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Peru Kingdoms 13 days - 12 nights
Peru Kingdoms13 days - 12 nights
Country : PeruCity : Lima - Trujillo - Chiclayo - Puerto Maldonado - Cusco - PunoBrand : Travel with FreedomDuration : 13 Days - 12 NightsType of Service : Peru JourneyType of Interest : Culture - Archeology - Nature - Short HikingsLevel : Easy to ModerateCategory : Tourist Superior Accommodation : Hotels & Eco lodgeTour Escort : Included
Language : English
Entrance Tickets : As required
Season : All year
Peru KingdomsLima - Trujillo - Chiclayo - Puerto Maldonado - Cusco - Puno
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Perú: A wonderful cultural, historical and natural experience, come to know this country in this new version of our Classic Peruvian Wonders.
Live the legend with us, now with a Northern visit and Jungle Stay, completing this extraordinary experience with Machupicchu and the Lake Titicaca.
Day 1:Arrival to Lima.
Arrival to Lima, reception & transfer to your hotel. Overnight.
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 40 minutes
Total Distance : 20 km.
Altitude : 154 m.a.s.l
Temperature : 19 ºC
Day 2: Lima - Trujillo - El Brujo - Peruvian Paso Horse Exhibition.
At a coordinated time, transfer to Lima airport to take flight to Trujillo. Upon your arrival to Trujillo, reception &
transfer to your hotel. Then, you will visit El Brujo one of the most important archaeological complexes on Peru’s north coast. It was built through a lengthy cultural sequence which began in the pre-Ceramic period, some 5 000 years ago. El Brujo consists of three large buildings: the ancient Huaca Prieta, Huaca El Brujo, belonging to the Mochica Culture, and Huaca de Cao Viejo, which features embossed figures and murals. Finally, you will visit the ACPP (Peruvian Paso Horse Breeders Asosiation) where you will be amazed by a Peruvian Paso horse exhibition with Lunch.
Return to your hotel in Trujillo.
Activity of the day: Visit Archeological Site Show of Peruvian Paso Horse Exhibition
Meals : Breakfast
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 5 hours
Total Distance: 120 km. round trip distance.
Altitude : 34 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 21 ºC
Day 3: Trujillo Full Day Sun & Moon Pyramid - Huaca Dragon & Huanchaco.
In the morning, you will visit Huaca del Sol y de la Luna: The Huaca del Sol, a pyramid 20m high, according to the tradition was built in only 3 days using 250 000 people and 70 million blocks of adobes. The Huaca de la Luna, located in front of the Huaca del Sol, is smaller.
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In some of its adobe walls still exist paintings where appears the Ai-Apaek God. Archaeologists have discovered a tomb with more than 40 dead soldiers.
After you will have Lunch in Huanchaco beach, an ancient Chimú port with its colonial church located at the highest point of the port and famous for its ancient pre Inca “Caballitos de Totora”, straw boats which are still used by local fishermen.
In the afternoon you will visit Chan Chan, located 4 Km to the north of Trujillo, an ancient city which once housed a population of 50,000, complete with streets, houses, water tanks, pyramids and temples, a great urban centre and now declared a Cultural Patrimony by UNESCO.
Finally, you will visit Huaca Dragon, a temple dedicated to the Rainbow, located 5 km from Trujillo and considered as a ceremonial place by researches and related to the fertility. Its decorations show dancing warriors and the figure of a dragon. Overnight in Trujillo.
Activity of the Day: Cultural & Educational Activities
Meals : Breakfast - Lunch
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 8 hours
Total distance : 15 km.
Altitude : 22 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 19 ºC
Day 4 Trujillo - Royal Tombs of Sipan - Sican - City of Chiclayo - Back to Lima
Departure from Trujillo visiting Tumbas Reales Museum, which is a modern building with pyramidal infrastructure. It looks like a flattened pyramid formed by five prisms that are held together by leaning planes, with each prism bearing a replica of the banners found in the Tomb of the Lord of Sipán. Their colours, red and yellow, are similar to those used by the Moches throughout their decorations.
The aim of the museum is to recreate the atmosphere of the temples of that civilisation, serving as a museum as well as a mausoleum and resting place for the
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Lord of Sipán and his companions. It was opened on November 8, 2002 and is one of the most sophisticated museums in the region.
Visit the Sicán Museum located in the village of Ferreñafe with its display of Sicán culture along with an interesting display of tombs from the Sicán nobility. Lunch Included.
Arrival to Chiclayo. You will be then dropped off at Chiclayo Airport.
Arrival to Lima, reception & transfer to your hotel. Overnight.
Activity of the Day: Cultural & Educational Activities
Meals : Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Accommodation : Selected Hotels
Estimated Time : 6 hours
Total Distance : 210 km.
Altitude : 22 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 19 ºC
Day 5: Lima - Puerto Maldonado - Lodge
Arrival & Reception by Guide. Your guides are biologists, tourism professionals, or community members. Unless noted otherwise, our guides speak English. You assign guides at 6:1 ratio in Tambopata Research Centre. This means groups smaller than 6 people will be merged with other groups under one guide. If you would like a private guide or a guide in a language other than English please let yours know.
Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters. Upon arrival from Lima or Cusco, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.
Transfer Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Tambopata River Port. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.
Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port
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to Refugio Amazonas. The two and a half hour boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Refugio Amazonas will take us past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National Reserve´s checkpoint and into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit. You have a box lunch.
Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.
Dinner. Caiman Search; you will be out at the river’s edge at night, scanning the shores with headlamps and flashlights to catch the red gleams of reflection from caiman eyes.
Overnight at Refugio Amazonas
Activity of the Day: Walk around the Lodge See Caiman at night tour
Meals : Box Lunch - Dinner
Accommodation : Refugio Amazonas
Altitude : 183 m.a.s.l / 600 ft.
Average temperature : 30°C
Day 6: Puerto Maldonado: Oxbow Lake - Canopy Tree - Ethno botanical Tour
Breakfast, then you will visit Oxbow Lake where you will paddle around the lake on a canoe or a catamaran, looking for lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin, caiman and hornerd screamers, hoping to see the otters which are infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with overhead sightings of macaws.
Canopy Tower. A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans, macaws and raptors are likely.
After your lunch you will visit the farm located just five minutes downriver from the lodge lies a farm owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighboring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops -
just about every plant and tree you see serves a purpose.
Then you will have an Ethno botanical Tour, along this trail we will find a variety of plants and trees that are used by the local population with at least the same variety of purposes. We will learn about the medicinal (and other) uses of Ajo-Sacha, Yuca de Venado, Uña de Gato, Charcot-Sacha, Para-Para, among several others.
Dinner. Tambopata National Reserve Lectures, Nightly lectures prepared by the staff of Refugio Amazonas cover conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the Tambopata National Reserve. Overnight at Refugio Amazonas
Activity of the Day: Oxbow Lake Canopy Tree Ethno botanical Tour
Meals : Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Accommodation : Refugio Amazonas
Altitude : 183 m.a.s.l / 600 ft.
Average Temperature : 30°C
Day 7:Lodge - Puerto Maldonado - Cusco
Breakfast, Transfer Boat from Refugio Amazonas to Tambopata River Port; then transfer from Tambopata River Port to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters then transfer from Puerto Maldonado Headquarters to Airport. (Depending on airline schedules, this may require dawn departures.)Arrival to Cusco, reception and transfer
to your hotel. Overnight.
Meals : Breakfast
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Altitude : 3,3399 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 18°C
Day 8:Cusco.
Free morning for personal activities.
In the afternoon, you will visit Cusco’s Historical Inca and Spanish Colonial Monuments, such as the Main Square, known in Inca times as Huacaypata or the Warrior’s Square, it was the scene for many key events in Cusco’s history.The Cathedral, originally built on the site
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of the old temple of Suntur Wasi (House of God), now the church of El Triunfo, a particular interest are the choir cloisters, the pulpit, the engravings on the altar and furniture.
Continue onto the Church and Convent of Santo Domingo, a Spanish construction belonging to the Dominican Order built upon the foundations of the Inca temple of Koricancha or Temple of the Sun. Koricancha (in quechua, site of gold) was the main religious building of the Incas dedicated to the worship of the Sun and whose walls, according to the chroniclers, were plated with sheets of gold. Magnificent blocks of finely carved stone were used in its construction.
After, you will visit the surrounding ruins
of the city of Cusco: Sacsayhuamán, this huge Inca fortress is built on three overlapping platforms, each of them over 360 m long. Then, onto Tambomachay, known as the Inca baths. It was apparently a site dedicated to the worship of water and a resting place for the Inca monarch. Kenko, it is said to have been a worship site. There is a huge 5,9 m high stone block that looks like a puma. There are also passages, canals and stairways with stone engravings representing animals. Finally, Puca Pucará, which was an administrative and military centre formed by terraces, stairways, passages, turrets and vaulted niches. Return to your hotel. Overnight in Cusco.
Activity of the Day: City Tour Cusco & Surroundings
Meals : Breakfast
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 4.5 hours
Total Distance : 10 km.
Altitude : 3,3399 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 18 ºC
Day 9: Full Day Trip Machu Picchu “ The Lost City” In the Expedition Train
Early in the morning, you will be transferred to take the Tourist Class train from Ollantaytambo to visit the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. Spectacular train journey crossing valleys, mountains and typical communities. The altitude will descend from 3,500 to 1,500 m.a.s.l. crossing two different regions from the sierra to the rainforests. Snow peaks,
eucalyptus, deep canyons and orchids are also part of the scenery.
This stone citadel, located 112 km from Cusco, was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911. The citadel was built on a very special spot covered in vegetation between two mountains: the Machu Picchu (old mountain) and Huayna Picchu (young mountain), at the foot of which meanders the Urubamba or Vilcanota River (lower Jungle featuring abundant flora and fauna). On arrival, Tour of the Sanctuary. In the afternoon, you will return to Cusco by train. On arrival you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Cusco.
Activity of the Day: Visit one of the seven wonders of the world Machu Picchu
Meals : Breakfast
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 8 hours
Total Distance : 75 km. aproximately
Altitude : 2,430 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 18 º C
Day 10: Trip to Puno by Bus.
In the morning you will be transferred to the local bus station to board the regular tourist class bus to the city of Puno, an all day journey, crossing the great anti plano with the ever presence of the snow capped Andean Mountains. On route, you will pass by the villages of Pucará, Racchi and Andahuaylillas. Please note that if you prefer you can take the train to Puno, instead of the
bus. Departures available on: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. On arrival you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Puno.
Activity of the Day: Archaeology Sites Pucara, Racchi, Andahuaylillas
Meals : Breakfast - Lunch
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 8 hours
Total Distance : 389 km
Altitude : 3,815 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 10 º C
Day 11: Full Day Uros & Taquile Tour.
In the morning you will begin your full day visit to the Floating Island of Uros
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in Lake Titicaca. Located 4 km from Puno, the original inhabitants of these floating islands are said to descend from one of the most ancient peoples of the Americas and still to this day practise their ancient traditions. Their dwellings made of totora reed are built on the surface of Lake Titicaca. Afterwards, you will make your way to the unique Island of Taquile, where time appears to have stopped. The Mediterranean atmosphere of this place is striking, with its steps of stone and its houses centred around the square. Its indigenous community that lives here, around 350 families are descendants of the Incas and known for their Textile activities, such as their beautifully woven chumpis (belts), chullos (caps), and ojotas (and sandals) and according to the custom, officials
are distinguished by black or brown caps.Taquile also offers a magnificent lake landscape from where the impressive snowfalls of the Cordillera Real (Real mountain chain) can be seen. In the afternoon you will return to the hotel. Overnight in Puno.
Activity of the Day : Culture & Heritage
Meals : Breakfast - Lunch
Accommodation : Selected Hotel
Estimated Time : 8 hours
Total Distance : 75 km approximately
Altitude : 3,815 m.a.s.l
Average Temperature : 10 ºC
Day 12:Puno - Juliaca - Lima.
Transfer to the airport for flight back
to Lima to connect to your flight back to Lima. Arrival to Lima, reception & Transfer to your hotel. Overnight.
Meals : BreakfastAccommodation : Selected HotelAltitude : 154 m.a.s.lAverage Temperature : 19 ºC
Day 13: Lima - International departure.
At a coordinated time, transfer to Lima airport
Meals : Breakfast
Note: All itineraries are subject to change, due to weather and other conditions. All times indicated are approximate, and are also subject to change.
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