Day 1 · Cusco
Arrive in Cusco
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel, with pointers on the city along the way. Rest after the flight or take a first slow walk through the old town.
5 days · 4 nights
Time to settle into Cusco before the valley and the lost city, without rushing either.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA gentle start, with a free first day and a free morning to get used to the altitude before the afternoon tour of Cusco. Then out to Chinchero and Ollantaytambo for a night in the Sacred Valley, and the train to Machu Picchu before a last 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 Cusco first
Cusco
Day 1 · Cusco
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel, with pointers on the city along the way. Rest after the flight or take a first slow walk through the old town.
Day 2 · Cusco
The morning is yours. In the afternoon, visit the Coricancha sun temple beneath the Santo Domingo convent and the cathedral, then the hills above the city for the great walls of Sacsayhuaman, the ritual site of Qenqo and the red fort of Puka Pukara.
Sacred Valley
Day 3 · Sacred Valley
Drive to Chinchero, a weaving town with Inca remains and a seventeenth century church, with its market on Sundays. At the Living Museum of Yucay, watch textiles, pottery and silver made the old way and feed the llamas and alpacas. After lunch in Ollantaytambo, climb to the fortress, then settle into your valley hotel.
Machu Picchu and Cusco
Day 4 · Machu Picchu and Cusco
Take the train from Ollantaytambo, about two hours to Aguas Calientes, then the bus up to Machu Picchu for a guided visit. Lunch is back in Aguas Calientes before the return to Cusco.
Cusco
Day 5 · Cusco
Breakfast, then your transfer to Cusco airport.
+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
Your first two nights and your fourth. 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 earlier for even more time to adjust before the touring starts.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on for a free day in the old town after Machu Picchu.
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.
A gentle start, with a free first day and a free morning to get used to the altitude before the afternoon tour of Cusco. Then out to Chinchero and Ollantaytambo for a night in the Sacred Valley, and the train to Machu Picchu before a last 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.
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