06 DAYS / 05 NIGHTS PROGRAM

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

DAY 02: LIMA/ CUZCO
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport.
Departure by domestic flight to Cuzco
Upon arrival 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. Gold laminas or sheets cover the original temple walls, etc.
Then 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 meters 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 03: CUZCO/ MACHUPICCHU
Breakfast at the hotel
In the morning transfer to the train station
Departure by train to Aguas Calientes train station
Upon arrival transfer to Machupicchu citadel by bus, it is 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. After the guided visit of the ruins, lunch in a local restaurant
Overnight in Aguas Calientes

DAY 04: MACHUPICCHU/ CUZCO
Breakfast at the hotel
Morning free (If you want, you can visit the ruins again by your own)
In the afternoon, departure by train to Cuzco, arrive and transfer to the hotel. Overnight.

DAY 05: CUZCO/ LIMA
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport.
Departure by domestic flight to Lima
Arrive and transfer to the hotel.
In the afternoon, city tour of Lima: The Plaza Mayor (Main Square), with their different buildings: Government Palace, the Archibishop's Palace, the Cathedral and the Palacio Municipal,Convent of San Francisco, which displays the biggest collection of religious art in America with the subterranean crypts known as The Catacombs, where you will feel the presence of Lima's colonial past. Then visit to the most traditional residential areas in the capital: The Olive Grove of San Isidro, Miraflores and Larco Mar, distinctive tourist centre of contemporary Lima. Return to the hotel.
Overnight

DIA 06: LIMA/...
Breakfast at the hotel
Transfer to the airport to take your international flight