Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(11
days/10 nights)
Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(12 days/11 nights)
Machu Picchu - Lake
Titicaca
(14 days/13 nights)
Colca Canyon - Machu
Picchu
Lake Titicaca
(16 days/15 nights)
Archaeological & Ecological
Treasures
Galapagos - Machu Picchu
Lake Titicaca (or Amazon)
(18 days/17
nights)
Colca Canyon - Amazon
Machu Picchu - Lake Titicaca
(22 days/21 nights)
Machu Picchu
(10
days/9 nights)
Machu Picchu
(13 days/12 nights)
Machu Picchu - Galapagos
(15 days/14 nights)
Galapagos - Machu Picchu
(18 days/17 nights)
Manu National Park
(8 days/7 nights)
Enchanted Isles of the Galapagos
Galapagos
(11
days/10 nights)
Galapagos & the Kingdom of Quito
Galapagos - Andes
(16 days/15 nights)
Galapagos - Amazon
(16 days/15 nights)
Historic Haciendas of the Andes
Cotopaxi - Antisana
- Otavalo
(7 days/6 nights)
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San Blas artisans' quarter, Cuzco.
Photo: Walter H. Wust.
If you have an extra day or two and your tour does not include them, we recommend that you consider adding An Extra Day in the Sacred Valley and An Extra Day in Cuzco. These are the two places where guests most frequently tell us they would have liked to spend more time. As well, you will find below other short excursions you may wish to consider. All prices are per person based on two people sharing a guest room. For a detailed description of our services, see Opulent Itineraries. Intra-tour air fares are additional.
A Day in Lima or A Second Day in Lima (2 days/1 night each)
An Extra Day in Cuzco (2 days/1 night)
Royal Inca Trail (No extra days or nights)
Hiram Bingham Orient-Express to Machu Picchu (No extra days or nights)
An Extra Day in the Sacred Valley (2 days/1 night)
Weavers' Way (4 days/3 nights)
Shamanic Ceremony with Honorato Ninantay Guzman (No extra days or nights)
Horseback Riding in the Sacred Valley (2 days/1 night or 5 days/4 nights)
Urubamba River White-Water Rafting (2 days/1 night)
Manu Cloud Forest (3 days/2 nights)
An Extra Day at Lake Titicaca (2 days/1 night)
Colca Canyon (5 days/4 nights or 4 days/3 nights)
Nazca Lines (3 days/2 nights or 2 days/1 night)
A Day in Lima or A Second Day in Lima
Land Price (2 days/1 night each)
Royal US$ 1,505 Imperial US$ 735 De Luxe US$ 650 per person
Royal US$ 1,505 Imperial US$ 735 De Luxe US$ 650 per person
A day in Lima gives you time to walk in the colonial quarter, visiting the Plaza de Armas and entering La Casa de Aliaga, La Iglesia y Convento de Santo Domingo, La Catedral and La Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco. In contrast to the religious structures, the Torre Tagle Palace is the city's best surviving example of secular colonial architecture. Lunch at the Café del Museo. Afternoon at the Museo Larco and the Museo Amano. Dine at Astrid & Gastón, one of the highest notes in the Peruvian culinary scene. Overnight in the Orient-Express Miraflores Park Hotel.
A second day in Lima allows time for a morning drive to Pachacamac, the most reknowned pre-Inca and Inca pilgrimage site of the coast. Upon returning to Lima, lunch at the extraordinary Huaca Pucllana restaurant. Afterward, continue to Barranco for visits to one of the country's finest crafts shops, the Museo de Arte Colonial Pedro de Osma, La Puente de los Suspiros and La Iglesia de La Ermita. Arrival at your hotel and dinner in its Poissonnerie. Overnight in the Orient-Express Miraflores Park Hotel.
Land Price (2 days/1 night)
Royal US$ 1,150 Imperial US$ 665 De Luxe US$ 575 per person
An extra day in Cuzco provides an afternoon to stroll around this miraculously-preserved Inca and colonial city. The artisans' quarter of San Blas, the Museo Inka, La Compañia de Jesus, La Merced and the Archbishop's Palace are recommended. The tourist ticket provided by Inka's will give you admittance into sites that can't be included in a one-day excursion. On the next day, a morning excursion beyond the ancient fortress that guarded the Valley of Cuzco. Coming back from the colonial village of Andahuaylillas on the Collasuyu Road, follow the route of early travelers from the southern quarter of the empire, pass through the ancient gate of Rumicolca, gaze at the pre-Inca ruins of Pikillaqta, taste the traditional bread of Oropesa, admire the royal garden of Tipon and arrive in the Imperial City of the Incas. Lunch at Bistrot 370. Dinner of Mediterranean cuisine at La Cicciolina. Overnight in the Orient-Express Hotel Monasterio.
Land Price (No extra days or nights)
Free upgrade from any tour with an overnight in Machu Picchu
The Royal Inca Trail is believed to be the ceremonial path that the Inca ruling caste used for ritual purification before entering the sacred site of Machu Picchu. It allows a taste of the Inca Trail without days of hiking and camping. We begin the hike from the train stop at Kilometer 104 and follow the trail for six hours to the spectacular view of Machu Picchu from Intipunku, the Sun Gate. From here, we descend into the world-famous "Lost City of the Incas".
Hiram Bingham Orient-Express to Machu Picchu
Land Price (No extra days or nights)
Free upgrade from any tour with an overnight in Machu Picchu
All services, including a shared guide, are provided by Orient-Express Hotels.
At around noon, on July 23, 1911, an explorer named Hiram Bingham climbed up a steep hill and stumbled onto Machu Picchu, uncovering what had been up until that moment, the Incas' best kept secret. The world was stunned by his discovery. PeruRail's luxury train service between Cuzco and Machu Picchu is named after the American explorer who discovered the stunning ruins of the ancient citadel.
The distinctive blue-and-gold carriages of the Hiram Bingham are warm and inviting, with elegant interior upholstery. The train, consisting of four luxurious passenger cars, two dining cars, a bar car and a kitchen car, can carry up to 84 passengers. The general style of the carriages is in line with those on PeruRail's "Andean Explorer" train, which operates between Cuzco and Lake Titicaca in Southern Peru, and reflects the luxury of the 1920s Pullman era.
An Extra Day in the Sacred Valley
Land Price (2 days/1 night)
US$ 530 per person
An extra day in the Sacred Valley gives you time for a leisurely visit to the weaver's village of Chinchero for a private demonstration of ancient textile techniques, the age-old salt mines below the colonial town of Maras, the Moray archaeological site and A lunch at 3 Keros of chef Ricardo Behar. The evening includes a dinner prepared by your personal chef and overnight in a private villa at the Urubamba Villas.
Land Price (4 days/3 nights)
US$ 985 per person
This short trek in the Sacred Valley of the Incas begins at the colonial village of Lares, with its delightful hot springs baths, and ends with a road journey to the famous "living Inca settlement" of Ollantaytambo. In between, we follow a hiking route that skirts the northern slope of the Cordillera. Here, the Quechua people maintain an ancient way of life, herding alpacas and llamas, farming the Andean slopes and practicing a tradition inherited from their Inca ancestors: the making and wearing of superb textiles.
Shaman's Ceremony by Honorato Ninantay Guzman
Honorarium (No extra days or nights)
US$ 100 per person
This honored shaman will conduct a tribute to Mother Earth, an ancient ceremony still observed by the indigenous people of Peru. It consists in making an offering to Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) so that agricultural production will improve. To perform this activity, the materials utilized are sweet red wine, coca leaves, firewood, chicha de jora (an alcoholic beverage made from purple corn), red carnations, yellow carnations, white carnations and other traditional items.
Additionally, the shaman places a typical shawl on an altar and speaks some prayers in Quechua, asking the Apus (mountain spirits) and Mother Earth to help the fields produce better and more abundant crops and livestock. The altar is burned and buried in the earth. While this is what is generally done, the ceremony (which lasts about one and one-half hours) can vary between one shaman and another. Other traditional rituals are possible, if requested in advance. Among these are exorcising witchcraft, reading coca leaves and cards to foresee a person's future, calling a wandering soul back into its body and removing evil winds, also called negative energy or the evil eye.
Horseback Riding in the Sacred Valley
Land Price
(2 days/1 night): US$ 410 per person
(5 days/4 nights): US$ 1,760 per person
Discover the magic of the Peruvian Paso horse, and the grandeur of its native land, in a way few are privileged to experience. Perol Chico, the premier riding center in Peru, offers exclusive horseback riding tours on Peruvian Paso horses. It specializes in multi-day equestrian tours off the beaten track.
Urubamba River White-Water Rafting
Land Price (2 days/1 night)
US$ 425 per person
This rafting adventure on a beautiful section of the Urubamba River is for just about everyone -- no experience is needed. The river starts gently, with time to practice the maneuvers required, then builds up with more challenging rapids through a beautiful canyon, where we will see torrent ducks and views of the surrounding peaks.
Land Price (3 days/2 nights)
Private US$ 850 per person
Set off from Cuzco for the cloud forest, passing over two Andean chains of almost 13,100 feet in elevation and descending the eastern slope of the Andes. After passing pre-Inca ruins and one of Peru's most colorful pueblos, we plunge downward through swirling mist and clouds to emerge in a forest of dwarf, evergreen trees before arriving at the display ground of the blazing-red Andean cock-of-the-rock. Witness these birds' elaborate mating dance and explore the forest trails to see high-elevation cloud-forest birds, common woolly monkeys, brown capuchin monkeys or even a spectacled bear.
Land Price (2 days/1 night)
US$ 495 per person
An extra day at Lake Titicaca gives you time for a private yacht voyage to traditional Taquile Island, and to fully appreciate the noble archaeological site of Sillustanti and Pukara, where the origins of Andean culture are discovered. Along the way are the poetic pueblo of Lampa and the natural stone sculptures of Tinajani.
Land Price
(4 days/3 nights) US$ 1,815 (5 days/4 nights) US$ 2,670 per person
"I realized that we were witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime experience... Not only did we see the huge condors soaring past on their 9-foot wingspan, but two young birds decided to land about 10 meters from us and proceeded to perch and preen for our cameras." This private, overland expedition sets out from the colonial city of Arequipa, under the inspiring Misti Volcano in southern Peru. As you pass through a remote terrain of volcanoes and vicuñas, you note immense stone terraces of a culture that dates back two millennia and pueblos all but forgotten since Spanish days. At last, you reach the rim of the Colca Canyon. Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, it is the second deepest canyon in the world (just to the northwest is the deepest, the Cotahuasi Canyon).
Nazca Lines
Land Price
Royal US$ 2,300 Imperial US$ 1,535 De Luxe US$ 1,365 per person
Royal US$ 1,820 Imperial US$ 1,050 De Luxe US$ 965 per person
On the southern coast of Peru, using as their canvas a plateau 37 miles long and 15 miles wide, Nazca artists etched works of monumental proportion. They created a montage of geometric designs and whimsical portrayals of plants and animals; such as the hummingbird, fish, dog, lizard, puma, spider, condor and monkey. On this privately guided and chauffeured excursion, an overflight of the Nazca Lines is complemented by a visit to the regional museum's collection of vivid polychrome ceramics and world-reknowned Paracas textiles. A boat trip to see the amazing profusion of sea life on nearby islands reveals some of the animals that inspired the artistic motifs.
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