Day 1 – Arrival in Lima
A private transport and a Tanit Trails representative pick you up from the airport and take you to the Hotel.

Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Traditional double

Day 2 – Lima – Paracas (Flight over the Nazca Lines – Optional)
In the morning, a private transport picks you up from the hotel and takes you to the bus station to board the bus to Paracas. You will travel through the amazing coast desert, which extreme aridity is only interrupted occasionally by a river coming down from the mountains to the sea. In Paracas, a transport is waiting at the bus station to take you to the Pisco airport (optional), where you will enjoy the photo-exhibition of the Pisco, Palpa and Nazca Lines. Then you will take-off on a new Cessna Grand Caravan 2008/2009 airplane, which will take you fly over the world-famous Nazca Lines. On the way to Nazca, you have the chance to see the valleys where the Paracas and Nazca cultures used to live. Finally you will get to see the Nazca lines, around which countless theories and hypotheses have been built. After an hour and half flight, you return to Pisco, where your private transport takes you back to your hotel in Paracas. During the afternoon you are free to go walking around the bay, and enjoying the peace and beauty of this unique natural area, where desert meets the sea in a very particular way.

Meals: B
Accommodation: Hotel Double Tree Hilton Paracas **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Suite double

Day 3 – Paracas – Lima
Early in the morning you are taken to the pier to start the tour to the Ballestas Islands. This two-hour long tour offers the chance to watch hundreds of sea lions in their natural environment, as well as thousands of sea birds, and perhaps some Humboldt Penguins while resting on the edge of the islands or swimming fast around you. Once you are back on shore, your transport and guide take you to the Paracas national reserve, where you will be able to watch the cliffs of the desert coast, in a deep contrast with the blue see. In the afternoon you take the bus back to Lima, where a transport will be waiting to take you to your hotel.

Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Traditional double

Day 4 – Cusco – Amazon Jungle
In the morning, a private transport picks you up from your hotel to take you to the airport, for your flight to Puerto Maldonado. Upon arrival from Cusco, you are welcomed at the airport and driven ten minutes to the Puerto Maldonado headquarters. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business. The two and a half hour boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Refugio Amazonas will take you past the Community of Infierno and the Tambopata National Reserve´s checkpoint and into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips. You will be out at the river’s edge at night, scanning the shores with headlamps and flashlights to catch the red gleams of reflection from caiman eyes.

Meals: B, L, D
Accommodation: Refugio Amazonas

Day 5 – Amazon Jungle
A thirty minute walk from Refugio Amazonas leads to the 25 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A banister staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built upon high ground, therefore increasing your horizon of the continuous primary forest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. From here views of mixed species canopy flocks as well as toucans, macaws and raptors are likely.
Farm Visit and Ethnobotanical Garden: Five minutes downriver from the lodge lies a farm owned and managed by charismatic Don Manuel from the neighbouring community of Condenado. He grows a variety of popular and unknown Amazon crops - just about every plant and tree you see serves a purpose. He has also identified and cultivated many of the medicinal plants used in the region in a little backyard garden.
Brazil nut trail and camp: A few minutes hike from the lodge is a beautiful old growth patch of Brazil Nut forest that has been harvested for decades (if not centuries) where the precarious remains of a camp used two months a year by Brazil Nut gatherers can still be experienced. We will be demonstrating the whole process of the rain forest's only sustainably harvested product from collection through transportation to drying. Lunch.
Condenado Oxbow Lake: A forty minute hike takes you Condenado Lake. You paddle canoes around the lake looking for lakeside wildlife such as hoatzin and caiman, hoping to see the otters which are infrequently seen here. You will also be rewarded with overhead sightings of macaws. Dinner.
Night walk: You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.

Meals: B, L, D
Accommodation: Refugio Amazonas

Day 6 – Amazon Jungle – Cusco - Sacred Valley
In the morning, after breakfast, you start the way back to Puerto Maldonado for your flight to Cusco. Upon arrival in Cusco, your tour guide welcomes and joins you for the one-and-a-half hour drive to the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Valley is located 500 meters lower than the Cusco City, allowing a better process for acclimatizing to the altitude. You will have lunch while enjoying a Peruvian-Paso Horse demonstration at an exclusive restaurant. Considering that this is your first day in the altitude, we recommend you to take it easy during this afternoon. You may want to go resting to your hotel, or perhaps choose one of the suggested activities, such as visiting the remains of the Sairi Tupac Palace and go for a walk through the huge terraces surrounding the area, or perhaps visiting Pablo Seminario´s Ceramic workshop. In any situation, your guide and transport will be available during the afternoon.

Meals: B, L
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Valle **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Superior double

Day 7 – Ollantaytambo - Huayoccari - Pisac Ruins and Market
This morning, your guide and transport will take you to Ollantaytambo, a still living Inca village set below ancient ruins retaining the stonework, narrow streets, and family courtyards of pre-Columbian times. Much of the Inca history in Peru was destroyed by the Spanish, but Ollantaytambo is an important ceremonial site and scene of a few battles between the Incas and the Spanish conquerors. Here you will also have the chance to walk the Inca-Ruins uphill steps; this is a steep ascent, offering great views to the valley as a final reward to the effort. Lunch time is the perfect excuse to visit a ‘casa-hacienda’ (sort of ranch or state) that belongs to an old and traditional Cusqueño family. This beautiful house holds a valuable art collection and, on top of this, its privileged location will allow you to relax and enjoy the breathtaking views of the Sacred Valley. A half-an-hour drive takes you to your next destination, Pisac town. Now, and depending on your specific interests, your guide will lead you walking the narrow paths along the Pisac Inca ruins, a quite impressive archaeological site, where you will find large terraces, ancient cemeteries and a number of buildings formerly used as residences for high-ranked personalities, and also as worship areas. Together with the archaeological site, the traditional market is one of the well known attractions of Pisac; there you find the time to walk slowly from one stand to the other, admiring the typical art-crafts and at the same time watching and even trying some of the local products (vegetables and fruits). After this visit, you will be driven back to the hotel.

Meals: B, L
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Valle **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Superior double

Day 8 - Ollantaytambo – Machupicchu
In the morning your guide takes you board the train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes. The journey is almost two-hour long. Once in Aguas Calientes, your guide leads you to the bus-stop, to take the 25 minute bus ride up to the ruins. The Incas worshiped nature, and built many of their structures in harmony with the dramatic landscape. Your guide will take you through the lost citadel, explaining the different theories surrounding each section. In the afternoon you will have the time to continue your visit around the citadel, or perhaps to go for a walk to an interesting area such as the Inti Punku or the Sun Gate, the point from where Inca Trail hikers are able to watch Machu Picchu for the first time. Depending on your physic conditions, this walk may take from 45 to one hour uphill walking, and then from 30 to 45 minutes on the way back to Machu Picchu. Whenever you are ready, you can take the bus back to Aguas Calientes. The Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel is a beautiful hotel, which not only has a beautiful infrastructure, built in harmony with nature, but amazing jungle-like gardens where you will find orchids, tea plantations, exotic birds (especially hummingbirds) and much more. This hotel is the perfect complement to actually enjoy the full Machu Picchu experience. Dinner is included at the hotel.

Meals: B, D
Accommodation: Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel
Type of Room: Superior

Important Notice: Please consider that Peru Rail and Inca Rail (train companies covering the service to Machu Picchu) don’t allow passengers to travel with voluminous baggage, allowing only a small piece of hand-luggage that should travel with the passenger. This is why we suggest traveling with a small backpack or bag, where you can pack only what is strictly necessary to spend one night in the Machu Picchu area.

Day 9 – Aguas Calientes – Cusco
During this free morning you may be up for a second visit to the citadel on your own (bus tickets and entrance fees to Machu Picchu are not included for this day), or perhaps you will rather stay in Aguas Calientes and just relax. The early-afternoon train takes you back to Ollantaytambo, where your transport is waiting to take you in one-and-a-half hour drive back to Cusco.

Meals: B, D
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Superior double

Day 10 – Cusco Walking City Tour and Nearby Ruins
Although Machu Picchu is to be considered the symbol of the Inca Empire, reputation earned thanks to its spectacular location and architecture, the true Inca jewel is Cusco, ancient capital of the Empire, where the Incas did rule and were considered god-kings. In addition, the arrival of the Spanish Conquerors and the Catholic faith, brought another huge architectural transformation, resulting in a completely unique City. Your guide meets you at your hotel and takes you visit the most representative sites of the City, which gives you the chance to appreciate, in a very specific way, the complexity of the Peruvian history. You will visit the 16th Century Cathedral and the rich Colonial treasures it houses; you will also visit the Santo Domingo Convent, once the Sacred temple of the Sun, also known as the Qorikancha, which inner walls were, according to the chronicles, once completely covered in gold, housing natural-size gold statues. Then you will have enough time to either visit the San Pedro Market, Cusco's main market, where you will be able to experience the real Cusco and its people’s customs, or either walks along the San Blas traditional neighborhood, which narrow streets resemble the charm of ancient towns in southern Spain. After enjoying some free time for lunch, your transport picks you up to go visit the nearby archaeological Incan sites, and Sacsayhuaman among them. On the way you will find the opportunity to watch Cusco from above, clearly appreciating the original Inca design of the City, over which the Colonial and Modern Cusco have been built.

Meals: B
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Superior double

Day 11 – Cusco – Puno
Early in the morning, a private transport picks you up from the hotel taking you to the bus station to start the full-day trip to Puno. On the way you will visit Andahuaylillas colonial town, with its beautiful baroque church, considered by some people as the Sistine Chapel of America. Then you will stop at the Wiraqocha temple in Raqchi, admiring the extremely tall walls made of adobe and stone. On the way, you will also find the chance to stop at La Raya Mountain Pass. Finally, you will visit the Pucara site-museum. You will arrive in Puno at about 5 in the afternoon; your transport will wait for you in the bus station and will take you to your hotel to rest.

Meals: B, L
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Puno **** (or similar)
Type of Room: Superior double – View Lake

Day 12 – Titicaca Lake – Uros, Taquile and Suasi Islands
At about 7am our motorboat leaves the hotel’s private peer and sets sail for Suasi Island. On your way, you visit the famous floating “reed” islands, which have been inhabited by the Uros since the old times. After taking a walk on these islands and learning a little about their people’s lifestyle, you continue your journey heading towards Taquile Island, where make a second stop and meet its inhabitants dressed in the traditional way. The last leg of the navigation takes you to Suasi Island, where you have lunch at the Lake’s shore. This small island, located on the non-tourist side of the lake, is probably one of the most amazing places to admire the purest nature of the lake and, at the same time, enjoy the advantages and comfort of a first-category hotel, which offers a rustic and eco-friendly environment. During this section of the trip, you will find the opportunity to disconnect from the civilization and enter a state of profound contact with nature. Canoeing and trekking are a few of the possible activities in this area. Sun-set is magic in this island. At night you may want to have a cocktail and enjoy an excellent dinner.

Meals: B, L, D
Accommodation: Casa Andina Private Collection Suasi

Day 13 – Suasi – Puno - Lima
You have a free morning in Suasi. Before noon, you board the boat that will take you back to Puno in about 3 hours. Then you will be conduced to the airport in Juliaca to take your flight to Lima.

Meals: B, L
Accommodation: Hotel Casa Andina Private Collection Miraflores ***** (or similar)
Type of Room: Traditional double

Day 14 – Lima - City tour - Out
After breakfast your guide picks you up from the hotel and takes you visit Lima City. Despite a general belief saying that Lima has not much to offer, during this morning you will note that this city has an impressive past and history to learn about. Your guide leads you to Huaca Pucllana, a pre-Inca building, which was most likely used as an important ceremonial and administrative center belonging to the Lima Culture, a society which developed in the Peruvian Central Coast between 200 AD and 700 AD. Then we continue our way to the main square, the Santo Domingo Monastery and the Osambela Colonial house. The Santo Domingo stands up for its 15th Century “Azulejos Sevillanos”, as well as the paintings, gardens and immensely significant catholic tradition housed within its walls. Then you walk to Osambela house; if you are lucky and the weather helps, you may be able to watch the sea from the top of the “tower´s” hose, from where the original owner, an important trader, did watch his ships arriving from overseas. Finally you walk a few minutes to Casa Aliaga, an exceptional colonial house, which was once inhabited by one of the conquerors and has been owned by his ancestors ever since. Then you will briefly visit the residential areas of San Isidro and Miraflores, interesting and modern neighbourhoods from where you are able to watch the Lima bay. In the afternoon, you are picked up from your hotel and transferred to the airport to take your international flight.

Meals: B