6 days · 5 nights
The Inca heartland tasted as much as seen, with a private guide and long lunches.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesBase yourselves in Cusco and the Sacred Valley for a journey built around Andean food: a picantería dinner, a morning of chocolate, coffee and pisco, and a pachamanca cooked in the earth. Between meals come the salt pans of Maras, the terraces of Moray, Pisac market, Ollantaytambo and a day at Machu Picchu.
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
You are met at Cusco airport and taken to your hotel, with the afternoon free to find your feet at altitude. In the evening, sit down to a three-course dinner of Andean cooking at a traditional Cusco picantería.
Day 2 · Cusco
A tasting tour of three small Cusco museums dedicated to chocolate, coffee and pisco. At each one you follow the journey from raw ingredient to finished product, and taste the result.
Sacred Valley
Day 3 · Sacred Valley
Visit the salt pans of Maras, worked since Inca times, and the rings of terraces at Moray, thought to have been an Inca farming laboratory. Lunch is at a country restaurant near Chinchero before you settle into your valley hotel.
Day 4 · Sacred Valley
Browse the textiles and carvings at Pisac market, then explore Ollantaytambo, a town still laid out on its Inca plan. Lunch is a pachamanca, meat and Andean potatoes cooked on hot stones underground, which you help prepare over about two hours.
Machu Picchu and Cusco
Day 5 · Machu Picchu and Cusco
Ride the train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes and the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided tour. Lunch is at a riverside restaurant in town, mixing Andean and modern cooking, before the train and a transfer bring you 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.
Cusco · 3 nights
Two nights on arrival and your last night. 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 to settle into the altitude, 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.
Base yourselves in Cusco and the Sacred Valley for a journey built around Andean food: a picantería dinner, a morning of chocolate, coffee and pisco, and a pachamanca cooked in the earth. Between meals come the salt pans of Maras, the terraces of Moray, Pisac market, Ollantaytambo and a day at Machu Picchu.
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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