Day 1 · Cusco
Arrive in Cusco
A guide meets you at the airport and rides with you to your hotel, with tips on the city along the way. The rest of the day is free to rest after the flight or take a first walk through the old streets.
4 days · 3 nights
Three nights in the old Inca capital, with a full day at Machu Picchu.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesStay in one Cusco hotel for three nights. After a free arrival day, spend an afternoon among the city's Inca and colonial sights, then rise early for a day trip by train and bus to Machu Picchu, returning to Cusco that evening.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
+1 day beforeA night in Cusco first
Cusco
Day 1 · Cusco
A guide meets you at the airport and rides with you to your hotel, with tips on the city along the way. The rest of the day is free to rest after the flight or take a first walk through the old streets.
Day 2 · Cusco
From about 1 pm, a four-hour guided tour begins at the Santo Domingo Convent, raised on the foundations of the Inca sun temple of Coricancha, then the Cathedral on the main square. Drive up to the ramparts of Sacsayhuamán for the view over the city, then on to Qenqo, thought to be a place of Inca ritual, and the hilltop military complex of Puka Pukara. You are back at the hotel around 5.30 pm.
Machu Picchu
Day 3 · Machu Picchu
Pick-up is around 4.30 am for the drive to Ollantaytambo and a train of about an hour and a half to Aguas Calientes, then a 25-minute bus up to the citadel. A guided visit of about two and a half hours covers the story of the site and its best-known structures. Lunch is in Aguas Calientes before the train back and a transfer to your Cusco hotel in the late afternoon.
Cusco
Day 4 · Cusco
After breakfast, a transfer takes you to Cusco airport for your onward flight.
+1 day afterA last night in Cusco
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Cusco · 3 nights
One hotel for the whole stay. Or similar
Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive a day early and settle in before the touring begins, at the same hotel level.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on for a slower final day in the city, at the same hotel level.
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Peru
7 days · 6 nights
Lima → Cusco → Sacred Valley → Cusco → Puno
A night in Lima, then up to Cusco for the old Inca capital and a night in the Sacred Valley. A train carries you to Machu Picchu and back to Cusco, before a full day crossing the altiplano to Puno, where a boat takes you to the Uros and Taquile islands on Lake Titicaca.
Peru
13 days · 12 nights
Lima → Cusco → Sacred Valley → Machu Picchu → Cusco → Nauta
You start with a food market and a bike ride through Lima, then head into the Sacred Valley for a llama-escorted walk and a village visit. Machu Picchu comes next, by train or on foot, with a sunrise return to the ruins. You finish with four nights on a small riverboat from Nauta into the Amazon basin.
Peru
9 days · 8 nights
Lima → Sacred Valley → Aguas Calientes → Cusco
Two nights in Lima ease you in, then you fly to Cusco and head straight down to the Sacred Valley for two quiet nights. A night in Aguas Calientes gives you Machu Picchu with time to spare, and three nights in Cusco finish with a horse ride, a walking tour and a free day.
Stay in one Cusco hotel for three nights. After a free arrival day, spend an afternoon among the city's Inca and colonial sights, then rise early for a day trip by train and bus to Machu Picchu, returning to Cusco that evening.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Peru, closest in length first.
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Private tour | 4 days | Cusco | Price on enquiry.
