Basic PERU tour ( 18 days )

First day: Pick up from Lima's airport

               In the morning, tour by the center, Miraflores ( a typical neighbordhood ) and the Gold museum.

               Free afternoon.

               Departure by plane or by bus to Arequipa.       Pick up from Arequipa's airport

2nd day: Pick up from the bus station or airport of Arequipa and reception in the hotel.

              In the morning, tour in the city ( Arequipa's combined or simple tour )

              Free afternoon.

3rd day: Beginning of Colca valley tour  , passing by the great Natural Reserve of the vicuñas,

             volcanoes and the highland.

             Afternoon in the hot springs.

4th day: Trip along the valley and arrival at condor and canyon view point ( 3500 m -11480 feet depth ).

                   We know this canyon is one of the deepest in the world ( 4100 m - 13448 depth ) in a part we 

                   can't visit in the conventional tour we do.  We stop in points of great archeaological views

                   , some short ones and villages having lunch and returning to Arequipa for having

                   free afternoon or going to Puno.

5th day: Trip to Puno if after the 4th day we spent a night in Arequipa and arrival at noon for lunch.

                 Or free morning if we arrived the 4th day.  We are just looking the high and big Titicaca lake

                 In the afternoon: visit the artificial islands of Uros ( made out with thin highland bamboo ), trip to

                Taquile and Amantaní islands ( typical ones with local people into the lake ) to spend the night.

6th day: Discover the style of life of the southamerica lake's high islands ( natural, quiet, and opened land )

                  Trip to Cuzco.

7th and 8th days: Tours in important pre-Inca and Inca remains and old empire's capital ( Cuzco ) 

              Visite the cathedral, Inca remains : an old-modern city, in the morning or in the afternoon.  And free time

              during the day.

9th day: Sacred valley

              Inca remains, brillant contrast's landscapes and villages ( impressive agriculture steps or terraces ).

10th day: Machu picchu citadel

             Trip by train by several ecological levels up to "Hot waters" at foot of Machu picchu, afterwards

             ascending by bus, fun and full day, for returning the same way in the afternoon to Cuzco.

      * There's possibility of spending the night in the village at foot of Machu picchu for 

        visiting Machu picchu the next day since early with the first sunshine.

      *Ask always if there are no more than 1500 people visiting the sanctuary during the journey.

11th or 12th days: Machu picchu or Free day in Cuzco

13th to 17th days: The jungle.   There are two possibilities:

           1.- Flight to Lima-Iquitos ( Tour into Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in the tropical Amazon - LORETO ). Tour

               and free afternoon the first day in Iquitos.

               Trip to Nauta by car ( 2 hours ), and then, navigation by  Marañón river ( 2 hours ).   Then, we spend 4 days 

               and 4 nights in camps ( in the middle of the forest ) full of walks by several ways: Pure Nature and a great 

               diversity of animals, plants, formations...

         2.-  Trip towards the forest by car ( Tour into MANU park on the south tropical forest - Madre de Dios ) , spending

                one night in the High Forest and after a trip by boat, another night ( the 3rd day ) in  Boca Manu.  The 4th day

                flight and trip of 4 hours to the Park .  Then we begin to enjoy 2 days of the most extended and pure group of

               ecosystems in the world,  sweet and green land full with animals, water, plants and formations; for finally 

               returning in other 3 days ( 8th day ) to Cuzco.

             * There is the option of going and returning by plane between Cuzco and Boca Manu and make a  5, 6 or 7

               days tours.  Please , ask the days of fly ( not in any moment ).

18th day:  Flight to Lima, some free hours and flight to home.

The price includes:

 The guide, all the transportations, the entry fees, the accommodation, the breakfasts, and some other meals.   

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