The Best of Peru and Bolivia
Guided - 18 Nights/19 Days
The tour covers the best part of the Andes - scenically and culturally, plus allows you to add excursions further afield to extend this well crafted itinerary.
• 4 day introductory trek along the Inca Trail to mystical Machu Picchu
• Experience the rainforest of the Amazon Basin on a jungle safari
• Explore Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca and La Paz
Itinerary and Highlights
- Day 1 Arrive Lima.
- Day 2 Fly to Tambopata Jungle Reserve. Stay at an Amazonian lodge deep in the Peruvian jungle. Day walks conducted by a naturalist or in dugout canoes on the River.
- Day 3 Day walks conducted by a naturalist or in dugout canoes on the River.
- Day 4 Fly to Cusco, the former Inca capital and wander the colourful Indian markets.
- Day 5 Cusco
- Day 6 Travel to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, rich in Inca culture.
- Day 7 Sacred Valley of the Incas
- Day 8 In 4 days we ascend trails from the jungle to alpine campsites beneath snow-capped Andean peaks until we reach the ‘lost city of the Incas’.
- Day 9 Inca Trail
- Day 10 Inca Trail
- Day 11 Trek to Machu Picchu.
- Day 12 At Machu Picchu explore this outstanding example of Inca architecture and Peru’s fascinating cultural history discovered as recently as 1911. Return to Cusco.
- Day 13 Day free in Cusco.
- Day 14 Drive to Puno and Lake Titicaca.
- Day 15 Explore the shore where Uros Indians live on floating reed islands and stay at a homestay on a lake island.
- Day 16 Drive to Copacabana via Puno.
- Day 17 Drive to the Bolivian capital of La Paz.
- Day 18 Explore this city where traditional herbal and ‘witchdoctor’s’ markets abut modern skyscrapers and local music clubs play the finest traditional Andean music.
- Day 19 Arrangements terminate in La Paz.
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