B= Breakfast
L= Lunch
D= Dinner
September 15: Miami - Lima - Depart U.S. via Miami International
Airport to Lima, Peru. After transfer, check in at Casa Andina Private Collection
Miraflores Hotel in Lima.
September 16: Ica - Nazca Lines - Breakfast at hotel, then checkout and travel to Ica. Here you will fly over the Nazca Lines and view the perplexing, geometrical figures and drawings of animals that are only viewable from the air; some are nearly 1,000 feet in size. Next, enjoy a visit to the Cabrera Museum of Ica. Overnight at Las Dunas Hotel. (BL)
September 17: Ballestas Island & Lima -
Breakfast at hotel, then checkout and travel to Ballestas Island. Enjoy a guided
tour of Paracas, including a motor boat excursion to Ballestas Island, located
in Paracas National Reserve, to observe sea lions, boobies, pelicans, penguins,
and other marine birds. On the boat trip, the famous "Candelabro" can be seen,
an enigmatic form that many people believe is related to the Nazca Lines. After
the excursion, enjoy lunch, then travel back to Lima. Overnight at Casa Andina
Private Collection Miraflores Hotel in Lima. (BL)
September 18: Lima - Pachacamac - Breakfast at hotel, then morning at leisure. After lunch at La Huaca Restaurant, transfer by motor coach to Pachacamac and enjoy a guided tour of the splendid and vast archeological citadel, the temple of the deity, Pachacamac, believed to be the creator of the universe and a divinity adored by old Andean civilizations. Transfer back to hotel and overnight at Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores Hotel in Lima. (BL)
September 19: Caral - Breakfast at hotel,
then transfer by motor coach to Caral. Caral is believed to be one of the most
ancient cities in America. It is a 5,000-year-old city of pyramids in the Peruvian
desert, with elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses.
The urban complex is spread out over 150 acres and contains plazas and residential
buildings. Caral was a thriving metropolis at the same time that Egypt's great
pyramids were being built. Overnight at Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores
Hotel in Lima (BL)
September 20: Cusco & Sacred Valley - After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Lima airport for your flight to Cusco and upon arrival transfer to Casa Andina Private Collection Yanahuara Hotel. Lunch at hotel. This is your first day and overnight in the Sacred Valley. (BL)
September 21: Machu Picchu - After breakfast at hotel, transfer from hotel to Ollanta train station where you will catch your train to Aguas Calientes. From there, a bus will take you to Machu Picchu. Enjoy a guided private tour of the incredible Lost City of the Incas. Return to Aguas Calientes for dinner and overnight at Hatuchay Tower Hotel. (BD)
September 22: Machu Picchu -
After breakfast, your bus will take you back for an incredible second day to view the wonders of the ancient Incas as you experience the Equinox in Machu Picchu. Enjoy not only a meditation at this site, but morning exercises, discussion, and a shamanic ceremony with Shaman Juan de Dios Garcia. What a wonderful morning of awakening. Depart Machu Picchu, enjoy lunch at Inkaterra in Aguas Calientes, and return to Ollanta back to hotel Casa Andina Yanahuara. (BL)
September 23: Sacred Valley - Breakfast at hotel, and transfer to the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Enjoy a private tour, including: Pisac Market and ruins, Ollantaytambo, and Chinchero. Ollantaytambo is a magnificent and sacred place holding a ceremonial center where the Incas would use water in worship. Buffet lunch in the Sacred Valley, then overnight at the Casa Andina Yanahuara Hotel. (BL)
September 24: Maras & Moray - After breakfast at hotel, check out and visit to Maras and Moray. Maras is a picturesque town with beautiful colonial houses overlooking a valley with a natural formation of salt mines. Moray is a mysterious archeological site known for its irrigation system and believed to have been an enormous agricultural laboratory where a variety of crops was grown during the Inca times. Dinner and overnight at Casa Andina Hotel in Cusco. (BD)
September 25: Around Cusco - After breakfast, this day will be dedicated to the guided visit of Piquillaqta and Tipon, two archaeological sites, and Andahuaylillas, a small town know for its church considered as the "Sistine
Chapel of America." Dinner
at Incanto restaurant and overnight in Cusco at hotel Casa Andina. (BD)
September 26: Esoteric Circuit - After
breakfast, enjoy a half-day excursion to the Inca ruins around Cusco to what
is called the "Esoteric Circuit," including: the Cathedral, the massive fortress
of Sacsayhuaman, Kenko, Pucapucara, Tambomachay (temple of purification), and
Korikancha temple. The afternoon will be at leisure. Dinner at the Inka Grill
and overnight at hotel Casa Andina. (BD)
September 27: Lima and flight back to Miami -
On this final day, after breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight
from Cusco to Lima airport. Transfer to Casa Andina Private Collection Hotel
at your disposal for day use. Enjoy tea time at La Bonbonniere and a farewell
dinner before your departure and flight back to Miami. (B Tea time D)
September 28: Arrival in Miami -
End of the tour!
