ITINERARY
DAY 1
Cusco
- Upon arrival to Cusco, you will be welcomed by an English speaking guide at the airport and taken to your comfortable hotel where you are advised to rest for a while to acclimatize to the high altitude.
- In the afternoon the half-day city tour begins. You will be shown the exact centre of the Inca Empire, the Plaza de Armas. There one can find the cathedral built on the ruins of the Inca. The cathedral borders on other churches on both sides.
- Next stop will be the old town with its magnificent renovated colonial buildings. You will also visit the nearby ruins such as Tambo Machay, the bath of the Inca, Qenko, the giant rock whose niches and gaps were carved in a strange way, and Puca Pucara, the ruin of a small fort.
- On the way back to Cuzco, we will visit the Sacsayhuaman fortress located north of the city of Cuzco, with spectacular views of the city.
DAY 2
Cusco – Pisac – Ollantaytambo – Cusco
-Buffet breakfast
-After breakfast, you will discover the Sacred Valley of the Incas; there, you will have the opportunity to purchase local handcrafts at the special and traditional Pisac Indian market performed every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. This market exhibits and sells wide variety of fine crafts of various kind: Woven goods, sweaters.After lunch (not included) we will return by Ollantaytambo It is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the Americas, complete with canals unchanged since Inca times; a walk by the narrow streets will make you recall its ancient heritage.
- Return to Cusco where you can relax, enjoy the local food and exciting nightlife.
DAY 3
Cusco – Machu Picchu
- After breakfast, pick up from your hotel and transfer by bus to the train station where the tour starts in a train that climbs the mountain in zigzag slopes and then rattles down into the fertile plain of the Urubamba valley, passes Ollantaytambo and goes on to Aguas Calientes. From here small busses drive up the steep mountain to the ruin town Machu Picchu called the Lost of the Incas. You will be amazed of how the Incas were able to build this city on a mist-shrouded mountaintop.
- In the afternoon, Transfer to you hotel
- Overnight Machu Picchu
DAY 4
Machu Picchu -Cusco
- After breakfast you will have the morn¡ng at leisure in the Machu Picchu area
- in the afternoon back to Cusco
- overnight in Cusco
DAY 5
Cusco – Juliaca - Puno
- Morning departure by "Andes-Train" to Puno at Lake Titicaca.
The train leaves Cuzco in the early morning and crosses the Altiplano, passing lamas and alpacas, shepherd by indio women and leading through desert-like landscapes. Passing snow-covered mountain tops the train continues to the highest station of the journey, La Raya, at an altitude of 4.321m.
- The lunch will be served on the train. Late arrival in Puno.
(Important Remark: the train operates only Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays - subject to change without previous notice!!)
DAY 6
Puno
Today after breakfast, you will have a full day excursion by boat to the floating islands of the Uros Indians, made of packed totora, in the Lake Titicaca. Then proceed to Taquile islands, where its inhabitants are dedicated to agriculture and have developed an original form of "communal tourism", in which visitors share their food, homes, customs and traditions.
DAY 7
Puno – Cusco departure
- After breakfast, transfer to the airport.
