Rainbow Peru - 10 days

Day 1 Arrival in Lima

Arrive in Lima, and trasnfer to your hotel. If you arrive early we can arrange optional tours to museums or to visit the city and surrounding sites. Overnight at hotel, lunch and dinner on your own.

Day 2 ICA /NAZCA

Breakfast Early departure by coach to Ica - the comfortable bus will bring you to this desert city traversing various lush valleys that cut through the Atacama desert. Arrival and check-in at your hotel. Afternoon optional flight over the Nazca lines. Lunch and dinner on your own, overnight at hotel

Day 3 PARACAS / LIMA

Breakfast After breakfast a vehicle will take you to the National Reserve of Paracas, the only marine protected area. A chance to take a boat ride to Islas Ballestas, a small island teeming with marine bird life as well as sea-lions. After lunch the bus will take us to Lima. Overnight at hotel, dinner on your own.

Day 4 PUERTO MALDONADO

Breakfast Transfer to the airport for your flight to Puerto Maldonado in the rainforest of Southeastern Peru. Meet and greet at airport and canoe transport to your lodge. There are various options for lodges in the area, according to space availability we will send you to one of the three options that we work with, all offering an exceptional rainforest experience. Most entail orientation talks on arrival, walks through trails in the forest led by naturalist guides, night time excursions on dug-out canoes, float rides to watch fauna on the shore line and in the canopy layers. All meals are included as well as transportation in vehicles and canoes. On the third day you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Cusco

Day 5 PUERTO MALDONADO

Breakfast Rainforest lodge activities

Day 6 CUSCO

Breakfast On arrival in the course of the morning from Puerto Maldonado, you will be transferred to a hotel, rest of the morning free to acclimatize, lunch on your own. Afternoon tour of the city and nearby ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Kenko, Tambomachay and visit the main sites in the city - Inca temples and colonial churches. Overnight at hotel, dinner on your own.

Day 7 SACRED VALLEY / OLLANTAYTAMBO

Breakfast Full day excursion to visit the main sites in the Sacred Valley of the Incas with guided tours of the archaeological remains. Lunch on route, and overnight at a local hotel, dinner on your own. Depending on hotel availability additional activities can be organized from some of the country inns.

Day 8 MACHU PICCHU

Breakfast Early transfer from your hotel to the train station in the Sacred Valley, for your two hour ride down the Urubamba gorge as it changes from mountain vegetation to cloud forest, arrival at the station of Machu Picchu Pueblo. A bus ride will bring you to the citadel for a full day guided visit, with lunch included and afternoon return to the village where we will spend the night at a local hotel, dinner on your own. (Luxury hotel option available).

Day 9 MACHU PICCHU / CUSCO

Breakfast Early rise for those who want an optional visit to the ruins. The other option is to stay around the village and undertake shopping, relax in your hotel room or take a walk in the surrounding cloud-forest. Lunch on your own. Afternoon train return to Cusco, where we will arrive in the evening. Transfer to your hotel, dinner on your own. Day 10 CUSCO/OUT Breakfast After breakfast transfer to the airport for your ongoing connecting flight to another destination inside the region or back home.

***End of the Tour***

SERVICES INCLUDED:

Transfers, transportation by vehicle for organized tours, lodges in the Amazon and all meals, hotels with breakfast, tours as mentioned, lunches on full day excursions and entrance fees to all sites (except second optional entrance to Machu Picchu (day 9) and bilingual guide.

SERVICES NOT INCLUDED: Meals in the cities, alcoholic beverages, extras, tips, taxes, laundry service, additional tours, insurance and airline tickets (where applicable), second day entrance to Machu Picchu (day9)