Valley of the Incas
The Sacred Valley of the Incas will welcome us today. Our first stop will be Inca and Colonial Pisac town. Discover one of the most beautiful archeological sites in the Sacred Valley at the top of the mountain where you can have a view of the colonial town of Pisac. Walking tour to the Colonial town. Time to do some shopping at the handicraft market. Then, we will head to the impressive Inkariy Museum. Here we will enjoy a delicious lunch. We will take a guided tour of the museum to learn more about the numerous rooms where cultural representations of pre-Hispanic civilizations of ancient Peru are exhibited. We will visit Yucay Living Culture Center, a tourist complex where we will see and feed the Andean camelids such as the llamas and alpacas, and where the locals will show us the weaving and dyeing techniques of their traditional textiles. Overnight in the Sacred Valley.
8 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 5
SACRED VALLEY/MACHU PICCHU
1 stop
8
Archaeological Park Ollantaytambo
This day, our adventure continues exploring the less visited treasures of the Sacred Valley of the Incas. We will start in Moray where the view is awesome due to the colossal concentric terraces simulating an amphitheatre. The purpose of it is to recreate 20 different types of microclimates, a measure that guaranteed the agricultural production of the empire. We will continue our journey to Maras, the millenary colonial salt mines. The contrast of the white pools against the green valley is so impressive that it resembles a postcard. Buffet lunch. In the afternoon, we will head towards the archaeological complex of Ollantaytambo, where you can see the technique with which the Incas work the stone. It is now time to catch the train at Ollantaytambo Railway Station. We will arrive in Machu Picchu town where our staff will welcome and assist you on getting settled in one of the hotels in Aguas Calientes (now, Machu Picchu town).
10 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 6
MACHU PICCHU/CUSCO
1 stop
9
Machu Picchu
We will board the bus to go up the winding road to Machu Picchu, amid a spectacular view of the Urubamba River and its canyon. The Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu, will astonish us with its terraces, ceremonial shrines, steps and urban areas. Energy is all around us. After a guided visit, we will have lunch at one of the restaurants in the area. At the arranged time, we will return to Cusco and will be transferred to the hotel. Overnight in Cusco.
10 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 7
CUSCO
1 stop
10
Cusco
Departure transfer
Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Machu Picchu has implemented new visitor circuits, with three main routes with specific differences to distribute passengers in various areas. These changes are intended to improve the visitor experience and preserve the integrity of the archaeological site. The circuit with route 2 will be given as priority and if it is not available, the options of taking circuit 3B or circuit 1B will be informed so that you can confirm your decision before the tickets are issued.

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