Cusco, Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, Lima and Sacred Valley 8 days tour in Peru

First day:

  • Welcome and transfer from Lima’s airport to your Hotel
  • In the afternoon city tour to the “City of Kings”
  • Nnight at hotel.

Second day:

  • Breakfast at the Hotel
  • Transfer from hotel to airport in Lima.
  • Flight Lima to Cusco (1 hour)
  • Transfer from airport to hotel in Cusco.
  • Coca tea at the hotel
  • City Tour Catedral Cusco Sacsayhuaman Qoricancha Tambomachay … (13:30hrs – 18:30hrs.)
  • Night in selected hotel in Cusco

Third, fourth, fifth and sixth days:

  • Inca Trail to Machupicchu 4 days and 3 nights
  • The last night in selected hotel in Cusco

Seventh day:

  • Breakfast at the Hotel
  • Tour to Sacred Valley
  • Night in selected hotel

Eighth day:

  • Breakfast at the Hotel
  • Transfer from hotel to the airport in Cusco and farewell
  • Flight Cusco to Lima(1 hour)

This tour includes:

  • All transfers to hotels, airports, stations and attractions.
  • Plane ticket from Lima Cusco Lima.
  • 1 Night Hotel in Lima selected and breakfast. (depending on accommodation)
  • 3 Nights Hotel and Breakfast in Cusco selected. (depending on accommodation)
  • City tour to the “City of Kings.”
  • 1 city tour of Cusco and Surroundings (Afternoon 13:30pm – 18:30pm)
  • 1 show typical music and dances of Cusco (from 19:00hrs to 20:00hrs)
  • 1 Tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas 1 includes lunch (Full day 8:00hrs – 19:00hrs)
  • All transportation on the tours.
  • Professional Tourist Guide in English or Spanish
  • Revenues for all attractions to visit Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, City and surrounding areas, churches and museums.
  • Transfers in all offices.
  • 3 nights in hotel (subject to availability).
  • Classic Inca Trail tour of 4 days and 3 nights
  • Tickets to Machupicchu train back to Ollantaytambo and bus to Cusco.
  • Fares Drop Machupicchu – Aguas Calientes.
  • Transport by bus to the start of the trekking
  • Accommodation in double tents
  • All food and all the dishes during the trek
  • 3 breakfasts 3 lunches 3 dinners type snacks
  • Carp kitchen, dining room and bathroom
  • Baggage Porters Group

Description: Tour 8 days and 7 nights in Lima, Cusco, Inca trail, Sacred Valley and Cusco

First Day: City tour in Lima

Once you arrive in Peru our personal will welcome you in the hall of the airport and transfer you to the hotel. After resting for a while we’ll start visiting the most interesting places of the ” City of the Kings “: the Cathedral, Pizarro’s Tomb, the Catacombs of San Francisco, passing through the Congress, the Palace of Torre Tagle.

the residential areas of Orrantia, San Isidro, where we will visit the Huaca Pucllana, we will enjoy a spectacular sight of the Pacific Ocean. Rafael Larco Herrera Museum, where you will find a great quantity of preincaica pottery including the World biggest collection of erotic Huacos, then we’ ll spend the night at the Hotel.

Second Day: Tour in Cusco

We’ll be waiting for you at the airport in Cusco on your arrival date , take you to the hotel where you will rest for an hour , you’ll have a cup of coca tea and we will pick you up from your Hotel in the afternoon (13:30hrs) to start with the tour around Cusco and outskirts.

Tour around Cusco and outskirts: We pick you up from your Hotel to start visiting the following attractives , with a professional guide:

The Koricancha: Palace and Convent of Santo Domingo Religious center known as “The Temple of the Sun” where you will admire the impressive engineering used in its construction.

The Cathedral: Colonial religious monument of extraordinary artistic value.

Sacsayhuaman: Built at 3 Km. From the city of Cusco, impressive stone fortress with an excellent architecture, Famous for its huge carved stones some of which are at 9 m/ 30 feet off the floor,with a weigh of 350 tons. Here is where the Inty Raymi or Fiesta del Sol is held in June Every year.

Qenqo: Ceremonial and ritual center, amphitheatre where sacrifices were made.

Puca-Pucara An old tambo (resting place), monitoring place throughout the Inka Empire Routes.

Tambomachay At 7 Km. From the city of Cusco, ceremonial center of cult to the water , known traditionally as the place where water rests excursion time: around 5 hours.

Frequency: everyday in the afternoons.

Third Day: Cusco:

Inca Trail Start Meet at the office at 05.45hrs to board the bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable). The journey to trailhead at km 82 takes approximately 3 hours. We will enjoy breakfast along the way. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and many other factors, but you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. After lunch, we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to our first camp (3000 mtrs). This first day has us walking through the valley. It starts at 2380 mtrs with a small climb to a platform overlooking the Incan site Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica.

Approx 14km walking – 6 hours

Fourth Day :

Inca TrailDay 2 is the most difficult day as you walk from about 3000 mtrs to 4200 mtrs the highest pass of this trek (Dead Woman’s Pass). You can walk at your own pace, stop to get your breath whenever you like. You’ll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo. Campsite at 3600 mtrs. You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of the pass for approximately US$120.00. You must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items. Please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service.

This is the coldest night. +2/+4 degrees Celsius (December); -3/-5 degrees Celsius (June)

Approx 12km walking – 7 hours

Fifth Day :

Inca Trail Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins and incredible paved trail (and more importantly for your lungs, there is a lot more down than up!!!). There are about 2000 stairs descending from Phuyupatamarca to Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees). If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. Guided tours of all the ruins. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna (2700 mtrs).

Take extra care of your personal belongings in this campsite as all the tours camp near here. As usual always keep your daypack with valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostal near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.

Approx 16km walking – 6 hours

Sixth Day:

Get up extremely early to arrive at Intipunku, “The Gate of the Sun,” and view the first sun illuminating majestic Machupicchu. It is still a 20 min walk down from here to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. Take your photos now before the 10:30 crowds arrive. Your tour of Machupicchu should finish between 10:30 and 11:00am and you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu (it will take at least 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day, so start immediately after your tour! Or just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machupicchu.

Seventh Day: Tour to the Sacred Valley of the incas

This tour starts around 9:00 hrs., we pick you up at your Hotel, we have a guided tour to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, over the Vilcanota river, with a panoramic view of Pisac an old Inca City and a visit to the Inka market in this village, where we will have the chance to know in a closer way its people customs and get good bargains with the handycrafts and souvenirs sellers, afterwards we’ll head for Urubamba, traveling on the borders of the river Vilcanota.

We’ll have lunch at a restaurant in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the afternoon we visit the fortress and citadel of Ollantaytambo, built to watch the entrance to this part of the valley and protect it from the jungle habitants invasions. We’ll have the chance to walk by the narrow streets and have a clear knowledge of how this militar, religious and cultural center was during the Inca empire.

On the way back to Cusco we will stop by the colorful village of Chinchero , where we will find the ruins of the Tupac Inca Yupanqui Royal House, we will appreciate its well preserve Inca wall in the man square and you will visit the beauty Colonial Temple with invaluable portraits, built over Inca Bases. Then we return to Cusco.

Eight Day: Farewell

We’ll be at your hotel at least two hours before your flight leaves to take you to the airport Where you should check your plane ticket and pay the airport tax, we’ll be with up to you get on aboard.

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