Transport

Airport and train station transfers in safe, modern vehicles Roundtrip train/van to Machu Picchu Roundtrip bus Aguas Calientes-Machu Picchu-Aguas Calientes

Hygieneprotocol

For the safety of our passengers, team, guides, drivers, operators and hotel staff we adhere to and implement the strictest COVID-19 protocol standards. We also ask all of our passengers to comply with these rules and conditions that the government requires for a safe and healthy trip.

Guide

Professionally educated English / Spanish speaking bilingual guide on Cusco-Puno tour bus Professionally educated English / Spanish speaking bilingual guide Lake Titicaca boat tour Professionally educated English / Spanish speaking bilingual guide in Cusco & Sacred Valley Professionally educated English / Spanish speaking bilingual guide in Aguas Calientes

Accommodation

All accommodations in centrally located 3* tourist quality hotels

Others

Summary of What is Included All hotel, train, tour, port and airport in-out transfers All guided tours w/ professional bi-lingual English speaking guides All accommodations in tourist quality hotels centrally located Cusco Turistico Boleto Roundtrip bus tickets Aguas Calientes-Machu Picchu-Aguas Calientes Roundtrip train tickets to Aguas Calientes Tour of Machu Picchu and admission Cusco City Tour (Koricancha, Sacsayhuaman, Q’Enqo, Pucapucara & Tambomachay) and admissions Sacred Valley Tour (Ollanta, Chincheros, lunch & Ollantaytambo) and admissions Lima City Tour Personal assistance everyday via Whatsapp 24/7

Meals

Fine breakfasts Included in all hotels daily Andean buffet lunch included on Sacred Valley Tour Lunch buffet included Cusco-Puno Tours

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Others

Summary of What is NOT Included Travel / Medical / Cancellation / Interruption Insurance Airfares are NOT Included Last minute hotel, train, air and tour changes Alcoholic beverages Baggage porter handling fees and tips in ports/airports/hotels/train stations Cancellation Insurance Emergency Medical Insurance Missed flight, train, tour, hike, cruise Insurance Meals not specifically listed in itinerary Charges not listed specifically in itinerary Reimbursement for tours missed due to sickness Reimbursement for tours missed due to late flights or train Gratuities and Tips Spa, hot spring and massage fees Phone calls Laundry service Hotel room service & mini-bar items Souvenirs Personal expenses

Flights

Airfare and baggage fees are NOT Included

Insurance

Medical and travel insurance not included

Optional

Cooking Classes ATV Riding Horseback riding Huayna Picchu hike (pending availability) Massage Hot Springs in Aguas Calientes Sillustani chulpas tour

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Day 1 Day 1: Arrive To Lima
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Arrive To Lima

After you arrive to Lima, pass through immigrations, retrieve your luggage, clear customs and enter the terminal your driver will be waiting with our blue & gold ILE Tours sign. You will be driven 45 min to check in to your Miraflores hotel. Enjoy the nearby shopping and restaurants in Miraflores if you arrive early enough. Overnight Lima.
Day 2 Day 2: Lima City Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Lima City Tour

At 2PM you will be met in your hotel lobby by your guide and driver and taken on a private city tour of Lima. Visit the Plaza Mayor, San Francisco Convent & catacombs off Lima Main Square is a sprawling monastery complex containing cloisters, convent, temple, 2 churches, library, tomb of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and catacombs. Completed in 1674. This is a meandering, thoughtful tour to enjoy frescoes on hallway walls, sculptures and history. LOW CEILINGS IN DARK CATACOMBS! WALK SLOWLY, DON’T BANG YOUR HEAD IN LOW DOORWAYS, ARCHWAYS and LOW CEILINGS. You will returned to your hotel after the tour. Overnight Lima. (B)
Day 3 Day 3: Lima - Cusco Flight
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Lima - Cusco Flight

After breakfast be sure to leave nothing behind in your Lima hotel. You will be greeted in your hotel and taken by private van to the Lima airport in time for your 1 hr flight over the Andes Mountains to historic Cusco. You will be greeted in the Cusco Airport and taken to check in to your downtown hotel (15 min), Rest, breathe deeply, drink the complimentary coca tea provided by your hotel, eat light this and do not exert yourselves your first day in Cusco. This day will be spent acclimitating to Cusco’s 11,000 ft elevation, Overnight Cusco. B)
Day 4 Day 4: Cusco City Tour (1/2 Day)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Cusco City Tour (1/2 Day)

At 2PM you will be met at your hotel to enjoy the wonderful sites around the city. Sacsayhuaman 15 minutes outside of Cusco with huge walls comprised of monolithic stones, Q’enqo – a small cave like structure used in Inca ceremones, Pucapucara- the small fortress and Tambomachay with its fountains and small canals. All of these sites are near each other and played an important part in the Inca’s ceremonies religious and civic. After completion of the tour you will be returned to your hotel. Overnight Cusco. (B)
Day 5 Day 5: Sacred Valley Tour (Full Day)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Sacred Valley Tour (Full Day)

One of the most important tours recommended by ILE Tours is the full day Sacred Valley Tour. Here you will learn of the Incas important and impressive legacy left to us by their knowledge of building and great respect for the sun and nature.

At 9AM, after breakfast you will be greeted in your hotel and driven NE out of Cusco to Pisaq. Stop periodically at scenic overlooks for pictures of the dramatic landscape before continuing on to Pisaq. Known for its indigenous craft market, Pisaq was also the easternmost fortress of the Sacred Valley. You can see Pisaq from the winding road that approaches the market town and the ruins high above the town square.

Next continue west through the picturesque Sacred Valley to enjoy an excellent Andean buffet lunch in one of the best restaurants. You will next visit the archaeological city of Ollantaytambo, the Inca’s northern fortress walled city where they guarded the Sacred Valley to the north. Here you can appreciate the complexity of this magnificent Inca construction built in accordance with the landscape. Spectacular views of the Sacred Valley from atop the wall where there are more magnificent cut stones.

Ollantaytambo still retains its original Inca style, layout, walls and Overnight Ollantaytambo. (B,L)
Day 6 Day 6: Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes Train
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes Train

After breakfast and check out leave your overnight bags with your hotel and go out to explore the small streets and shops of Ollantaytambo. Much has remained the same here for the past hundreds of years in this small Inca village, Small mountain fed canals line the streets to bring water to homes. Short walkback to your hotel to retrieve your overngiht Mid-monring train to Aguas Calientes (90 min) where you will be greeted and escorted (walk) to check in to your hotel. Enjoy the hot springs and small winding streets filled with restaurants and shops in town. Overnight Aguas Calientes.(B)
Day 7 Day 7: Tour Machu Picchu. Return To Cusco
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Tour Machu Picchu. Return To Cusco

After breakfast check out and store your overnight bags with your hotel. You will be met by your guide to walk to the buses for the 20 min ride up to Machu Picchu. Buses run continuously and only stop at the top and bottom. Enjoy 2 hrs with your guide then have plenty of time to hike and explore the park on you own. Machu Picchu was probably an estate of the Inca Pachacutec, who also designed Cusco. It was a town with individual homes for nobility made in the classical Inca style with polished dry-stone walls. Its 3 three primary structures are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. The magnificence of this site is fully appreciated at sunrise. As the mist rises just after sunrise the site itself is revealed to you. Like a saddle straddling a mountaintop, Machu Picchu sits hidden amongst other spectacular surrounding mountains. When finished take one of the continuous running buses 20 min back down to Aguas Calientes, retrieve your overnight or carry on bags from the hotel and be at the Aguas Calientes train station at least 30 minutes before your departing train to Cusco and van back to your hotel (3.5 hrs). Overnight Cusco. (B)
Day 8 Day 8: Tipon
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Tipon

After breakfast in your hotel we’ll ride 23 km SE of Cusco to the huge water-engineering masterpiece of Tipon. The genius of the Incas is displayed here by how they exploited underground springs and lake to create small foudntains and canals. Probably a summer royal estate, Tipon is a complex system of intricate canals and small aqueducts used for advanced crop irrigation. Return to your Cusco hotel in the late afternoon. (B)
Day 9 Day 9: Cusco - Puno Tourist Bus
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Cusco - Puno Tourist Bus

After breakfast and check-out be sure to leave noting behind in your Cusco hotel. 06:30 hotel greeting and transfer to your tourist bus for a 7AM deparure to Puno(1o hrs). Stops along the way include the Sistine Chapel of the Andes, Andahuaylillas. This is a very pretty cathedral with frescoes on almost every wall. Sorry no pictures allowed. The temple ruins at Raqchi are magnificent at the second stop. There are remains of cottages, warehouses and terraces and it is a beautifully excavated clean site. The remains of the largest Incan church are there and the tight stonework left standing is incredible.

Next at the small town of Sicuani you’ll stop for a sit-down relaxing outdoor buffet Andean lunch. The next stop is La Raya, the highest point on the route at 4,300 meters elevation. The final stop is the museum in Pukaraou to see the ancient pre-Incans artifacts. When you arrive in Puno you will be met and taken to check in to your hotel. Overnight Puno. (B/L)
Day 10 Day 10: Lake Titicaca, Uros & Taquille Island Tours
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Lake Titicaca, Uros & Taquille Island Tours

After breakfast you will be taken to Titicaca lake for a visit to the floating man-made Islands of Uros on a group motor yacht tour. Here you will meet, up-close the citizens who have preserved their old traditions and still live on the water. “The Aquatic Tribe” will show you how they have kept their customs, make their islands and display their crafts made of reeds. For an additional very small tip (5 soles per person) they will take you for a short optional ride on one of their reed boats if you wish.

The motor yacht tour then continues to the Greece-like steep island of Taquile, inhabited by native Quechuas. On Uros and Taquille you can appreciate and purchase some of the finest handmade crafts and basket weavings in Perú to support the very friendly and welcoming island people. Typical lunch on Taquile Island. The motor yachts have bus style seating and you can climb to the cabin roof to get fresh air and great photos. Be sure to bring brimmed hats and jackets as it will be sunny, windy and colder in the afternoons.(B/L)
Day 11 Day 11: Juliaca, Sillustani (Chullpas), Lima
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Juliaca, Sillustani (Chullpas), Lima

After breakfast you will be greeted in you hotel and taken to the Juliaca airport for your flight to Lima. If there is time you can stop to visit the Pre-Inca chullpa tombs at Sillustani on Lake Umayo (OPTIONAL). There your guide will explain the circular monument tombs that emphasized the connection between life and death. Afterwards you will continue on to the Juliaca airport for your flight to Lima. (B).

10 days tour

10/09 New Year: Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Pu

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Itinerary of your trip 10/09 New Year: Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Pu

Day 1: Arrive To Lima

Day 2: Lima City Tour

Day 3: Lima - Cusco Flight

Day 4: Cusco City Tour (1/2 Day)

Day 5: Sacred Valley Tour (Full Day)

Day 6: Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes Train

Day 7: Tour Machu Picchu. Return To Cusco

Day 8: Tipon

Day 9: Cusco - Puno Tourist Bus

Day 10: Lake Titicaca, Uros & Taquille Island Tours

Day 11: Juliaca, Sillustani (Chullpas), Lima

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