Day 1 · Lima
Arrive in Lima
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to find your feet in a big coastal capital where old and new sit side by side.
10 days · 9 nights
Inca stonework in the Andes, then giant tortoises and quiet coves in the Galápagos.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesBegin with two nights in Lima, fly up to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and take the train to Machu Picchu. From there the route crosses to Ecuador for a night in Quito before three nights on Santa Cruz, with a day at sea among the uninhabited islands.
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.
Lima
Day 1 · Lima
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to find your feet in a big coastal capital where old and new sit side by side.
Day 2 · Lima
Start in Pueblo Libre at the Larco Museum, a restored colonial mansion built over a seventh century pyramid and home to a deep collection of pre-Hispanic gold and silver. Visit Casa Aliaga, a colonial house still held by the family it was granted to under Pizarro, then see the main square and the cathedral. The afternoon is yours.
Cusco
Day 3 · Cusco
Fly up to Cusco, where you are met and given time to rest before an afternoon tour with a local guide. See the Santo Domingo convent built over the Inca sun temple of Coricancha, the cathedral, and the hilltop sites of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo and Puka Pukara.
Sacred Valley
Day 4 · Sacred Valley
Drive out to Chinchero, a weaving town with a seventeenth century church and Inca remains, and on Sundays a local market. At the Living Museum of Yucay, watch textiles, pottery and silverwork made the old way and meet the llamas and alpacas. After a traditional lunch, visit the Ollantaytambo fortress before a night in the valley.
Machu Picchu and Cusco
Day 5 · Machu Picchu and Cusco
Take the train from Ollantaytambo through the mountains to Aguas Calientes and the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided visit of about two and a half hours. Lunch is at a thatched restaurant beside the railway in Aguas Calientes before the return to Cusco.
Quito
Day 6 · Quito
Fly from Cusco to Quito, where you are met and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
Santa Cruz Island
Day 7 · Santa Cruz Island
Fly to Baltra, cross the Itabaca Channel by ferry and drive up into the Santa Cruz highlands. At a local ranch you see giant tortoises in the wild, walk through lava tunnels and stop for lunch, and you plant a native scalesia tree at the Pájaro Brujo reserve. In the afternoon, visit the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora.
Galápagos National Park
Day 8 · Galápagos National Park
Sail from the Itabaca Channel to one of North Seymour, Bartolomé, Santa Fe or Plazas, depending on the park's schedule for the day. A naturalist guide leads a walk among the wildlife, and there is time to snorkel before you return to Puerto Ayora in the late afternoon.
Santa Cruz Island
Day 9 · Santa Cruz Island
A half day by boat around the bay, looking for sea lions and marine iguanas, with a stop to swim in Las Grietas, clear pools between walls of lava rock. There is a snorkelling stop along the way.
Baltra
Day 10 · Baltra
After breakfast, ferry back across the Itabaca Channel to Baltra airport for your flight to mainland Ecuador.
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 before the Sacred Valley and one after Machu Picchu. Or similar
Sacred Valley · 1 night
Or similar
Quito · 1 night
Or similar
Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island · 3 nights
The same hotel at both levels. Or similar
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.
Begin with two nights in Lima, fly up to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and take the train to Machu Picchu. From there the route crosses to Ecuador for a night in Quito before three nights on Santa Cruz, with a day at sea among the uninhabited islands.
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.
Small group tour | 11 days | Lima · Arequipa · Sacred Valley | Price on enquiry.
Small group tour | 9 days | Lima · Cusco · Puno
Private tour | 9 days | Lima · Sacred Valley · Cusco | Price on enquiry.
Small group tour | 9 days | Lima · Sacred Valley · Cusco
