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Jungle and Andes Experience 14 Days / 13 Nights

Itinerary

DAY 1: LIMA CITY TOUR-LARCO MUSEUM & MAGIC WATER CIRCUIT
Upon arrival in the Lima Airport. A representative will be waiting for you with a customized sign with your name and take you to your hotel. Morning free to relax.
In the afternoon you’ll meet your English-speaking guide for your exciting tour of Lima, which will take you to Modern and Colonial Lima including the world famous Larco Museum - This half-day tour visits both the colonial and modern sections of Lima. Colonial sites include the lovely Plaza Mayor, the Government Palace, San Francisco Church and the exquisite Torre Tagle Palace modern day seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In modern Lima, drive along the exclusive residential areas of Miraflores and San Isidro.
Continue to the Larco Museum, founded in 1926, it displays remarkable chronological galleries providing an excellent overview on 3000 years of development of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. Located in a unique vice-royal mansion of the 18th century built over a 7th century pre-Columbian pyramid, it is surrounded by beautiful gardens. The Larco Museum also features the finest gold and silver collection from Ancient Peru and the famous erotic archaeological collection, one of the most visited Peruvian tourist attractions.
Later you will visit to the Magic Water Circuit, an amazing set of 13 ornamental fountains, cyber interact where water, music, light, pictures and laser effects, in perfect conjunction and harmony, combine to introduce unique and incredible shows, full of magic, illusion and fantasy. It holds the Guinness Record Recognition as "The World's Largest Source Complex in a public park." At the end transfers back to your hotel.

DAY 2: ARRIVAL TO PUERTO MALDONADO -JUNGLE EXPEDITION
Breakfast in the Hotel. Transport from hotel to airport. Arrival at Puerto Maldonado.
Reception at the airport and transfer to the dock located in the native community of Infierno from where we board our canoe and start a one-and-a-half-hour journey to the Explorer’s Inn. During the trip we have a lunch on board and may see caimans, turtles and capybaras, among other animals. We are received at the Inn with a welcome drink. After resting, we take a short night-hike to see nocturnal rainforest animals. Back at the lodge we have dinner with our guide and some of the Resident Naturalists who are available to answer questions or brief us about the Amazon rainforest and the Tambopata National Reserve.

DAY 3: TAMBOPATA RIVER-MACAW CLAY LICK
We breakfast and, at daybreak, board the canoe for a four-hour journey up the Tambopata River, deep into untouched Amazon rainforest with superb wildlife sighting possibilities. On the way we pass basalt rock formations, gold panning sites, wonderful sandy beaches where one can swim, arriving finally at the macaw clay lick, a 200-meter red soil cliff where, for reasons which scientists still do not fully understand, hundreds of macaws and other parrot species converge every morning and afternoon to feed on the mineral rich clay. Once installed at the campsite we have a box lunch. After a brief rest, depending on the season, we may swim in the river and/or go for a walk before having dinner at camp. Note: Depending on weather conditions, season and other factors, the activities on the second day may be replaced by the activities scheduled for the fourth day, with the excursion to the clay lick taking just one day.

DAY 4: MACAW CLAY LICK
Early in the morning we view the macaws at the clay lick and then return by canoe to the Inn, lunching on board. We have the afternoon free. After sunset, we board the canoe again to observe caimans using torches. Back at the lodge, we have dinner with our guides and some of the Resident Naturalists.

DAY 5: COCOCOCHA OXBOW LAKE - CANOPY TOWER
We rise early and walk with our guide approximately three-and-a-half miles to see the giant otters at Cocococha oxbow lake. On the way we observe plants, insects, butterflies, birds, monkeys and, if we are lucky, possibly larger mammals. At the lake we occupy a strategic hiding place and wait for the otters. Afterwards we take a short canoe ride around the lake watching the wildlife on the shoreline. Back at the lodge we have a late lunch and in the afternoon you can either rest or visit our new 42 meters high canopy tower. At dusk we take a brief walk to Sunset Point to watch night fall in the Amazon. We then board the canoes again to watch caimans with torches.

DAY 6: DEPARTURE FROM LODGE/CUSCO
We again wake early to have breakfast and board the canoe to return to Puerto Maldonado. On the way we watch the day dawn over the Tambopata River. Once in Puerto Maldonado we are transferred to the airport to take our return flight to Cusco.

DAY 7: CUSCO CITY TOUR
Breakfast in the Hotel. At 1:35pm pick up from the Hotel; guided sightseeing tour in Cusco such as: the Qoricancha (Temple of the Sun), which displays the best Inca stonework in the city, and the Cathedral in Cusco’s Main Square with its magnificent colonial art. Go to the outskirts of the city to see the Inca ruins. Saqsahuaman, the amphitheatre of Qenqo, the fortress of Pukapukara and the spring shrine of Tambomachay. Overnight at the Hotel in Cusco.

DAY 8: SACRED VALLEY TOUR
Breakfast in the Hotel. At 8:20am we set off from Cusco heading up and over the highlands towards the Sacred Valley of the Incas. We arrive at Pisac on the Urubamba river and visit the colourful Pisac village market. Here you can bargain for some of the many artisan goodies on offer. You can either stay here haggling for longer or head up to Pisac ruins situated high up overlooking the valley. After an hour exploring this magnificent site we head back down and through the valley until we reach the town of Urubamba. Here we take a traditional lunch before heading on to Ollantaytambo town for our tour of the archaeological site which hang, high on the valley walls overlooking the town. Ollantaytambo is an attractive little town located at the western end of the Sacred Valley. The town has been built on top of original Inca foundations and is the best surviving example of Inca town planning. The town is located at the foot of some spectacular Inca ruins, which protected the strategic entrance to the lower Urubamba Valley. The temple area is at the top of steep terracing which helped to provide excellent defenses. At the end of our tour we check-in to our hotel.
Overnight in Ollantaytambo.

DAY 9: OLLANTAYTAMBO-AGUAS CALIENTES
Morning transfer to the train station and board the train for the picturesque journey to Aguas Calientes. On arrival to Aguas Calientes the hotel staff will be waiting for you to take you to your hotel. You then have the afternoon free to relax.

At 7:00pm our guide will visit you at your hotel to brief you about the next day events.
Overnight in Aguas Calientes.

DAY 10: MACHU PICCCHU
Breakfast in the Hotel. We start early, taking breakfast and then with our guide we take the bus up to the citadel of Machu Picchu in time to catch the magnificent sunrise. Our professional guide will slowly show you around the main areas, recounting myths and legends passed down over the centuries and explain about some of the advanced building techniques the Incas used. After your tour you will have plenty of time to look around. After lunch it will be time to board the afternoon return train,through the Sacred Valley to Ollantaytambo town and then a transfer back to Cusco. Overnight at the Hotel.

DAY 11: CUSCO/PUNO
Breakfast in the Hotel. Journey by bus to Puno through the impressive landscape of journey by bus to Puno through the impressive landscape of the Andean plateau with scattered indigenous villages and flocks of llamas and vicuñas. Our next stop will be Andahuaylillas, a beautiful Baroque church built at the beginning of the 17th Century and famous for its magnificent murals, as well as an Inca temple in Raqchi dedicated to Wiracocha, one of the Incas' most important deities. Final stop is at the ruins of Pukara (2000 B.C. - A.D. 300). We will lunch at a restaurant en route. On arrival in Puno, you will be assisted at the bus terminal and provided with transport to your chosen hotel. Overnight at the hotel in Puno.

DAY 12: FLOATING ISLANDS AMANTANI
After the breakfast, transfer to the port of Puno to take a tourist motor boat and to direct towards the wonders floating islands of the Uros to us, those millenarian inhabitants who in spite of the time today remain living in artificial islands of totora, known as the tribe the water, because they must construct its own Islands periodically, adding new layers of “Totora”. Its homes and boats are made of that same material. After View we will approximately continue the route by two hours until the Island of Amantani.

This Island is inhabited by native quechua hablantes still prevailed by its old traditions, which main occupation is the production of ceramics and textiles. The positive energy of this Island is so powerful that is well-known as the “Island of Love”. Arriving at the island we will taste of a typical lunch, then we will go to the ceremonial centers “Pachatata” and “Pachamama”, sacred place. At night we will stay ourselves in the familiar houses enjoying the hospitality of a typical home of Amantani.

DAY 13: AMANTANI ISLAND-TAQUILE ISLAND-PUNO
After the breakfast we will start off to the Island of Taquile, place where we will appreciate the form of typical and rustic experience, the place is colorful and landscaping, where they even maintain its customs, ritual, religious and folkloric traditions, also inhabited by native Quechua speakers that have developed an efficient and only social system. In hours of afternoon we will return to the city of Puno. Overnight at the hotel in Puno.

DAY 14: JULIACA/LIMA
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the airport in order to board the regular flight to Lima.

Included / Not Included

What is Included? What is not included?
  • All excursions mentioned in the program
  • All entrance tickets for the places to visit mentioned in the program
  • Professional guide English/Spanish
  • Meals as specified in the itinerary
  • Bus up/down to Machu Picchu
  • Round trip Train Tickets to Machu Picchu
  • All Transfers
  • Bus ticket to Puno(Inka Express Company)
  • 24 Hour support by our local staff
  • Double or single room in the selected hotel/Lodge
  • Domestic flights from
  • International Flight tickets
  • Airport taxes
  • Tips
  • Travel insurance

Price

Group Services: Private Service:
Price: $.00 per person To Open A New “Fixed Departures Date In A Private Service”
We only need 2 paxs