Peru Highlights

Live a unique experience exploring the Peru Highlights full of beautiful landscapes and amazing wildlife, a real lifetime adventure! You will have personalized service, English-speaking guides, quality tours, and 24 hour assistance during your entire tour in Peru.
Notice all our tours are fully customizable.
Please look over the itinerary below to see all details and contact us to arrange your once in a life time experience.

Itinerary

Day 1: Lima

Upon arrival at Lima international airport you will be met by our representative and transferred to your Hotel located in Miraflores, the safest and nicest area of Lima.
Overnight in Lima – Casa Andina Classic Miraflores Centro *** (Traditional Room)

Day 2: Flight Lima - Puerto Maldonado (Tambopata National Reserve)

After breakfast, you will be picked from your hotel and transferred to the airport to board your morning flight to Puerto Maldonado, the closest town to Tambopata Reserve.
Upon arrival at Puerto Maldonado airport you will be met by our representative and transferred to
Posada Amazonas headquarters (10 minute ride). While enjoying your first taste of the forest in the gardens you will be asked to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest of your luggage in a safe deposit. This helps to keep the boats light.
Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.
Tambopata River Port to Posada Amazonas: you will have a forty five minute boat ride to Posada Amazonas (the Community´s Primary Forest Private Reserve).
Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.
Canopy tower: A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. From atop you will have spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you.
Ecotourism Lecture. A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every evening from a staff member.
Overnight in Tambopata - Posada Amazonas Eco-Lodge (Private Bungalow)
(B, L, D)

Day 3: Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake/Parrot clay lick/Ethnobotanical Tour.

After breakfast, you will have a 30 minute boat ride to Tres Chimbadas, once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers.
Then, you will visit a parrot clay lick located only twenty minute by foot from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descending to ingest the clay of the river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is most active at dawn and during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.
After lunch, you will have a twenty minute boat ride downriver to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who chose their little clinic. They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants.
Evening walk: You will have the option of hiking out in the evening, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen.
Overnight in Tambopata - Posada Amazonas Eco-Lodge (Private Bungalow)
(B, L, D)

Day 4: Posada Amazonas - Puerto Maldonado/Flight to Cusco

We retrace our river and road journey back to Puerto Maldonado, our office and the airport. Depending on airline schedules, this may require dawn departures.
On arrival in Puerto Maldonado, transfer to the airport to board your flight to Cusco.
Upon arrival at Cusco airport you will be transferred to your hotel located in the center of Cusco.  You will have time to rest and relax.
Overnight in Cusco – Best Western Andes de America *** (Standard Room)
(B)

Day 5: Machu Picchu by train

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the train station to board the Vista dome train to Aguas Calientes (the base town of Machu Picchu).
Guided tour of Machu Picchu (8,000 ft)
Upon arrival at Aguas Calientes train station you will be met by your guide and take a 25 minute bus journey to Machu Picchu where you will have a guided tour and learn about the history of this site. You will have some insight into the various features of this sacred city and have free time to really enjoy yourself!
After visiting Machu Picchu, you will board the bus to Aguas Calientes, where you will have lunch before boarding the train to Cusco.
Afternoon: Train journey to Cusco
Upon arrival at the train station, you will be transferred to your Hotel.
Overnight in Cusco – Best Western Andes de America *** (Standard Room)
(B, L)

Day 6: Guided tour of Cusco and nearby Inca Ruins

14:00: this afternoon your guide will pick you up from your hotel and show you the highlights of Cusco, the colonial cathedral, the great temple of Korikancha and the 4 impressive Inca ruins around Cusco: Sacsayhuaman, with its massive walls, Qenko, site of carved living rock, Puca Pucara, an Inca lodging Site and Tambo Machay, known as the Baths of the Inca. You will learn more about the Incas’ secrets!  
Overnight in Cusco – Best Western Andes de America *** (Standard Room)
(B)

Day 7: *Tourist bus journey Cusco - Puno (12,550 ft)

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the bus station to board the tourist bus to Puno and have one of the most fabulous journeys with spectacular views of the Andes Mountains and countryside. The bus journey includes visits to Tipon, Andahuaylillas, Raqchi, La Raya and Pukara.
Upon arrival at Puno bus station you will be transferred to your Hotel.
Overnight in Puno – Casona Plaza Puno *** (Standard Room)
(B, L)
*If you wish to travel this route by The Andean Explorer Train please contact us.

Day 8: Boat trip to Lake Titicaca

After Breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to Puno pier to board the motor boat and start your adventure on the highest navigable Lake in the world, the first stop will be on the floating Totora reed Islands of The Uros where you will see how these pre-Incan people live; we continue our journey onto Taquile Islands where you will learn more about Inca’s culture and traditions; their lifestyle remains the same as it has been for centuries with very little influence from modern times. Here you will find beautiful textiles and some of the best handicraft in the Inca region.
In the afternoon, we will return to Puno pier, from where you will be transferred to your hotel.
Overnight in Puno – Casona Plaza Puno *** (Standard Room)
(B, L)

Day 9: Flight Juliaca - Lima

After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to the airport to board your morning flight to Lima.
Upon arrival at Lima airport, you will be met by our representative and transferred to Miraflores, the bustling, cosmopolitan area of the city from where you will start your afternoon Lima tour.
Afternoon: Lima Tour
After lunch, you will be driven to the city of the Kings where you will see beautiful monuments Colonial Palaces, Colonial houses adorned with Moorish-style balconies, Plaza San Martin, Plaza de Armas, the baroque cathedral, Palacio de Gobierno (Governors Palace), the Archbishop's Palace with its big carved wooden balconies, and the convent of San Francisco which houses the largest collection of religious art in the Americas. Underneath the convent lie extensive catacombs that served as the cemetery during the colonial period!
Evening flight back home
You will be picked up from Miraflores center and transferred to the airport to board your flight back home.
(B)

 

Price inclusive:

$1,890 per person in double occupancy.
Single Supplement: additional $600.

Tour price inclusions:

• English-speaking tour guides.
• 24/7 Assistance during your entire trip in Peru.
• Six nights of accommodation at selected hotels with breakfasts and two nights in Eco Lodge.
• Three-day Amazon trip in Tambopata Reserve (Guide, entrance fee, transport, excursions and all meals).
• Half day guided tour of Cusco and the four nearby Inca ruins (Guide, entrance fee and transport).
• Excursion to Machu Picchu including: Guide in Machu Picchu, entrance fee, Vista dome train ticket (Cusco- Aguas Calientes-Cusco), bus tickets (Aguas Calientes-Machupicchu-Aguas Calientes) and lunch.
• Tourist Class bus ticket Cusco - Puno (Guide, entrance fee and lunch).
• Full day tour of Lake Titicaca (Guide, entrance fee, lunch and motor boat).
• Half day guided tour of Lima city (Guide, entrance fee, and transport).
• Plane Tickets Lima Puerto Maldonado/Puerto Maldonado Cusco/Juliaca Lima.
• All airport/train station-Hotel transfers in Lima, Puerto Maldonado, Cusco and Puno.
• Confirmation of Domestic and International flights.  

Price does not include:

International air fares to Peru, airport taxes, meals other than those specified in your itinerary, personal expenses, personal insurance, and tips.

If you wish to upgrade the hotels please contact us.