2024 Peru Treasures of the Incas Tour

Arrival into Lima airport late at night. Accommodation at the Airport Hotel.

Meals: No meals today

After breakfast, with boarding passes in hand, flight to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital of the Incas. In Cuzco, you will be warmly welcomed and assisted with your luggage before your drive to the Sacred Valley. Lunch along the way. Accommodation in the Sacred Valley at the Casa Andina Private Collection Hotel.

Casa Andina Private Collection Hotel  |  Meals: B & L

After breakfast at your hotel, discover the best of the Sacred Valley of the Incas through this route starting on the Inca's Balcony, in Chinchero, a beautiful place with an impressive view, where twelves families still preserve their traditional costums, showing you the ancestral way in which they process the wool, and obtain those vivid colors for their textiles. A visit to the market. Later, we will visit Maras salt mines and the ancient ampitheatre of Moray. After lunch, a visit to Pisaq before returning to your hotel.

Meals: B & L

After breakfast, visit Ollantaytambo, the only Inca town that was not defeated by the Spanish with an opportunity to explore the ruins which tower above before taking the afternoon train to Aguas Calientes. Arrive to Aguas Calientes train station, gateway to the lost city of the Incas. Your luggage will be transferred to your hotel in Cuzco.
Check-in to your hotel, El Mapi.
The short ride up to Machu Picchu will meander through breathtaking mountain scenery up to the ancient Inca citadel.
Shortly after, a personal look around of Machu Picchu, the most spectacular ancient city in the world.

Meals: B & D

After breakfast, return to Machu Picchu for a guided tour. Built by the Inca Pachacutec, and comprising stone blocks fitted with masterful precision, Machu Picchu harmoniously blends into the mountain landscape. There are many theories as to the origins behind Machu Picchu but three of the most popular ideas include a temple to the sun, a fortress against the jungle inhabitants or a sanctuary for the Incas. This fabulous city has houses, temples, warehouses, a large central square, all connected by narrow roads and steps, and is surrounded by terraces cut into the mountain side which were used for agriculture. Return train back to Cuzco and transfer to your hotel, the Novotel.

Novotel Hotel  |  Meals: B

After breakfast, you will be met for a private tour of Cuzco including the Qoricancha temple or temple of the Sun, the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman overlooking Cuzco city, Qenko, Tambomachay and Puka Pukara. Return to the hotel.

Meals: B

After early breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight to Lima.

Meals: B