Machu Picchu and Atacama Desert

Arrival into Lima – capital and largest city of Peru. We will meet and transfer you to the Hotel, located in Miraflores Distric.

Lima was named by natives in the agricultural region known by native Peruvians as Lima. It became the capital and most important city in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Following the Peruvian War of Independence, it became the capital of the Republic of Peru (República del Perú). Around one-third of the national population lives in the metropolitan area.

Today we enjoy city tour which includes old as well as new part of the Lima city, the Palace of the Archbishop, the Town Hall, the Plaza de Armas, the Plaza San Martin and the Cathedral.

Afterward we continue to Lima airport for your flight departure to Cusco.

Arrival and we proceed to our Hotel located in the Cusco Centre. Overnight at Hotel Sonesta Cusco

Today we enjoy city tour which includes the Inca empire, the ruins of the Inca Palace, the Plaza de Armas and the Old Town with its restored colonial buildings.

Tour include Sacsayhuaman fortress, Qenqo, Tambomachay and Puca Pucara Archaeological place.

Afternoon return to the hotel.

After breakfast we travel by van through the Sacred Valley of the Inca. Where life has remained almost unchanged for 500 years. Upon decent into the Sacred Valley you will know that you’ve arrived in the area the Inca revered for its lush fertile soils. Later on, you will have the opportunity of visiting the lively local Ancient Pisac market where many of the local Indians sell their hand made textiles. It is here that many fine Andean garments are for sale and you can test your haggling powers as you bargain for trinkets and souvenirs. For lunch you will have the chance to eat a buffet lunch at the local hacienda restaurant with traditional Andean foods and music. We continue to Ollantaytambo the major Inca fortress. Probably built by the great Inca ruler, Pachacuti in the 1460s, it was the site of Hernando Pizzaro’s defeat by Manco Inca in 1536. Constructed of finely cut polygonal stones and rhyolite blocks, the fortress and nearby town represent the best of Inca architecture and construction. Large worked blocks, some weighting as much as 100 tons were quarried from a site more than a thousand vertical feet above the valley floor using a technique of pecking with hammer stones, then skidded down and across the Urubamba river several kilometers to the temple site. Inclined ramps were built to raise the blocks several hundred feet up hill to the construction area. Late afternoon we aboard the Vistadome train to Aguas Calientes town for your overnight.

Early risers may walk through Machu Picchu in the mist to explore the ruins without crowds. We’ll take the 20 minute bus ride up to Machu Picchu, perched 600 meters above the river. Our guide will explain the history and the myths that surround this archeological wonder. Machu Picchu, the famous lost city of the Inca is one of the most magical and mysterious places on Earth! Stand 2,430m above sea-level in the middle of a tropical mountain forest. In an extraordinarily beautiful setting, it was probably most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height, its giant walls, terraces and ramps seen as, if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. The natural setting on the eastern slopes of the Andes, encompasses the upper Amazon basin with its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Constructed from precisely sculptured granite blocks carefully joined with the projecting exposed stone of the surrounding mountain, the site may well be the finest architectural achievement of the new world. Afterwards we take the bus for our return to Aguas Calientes for lunch. We take the train back to Cusco. Reception and transfer to our Hotel. Overnight

Transfer from hotel to Cusco airport for youor flight back to Lima and connection flight to Santiago de Chile. Arrival and transfer to the hotel.

Transfer from hotel to Santiago de Chile airport for your flight to San Pedro de Atacama. Arrival to Atacama El Loa Airport. Transfer from airport to Atacama desert. Overnight.

This trip invites you to enjoy the impressive beauty of 7 lagoons of intense turquoise and emerald color, as well as the refreshing passive float bath that can be experienced in 2 of them. Unforgettable.

Afternoon: Mars Valley + Kari Quebrada (Coyote Stone) + Moon Valley (15:30 to 20:30 hrs.)
When touring these famous valleys, and after observing the impressive Kari ravine, you can get to know a large part of the structure of the Cordillera de la Sal, which gives the geography of the Atacama salt flat a unique aspect in the world, in addition to knowing the salt cavern (at this moment they are closed, but by July we hope they will be open) and one of the benchmark salt mines in the Valley of the Moon.

On this trip we start by getting to know the El Tatio geothermal field, Las Vegas de Putana and Machuca, and then visit the town of Machuca where it will be possible to enjoy the extraordinary skewers of llama meat (depending on availability), and then continue with the enjoyment and I relax in the pools of the Puritama Hot Springs, famous for their natural beauty.

On this trip you can get to know the heart of the Domeyko Mountain Range and its fantastic formations colored by its particular geology, as well as a green Pucará built as a defense by the ancestral inhabitants of the area thousands of years ago, and then get to know Yerbas good, caravan crossing and resting area whose high anthropological value can be verified in petroglyphs more than 3,500 years old. Later we will go directly to El Loa airport.

Flight to Santiago de Chile and back home.