Package Tour Arequipa Colca Canyon Puno & Machu Picchu (10 Days)

The ten days Arequipa Colca Canyon Puno Cusco and Machu Picchu all inclusive package will start with a pickup from the airport on your arrival.

In the afternoon, at 0210 PM, our representative will meet pick you up from the hotel to start your Cusco city tour.

Cusco City Tour is a half day tour. This would give you an introduction to the life and culture of our life in the Andes with some history. We will start the tour with a visit to Qorikancha. Qorikancha was once the largest and the most sacred temple of Incas. This was demolished by the Spanish conquistadors who built Santo Domingo church on its remains.
We will the drive you to see the four archealogical sites on the outskirts of Cusco. Sacsayhuaman, Q’enqo, Pukapukara and Tambomachay.

INCLUDES:
Pick up from Cusco Airport
Transport
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual local guide (Spanish – English)
1 night hotel in Cusco

We will be picking you up from the hotel at 0700 in the morning to start the Sacred Valley and Maras Moray tour.
Our first stop will be in Chinchero. Chinchero is home to the country’s finest handicrafts. Locals here still practise their years old traditional customs of knitting using Alpaca wool. Back during the Incan civilization Chinchero was a summer capital and housed a palace overlooking the valley. As the Spanish empire took over, they demolished the palace and built a church on its remains.
Our next stop will be in Maras and Moray. Maras is home to over three thousand salt pools. People in the community continue to practice the traditional methods to extract salt. Moray used to be like an agricultural laboratory. The terrace here has different temperate zone at each level where Incas experimented growth of crops.
We will then stop in Urubamba for lunch.
Our last stop will be in Ollantaytambo. A scenic village that was an administrative capital of Incas. After our visit in Ollantaytambo, we will take our train in the afternoon to Aguas Calientes town. This will depend on the available schedules that we get to book (16:30, 19:00, 19:26, hrs).
Once in Aguas Calientes town, our local representative will meet you and guide you to the hotel. Later at night, our guide will visit you at the hotel to brief you on the following day’s itinerary.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Tourist transport for all visits
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish – English)

The tour starts with a pickup early in the morning from your hotel in Aguas Calientes. We will then board te tourist bus to the main entrance of the Machu Picchu citadel. Here, our guide will assit you with clearing the security control and entering the citadel.
We will try to enter among the first groups to see the sunrise. Our local expert will be giving you a two hours complete guided tour of the citadel. On this tor you will visit and learn about Guardian’s House, Temple of the Sun, 3 windows, Intihuatana, Aclla huasi, Temple of the Condor and water sources.
After the tour, you will have some free time to walk around the citadel.
At a designated time you will be boarding the bus back to Aguas Calientes town. Here we will stop for lunch. Lunch will include a entrée, main course and dessert.
After lunch, you will be boarding the train from Aguas Calientes back to Ollantaytambo town. Our representative will meet yo on arrival and will transfer yo back to your hotel in Cusco.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Bus tickets Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu and back
Entrance to Machu Picchu
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish – English)
Lunch in Aguas Calientes
Return train tickets (Expedition or Executive class)
Return transport
1 night hotel in Cusco

We will be picking you up from your hotel in Cusco at 0430 in the morning. Our journey will start with a two hours drive to Pitumarca town. Here we will stop for breakfast.
After breakfast, we will continue to Chullihuani community, the starting point to Rainbow Mountain Trek.
The adventure begins with an imposing view of the Apu Ausangate. Our guide will be giving you a short briefing on the weather condition and safety procedure. We will then start with our one and a half hours’ trek to the summit of Rainbow Mountain.
The way to go up is scenic and offers views of Andean farms and camelids namely Alpacas and Llamas. We will also be crossing lagoons and valleys.
Once on top, you will have some free time. You can walk around and click photos of the valley. If the time and weather permits, you can quickly visit the red valley too.
After the tour, we will be descending back for lunch. Following the lunch, we will be driving back to Cusco.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Transport
Entrance Fees
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish – English)
Buffet lunch
1 night hotel in Cusco

One of the trips you cannot afford to miss is the Sun Route bus trip between Cusco and Puno. This is the same route that Wiracocha whom according to Incan mythology created the universe took as he travelled from Lake Titicaca.
The route offers visits to five interesting sites along the way. Also, you will be able to savour some authentic local food in a local restaurant.
You will be visiting Andahuaylillas Church, Inca Archaeological complex of Racchi, Pucara ceremonial centre and a pre-Incan Lithic Museum.
Upon reaching Puno, we will be transferring you to your hotel from the bus terminal.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast
Tourist bus
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish or English)
Buffet lunch
1 night hotel in Puno

Departure from the Puno pier for the lake excursion to the floating islands. From the pier of Puno to the floating islands of the Uros there is a distance of 25 minutes by tourist boat. The Ureños live in shacks built on totora platforms, which do not exceed 30 to 40 cm. thick
 We will continue to Taquile Island. On the boat trip you will appreciate the natural beauty of the Sacred Lake of the Incas where its inhabitants are characterized by preserving their culture of traditional and traditional beliefs; manifesting them through their dress, rites, religion etc.
We arrive at the island of Taquile then you can see the typical costume of the Taquileño villager and the rural houses, pre-Hispanic arches and the 550 steps, then we will move to the city of Puno where we will be arriving at approximately 17:00 hours.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Boat for visits
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish-English)
Typical lunch
1 night hotel in Puno

This day after our breakfast we will pick you up from the hotel at 8:00 am to move to the White City of Arequipa with an approximate 6-hour trip, where we will be arriving at 14:30 hrs, in the terminal our transfer will be Waiting to take us to the designated hotel. This day we will have free day to explore the main square and its surroundings.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Transportation Puno – Arequipa
1 night hotel in Arequipa

We will start the tour with a pick up from your hotel in Arequipa at 7:40 in the morning, to board the transport that will take us to the town of Chivay, on the way we will make some stops to appreciate and take photos of the places of interest, such as the Pampas of Cañahuas, Patahuasi, Taqora and Patapampa, which are extensive landscapes with rock formations, lagoons, snowfalls, flora and fauna typical of the place.
We will arrive in Chivay at approximately noon, and we will go to the hotel reserved to accommodate and have lunch. In the afternoon we will visit the thermo-medicinal baths and Calera. We will also visit a small museum that is located right next to these thermal baths, where we will appreciate a folk show. At night we will have dinner on our own and spend the night.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Tourist transport for the tour
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish or English)
Buffet lunch

We will start our day very early, at 5:30 in the morning after breakfast we will go to the Mirador Cruz del Cóndor, on the way our first stop will be the town of Yanque, where we can appreciate some typical dances and its colonial church with Its beautiful portals.
Approximately 8:00 in the morning will be our arrival at La Cruz del Cóndor, from where we will appreciate the flight of the condors, immense birds that are in danger of extinction, we will also have spectacular views of the canyon.

And we will have the option of a 40-minute walk along the edge of the canyon (optional route). On our return route to Chivay, we will make a stop at the Antahuilque viewpoint, from where we can take impressive photos of the full colca canyon, then we will make another stop at the Choquetico tombs, where we can contemplate its archaeological remains, holes that were excavated on the slopes of Cerro Cabanaconde, then we will visit the town of Maca and its baroque mestizo church.
Finally we will arrive to Chivay for Lunch and start our return trip to Arequipa, arriving around 5:30 in the afternoon.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Transportation for visitors
Entrance to all sites
Professional bilingual guide (Spanish – English)
Buffet lunch
1 night hotel in Arequipa

We will be ending the ten days Arequipa Colca Canyon Puno and Cusco all inclusive package tour by transferring you to Arequipa Airport after breakfast.

INCLUDES:
Breakfast buffet
Hotel transfer – Arequipa Airport