Lima, Cuzco, Iquitos and Pacaya Tour

On arrival at Lima you will be assisted and transferred to your Hotel. Overnight in Lima. FREE NIGHT.

After Breakfast, you will be transferred to the Airport On arrival in Cuzco, you will be assisted and transferred to Sacred Valley. Check in your hotel. Sacred Valley City Tour: During your transfer to Sacred Valley, you will stop at Awanacancha. It is a small complex to admire Andean camelids such as alpacas and llamas. Also, learn from local inhabitants about traditional dyeing and knitting techniques. Awanacancha is a weaving centre with the goal to keep alive the traditional textile arts. Later, you will explore the Pisac Market and be able to buy handcrafts, taste something traditional food and stop by the wooden ovens. Here, the Incas have built an observatory to study astronomy as well as an impressive network of cultivated terrace. Stop to lunch at a local restaurant. Return to your hotel. Overnight in Sacred Valley. Free Night Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you will continue visiting the Sacred Valley. You will visit a Chinchero Village. There, you will find an attractive church built during the Colony. There are many paintings from the Cusco School showing a little bit of their culture. Afterwards, you will visit impressive archaeological remains in the area. Continuing your journey, you’ll see Maras and Moray. In Maras, the salt mines are an arrangement of terraces, where salt is gathered in small pools, which are filled by hot spring waters containing an astonishing percentage of salt. These springs have been exploited since Inca times. Now, Moray is something very different. There are 4 natural depressions in the landscape. It used to be use by the Incas to build terraces that served them as an artisan botanical laboratory. The circular-shaped terraces still remain intact. After lunch, you will visit the Inca fortress of Ollantaytambo. The site was built just as the Spaniards arrived. Return to Hotel. Overnight in the Sacred Valley. Free Night. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the train station for an amazing train journey to the famous Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu, the great mountain-top city abandoned by the Inca Empire, reclaimed by the jungle and lost to humanity until its rediscovery in 1911. The legendary ‘Lost City’ is without a doubt one of the world’s most impressive archaeological sites. Built by the Incas on the summit of “Machu Picchu” (old peak), overlooking the deep canyon of the Urubamba river in a semi-tropical area of 120 Km from the city of Cusco at 3,400m. It sits on a mountain site of extraordinary beauty, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest; Machu Picchu was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height, with its giant walls, terraces and ramps, which appear as though they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. Machu Picchu is also one of the Inca’s best kept secrets, as they did not leave written records and Spanish chronicles make no mention of the citadel, it remains a mystery. Along the way you will enjoy the changing landscape as you travel from Andean highlands to the beginnings of the jungle (“eyebrow of the jungle”), before finally arriving at the town of Aguas Calientes. From here, you will board the bus that will take you on a 20 minute ride up to the citadel of Machu Picchu. A guided tour of the Citadel includes the Main Plaza, the Circular Tower, the Sacred Sun Dial, the Royal Quarters, the Temple of the Three Windows and various burial grounds. Return to your Hotel. Overnight in Machu Picchu. Free Night. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, you will have free morning to explore Machu Picchu. In the Afternoon, you will go back to Cuzco by train. Return to your hotel. Overnight in Cuzco. Free Night Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will visit the unique Cuzco. Your tour will start at San Blas, with winding streets, the whitewashed houses and the blue balconies. There is known as home of the folk artists of Cusco. For centuries they have used their hands to tell the tale of their longings and frustrations working in stone and woodcarving, sculpture, doll-making, silverware, weaving and textile arts, gold-leaf, mask-making, and an array of ceramics in utilitarian, architectural, sculptural, monumental, and grotesque and many other styles. Afterwards, you will visit the Pre-Colombian Art Museum, the only museum in Peru dedicated to rebound the arts of ancient Peruvian cultures. The collection contains 450 master pieces date from 1250 B.C to.1532 A.D. Continuing your tour, you will see the Cathedral, the Main Square, the Korikancha temple. Return to hotel. In the afternoon, you will be transferred to the airport. On arrival in Lima, you will be assisted and transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Lima. Free Night Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast you will be transferred to the airport. On arrival in Iquitos, you will be assisted and transferred to the port. You will be transferred by coach to the Embarkation port at the Itaya River just in front of Iquitos City. You will embark on the ship. After a short orientation and Happy Hour, you will be able to enjoy your first night’s dinner on-board. Overnight on-board. Free night. Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, you will have the chance to appreciate the elusive, freshwater, pink river dolphin. Tahuayo and Yarapa is a favourite feeding spot for these medium- sized dolphins with little or no dorsal. You may also have the opportunity to enjoy a refreshing swim in this pristine area. After you enjoy these amazing animals, you will discover another part of Amazon River. In the afternoon, you will explore its shores and small creeks in search of rare and unusual Amazonian wildlife, including species of monkeys, birds, and iguanas not seen elsewhere. Return to the Boat. Overnight on board. Free Night Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, you will visit the birthplace of the Amazon River: the convergence of the Ucayali & Marañon Rivers. After exploring the area, you will visit the San Francisco village, where you will be greeted by happy smiles from the villagers. There, you will walk around the village and also visit the local people’s homes and observw their daily lives. Afterwards, you will visit the local school (when in session), and ask the teacher any questions you may have. Later, you will have time to shop at the village’s arts and crafts market, where all items are made by the local women and children. This tributary of the Amazon River has small clusters of “ribereños” people (those who live symbiotically with the rivers), making their living through small-scale agricultural and charcoal commerce. Afterwards, you will visit a local shamanic healing clinic and listen to a native shaman speak about the mythical world of hallucinogenic and medicinal plants in the Amazon basin. Return to the Boat. Overnight on board. Free Night Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, you will disembark in Iquitos and enjoy a panoramic city tour of the farthest inland port that serves ocean vessels in the world. You will pass by the historic area of the city, where many of the wonderful houses of the 20th century “rubber barons” could be found, including the famous Casa de Fierro (the Iron House). You will visit the Manatee Rescue Center, a fantastic project committed to saving orphaned manatees and reintroducing them into the wild. You will learn about their importance to the world’s ecosystem, and why they are so endangered in this part of the Amazon. Return to your hotel. Overnight in Iquitos. Free Night Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Airport. Meals: Breakfast End of our service.