10 DAYS / 09 NIGHTS PROGRAM

DAY 01: .../ LIMA
Arriving in Lima, transfer to the hotel
Overnight.

DAY 02: LIMA / AREQUIPA
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport
Departure by domestic flight to Arequipa
Arrive and transfer to the hotel
In the afternoon you will visit the Monastery of Santa Catalina, considered one of the best and most beautiful monuments in Latin American from the 16th Century which recently visit by public on 1970. Afterward you will continue to one most picturesque Main Squares in South America, the “Plaza de Armas.” The square is surrounded on three sides by an impressive double arcade formed with portals containing figures made from granite ash rock, (solidified volcanic ash), and raised brick. On the fourth side of the square is the Cathedral; then continue your tour to the San Francisco Temple; the Santo Domingo Temple of baroque –mestizo style; the Temple of the Company.
Afterwards you will transfer to Yanahuara neighbourhood, that possesses an terrace with arcades made from volcanic ash rock, from which you can appreciate an excellent views of the city.
Return to hotel.
Overnight  

DAY 03: AREQUIPA
Breakfast at the hotel
In the morning departure from Arequipa to Atacama Desert (Peruvian side) where you can see the volcanoes: Chachani, Misti, Pichu Pichu. After 146 km you will arrive to Santuario Nacional Lagunas de Mejia which include different habitats, specially for bird watching (at this moment it was register 195 species)   
This day you will enjoy a box lunch on the beach.
A suitable time you will return to the hotel in Arequipa
Overnight
 
DAY 04: AREQUIPA / COLCA CANYON
After breakfast , you will depart early in the morning from Arequipa on the Yura route, going by the Aguada Blanca National Reservation and the Cañahuas Pampas where you will appreciate vicunas, alpacas, and the fauna flora of the area.
Then you will continue your journey until you arrive to the town of Chivay
Accommodation at your hotel
Overnight

DAY 05: COLCA CANYON/ AREQUIPA
Breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to the Cruz of the Condors, (Condor Cross), where you be able to see the awe-inspiring over flight of the majestic of the Condors
During the journey you will really appreciate the 3,400 meter depth of the Colca Caynon.  You will also visit Pinchollo where you will see the pre-Columbian hanging tombs built in niches that have been dug in sharp and almost vertical hills.
After lunch in Chivay you return to Arequipa. Arrive and transfer to the hotel.
Overnight

DAY 06: AREQUIPA / CUZCO
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport.
Departure by domestic flight to Cuzco
Arrive and transfer to the hotel
Rest the morning free in order to acclimatize to the altitude
In the afternoon city tour: the Main Square, which is surrounded by a beautiful stone arched. Here is located the Cathedral, which is exceptional because of its contrasting styles. The convent of Santo Domingo was built above the most important Inca Temple, The temple of the sun or “Koricancha” as it was known in the Inca language quechua.
Afterwards visit to the nearby ruins: Sacsayhuaman, made of three gigantic terraces superimposed in a zigzag form and surrounded by enormous walls of rock, some of which are up to 300 metres in length; Kenko, was a religious centre formed by a calcareous rock. It has underground galleries and a semicircular amphitheatre with stone seats; Puca Pucara, or the “Red Fort” was a military base made of stone stairways, terraces and walls and Tambomachay, well known as “Baths of the Incas” a place dedicated to the cult of the water, formed by aqueducts channels and small cascades worked in rock.
Return to the hotel.
Overnight.

DAY 07: CUZCO / MACHUPICCHU – INCA TRAIL
Breakfast at the hotel
Early in the morning pick from your hotel and transfer to the train station
Departure by train until Km 104 on route we pass of Tika Tika to the Puna (high Andean savanna) and its rolling hills. As the Sacred Valley becomes a canyon the cloud forest begins to appear with a vegetation change as we reach the Machu Picchu Sanctuary.  Getting off, we cross a hanging bridge at km. 104 to the Chachabamba site, and after a brief visit begins a three hour ascent to the ruins of Wiñay Wayna, an important spiritual site.  The Inca Trail cuts across the ridge above Machu Picchu to finally reach (Intipunku) the door of the sun from where the trail winds downhill.  The classic vista into the lost citadel located right above the Urubamba River will be a unique experience; it is the most exquisite way to see Machu Picchu for the first time. Accommodation at hotel in Aguas Calientes. Lunch included
Overnight

DAY 08: MACHUPICCHU / CUZCO
Breakfast at the hotel
Visit to the ruins that also called “The lost City of the Incas”. It was planned and constructed in two distinct areas. One of them being the agricultural formed by the cultivation terraces or platforms and located in the precipitous hillside part of the mountain, and the urban area where MachuPicchu´s inhabitants lived. On the top part there is a line that separates the agricultural and urban areas. In the urban sector you can observe two very well defined civil engineering works. One is the residential neighbourhoods and the other the canal system. Both constructions did not reach the same perfection in their finishing of the buildings of the Sacred Valley (temples, mausoleums, squares, real houses). Here it is very common to see the use of the trapezoidal window and of niches where they deposited their idols as well as the prevalence of the rectangular constructions of a single floor.
If you want you could hike up to Huayna Picchu by your own
In the afternoon return by train to Cuzco
Return to the Hotel.
Overnight
 
DAY 09: CUZCO / LIMA
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport.
Departure by domestic flight to Lima
Arrive and transfer to the Hotel.
Day at leisure
Overnight

DAY 10: LIMA / …
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport in order to take your international flight