Lima | Cuzco | Machu Picchu Peru Vacation
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DAY BY DAY Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrival in Lima Peru - Peru Tour starts here
Reception at the International Airport in Lima, assistance with your baggage and private transportation to your hotel. OVERNIGHT IN LIMA
Day 2 – Lima, Peru
Today we will enjoy a tour visiting the Unique Vice-Royal mansion (XVIII century), built on top of an archaeological pyramid (VII century). Surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Its masterworks are the worldwide icons in Pre-Columbian art, after have been exhibited for 80 years in the world’s leading museums. This famous museum has the largest and finest gold, silver and jewelry collection of ancient Peru. Its Erotic art collection is one of the most visited Peruvian tourist attractions. Didactic galleries, full of highlights, make easier the comprehension of 3000 years of the Peruvian Pre-Columbian history. OVERNIGHT IN LIMA
Day 3 – Lima, Peru
Full day at your leisure. OVERNIGHT IN LIMA
Day 4 – From Lima to Cuzco. Peru
In the morning private transportation from your hotel in Lima to the Jose Chavez airport on time for your next flight to Cuzco. Reception and private transportation from the Cuzco Airport to your hotel.
Upon arrival reception, assistance and transfer to the hotel. Visitors should take a short rest in order to adjust to altitude.
In the afternoon a walking tour to experience the mystery of the Cathedral, Temple of the Sun, the famous twelve sided stone, narrow streets with the finest walls as example of Inca Architecture, and the San Blas suburb, the residence of the best artists since the colony. OVERNIGHT IN CUZCO
Day 5 – From Cuzco to Machu Picchu, VistaDome Train
The train journey from Cuzco to Machu Picchu is a highlight of any trip to the Andes. The 3 and a half hour journey takes you through a changing landscape. First there is a steep climb out of Cuzco into the surrounding hillside, by means of a series of switchback turns known locally as "the zig zag".
The train then stops at Poroy before descending into the Sacred Valley, passing by lush, green fields and colourful villages in the foothills of the Andes. After departing Poroy and going through Cachimayo, the train descends to the plateau of Anta, a patchwork landscape of typical Andean crops and passes lush fields and colourful villages in the foothills of the Andes.
The train then stops at Poroy before descending into the Sacred Valley, passing by lush, green fields and colorful villages in the foothills of the Andes. After departing Poroy and going through Cachimayo, the train descends to the plateau of Anta, a patchwork landscape of typical Andean crops and passes lush fields and colorful villages in the foothills of the Andes.
Far to the left, just below the horizon, the massive agricultural terraces of Jaquijahuana can be seen, close to the village of Zurite. Sadly, these great terraces are all that remain today of what was once a major Inca city, lost forever during the first years after the Spanish conquest.
Beyond the town of Huarocondo the great plain narrows dramatically as the track enters a deep gorge carved by the rushing Pomatales River down which the railway, too, is funneled until it meets the Urubamba River, which runs through the beautiful Sacred Valley.
The train passes through extensive areas of terracing dotted with the ruins of Inca fortresses. Bisecting this are still-visible sections of an ancient, long-abandoned highway adopted by the muleteers of the late 19th century, who used it to travel between Cuzco and the rubber plantations of the Amazon lowlands.
Five kilometers beyond Pachar, is the village of Ollantaytambo where farmers work with the same patience and skill that their ancestors must have employed to shape and then move the huge blocks of stone with which they built both their homes and the temples in which they worshipped.
As the train leaves Ollantaytambo to begin the last part of its journey to Machu Picchu, the temple complex known as The Fortress, dedicated sometime in the 15th century to the many deities of the Inca pantheon, can be seen to the right above the earthwork ramp once used to drag its monolithic blocks up from the valley floor.
The railway follows the river into the Urubamba Gorge. At Coriwaynachina, known simply to the generations of hikers who have begun the Inca Trail there as Km 88, a fine staircase carved into the rock leads to a series of ruined buildings where once, it is said, Inca artisans took advantage of the constant wind that rises from the valley floor to smelt gold.
Emerging from a short tunnel, a series of beautiful agricultural terraces marks the ruins of Qente, which in Quechua means hummingbird. In this fertile microclimate fed by a nearby waterfall, giant hummingbirds are indeed a common sight in the early morning and bright flowers bloom all year round.
Surrounded by tall ceibos and rocky outcrops hung with orchids and bromeliads, the train passes Km 104 at Chachabamba, from where the one-day trek to Machu Picchu via the magnificent ruins of Wiñay Wayna begins.
At just two km from Machu Picchu, the train arrives at Aguas Calientes. Surrounded by the high, green mountains that cradle the famous lost city, as well as myriad other Inca remains, this small town, which is well known for its thermal baths, has blossomed into a popular overnight destination for travelers to Machu Picchu.
Guests disembark at Aguas Calientes for the magical ruins of Machu Picchu.
After the ruins tour we will go directly to the Hotel. OVERNIGHT IN MACHU PICCHU
Day 6 – Machu Picchu to Cuzco Peru
Free morning to enjoy a great breakfast at the Sanctuary Lodge in Machu Picchu.
In the afternoon transfer to the train station for your 3 ½ hour journey back to Cuzco. OVERNIGHT IN CUZCO
Day 7 – From Cuzco to Lima Peru and Back Home
Breakfast and free morning in Cuzco. In the early afternoon, private transportation to the airport for your next flight to Lima and immediate connection with your international flight back home.
END OF THE PROGRAM
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