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13 Day itinerary in Peru, South America

Andean Treasures

In this package of thirteen days, we will explore different Andean treasures and experience the different cities in this region. We will start in Lima, with a small tour observing colonial monuments. We later take an airplane going to the City of Arequipa, better known as the White City of Peru. It... Read More

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Overview

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GUIDANCE

On Some Day Trips

starting point

Lima

trip type

Private

trip attributes

Indigenous culture

Visit markets

Meet local people

Hiking

Rural home stays

Culture & History

Purposeful Travel

Nature & Wildlife

Food & Culinary

Start/End

Night

Highlights

1

Lima

2

Titicaca

3

Cusco

4

Machu Picchu

Itinerary

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Day 1

place Arrival in Lima / Transfer to Hotel

Welcome to Lima, the international gateway to Peru. These next few days are packed with adventure, but tonight, we’ll meet you upon arrival at the Lima airport and take you to your hotel for a good night’s rest after your flight.

Accommodation:

  • Economic: Porta Hostal
  • Standart: Hotel Britania Miraflores
  • Confort: Casa Andina Premium Miraflores
  • Luxury: Pullman Lima Miraflores
Day 2

place Arrival to Arequipa & City Tour

Pearly white stone architecture, fantastic year-round weather, and delicious culinary specialties make Arequipa a favorite destination for local and international travelers alike. Fly into Arequipa and check in to your hotel.

Meet your guide for a closer look at Arequipa’s mestizo baroque architecture. Visit San Ignacio Chapel, the imposing Basilica Cathedral, and Santa Catalina Monastery. The tour ends with a drive to one of the city’s lookout points for views of the city framed by Misti Volcano.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Economic: Conde De Lemos
  • Standart: Hotel San Agustin Posada del Monasterio
  • Confort: Casa Andina Standard Arequipa
  • Luxury: Casa Andina Premium Arequipa
Day 3

place Colca Canyon Tour

Your bus journey to the Colca Canyon begins early in the morning. About 2 hours from Arequipa, you’ll stop in Lagunillas to observe birds nesting in the picturesque lagoons. The next stop is at Pampa Cañahuas, where traditional “mate de coca” tea is served to alleviate the effects of high altitude. The final stop at the Patapampa Volcano overlook gives you time to snap photos of the majestic landscape.

The winding road into the canyon provides even more majestic vistas of an ancient landscape inhabited for thousands of years before the Inca Empire rose to power. The bus arrives in the Plaza de Armas of Chivay. Transportation back to your hotel and enjoy the rest of the evening at your leisure.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: HOTEL La Casa de Anita
  • Standart: Hotel Pozo del Cielo
  • Confort: Aranwa Pueblito Encantado del Colca
  • Luxury: Las Casitas, A Belmond Hotel, Colca Canyon
Day 4

place Colca Canyon Tour & Arrival to Puno

Andean condors are the illustrious residents of the Colca Canyon. Wake up early this morning for a drive to Cruz del Condor, one of the best viewpoints over the canyon. The sight of the soaring birds with wings spanning their fullest length against the backdrop of the Colca’s deepest depths will leave you breathless.

Return to Chivay for lunch, and then begin the drive to Puno. On arrival, settle into your comfortable hotel and enjoy the vast twinkling sky over Lake Titicaca.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: Qelqatani Hotel
  • Standart: Casona Plaza Hotel Puno
  • Confort: Casa Andina Premium Puno
  • Luxury: GHL Hotel Lago Titicaca
Day 5

place Lake Titicaca Tour

Sailing on the waters of Lake Titicaca is an experience like no other. Depart from Puno port to begin your waterborne exploration of Lake Titicaca. Step onto the spongy surface of the Uros Floating Islands and learn how islanders use the totora reeds in all aspects of their daily lives. Continue to Taquile Island to see how indigenous people maintain their traditions on a rocky island on the world’s highest navigable lake.

And to top it off, you will get the opportunity to spend the night on the island!

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Luxury: Titicaca Lodge Peru
Day 6

place Titicaca lake to Puno

Today in the morning we are going to continue the tour, after Breakfast we will board a motor boat, that will make a few stops on the islands around Titicaca Lake.

In the afternoon, we will arrive in Puno.

Tonight, we are going to spend the night in the city.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: Qelqatani Hotel
  • Standart: Casona Plaza Hotel Puno
  • Confort: Casa Andina Premium Puno
  • Luxury: GHL Hotel Lago Titicaca
Day 7

place Puno to Cusco

Sit back, aboard your comfortable first class bus, and give free rein to your imagination as you cross the mountain highlands on the way to Puno. You might not guess it by looking at the sparse landscape, but this region has been a pathway for cultural and economic exchanges as well as imperial conquests for thousands of years. The bus will make a few stops along the way for guided visits to important pre-Columbian and colonial sites, including Raqchi and Andahuaylillas.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: AMARU INCA
  • Standart: Anden Inca
  • Confort: San Agustin Plaza
  • Luxury: Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
Day 8

place Free day in Cusco

Today, after breakfast, you have the opportunity to visit the city center, the artisan market, the typical San Pedro market, and museums that are included in the tourist ticket we give you.

You also have the opportunity to take one of our day tours. To learn more, visit our day tours and you can choose one of the options!

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Economic: AMARU INCA
  • Standart: Anden Inca
  • Confort: San Agustin Plaza
  • Luxury: Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
Day 9

place City Tour Cusco

Your tour today will introduce you to the remarkable history of Cusco as visible in its monumental architecture, richly ornamented churches, and present-day Andean cultural practices.

Begin in the UNESCO-recognized historic center. Visit the majestic Cusco Cathedral and the Qoricancha or Temple of the Sun. Then drive into the countryside to see the ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Qenko, Tambomachay, and Pukapukara.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Economic: AMARU INCA
  • Standart: Anden Inca
  • Confort: San Agustin Plaza
  • Luxury: Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
Day 10

place Cusco to Rainbow Mountain

Today the guide will pick you up at 3 am from your hotel, as we will drive for almost 3 hours where we will then walk almost 5 hours until Rainbow Mountain. Along the way you are going to see the local people, surrounding mountains, as well as the Ausangate mountain.

In the nighttime, you will  board the same transportation and go back to Cusco.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: AMARU INCA
  • Standart: Anden Inca
  • Confort: San Agustin Plaza
  • Luxury: Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
Day 11

place Sacred Valley Tour

The Sacred Valley was the spiritual center of the Inca Empire, where all-powerful emperors built private estates, temples, fortifications, and thousands of agricultural terraces.

Join your guide for a jaunt through Sacred Valley’s remarkable places. Explore the Pisac ruins and shop at the famous artisan market in the village plaza. Scale the heights of Ollantaytambo fortress and be sure to explore the stone-lined streets of the village where water still flows through Inca-built channels.

Train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes!

Overnight in Aguas Calientes 

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Economic: Killa House
  • Standart: Flower's House - MachuPicchu
  • Confort: Casa Andina Standard Machu Picchu
  • Luxury: Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel
Day 12

place Machu Picchu Tour

For 400 years, the “lost city of the Incas” remained hidden atop a mountain ridge until it was revealed to the world, on the pages of National Geographic in 1911.

Your day begins with an early morning bus transfer up to the ruins. Your tour guide will lead you on an unforgettable walk through Machu Picchu’s stone-lined paths, along the terrace edges, to the base of structures that testify to the extraordinary skill of its builders.

After snapping some final photos, aboard the shuttle bus back to town and transfer to the train station for your return to Cusco.

Optional: Hike Huayna Picchu to get a bird’s eye view of the ruins or take the Machu Picchu Mountain hike to appreciate.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

  • Economic: AMARU INCA
  • Standart: Anden Inca
  • Confort: San Agustin Plaza
  • Luxury: Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
Day 13

place Flight from Cusco to Lima

After a final breakfast at the hotel, board a car for the journey back to Lima.

Flight to your next destination!

Meals: Breakfast

What’s Included

Accommodation expand_less

  • Porta Hostal
  • Conde De Lemos
  • HOTEL La Casa de Anita
  • Qelqatani Hotel
  • AMARU INCA
  • Killa House
  • Hotel Britania Miraflores
  • Hotel San Agustin Posada del Monasterio
  • Hotel Pozo del Cielo
  • Casona Plaza Hotel Puno
  • Anden Inca
  • Flower's House - MachuPicchu
  • Casa Andina Standard Arequipa
  • Casa Andina Premium Miraflores
  • Aranwa Pueblito Encantado del Colca
  • Casa Andina Premium Puno
  • San Agustin Plaza
  • Casa Andina Standard Machu Picchu
  • Pullman Lima Miraflores
  • Casa Andina Premium Arequipa
  • Las Casitas, A Belmond Hotel, Colca Canyon
  • GHL Hotel Lago Titicaca
  • Titicaca Lodge Peru
  • Palacio del Inka, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Cusco
  • Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel

Meals expand_less

  • Breakfast (12)
  • Lunch (7)

Transport expand_less

  • Train
  • Bus
  • Auto

Activities expand_less

  • Walk
  • Shooping
  • Tours

Extras expand_less

  • Entrances fees

Not Included expand_less

  • International and domestic flights
  • Lunches and dinners (unless specified otherwise)
  • Travel insurance (highly recommended)
  • Gratuity

About Ernesto

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Indigenous culture

Yoga

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Skiing/Snowboarding

Visit markets

Meet local people

Hiking

Kayak & Canoe

Rafting

Rural home stays

Snorkeling/Diving

Culture & History

Cycling

Nature & Wildlife

Food & Culinary

Purposeful Travel

Water & Coastline

Hey there! I'm Ernesto Alonso, a passionate travel guide and travel advisor. With a love for exploring new places, As an experienced travel guide, I have had the privilege of sharing the wonders of various destinations with curious adventurers.

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