Day 1 · Lima
Arrive in Lima
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. Rest after the flight, or head out for a first look at a big, fast-changing capital.
7 days · 6 nights
Peru's classic route with your own guide, and two unhurried nights in the Sacred Valley.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesThe classic week in Peru with a private guide and private transfers throughout. Two nights in Lima, a flight up to Cusco, two nights in the Sacred Valley among terraces, salt pans and weaving towns, then the train to Machu Picchu before a final night in Cusco.
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 head out for a first look at a big, fast-changing capital.
Day 2 · Lima
Tour the colonial heart of the city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the cathedral and Casa Aliaga, a house granted in 1535 and still held by the same family. Then cross to Pueblo Libre for the Larco Museum, set in a restored mansion over a seventh century pyramid. The afternoon is free.
Cusco
Day 3 · Cusco
Fly up to Cusco and settle into your hotel before an afternoon with a local guide. See the Santo Domingo convent on the foundations of the Coricancha sun temple, the cathedral, and the hilltop sites of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo and Puka Pukara.
Sacred Valley
Day 4 · Sacred Valley
Drive out to Moray, where rings of Inca terraces step down into the ground, each level with its own microclimate. Continue to the salt pans of Maras, thousands of small pools still worked by local families, then on to your Sacred Valley hotel.
Day 5 · Sacred Valley
Visit Chinchero, a weaving town with Inca remains and a seventeenth century church, then the Living Museum of Yucay, where textiles, adobe, pottery and silver are made the old way and the llamas and alpacas can be fed. After lunch in Ollantaytambo, climb to the fortress above the town.
Machu Picchu and Cusco
Day 6 · Machu Picchu and Cusco
Take the train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes and the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided visit. Lunch is at a thatched restaurant beside the railway before the train and road back to Cusco.
Cusco
Day 7 · Cusco
Breakfast, then a transfer to Cusco airport for your flight onward.
+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
Your third and sixth nights. Or similar
Sacred Valley · 2 nights
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 touring starts, at the same hotel level as the journey.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on in Cusco for a slower final day in the old Inca capital.
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.
The classic week in Peru with a private guide and private transfers throughout. Two nights in Lima, a flight up to Cusco, two nights in the Sacred Valley among terraces, salt pans and weaving towns, then the train to Machu Picchu before a final night in Cusco.
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.
Private tour | 7 days | Lima · Cusco · Puno | Price on enquiry.
Small group tour | 7 days | Lima · Cusco · Sacred Valley | Price on enquiry.
Private tour | 6 days | Lima · Cusco · Sacred Valley
Small group tour | 6 days | Lima · Cusco · Sacred Valley
