Tailor Made Peru: Machu Picchu & the Amazon
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Upon arrival at Lima International Airport, you are met and transferred to your hotel.
This afternoon, explore Peru’s capital, visiting the Plaza Mayor and Cathedral. Continue to the Church of San Francisco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, seeing its stunning library and collection of distinctive paintings and frescoes. Spend time exploring the Larco Herrera Museum, one of the city’s best museums for pre-Columbian artifacts.
Meals Provided : Breakfast
Fly to Cusco, one-time capital of the Incan Empire, high in the Andes. En route, stop at a local workshop to peruse their top-quality handmade textile goods, such as alpaca sweaters, gloves and hats. Also, view some Andean camelids (llamas, alpacas and vicuñas) up clo...
Visit Moray, a very different Inca site that was to develop new crop strains for growth in different altitudes and locations. Afterward, explore the Sacred Valley of the Incas with a visit to a remote village frozen in time. Discover the ancient agricultural methods u...
Board the Vistadome train bound for Machu Picchu, the crowning achievement of the Incan civilization. Upon arrival, enjoy lunch, and then explore the city's ruins, feeling its pulse as you visualize the lives of the priests, craftsmen and servants who inhabited this r...
Rise early for a walk through the misty ruins at sunrise, an experience some consider the spiritual highlight of the journey. Later, return to Ollantaytambo via the Vistadome train, and then proceed to your hotel.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch
Tour the city of Cusco, visiting the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas and the Santo Domingo Temple, built on the foundations of the Koricancha, the Incas’ principal religious structure. Next, travel just outside of Cusco to behold the ruins of Sacsayhuaman, an enduring...
Today, fly to Iquitos. Upon arrival, journey overland into the Peruvian countryside en route to remote Nauta, a village set on the banks of the Marañón River, one of the Amazon’s three main tributaries, where you are met by a river guide. Begin your three-night river ...
In this paradise for birders, where vibrantly colored macaws may be seen gliding over the river, start your day at dawn’s first light on an expert-led birding excursion, catching glimpses of some of the many exotic avian species living here. View any of the hundreds o...
A new day along the ever-changing river brings with it new possibilities. This may be the day you spot the Amazon’s fabled pink dolphins or go ashore to visit the residents of a local village to learn about daily life deep in the Amazon. Afterward, relax or perhaps en...
Return to Nauta, bid farewell to your crew and disembark Pure Amazon before making your way to Iquitos to visit a lively market, where the freshly harvested bounty from the surrounding forest is on display, as well as the Museum of Indigenous Amazonian Cultures. Then,...
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