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Day 1: Lima
Arrival to Lima and transfer to the hotel. Overnight. |
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Day 2:
Lima -
Arequipa
Breakfast
and
transfer
to the
airport,
flight
to
Arequipa.
Transfer
to the
hotel.
Visit
to: San
Camilo
local
market,
Plaza de
Armas,
La
Compañía
Church
and the
Santa
Catalina
Monastery.
In the
afternoon
visit to
the
Añashuayco
ashlars
quarries,
Carmen
Alto
view
point,
Cayma
Church
and
Sabandia
windmill.
Overnight
at the
hotel. |
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Day 3: Arequipa – Canocota - Chivay
Departure very early in the morning to the Colca Valley, arrival to the hotel and trek to Canocota (3 hours), in route we will see the typical birds, the beautiful landscape and the queñua forest. Arrival to Canocota and visit to a local family. Typical lunch (prepared with the food produced in this area). Then the family will show us the different medicinal plants and their customs. Return to Chivay in the car and diner.
Includes: Lunch and dinner |
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Day 4: Chivay – Cruz del Condor- Puno
Breakfast and departure to the Cruz del Condor view point, at this place we can watch the fly of the condors and the canyon. Return to Chivay, lunch and departure to Puno; visit in route to Lagunillas, where we can see the typical birds of this zone. Arrival to Puno and overnight.
Includes: Lunch |
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Day 5:
Uros –
Taquile
-
Amantaní
Breakfast
and
transfer
to the
Puno’s
port,
then
departure
by boat
to the
Uros
Island.
The Uros
(inhabitants)
will
show us
how they
build
the
island.
Then we
will
leave to
the
Taquile
Island.
Arrival
to the
Salaqancha
port and
visit to
the
Salaqancha
or
Wayrapata
community;
there
the
Taquileños
will
show us
their
ancestral
customs.
Lunch
and
departure
to the
Amantani
Island.
Arrival
and
accommodation
in a
family
house
(basic
accommodation
with no
water
running).
Folk
show
including
the
diner.
Includes:
Lunch
and
dinner |
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Day 6:
Amantaní
– Puno
Breakfast
and
visit to
the
Pachatata
Huaca
and the
local
museum.
Lunch
and
departure
to Puno.
Arrival
and
transfer
to the
hotel.
Includes:
Lunch |
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Day 7:
Puno -
Cusco
Breakfast
and
departure
to
Cusco.
During
the way
we will
visit
Pukara
(first
civilization
of the
Altiplano),
then we
will
arrive
to La
Raya
(natural
view
point).
Lunch in
Sicuani and
visit to
Andahuaylillas
(Andean
Sistine
chapel).
Arrival
to Cusco
and
transfer
to the
hotel.
Includes:
Lunch |
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Day 8:
Maras
and
Moray –
Chinchero
-
Urubamba
Breakfast
and
visit to
Maras
(Area
located
at 60
km. (37
miles)
and 7 km
(4.3
miles)
of
Moray,
where
layers
of beige
and
white
salt
pants
are
still
used to
crystallize
salt
from
water)
and
Moray
(highlights
an
admirable
Inca
experimental
farm,
where a
natural
depression
has been
transformed
in
enormous
terraces
superimposed
in
concentric
form
with a
shape of
a great
coliseum,
achieving
up to
150
meters
in
difference
of
height
levels).
Transfer
to the
hotel at
the
Urubamba
Valley,
accommodation
and
visit to
the Apu
Pitusiray
-
Huatata
association
located
in
Chinchero;
at this
place we
will
learn
more
about
the
ancestral
textile
techniques.
Return
to the
hotel
and
overnight.
Includes:
Lunch |
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Day 9:
Ollantaytambo
– Aguas
Calientes
Breakfast
and
transfer
to the
train
station:
departure
to Aguas
Calientes,
arrival
and
transfer
to the
hotel.
Visit to
the hot
springs,
overnight
at the
hotel |
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Day 10:
Machu
Picchu -
Cusco
Breakfast
and
visit to
the
Machupicchu
citadel,
then
visit to
the
Huaynapicchu.
Return
to Aguas
Calientes
and
departure
by
train.
Transfer
to the
hotel in
Cusco
and
overnight |
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Day 11:
Cusco –
Puerto
Maldonado
Breakfast
and
transfer
to the
airport.
Flight
to
Puerto
Maldonado,
arrival
and
transfer
to the
lodge by
boat.
Arrival
and
accommodation.
In the
afternoon
a twenty
minute
walk
from
Posada
Amazonas
leads to
the 30
meter
scaffolding
canopy
tower. A
banister
staircase
running
through
the
middle
provides
safe
access
to the
platforms
above.
From
atop you
obtain
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.
Dinner
and
overnight.
Includes:
Box
lunch
and
dinner |
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Day 12:
Puerto
Maldonado
Breakfast
and
visti to
Tres
Chimbadas
is
located
at thirty
minutes
by boat
and
forty
five
minutes
hiking
from
Posada
Amazonas.
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.
Otters
are most
active
from
dawn to
eight or
nine AM.
Then we
will
visit
the clay
lick
located
at
twenty
minute
walk
from
Posada
Amazonas.
From a
blind
located
about
twenty
meters
away you
will see
dozens
of
parrots
and
parakeets
descend
on most
clear
mornings
to
ingest
the clay
on a
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
active
at dawn,
during
the late
mornings
and
mid-afternoons.
Lunch
and
ethno
botanical
tour, a
twenty
minute
boat
drive
downriver
leads
you 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
choose
their
little
clinic.
They
have
produced
a trail
which
explains
the
different
medicinal
(and
other)
uses of
selected
plants. Diner
and
night
walk for
discovering
the
wildlife.
Includes:
Lunch
and
dinner |
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Day 13:
Puerto
Maldonado
- Lima
Breakfast
and
transfer
to the
airport,
flight
to Lima.
Connection
with the
international
flight. |
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