PERU JUNGLE PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA"
CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU - PUNO 12 DAYS 11 NIGHTS

PERU JUNGLE: LIMA, PUERTO MALDONADO, CUSCO, MACHU PICCHU AND PUNO
DURATION: 12 DAYS 11 NIGHTS (CODE 030)
DAILY DEPARTURES

INCLUDES:
- Flight Tickets Lima / Puerto Maldonado.
- Flight Tickets Puerto Maldonado / Cusco.
- Flight Tickets Juliaca / Lima.
* LIMA
- All transfers in Lima.
- 02 Nights of hotel in Lima with breakfasts.
- City Tour Lima.
* PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA"
- All transfers in Puerto Maldonado.
- 03 Nights of lodging at Posada Amazonas.
- Full Board: 03 Breakfast, 03 Lunches and 03 Dinners.
- Canopy Tower.
- Ecotourism in the Native Community of Infierno, Macaw lick.
- Visit to the Three Chimbadas Lake, Tour Etnobotanic.
- Nocturnal trekking, Chacra, Ceiba trekking.
* CUSCO
- All transfers in Cusco.
- Tourist Ticket, entrace fee to Cathedral and Korikancha.
- 03 nights of hotel in Cusco with breakfasts.
- City Tour Cusco including 04 archaeological ruins, cathedral and korikancha (SIC).
- 01 night of hotel in Machu Picchu Pueblo (Ex - Aguas Calientes) with breakfast.
- Excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas.
- 01 Buffet lunch in the Sacred Valley.
- Visit to Machu Picchu with Overnight in Aguas Calientes (includes touristic train Cusco / Aguas Calientes / Cusco, 01 Bus up and down to Machu Picchu, 01 entrance to Machu Picchu, 01 guided visit).
- 01 Buffet Lunch in Machu Picchu Pueblo (Ex - Aguas Calientes).
* PUNO
- All transfers in Puno.
- 02 nights of hotel in Puno with breakfasts.
- Full Day Uros - Taquile Islands.
- 01 Turist lunch in Taquile island.
- Tour to Sillustani.
- Professional tourist Guides.
- Hotel taxes and permanent assistance.

:: ITINERARY

DAY 01: ARRIVAL TO LIMA CITY - VISIT TO THE CITY
- Arrival and Transfer to the Hotel.
Welcome Pisco sour. Pisco is the tipical peruvian drink. It is a drink made of the destilation of the quebranta grape from a city with the same name located 250 Km. soth from Lima in the department of Ica. This licuor as the Tequila in Mexico is wordly famous.
- City Tour Lima.
We visit the historical center of Lima, including "Paseo de la Republica", "Plaza San Martín", the Main Square and the surroundings monuments: " The Goberment Palace, the Cathedral, the Archbishop`s Palace; City Hall, the Desamparados Train Station, and the Moorish-style houses and balconies along Lima`s old streets. In the catedral, the tour guide will show you the sacristy, the side chapels, the impressive Choir seating, and the tomb of Lima`s founder, Francisco Pizarro. The Next stop is San Francisco convent, with the best exhibition of Colonial art in Latinoamerica. After we will visit the traditional neighborhood near the San Isidro Golf Club, the olive Grove park and the modern Larco Mar shopping and the entertaiment complex including the love park of Love where we will finish with a spectacular sight of the Pacific Ocean.
Overnight in Lima.
DAY 02: PUERTO MALDONADO / POSADA DEL AMAZONAS / CANOPY
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Transfer to Lima Airport.
- Flight Lima / Puerto Maldonado.
Arrival & Reception by Guide. Transfer Airport to Puerto Maldonado Headquarters. Upon arrival from Lima , we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.
Transfer Pto Maldonado Headquarters to Tambopata River Port.
Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.
Transfer Boat - Tambopata River Port to Posada Amazonas.
The forty five minute boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas will take us into the Community´s Primary Forest Private Reserve.
Boxed Lunch. Orientation. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.
Canopy Tower.
A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A bannistered staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you.
Dinner.
Ecotourism Lecture.
A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a staff member.
Overnight at Posada Amazonas.
DAY 03: POSADA AMAZONAS / KAYAKING QUEBRADA CHONTA - CANOPY CLIMBING - ETHNOBOTANICAL TOUR
Breakfast.
Ceiba Trail Hike. We leave from the lobby at Posada Amazonas and embark on a two hour hike crowned by the largest tree in the vicinity: a giant ceiba tree. During the hike we will focus on the natural history of the rain forest and its principal taxonomic groups.
Lunch.
Ethnobotanical Tour.
A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic. They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants.
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.
Overnight at Posada Amazonas.
DAY 04: POSADA AMAZONAS / THREE CHIMBADAS LAKE / MACAW LICK
Breakfast.
Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake.
Tres Chimbadas is thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas. Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers. Otters are most active from dawn to eight or nine AM.
Parrot Clay Lick.
This clay lick is only a twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas. From a blind located about twenty meters away you will see dozens of parrots and parakeets descend on most clear mornings to ingest the clay on a river bank. Species such as Mealy and Yellow- headed Amazon, Blue-headed Parrot and Dusky headed Parakeet descend at this clay lick. The clay lick is active at dawn, during the late mornings and mid-afternoons.
Lunch.
Sea-Kayaking in lodge surroundings.
We will paddle up a portion of the Tambopata River that presents no difficulty. At the shores we will observe fragmented parts of the forest accompanied by nature sounds and some wildlife we may observe, like birds, caimans and turtles. To finish our experience, we´ll stop on a sandy beach and take a well deserved bath. No experience required, only swimming knowledge.
Dinner.
Overnight at Posada Amazonas.
DAY 05: POSADA AMAZONAS / PUERTO MALDONADO / CUSCO
Breakfast.
Transfer Boat - Posada Amazonas to Tambopata River Port.
Biking to Puerto Maldonado.
Change the engine for pedals and ride back to Puerto Maldonado on a mountain-bike. An early boat will take you to the Tambopata River Port in the Native Community of Infierno. From there you will bike back the 20 kilometers to Puerto Maldonado. The landscape will alternate fractions of forest and farms. At our Puerto Maldonado Office a shower will wait for you. Afterwards you will be driven to the airport. Your luggage will be transported separately. - Flight Puerto Maldonado / Cusco.
- Arrival to Cusco. Pick up and transfer to the hotel.
14:00 Hrs. In the afternoon we will visit the city observing the fusion between the inca and the colonial architecture. Visit to the Temple of the sun: "Korikancha" and the Cathedral. After we will visit the ruins of Q'enqo, Tambomachay, Puca Pucara and Saccsayhuaman fortress.
- Transfer to the hotel. Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 06: SACRED VALLEY OF THE INKAS
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- 09:00 AM. Departure to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas, we will visit the ruins of Pisac, shopping in the market of Pisac, Lunch at Urubamba. After we continue with the visit to Ollantaytambo, Temples, liturgical sources and city. Return to Cusco by Chincheros.
- Transfer to the hotel. Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 07: MACHU PICCHU "THE LOST CITY OF THE INKAS"
- Breakfast in the hotel.
VISIT TO MACHU PICCHU
- Transfer to San Pedro train station to get the train to the Sacred citadel of the inkas "Machu Picchu".
- Visit to the Historic Sanctuary of Machupicchu. It is Well-known universally for their imposing and original remains of the Inca culture for its incomparable location on the edge of the abyss in whose bottom the waters of the Urubamba run. We will visit the main staggered constructions, perrons, Temples, Turrets, the Solar Clock or Intiwatana, Platforms, etc.
- Buffet Lunch.
- Overnight in Aguas Calientes.
DAY 08: MACHU PICCHU
- Breakfast in the hotel.
(Hotel Check out in Aguas Calientes: 09:00 AM - You can leave your stuff ready and pick it up after your personal visits when it is time to catch your train back).
- Free Morning. Free time to visit Machu Picchu on your own for second time. You can meditate and absorve the energy that grows up in this sacred place. Also you can walk up to the intipunku, the entrance to Machu Picchu from the Inka Trail or to Huayna Picchu (In the top of this mountain you will find the temple of the moon). Return to Cusco in the afternoon.
- Train Machu Picchu Town - Cusco. Tranfer to the hotel.
- Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 09: CUSCO / PUNO
- Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the bus terminal.
07:30 Hrs. Bus with visits Puno - Cusco ( You visit: Pukara, Racchi and others).
- Lunch in the way.
16:30 Hrs. Arrival to Cusco. Pick up and transfer to the hotel.
Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 10: UROS - TAQUILE ISLANDS
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Full day to Uros and Taquile Island by bote in the Titicaca Lake.
07:00 Hrs. Departure toward Uros - Taquile islands. The Titicaca Lake and the floating islands are the mayor tourist attraction in the department of Puno. The splendid scenery and the fascinating life of its habitants is worth the visit.
The Floating Islands of Uros are located 5 kilometers from Puno with an altitude of 3,810 m.o.s.l., cold and dry climate. It is a set of 40 large floating totora islands where the inhabitants still live like their ancestors. Each island is inhabited by between 30 and 50 people.
Taquile Island is located 35 kilometers from Puno, on the Bay of Chunchito. The place was used as a political prison until the early twentieth century. This place shows spectacular landscapes.
- Tourist lunch.
- Return to Puno. Overnight in Puno.
DAY 11: SILLUSTANI RUINS - LIMA
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Tour to Sillustani.
Located at 34 kilometers from Puno. Famous for the Chullpas: circular towers of stone built to keep the remains of the principal authorities of the old people from Collao. Not far away from the site, is the museum of Sitio where various pieces of the Colla, Tihuanaco and Inca cultures are kept.
- Flight Juliaca - Lima.
- Pick up from the airport in Lima and transfer to the hotel.
- Overnight in Lima.
DAY 12: LIMA / RETURN TO YOUR COUNTRY
- Breakfast in the hotel.
At the convenient time, transfer to the airport.


SUGGESTED HOTELS IN THE DIFFERENT PLACES TO VISIT
IN CASE THERE IS NO AVAILABILITY BOOKINGS WILL GO TO SIMILAR HOTELS

CATEGORY HOTELS IN LIMA HOTELS IN CUSCO
:: Hotels 2* Antu Suites / The Place Killa Wasi / El Portal/ Buhos Inn
:: Hotels 3* SA Colonial / Palmas Casa Don Ignacio / Prisma
:: Hotels 3* Sup Carmel / Faraona SA International / Samay
:: Hotels 3* Esp Casa Andina Classics Casa Andina Classics
:: Hotels 4* Jose Antonio / La Hacienda Casa Andina PVT / Novotel
:: Hotels 5* Thunderbird Principal Libertador Cusco
CATEGORY HOTELS IN AGUAS CALIENTES HOTELS IN PUNO
:: Hotels 2* Wiñayhuayna / Presidente Balsa Inn
:: Hotels 3* Pequeña Casita Conde de Lemos / La Hacienda
:: Hotels 3* Sup La Cabaña Quelqatani
:: Hotels 3* Esp Machu Picchu Inn Casa Andina Classics
:: Hotels 4* Hatuchay Tower Casa Andina PVT Collection
:: Hotels 5* Machu Picchu El Pueblo Libertador Esteves
CATEGORY LODGE PUERTO MALDONADO  
:: Hotels 2* Corto Maltes Lodge  
:: Hotels 3* Wasai / Posada / Refugio  
:: Hotels 3* Sup Wasai / Posada / Refugio  
:: Hotels 3* Esp Heath River Lodge  
:: Hotels 4* Heath River Lodge  
:: Hotels 5* Heath River Lodge  

Services based on the category of the selected hotels:
- Hotels 2* / 3*: Backpacker Turistic Train / Buffet Lunch in Aguas Calientes.
- Hotels 3* Sup / 3* Esp / 4*/ 5*: Vistadome Train / Lunch in MP Sanctuary Lodge in front of Machu Picchu.
- In the case the passengers want a different lodge, just let us know.


PRICES PER PERSON (EXPRESSED IN AMERICAN DOLLARS)
VALID ONLY FOR RECEPTIVE TOURISM

HOTELES DOUBLE TRIPLE
:: Hoteles 2* $1820 $1765
:: Hoteles 3* $2055 $1985
:: Hoteles 3* Superior $2180 $2120
:: Hoteles 3* Andinos $2360 $2305
:: Hoteles 4* $2620 $2585
:: Hoteles 5* $3020 $2855

DWB = Price per person based on a double twin or matrimonial (full size bed) room.
TPL = Price per person based on a triple room.


:: ADDITIONAL NOTES

- Prices valid only for tourists - receptive tourism.
- Not included domestic airport tax: USD$6.25 per person, per trame.
- Prices are subject to changes without notice due changes in the price of Flight Tickets.
- Ask for the detailed itinerary to reservas@rundomundo.com.
- Price for 1 Pax travelling alone or single room: Consult.
- This program can start any date.
- Prices valid until December 31St, 2011.
- Prices are subject to changes with no previous notice.


BOOKINGS

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- Program Peru Jungle Puerto Maldonado "Tambopata" - Cusco Machu Picchu - Puno 12 Days 11 Nights (Code 030).
- Chossen Category of Hotels and kind of room.
- Arrival date to Lima.
- Departure date from Lima.
- Names of Passengers.
- Document of Passengers.
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- Contact Telephone.