Day 1: Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima – Hotel.

Contact person and assistance at the international airport, transfer to your hotel. Stay-over in Lima.

Day 2: Culinary excursion – Lima City Tour. Bus and on foot.

Breakfast at the hotel. Visit to a typical market with fruits, vegetables, meat and other supplies. The main objective is to discover the variety of local products. These markets provide the ingredients to the chefs of the different restaurants in the city. Your guide will introduce you to sellers and will entertain with the buyers of the place. You will have the opportunity to discover, touch, taste and buy local products. Then, we will go to a selected restaurant where you can prepare a typical national dish – with the help of a chef. They will teach us how to prepare the emblematic national cocktail, “pisco sour”, as well. Lunch at the restaurant. In the afternoon we will visit to the colonial part of the city: San Martin Square, Union Road, the Plaza de Armas (main square), the Cathedral. We will conclude the afternoon with a visit to the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Pueblo Libre. Dinner and welcoming cocktail. Stay-over in Lima.

Day 3: Lima-Pachacamac- Demonstration of step horses.

Breakfast at the hotel. Then, we will go to the Archeological Site of Pachacamac, where they would worship the gods. Next, we will get to know the Hacienda House “Los Ficus” in Lurín, a property dating from the colonial times.  There, we can delight in a demonstration of “Peruvian step horses”. Lunch at the Casa Hacienda “Los Ficus”. Return to Lima and relax in the hotel. Stay-over in Lima.

Day 4: Lima – Cusco City Tour (3400 m). Plane – 1 h, bus and on foot.

Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the airport and arrival in Cusco. Visiting the city through the centre: the Plaza de Armas (main square), a visit to the Cathedral and the Sun Temple or Koricancha. In the surroundings of the city, we´ll visit the fortress of Puca Pucara, the water temple Tambomachay, the temple of the Pachamama, Quenco, and the megalithic ceremonial site of Saqsaywaman. Lunch in Cusco. Free afternoon to discover the city: markets, museums, bars, spas etc. Stay-over in Cusco.

Day 5: Cusco – Cooking workshop – Varied tastings

Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning, we’ll go to the local eatery of chef Eric Paz, where we will discover the “Novo Andina”´ cuisine, a fusion of contemporary and ancestral flavors. At the eatery they´ll give us an explanation about the Andean ingredients used nowadays: a variety of native potatoes, grains, fruits and types of meat. We´re going to prepare a delicious and very Peruvian “causa limeña”. They´ll give us an explanation about the pisco: its origin, its appeal, its preparation and its different varieties. Lunch at the restaurant. Free afternoon to walk through the city centre: museums, the artist´s neighborhood, or visit San Pedro´s central market. Stay-over in Cusco.

Day 6: Cusco – Sacred Valley (2300m) – Ollantaytambo – Aguas Calientes (2000m). Bus and train.

Breakfast at the hotel. We´ll go to the Sacred Valley, so called because of its fertile soils. We´ll visit the arts´ and crafts´ market of Pisac, where some people are still using bartering. Then, we will get to know the salt mines of Maras composed of over a 3,000 salt terraces dating from the Inca times. Lunch at a restaurant in the Sacred Valley. After lunch, we´ll visit the village and fortress of Ollantaytambo. Transfer to the train station where we´ll take the train that will get us to the village of Machu Picchu (1,5 hour distance). Reception and relaxing at the hotel. Stay-over in Aguas Calientes.

Day 7: Aguas Calientes – Machu Picchu (2400m) – Ollantaytambo – Cusco. Bus and train.

Breakfast at the hotel. Early we will take a bus to go up to visit the citadel of Machu Picchu, sighting the agricultural zone, accommodations, temples, canals, wellsprings and plazas of that epoch. Duration of visit between 2,5 and 3 hours. Descent to Aguas Calientes. Lunch in Aguas Calientes. Return to Cusco by train and bus. Relax in the hotel. Stay-over in Cusco.

Day 8: Cusco – Lima. Plane – 1 h.

Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for the airport, arrival in Lima. Lunch or lunch box depending on the flight schedule. Assistance and formalities to your international flight.

Note: To ensure a fluent execution of the programme some visits, including days of visits, may be reversed.

The tour includes:

• Transfers from and to the airports.
• Collective transport to the respective visits.
• 7 nights in a 3-star hotel or according to choice.
• 7 times breakfast.
• 6 times lunch according to programme.
• 1 lunch in Casa Hacienda Los Ficus
• 1 dinner and welcoming cocktail.
• Collective city tours in Lima and Cusco.
• Entrance fees to the sites visited.
• Roundtrip train and bus tickets to Machu Picchu.
• Collective transport from Cusco to Sacred Valley.
• Private guide on tourist sites. 
• Tax of 18% for peruviens.

The tour doesn´t include:

• International and national flights.
• Travel insurance.
• Meals that aren´t mentioned in the program.
• Drinks.
• Tips.
• Services that aren´t mentioned in the program.