Secrets of Peru with Machu Picchu

A warm welcome to your "SECRETS OF PERU WITH MACHU PICCHU" tour

Arrive at the Lima International Airport

You will be met by an ATG Tours representative who will assist you with your transfer to the hotel 

The Peruvian capital is a modern metropolis full of history, undergoing an exciting cultural and economic change process.

Check in at the hotel 

Free time for leisure

Overnight stay in Lima.

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning and then proceed for full day tour of Lima (Casa Aliaga) and Larco Herrera Museum

Your tour starts downtown, where you will visit the Aliaga House, an ancient viceregal house delivered by Francisco Pizarro to one of his captains (Jerónimo de Aliaga) after the foundation of the city. The construction of this house started in 1535. This genuine jewel of the colonial architecture is currently inhabited by his descendants.

You will then get acquainted with the Main Square, where Lima was first founded as "The City of Kings," in 1535, and it was already known by the name of Lima when Peru proclaimed its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821.

Here you view (panoramic) the Presidential Palace, the Archbishops Palace and the Lima Cathedral. Next, you will go to the Saint Francis Church, which has an enviable collection of old books and an authentic network of catacombs open to the public. Then you will go to the Pueblo Libre district to visit the Larco Museum, located in the same district, founded by Rafael Larco Hoyle in 1926. A visit to this museum explains the over five thousand years of the high degree of development achieved by the cultures that flourished before the Inca Empire. The museum, located inside a viceregal mansion built on a pre-Columbian pyramid of the 7th century, shows the most complete pre-Hispanic collection of gold and silver artifacts as well as pieces of erotic art.

Lunch at a local restaurant

Overnight stay in Lima

After breakfast at the hotel. Check out and proceed to the airport to board a flight for Cusco (Flight cost Not Included)

On arrival at the Cusco airport you will be met by an ATG Tours representative who will assist you with your transfer to the hotel. 

A  tour to Chinchero, the Living Museum of Yucay and the Ollantaytambo fortress is on the cards for today. Your first stop will be the town of Chinchero, a traditional Cusco urban centre located at an elevated point with a beautiful view of the valley. The inhabitants of this area preserve the artisan traditions and the inherited knowledge of the Incas and display them in their clothes and customs. In Chinchero there are also archaeological remains and a beautiful seventeenth-century church, one of the first Catholic buildings in Peru. next  transfer to the Living Museum of Yucay, a centre for Andean traditional interpretations, where demonstrations of the elaboration of textile work, adobe, pottery and silverware are carried out in the same way in which they used to in antiquity; an original recreation of Inca traditions. Also, residents of the museum include llamas, sheep and alpacas, and they can be fed!

Then, enjoy a delicious lunch in the town of Ollantaytambo and, on the way to the fortress, witness the Andean essence that lingers in the air, and which still maintains Inca urban planning. Walk up the iconic steps of the enclosure, built next to the mountain. 

At the end of all this activity, you will be transferred to your hotel to check in.

Overnight stay in Sacred Valley

Breakfast at the hotel this morning after which proceed for a tour to Maras and Moray

Your day will begin with a tour of approximately an hour and a half to the archaeological sites of Moray. The archaeological remains of Moray consist of mysterious concentric circular terraces that for some scholars would be an agricultural research center. External platforms, more elevated, woud be at higher temperatures than the inmates and could simulate the conditions of the different ecological floors of the empire.

Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant.

On the other hand, Maras is a surreal sight. It is an impressive complex of salt mining. These are large deposits of salt that were used to trade for other products with other regions of the empire. After the tour return to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Sacred Valley

A lot of excitment today as you have Breakfast at the hotel, check out and prepare to leave for Machu Picchu.. 

A guide for assistance  will pick you up from your hotel in Urubamba  to drive you to the Ollantaytambo train station.

On the outward journey, board PeruRail’s Vistadome service train that will take you from the Ollantaytambo station to Machu Picchu. (Aguas Calientes)

Your journey to Machu Picchu begins with a train ride to the town of Aguas Calientes, where you will find a handicraft market, restaurants and accommodation of different categories. After a short bus ride, arrive in Machu Picchu, a masterpiece of engineering and architecture that served as a sanctuary and resting residence for the Inca Pachacútec. According to UNESCO, Machu Picchu, which means 'Old Mountain', is considered a World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the modern world. At the end of the tour, return by bus to Aguas Calientes and then take  PeruRail's Vistadome service train to Ollantaytambo station and onward by private transport to your hotel in Cusco.

Enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay in Cusco

After an enjoyable breakfast at the hotel.and a half day tour of the city of Cusco with a visit to Coricancha Cathedral, Sacsayhuaman, Quenqo, Puca Pucara and Tambomachay. 

Enjoy a guided tour of this charming city, which was the capital of the Inca Empire. The tour begins with a visit to the Convent of Santo Domingo, which was built over the Inca temple of Coricancha, one of the most important precincts dedicated to the cult of the sun. Ancient chronicles say that its walls were covered with gold leaf and filled with golden representations of nature. Next, visit the Cathedral, the most imposing monument in the Plaza de Armas.

Then head to the hills of Cusco where the fortress of Sacsayhuaman is located, whose imposing walls offer an impressive panoramic view of Cusco. Continue to Qenqo, an archaeological complex of religious use where it is believed that the Incas practiced rituals related to agriculture.

Continue the tour to Puka Pukara, the "red fort" in Quechua; an architectural complex of supposed military use, with multiple environments, plazas, baths, aqueducts and towers. It is believed to have been used by the Inca entourage while the leader rested in Tambomachay, which is the last archaeological stop on the tour. It is believed that it was an enclosure of water worship, which had an extraordinary hydraulic system.

At the end of the tour, return to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Cusco

After breakfast today in the hotel check out and prepare to join your coach for your shared  trip from Cusco to Puno (Shared Tour)

The coach will take you through the wonderful Andes sceneries. your first stop will be in Andahuaylillas, a town located 40 kilometres from Cusco that has as its main attraction the Church of Andahuaylillas, nicknamed the ‘Sistine Chapel of America’, due to the impressive art found in it. After this, continue the route to Racchi, where the Wiracocha Temple is located, a surprising 30-meters wide by 20-meters high construction of rectangular shape.

Have a tasty  lunch in Sicuani, followed by a brief stop in La Raya, the highest point between Puno and Cusco, over 4,313 metres above sea level.

Then, arrive at the town of Pucara, where the Pucara Lithic Museum is located. Developed between the years 100 and 300 AC, this town was the first proper urban settlement of the lacustrine highlands.

Finally, arrive in the city of Puno and check in 

Overnight stay in Puno

This morning enjoy breakfast at the hotel. 

 An interesting Full day tour to the Uros and Taquile Islands

Transfer to the lacustrine port of Puno, where a boat takes you to the floating island of the Uros. The Uros are an ancestral society that populates a series of artificial islands built with the totora plant, a type of reed that grows in the Titikaka lake. Their houses are also built from the totora.

Have a tasty lunch.

Later after a journey of an hour and a half, continue your trip to the island of Taquile. This island was part of the Inca Empire and its inhabitants speak Quechua. Once there, your knowledgeable guide will explain details of the life and customs of the locals and their flair for survival..

Return to Puno.

Overnight stay in Puno

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning.

After you check out today - depending on your flight schedule you will be transferred to the Juliaca airport, to begin your journey back home.