Day 1 · Lima
Arrive in Lima
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Rest after the flight or step out for a first look at a capital that is home to around 10 million people.
6 days · 5 nights
Peru's highlights in under a week, with a guide and driver of your own.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesTwo nights in Lima for its colonial centre and the Larco Museum, then a flight to Cusco and a guided afternoon among its Inca walls. A night in the Sacred Valley sets you up for the train to Machu Picchu, and you finish back in Cusco. Every visit and transfer is private.
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 Lima first
Lima
Day 1 · Lima
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Rest after the flight or step out for a first look at a capital that is home to around 10 million people.
Day 2 · Lima
Walk the UNESCO-listed centre from the Plaza de Armas to the cathedral and Casa Aliaga, granted by Pizarro in 1535 and still home to the same family. Then visit the Larco Museum, a restored mansion set over a seventh-century pyramid, before a free afternoon.
Cusco
Day 3 · Cusco
A morning flight takes you to the old Inca capital. In the afternoon your guide leads you from the Santo Domingo convent, built on the Coricancha sun temple, to the cathedral, then to Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo and Puka Pukara in the hills above town.
Sacred Valley
Day 4 · Sacred Valley
Visit the weaving town of Chinchero and its 17th-century church, then the Living Museum of Yucay, where Inca crafts are still made by hand and the llamas and alpacas can be fed. Lunch in Ollantaytambo comes with a climb up its fortress.
Machu Picchu and Cusco
Day 5 · Machu Picchu and Cusco
Take the train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes and the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided tour of the citadel. Lunch is in Aguas Calientes before the journey back to Cusco.
Cusco
Day 6 · Cusco
Breakfast, then a transfer 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.
Lima · 2 nights
Or similar
Cusco · 2 nights
One night on arrival and your last night. Or similar
Sacred Valley · 1 night
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 rest before the journey begins, at the same hotel level.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on for a slower final day in Cusco, 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.
Two nights in Lima for its colonial centre and the Larco Museum, then a flight to Cusco and a guided afternoon among its Inca walls. A night in the Sacred Valley sets you up for the train to Machu Picchu, and you finish back in Cusco. Every visit and transfer is private.
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.
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