Lima – Paracas Ica Nazca – Lima – Cusco 10 Days

Arrival to the city of Lima. A representative of our travel agency will be waiting for you at the airport to welcome you and take you to the hotel of your choice.

You will have the day at leisure to enjoy the charm of this beautiful city.

This day after enjoying our breakfast, a representative of our agency will pick you up to drive you to start your tour in Lima “City of the Kings” where we will enjoy an ancient and modern city.

On the tour we will visit the Huaca Pucllana, an ancient civilization in the centre of the city where ceremonies and sacrifices were performed more than 1,500 BC.

We will visit the historical centre of the city: Plaza de Armas, the Government Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Archbishop’s Palace. Then we will pass through the Park of the Wall, the Convent of San Francisco with its great relics and religious halls as well as the underground crypts known as Catacombs.

Throughout our visit we will visit a Modern City where we will see the beautiful district of San Isidro, Olivar Park, the Parque del Amor, the Malecon from where you will have an extraordinary view of the Pacific Ocean and you will be able to take beautiful pictures.

Free afternoon to rest, walk, taste and enjoy the city.

*Breakfast included

Early in the morning a representative of our travel agency will pick you up to start our tour. We will travel for 4 hours to Paracas where we will have our first stop at the Marina Dock where we will pass the SERNANP control point to enter the Ballestas Islands. This tour will take an average of 2 hours where we will dive into a wonderful marine world, we will see a large figure on the sand known as “El Candelabro” (The Candelabra). In this tour the guide will give us an explanation of the Flora and Fauna of this place, here we will see a lot of sea lions, Humboldt Penguins and Guano Birds.

Following the tour we will take our transport for an average of 1 Hr. more until we arrive to the “Vinícola El Catador” where we will have a succulent lunch and a tour in the wine cellars and have an exquisite tasting of wines and piscos of the zone. Then we head to the Huacachina Oasis where we will have an unforgettable experience sliding down from a high point on sandboards through the magical desert sand. After having experienced the adrenaline rush, we will take a walk through the Huacachina Oasis and take beautiful pictures.

At the end of the tour, we head back to Nazca to rest.

*Breakfast include

This day we will live an enigmatic adventure, our representative will pick you up at the Hotel to go to the Nazca Terrapuerto and make a 35 minutes flight over the 13 most important Nazca Lines of this culture.

The Nazca Lines are a mystery as they consist of a set of geometric shapes that are Phytomorphic, Zoomorphic and Anthropomorphic perfectly traced that was made by the Nazca Culture more than 1 500 BC.

At the end of this adventure we will have some time to explore the surroundings and have lunch on our own. At the bus terminal we will take a bus to Lima City for 8 hours.

We will arrive in Lima where our transfer will be waiting for us to take us to the hotel to rest.

*Breakfast included

At the scheduled time our staff of the travel agency will pick you up to take you to the airport and take the plane to Cusco.

Arrival to Cusco. A representative of our Travel Agency will be waiting for you at the airport to welcome you and take you to the hotel of your choice.

We will have the day free to enjoy the Mysterious and Wonderful City of Cusco.

*Breakfast included

This day we will be picked up from the hotel very early in the morning by a representative of our travel agency. We start our tour leaving Cusco city heading south taking the road to Puno.

We will travel for 2 hours arriving to the town of Cusipata where we will have a basic buffet breakfast, after having had some time to have breakfast and relax. We board our transport for another 1 hour until we arrive at the starting point of our trek.

Here the guide will give us an explanation of the area and some recommendations for our hike. The duration of the walk is 2 Km. for an average of 2 Hrs., in the journey we will be able to observe the natural landscapes and the experience of the Andean man.

When we arrive to this new wonder the guide will explain us about the formation and content of this mountain, then we will have a prudent time of 40 min. to explore the place and to take beautiful pictures of the zone.

At midday we return to the starting point of the hike to take our transport and head to the restaurant where we will have our basic buffet lunch. Here we will have some time to relax and then take our transport that will take us to the city of Cusco.

*Breakfast included

Very early in the morning a representative of our travel agency will pick you up from your hotel to take you to Ollantaytambo Station where we will take a train that will take us to Km. 104 where we will start the Inca Trail.

104 where we will start our journey along the Inca Trail, along the way we will see beautiful landscapes, snow-capped mountains, the enigmatic Urubamba River which is one of the sources that feeds the impressive Amazon River.

Starting our tour we will visit the archaeological complex of Chachabamba (2,270 m.a.s.l.) which was considered a religious centre of water worship and at the same time a fortress of military control of the entrance to the citadel of Machupicchu. After a walk of 3 Hrs.

We will arrive to the sector of Wiñayhuayna which means “Forever Young” and is located at 2650 m.a.s.l. It is the most impressive archaeological centre of Machupicchu. It is the most impressive archaeological site on the Inca Trail.

It is time to take a break and enjoy our box lunch and then continue along the ancestral Inca Trail arriving at Inti Punku or Puerta del Sol, a very impressive viewpoint where we can enjoy the first photographs of the citadel of Machupicchu, we will continue along a side path to go to Aguas Calientes where we will spend the night.

Optional: Visit to the Aguas Calientes Hot Springs (S/. 10.00 per person).

*Includes breakfast box lunch.

Very early in the morning after breakfast we go to the bus station to take one of the first buses that will take us to the Lost City of the Incas where we can observe the magical sunrise in this mysterious citadel,

after this experience we will have a guided tour of the archaeological complex of Machupicchu for an average of 2 hours, where we can explore and the guide will give us an explanation of the function of this place in the Inca period.

Where we can explore and the guide will give us an explanation of what function this place had in Inca times, in turn enjoy the impressive Inca architecture such as: The Guardian’s House, the Religious Sector, the Intihuatana, the Temple to the Pachamama, the Industrial Sector and the impressive terraces.

We say goodbye to the Sanctuary of Machupicchu and we go to take the bus back to Aguas Calientes where we will have a delicious lunch in a tourist restaurant.

At the indicated time we take the return train from Aguas Calientes Station to Ollantaytambo Station, there a representative of our Travel Agency will be waiting for you to take you to the bus that will bring you back to Cusco.

*Breakfast included

After breakfast our representative will pass by the hotel to take us to the City Tour.

The City Tour is an excursion that includes a circuit around the city and its surroundings, we will visit: The Qoricancha considered as the Royal House of the Sun in the City of Cusco which is formed by a mixture of Inca and colonial construction.

Sacsayhuaman which is considered as a great Inca fortress where the Inca cyclopean constructions are found. Qenqo, Inca astronomy centre. Pucapucara known as an Inca military centre and Tambomachay considered as a purification centre and water temple.

Free afternoon to stroll and explore the city of Cusco.

*Breakfast included.

At the agreed time, transfer from the hotel to the airport and we say goodbye to the city of Cusco.

*Breakfast included.