PERU CARAL SOUTH CIRCUIT AND JUNGLE PUERTO MALDONADO TAMBOPATA
19 DAYS / 18 NIGHTS
PERU CARAL SOUTH CIRCUIT AND JUNGLE: LIMA, ICA, PARACAS, NAZCA, AREQUIPA,
PUNO, CUSCO & PUERTO MALDONADO TAMBOPATA (CODE 051)
DURATION: 19 DAYS 18 NIGHTS
DAILY DEPARTURES
INCLUDES:
- Flight Tickets Cusco / Puerto Maldonado.
- Flight Tickets Puerto Maldonado / Lima.
- All entrances to places to visit.
- Professional tourist Guides.
- Hotel taxes and permanent assistance.
* LIMA
- All transfers in Lima.
- 02 Nights of hotel in Lima with breakfasts.
- Tour Full Day Caral (SIC).
- 01 Tourist lunch.
- City Tour Lima.
* ICA
- Bus Tickets Lima / Paracas - Nazca / Arequipa.
- All transfers Paracas / Ica / Nazca in private.
- 01 Night of Hotel in Paracas with breakfast.
- 01 Night of Hotel in Ica with breakfast.
- Tour to Paracas National Reserve.
- Tour to Ballestas Islands.
- City Tour Ica.
- Flight over Nazca Lines.
* AREQUIPA
- All transfers in Arequipa.
- 02 nights of hotel in Arequipa with breakfasts.
- 01 night of hotel in Chivay with breakfast.
- City Tour Arequipa + Santa Catalina Monastery.
- Tour Colca Canyon 2D1N.
- 01 tipical lunch in Chivay.
- Bus Ticket Arequipa / Puno.
* PUNO
- All transfers in Puno.
- 02 nights of hotel in Puno with breakfasts.
- 01 night with the titicaca lake communities.
- Tour to Sillustani.
- Tour 2D1N Uros - Amantani - Taquile Islands.
- 01 Breakfast / 01 Lunch / 01 Dinner in the asigned house.
- Bus Ticket Cusco - Puno service Inka Express with stops in the way to visit the main archaeological attractions.
* CUSCO
- All transfers in Cusco.
- Tourist Ticket, entrace fee to Cathedral and Korikancha.
- 04 nights of hotel in Cusco with breakfasts.
- Excursion to the Sacred Valley of the Inkas.
- City Tour Cusco including 04 archaeological ruins, cathedral and korikancha (SIC).
- 01 Buffet lunch in the Sacred Valley.
- Visit to Machu Picchu (includes touristic train Cusco / Aguas Calientes / Cusco, Bus up and down to Machu Picchu, entrance to Machu Picchu,
guided visit).
- 01 Buffet Lunch in Machu Picchu Pueblo (Ex - Aguas Calientes).
* PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA"
- All transfers in Puerto Maldonado.
- 03 Nights of lodging in a Lodge of the Amazonas.
- Full Board: 03 Breakfast, 03 Lunches and 03 Dinners.
- Canopy Tower.
- Ecotourism with the Native Communities, Visit to the Macaw licks.
- Visit to the surronding Lakes, Etnobotanic Tour.
- Nocturnal trekking.
:: 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: CARAL
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- 7:30 am Pick up from the Hotel.
- We leave from Lima very early, we take the highway Pan-American north road until arriving to the Km. 156 (2 1/2 hours). Then we enter for a
trail in a road where we will cross canals, little rivers, plantations characteristic of the place, accompanied by the flora and typical fauna
of the place (turtupilines in abundance). We will also have the opportunity in this on the way to observe the irrigation channels in the desert
areas, areas of beans cultivation, sugar cane, corn, yuca in the interaction with the communities of the place.
Arrival to the city of Caral. Guided tour inside the city. We will be able to appreciate the different constructions: 7 monumental pyramids, in
two of those we can realize the architectural distribution of the first Peruvian civilization and of America. These constructions have an
amphitheater, vents of offerings in form to circulate, central squares, residential areas and religious centers.
This city dates of 5000 years of antiquity and it is located chronologically parallel to the constructions of the Egipt pyramids.
Thanks to the discovery of the archaeological city of Caral we have a new chronological vision of the cities in America and the world.
- Tourist Lunch in Huacho.
- Return to the city of Lima.
- Overnight in Lima.
DAY 03: PARACAS
- Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the bus terminal.
07:00 Hrs. Bus Lima / Paracas.
11:00 Hrs. Tour to Paracas National Reserve. The Paracas National Reserve has a surface of 3.350 hectares. It is one of the most important,
protected areas of Peru, being the only one that has a marine ecosystem. The place is a refuge for sea dogs, Humboldt penguins, flamingos and
others. It is located at 250 kilometers from Lima.
- Overnight in Paracas.
DAY 04: BALLESTAS ISLANDS / CITY TOUR ICA
- Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the port.
08:00 Hrs. Tour to Ballestas Islands. From the Paracas beach and port, located in Pisco, we visit by boat the Ballestas and San Gallan islands ,
habitat of sea dogs, guaneras birds, penguins, and diversity of marine fauna. On the way one can see a figure of El Candelabro, engraved on the
slope of a hill. El Candelabro is a geoglyph of great rocky formation eroded by the sea and the wind. It has a width of more than 120 meters which
is also called Tres Cruces or Trident. The best way to see it is from the sea. Return to the port.
- Transfer to Ica by Private car.
- City Tour Ica visiting the main square, "Sr. de Luren" church, The Cathedral, Huacachina lake, Wineries to observe how the wines are made.
- Overnight in Ica.
DAY 05: NAZCA LINES / AREQUIPA
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Transfer Ica / Nazca by private car.
- Arrival to the aerodrome in Nazca to flight in a monomotor airplane and observe the misterius Nazca Lines. We will see huge drawings that only
can be seen from the sky and represent different insects and animals like the "Colibri", the "condor", the aligator, the spider, the whale, the
tree, the hands, the astronaut and a lot of more lines that cross all the area of Nazca.
13:30 Hrs. Bus Nazca / Arequipa.
- Arrival to Arequipa. Transfer to the hotel.
- Overnight in Arequipa.
DAY 06: AREQUIPA
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- City Tour Arequipa + Santa Catalina Monastery.
We will visit the most attractive places of the city like: Santa Catalina Monastery, the main square, The cathedral, the cloisters, church and the
Polychrome Dome of the "Campiña de Jesús", the Yanahuara colonial district, Church and San Francisco square, San Lazaro neighboorhood and the
gorge of Chinilla. Free afternoon.
- Overnight in Arequipa.
DAY 07: COLCA CANYON
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Tour to Colca Canyon.
Departure toward nor west direcction behind snow-covered Chachani, Yura, small valley with thermal springs, see wild vicunas in Pampa Canahuas
national reserve, Alpacas & llamas in Tocra, some bidrs like flamingoes, ibis, andean gooze, ducks, andean eagle "Kara Kara" view point of the
Volcanoes and snow covered mountains in Patapampa (4,800 m.)(15,000ft.), See the Ampato, Sabancaya, Walca Walca, etc.) Chivay Capital of the
valley.
- Tourist Lunch.
- Overnight in Chivay.
DAY 08: COLCA CANYON / CROSS OF THE CONDOR
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Early morning after breakfast leave for a full day excursion in the left shore, beautiful tipical towns, like Yanque & Maca, colonial churches,
gently people with tipical needlework dresses, hundreds of pre inca terraces still in use with andean growings like corn, qinua, kiwicha
(Amaranto), etc. Lookout of The cross of the condor: see the deep of the canyon & the flight of the Condor. Stone scale models, some pre inca
graves.
Time for lunch and return to Arequipa.
- Overnight in Arequipa.
DAY 09: AREQUIPA / PUNO / SILLUSTANI
- Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the bus station.
- Bus Arequipa - Puno. Arrival to Puno. Transfer to 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.
- Overnight in Puno.
DAY 10: UROS - TAQUILE ISLANDS
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Full day to Uros and Taquile Island by bote in the Titicaca Lake.
The floating islands of the Urus are located at 5 kilometers from Puno and at an altitude of 3.810 m.a.s.l., with a cold and dry climate. It is a
group of 40 big, floating islands of totora where the inhabitants still live like their ancestors.
Visit to Taquile island, located at 35 kilometers from Puno, in the Chunchito bay. The place was used as a political prison until the first years
of the 20th. century.
- Return to Puno. Overnight in Puno.
DAY 11: PUNO / CUSCO IN TOURISTIC BUS
- Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the bus station.
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 12: 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 13: 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.
- Return to Cusco in the afternoon.
- Train Machu Picchu Town - Cusco. Tranfer to the hotel.
- Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 14: CITY TOUR CUSCO
- Breakfast in the hotel. Free morning.
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.
- Overnight in Cusco.
DAY 15: CUSCO / PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA NATIONAL RESERVE"
- Breakfast in the hotel.
- Transfer to the Airport.
- Flight Cusco / Puerto Maldonado.
- Arrival & Reception by Guide.
- Transfer to the lodge by Motor Boat.
- Lunch.
- Trekking to the jungle.
- Dinner and overnight in the lodge.
DAY 16: PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA NATIONAL RESERVE"
- Breakfast in the lodge.
- Trekking to the jungle.
- Lunch.
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.
- Dinner and overnight in the lodge.
DAY 17: PUERTO MALDONADO "TAMBOPATA NATIONAL RESERVE"
- Breakfast in the lodge.
- Visit to the Macaw and Parrots clay licks.
- Lunch.
- Visit to the Outbox lake.
- Dinner and overnight in the lodge.
DAY 18: LODGE / PUERTO MALDONADO / LIMA
- Breakfast in the lodge.
Transfer by Boat to Puerto Maldonado airport.
- Flight Puerto Maldonado / Lima.
- Arrival to Lima. Transfer to the hotel.
- Overnight in Lima.
DAY 19: 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 PARACAS / ICA |
:: Hoteles 2* | Antu Suites / The Place | Santa María / Huacachinero |
:: Hoteles 3* | SA Colonial / Leon Suites | El Mirador Hotel / Host. Suiza |
:: Hoteles 3* Sup | Faraona / Ferre | Posada Emanc. / Mossone |
:: Hoteles 3* Esp | Casa Andina Classics | El Condor / Las Dunas |
:: Hoteles 4* | Jose Antonio / La Hacienda | La Hda Paracas / Las Dunas |
:: Hoteles 5* | Thunderbird Principal | Libertador - Hilton / Las Dunas |
CATEGORY | HOTELS IN AREQUIPA/CHIVAY |
HOTELS IN PUNO |
:: Hoteles 2* | Texao / Colca Inn | Balsa Inn |
:: Hoteles 3* | Corregidor / Casa de Lucila | Conde de Lemos / Hacienda |
:: Hoteles 3* Sup | SA Posada Mon. / Eco Inn | Quelqatani |
:: Hoteles 3* Esp | Casa Andina Classic | Casa Andina Classics |
:: Hoteles 4* | Cabildo / Pozo del Cielo | Casa Andina PVT Collection |
:: Hoteles 5* | Libertador / Colca Lodge | Libertador Esteves |
CATEGORY | HOTELS IN CUSCO |
HOTELS IN PTO MALDONADO |
:: Hoteles 2* | Killa Wasi / El Portal/ Buhos Inn | Corto Maltes Lodge |
:: Hoteles 3* | Casa Don Ignacio / Prisma | Wasai / Posada / Refugio |
:: Hoteles 3* Sup | SA International / Samay | Wasai / Posada / Refugio |
:: Hoteles 3* Esp | Casa Andina Classics | Heath River Lodge |
:: Hoteles 4* | Casa Andina PVT / Novotel | Heath River Lodge |
:: Hoteles 5* | Libertador Cusco | Heath River Lodge |
Services based on the category of the selected hotels:
- Hotels 2* / 3*: 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.
PRICES PER PERSON (EXPRESSED IN AMERICAN DOLLARS)
VALID ONLY FOR RECEPTIVE TOURISM
HOTELS | DOUBLE | TRIPLE |
:: Hotels 2* | $2125 | $2065 |
:: Hotels 3* | $2240 | $2160 |
:: Hotels 3* Superior | $2460 | $2395 |
:: Hotels 3* Andeans | $2640 | $2565 |
:: Hotels 4* | $2995 | $2920 |
:: Hotels 5* | $3645 | $3380 |
DWB = Price per person based on a double twin or matrimonial (full size bed) room.
TPL = Price per person based on a triple room.
Ask for detailed itinerary and description of the programs in the Puerto Maldonado Tambopata Jungle to:
reservas@rundomundo.com
:: ADDITIONAL NOTES
- The visit to Caral is made in shared service. Up to availability it can be offered at the beginning or at the end of the trip.
In the case, there is no availability a tour to Pachacamac + Lunch + Peruvian Paso Horse Exhibition will be offered to the passenger.
- 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
To book this travel, write to reservas@rundomundo.com or call us, indicating:
- Program Peru Caral South Circuit and Jungle: Lima, Paracas, Ica, Nazca, Arequipa,Puno, Cusco - Machu Picchu
and Puerto Maldonado Tambopata 19 Days 18 Nights (Code 051).
- Chossen Category of Hotels and kind of room.
- Arrival date to Lima.
- Departure date from Lima.
- Names of Passengers.
- Document of Passengers.
- Nationality.
- Arrival Information: Date, Airline, Flight Number, Arrival time.
- Contact Telephone.