Peru – A living experience

Arrival to Lima, reception at the airport and transfer by private luxury vehicle to the deluxe 5* Miraflores Park Hotel or Marriott Hotel.

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital of the.
Transfer to your private residence, the unique colonial Casona, and accommodation in a Patio room. After a light lunch, embark on a very relaxing private guided tour of the centre of Cuzco including the Cathedral and the Qoricancha temple. Dinner at your residence.

After breakfast and a goodnight’s sleep, you will be ready to embark on a private tour of the ruins outside of Cuzco including the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman overlooking Cuzco, Qenko, Tambomachay and Puka Pukara. Return to Cuzco for lunch. Visit to the Museum before returning to your hotel. Dinner.

After breakfast a private transfer to the rail station at Poroy, for the luxurious Hiram Bingham train to Aguas Calientes. This Orient Express train is the most exclusive way to visit Machu Picchu and includes a hearty brunch aboard the train. Arrival to Aguas Calientes and transfer to your unique residence in the cloud forests. Once you have checked-in, you will board the bus with your guide for the short ride up to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel. A private guided tour of Machu Picchu, the most spectacular ancient city in the world. Return to your hotel for accommodation and a delicious dinner.

Opportunity to return to the site and enjoy a wonderful sunrise over Machu Picchu or if you prefer, enjoy a good rest and return mid morning. Time for some private reflection. A guide is not normally provided as we feel that Machu Picchu requires a certain amount of self discovery to be fully understood. However, your guide will always be available if you would like to visit various other sites in the sanctuary such as the temple of the moon or the Inca’s bridge. Lunch at the Sanctuary Lodge restaurant before returning back down to Aguas Calientes by bus. Some free time before boarding the Hiram Bingham train in the early evening with your guide. Arrival to Poroy after 9PM, reception and transfer to Cusco, the ancient city of the Incas. Transfer to your private residence. 

After breakfast, embark on a one hour thirty minute drive to the Sacred Valley stopping at the local town of Chinchero. Transfer to your hotel in the Urubamba. After lunch continue down to the market place of Pisaq. If time allows, you will also visit the ruins above Pisaq. Return to your villa for dinner and accommodation.

After a good breakfast, a private excursion to the village of Huilloc. Here you will visit family homes and see the Quechua way of life. After lunch, visit the ruins of Ollantaytambo, one of the few places where the Spanish were defeated in battle during their conquest. Here you can see Inca canchas, enclosures of multi-family living quarters that share just one exit to the street, stonework, cobbled streets, and an extensive communal water system that survives to this day.
Return to your villa in the Urubamba. Accommodation and dinner .

An optional day allowing for a visit to the ‘other Machu Picchu’, Choquequirao. Please ask for details of this ultra special option.

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight to Lima. Arrival, reception and transfer to the Miraflores Park Hotel or Marriott Hotel.
After lunch, a visit to the Larco Museum. The museum includes several permanent exhibitions including the gold and silver gallery, showcasing the largest and finest collection of jewelry used by many notable rulers of pre-Columbian Peru. It comprises an impressive collection of crowns, earrings, nose ornaments, garments, masks and vases, finely wrought in gold and decorated with semi-precious stones. Dinner at a very exclusive residence.

After a leisurely breakfast, transfer to the airport for your early afternoon flight to Iquitos.
Arrival at approximately 5PM, for the boarding of the M/V Aqua. Over the next four days, you will sail along in total comfort over several tributaries of the Amazon River, as well as on the mighty river itself. A safety drill and briefing on the top deck, before the journey begins and you settle down to some fine dining on the Amazon River.

After a delicious breakfast, a jungle walk to the Yanallpa Lake in search of the “hoatzins,” prehistoric birds which live in huge colonies. In the afternoon we will cruise the majestic Ucayali River, offering a chance to see and meet native balseros, or fishermen, who will demonstrate their skill and let you see their catch—including a type of “armored” catfish with a shell-like skin which they are taking to the market in the small village of Requena. We will also find a “banana balsero” raft, loaded with hundreds of clusters of bananas, drifting down the river to the market.

After breakfast, a jungle walk near to the Hatum Posa Village. On this walk, your guides will introduce you to the native people involved in subsistence farming, and will tell you how they learned to cultivate wild plants and trees to earn farm income. In the late afternoon, we will take a journey along the Pacaya River, journeying from Ranger Station No. 1 towards Yanayacu Lake, where you can view the abundant life that is hidden in the deep rainforest. Return for dinner aboard the cruiser. Tonight we will dock at the Ranger Station in the Pacaya Samiria National Park.

Early breakfast before your guides will show you parrots, macaws, toucans, and many different types of monkeys in the area. We will also go to the dolphin feeding spots along Yanayacu Lake, where you will witness these delightful but rare freshwater mammals.
Return to the cruiser for lunch before embarking on the Sapote River Fishing Trip.

We will start our journey homeward sailing towards Iquitos whilst enjoying a light lunch. Arrival at Iquitos airport where we will assist with your check-in until your flight departure at 17:30 Arrival to Lima and transfer to your hotel the deluxe 5* Miraflores Park Hotel or Marriott Hotel.

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight to Chiclayo. Arrival and transfer to the Gran Chiclayo Hotel. We leave shortly after to visit the newly-opened Sican Museum. The Museum holds the artefacts found in two burials within the adobe pyramid of Huaca Loro, in an area better known as Batan Grande, close to the Museum.
You shall also visit the Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum, which houses the magnificent collection of artefacts found in the tomb of The Lord of Sipan, considered as the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century. Return to Chiclayo and your hotel.

After breakfast, we visit the Mochica archaeological complex of Sipan, located in the site called Huaca Rajada.
After visiting the archaeological site, we shall also visit Chiclayo's witch doctors' market. Lunch before your transfer to the airport and 17.00 return flight to Lima and onward connecting flight home.

End of our services.

2009 Tour price per person: US$21900 based on two people sharing.

• Accommodation in the best suites and villas at selected luxury hotels.

• All a la carte meals throughout the itinerary, some include alcoholic beverages at the finest restaurants and haciendas in Peru.

• Transfers, tours and excursions as per itinerary based on private service with English speaking guides.

• All internal flight tickets.

• VIP airport lounge facilities.

• Luxury train tickets.

• All entrance fees and tips.

• Massage services as mentioned

• International flight to Peru and US$31.00 tax for all international air departures.

• All domestic flights require a US$6.00 charge (airport tax).

• Personal expenses such as telephone bills, laundry expenses, beverages, etc,

• Insurance against theft, loss, illness and/or accident etc.

• Baggage porterage and other extras not specified