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• Luxury Peru Vacations fully customized according to your specific needs
• 3 hotel nights in Lima, Peru
• 2 hotel nights in Cuzco, Peru
• 1 Round trip ticket to Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham Train
• 1 hotel nights at Sanctuary Lodge, Machu Picchu
• Special dinner at Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge
• 2 hotel nights in Puno and Lake Titicaca
• 3 cruise nights on Board of Delfin Amazon Cruise
• Daily breakfast included
• Alls meals included in Delfin Amazon Cruise
• Overflight from Lima to Nazca Lines
• Hotel taxes
• Private transportation from the Airport to Hotel to Airport
• Professional and friendly English speaking guides
• All the luxury travel, adventure and friendship of Peru

Lima, Luxury Peru Vacations

Lima was founded on January 18, 1535 by the conqueror Francisco Pizarro. Before becoming the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, it was a first class religious place of worship. During the colonial period, Lima reached its greatest splendor in the XVII century in which progress, the construction of great houses and palaces went together with the luxury and prosperity of the nobility made Lima the richest among all colonies.

Today it is a great city, it is the capital of the Republic of Peru, and it is a great metropolis with near 8 million inhabitants.
San Isidro and Miraflores: These are the two districts of Lima that are characterized by the modernity of their constructions and services. Today these two areas of Lima concentrate most of the best hotel establishments, restaurants, shopping centers, show centers, and the banking, commercial and managerial system.

Lima Historic Center was declared "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO. During the colonial time, the city of Lima, headquarters of the Viceroy, was walled and in this area the main Spanish constructions were built constituting invaluable historical monuments. The City of Kings as it was called, have constructions as San Francisco Convent, also declared "World Heritage Site" for the artistic jewels that it possesses and for their beautiful architecture.

Museums in Lima. The rich Peruvian culture and history has many different museums where you can feel why it was called the City of Kings. Te best museums of Peru are Located in Lima. The museums of Lima keep the richest collections in the whole Peruvian past.

Cuzco, Luxury Peru Vacations

Cusco (Cuzco) dates back about 1000 years before Christ when the Marcavalle culture was in force. In the past, Cusco (Cuzco) represented the center of the Incas civilization. It was the capital city fo the Andean state of Tahuantinsuyo. According to Inca’s legend Cuzco was founded by Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo somewhere between the 11th and 12th centuries. Later, due to an order by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro, this city of Cuzco was founded again on the 23rd of March 1534.

Cuzco is considered worldwide the archaeological capital of America. This title was given by "World's Navel" by the Incas. Today it is the first cultural center of Peru and has been proclaimed as "Humankind's Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO.

Cuzco is surrounded by so many archaeological sites like the Sacsayhuaman's Fortress, Pisac's terraces, Kenko, Tambomachay's Baths, and Ollantaytambo's Fortress are surrounding Cuzco and we cannot forget about Machu Picchu, discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911 and now known as the "Eternal City". Cuzco has many museums, churches and important sites that have made of this city a tourism center in Peru. The wild and adventurous side of Cuzco can be discovered walking The Inca Trail with amazing beauty of the Incas land surrounding Machu Picchu.

The Inca Trail and the Sacred Valley of the Incas are places that offer great sites to practice sports. The diversity of micro-climates make of this region an authentic paradise to practice the Adventure Tourism. The combination of factors like culture, the kind and friendly population, the colorful clothing of its inhabitants and the archaeological unique sites create the perfect set up for an adventurer looking for new sensations, pure energy, amazing landscapes and unique secrets of these lands.

Hiram Bingham, Luxury Train, Peru Vacations

This luxury train service runs between Cuzco and Machu Picchu. The train departs from Poroy Station (20 minutes drive from the center of Cuzco) at 9am, giving a more leisurely start to the day than other Peru Rail departures.

Its distinctive blue and gold livery and elegant interior upholstery in warm, inviting tones, consists of 4 cars - 2 dining cars, a bar car and a kitchen car. The price of the journey includes onboard meals with wine, entertainment, guides, bus transfers, entrance to the Ruins and afternoon tea at Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge.

Machu Picchu, Luxury Peru Vacations

Machu Picchu a historical Inca city located in the High Andes Mountains of Peru. Machu Picchu is located 43 miles north-west of Cuzco on top of the ridge. The surroundings are covered by dense bush that is covering some Pre-Colombian cultivation terraces.

Machu Picchu means "manly peak") was a royal city and religious retreat of the Inca culture. The city of Machu Picchu was build somewhere between 1460 and 1470 AD by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, an Inca ruler. The city is located at an altitude of 8000 feet above the Urubamba River Canyon. Machu Picchu is a city with approximately 200 buildings most of them residences, temples, storage rooms and other public buildings. Machu Picchu has a polygonal masonry typical of the late Inca period.

Approximately 1200 people used to live in the Machu Picchu area and most the inhabitants were women, children and priest of the community. Most of the buildings were made of granite blocks that fit perfectly without mortar, although none of the blocks are the same size and have many faces some of them with as many as 30 corners. The tight way the stones have been jointed does not even allow a thin knife to penetrate between them. The Incas planted crops such as potatoes and maize at Machu Picchu. To get the highest yield possible, they used advanced terracing and irrigation methods to reduce erosion and increase the area available for cultivation. However, it probably did not produce a large enough surplus to export agricultural products to Cuzco, the Incan capital.

Very few people outside the Inca’s closest retainers were actually aware of Machu Picchu’s existence. Before the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the smallpox spread ahead of them. The disease had killed Fifty percent of the population by 1527. The government began to fail, part of the empire seceded and it fell into civil war. So by the time Pizarro, the Inca’s conqueror, arrived in Cuzco in 1532, Machu Picchu was already forgotten.

Lake Titicaca, Luxury Peru Vacations

The Peruvian legend says that Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo who were the founders of the Inca Empire emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca.

This is the Peruvian altiplano, the high plains where the earth is so high that almost touches the sky that atmosphere takes a luminous quality. Remember that when you are at 12550 feet above sea level it will be challenging for your system. Take it easy while you adapt to the altitude.

Puno in Peru is located 975 kilometers (609 miles) southeast of Lima. Puno is a small town with friendly and warm people. Most of the sightseeing sites are located between Plaza de armas and Pino Park and the main shops and restaurants are located at the pedestrian street of Jiron Lima.

Every Sunday at 11 Am at the Plaza de Armas there is a special patriotic celebration with bands and high-stepping military uniforms.

The Lake Titicaca at 3821 m above sea level, is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. With a surface area of approximately 8300 square kilometers Titicaca is South America's largest freshwater lake. Located in the Peruvian Altiplano high in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia, Titicaca has an average depth of between 140 and 180 meters and a maximum depth of 280 meters. The western part of the lake belongs to the Puno region of Peru, and the eastern side is located in the Bolivian La Paz Department.

Lake Titicaca is notable for a population of people who live on the Uros floating Island, located at 8.24 km (5.15 miles) from the shore. nine artificial islands made of floating reeds. These islands have become a major tourist attraction for Peru, drawing excursions from the lakeside city of Puno. Another island, Taquile, is another tourist attraction featuring a different indigenous community. The Taquile Island locals are known for their hand-woven textile products, which are some of the highest quality handicrafts in Peru.

Iquitos Amazon, Luxury Cruise Vacation

Iquitos was founded by Jesuit priests in the late 1500s. Iquitos was once called the Pearl of the Amazon. It isn’t quite that lustrous today, but it’s still a pleasant and friendly town on the banks of the Amazon River in Peru northeastern jungle. When the river is high the picturesque waterfront district of Belen actually floats and when the Amazon river is low Belen is about half mile out and ti rises and falls from season to season about 50 feet.

Iquitos is located at 1150 kilometers (719 miles) from Lima and its importance as a port comes from a century ago during the rubber boom. While the main reason to drop into Iquitos is to explore the surrounding Amazon rain forest you must give a chance to this town to become an attractive and easy going place to stay.

Nazca Lines, Luxury Peru Vacation

Nazca is located 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast from Ica and has one of the world’s great archaeological mysteries, the glyphs known as the Nazca Lines drawn on the rock-strewn Pampa de San Jose at 20 kilometers north of the city. Ranging from geometric shapes to stylized human forms, these giant markings (the straight lines vary in length from half of a kilometer to 8 kilometer) have stirred the popular imgination for decades. The most famous drawings are the sapes of animals such as the 150 feet long spider and the 300 feet long monkey.

Although theories about the origin of the Nazca Lines include extraterrestrial intervention.

The best way to see the Nazca lines is from the air, in one of the many small planes that offer a 45 minute over flight departing from the Nazca airport.

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