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Peru is an iconic destination for an adventurous honeymoon rich in memories.
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Visit Peru's most iconic sites, and discover what lies beyond, on a beautifully designed journey of rich experiences.
From ancient Incan ruins to the beauty of Lake Titicaca, this itinerary couples awe-inspiring sights with fine accommodation.
The best way to escape our winter months, or see Peru at lower altitudes.
A journey among the undiscovered treasures of the north.
An exciting and memorable trip through the whole of Peru. Time that will be richly rewarded.
For active families and friends.
The classic route, the conventional way.
The classic route, cleverly adapted.
Much shortened, and still hugely memorable.
A moderate alternative to the Inca trail.
A stronger alternative Inca trail among wonderful mountain scenery.
Explore the Amazon rainforests, with Machu Picchu too.
The most biodiverse place on Earth.
A clever combination of first-rate birding opportunities and Peru's classic highlights.
Simple lodges deep in the forest well regarded by birders for many years.
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Centre of the Incan world.
A piece of paradise, Incan style.
Iconic and stunning.
Wide skies, reed islands and ancient sites on the world's highest navigable lake.
Another sacred valley, above the world's deepest canyon.
The 'White City'
Peru's bustling capital.
Messages to the sky, beaches & wildlife.
The amazon of the Madre de Dios and Manu.
Rubber barons, mighty rivers and deep forest.
Much less well-kown than the south, but wonderful to explore.
An excellent bird watching holiday, with wetlands, puna, scrub, altiplanic lakes, montane forest, lowland rainforest and macaw clay licks, artfully combined with wonderful landscapes, iconic travel experiences, and some of the best Incan sites.
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Gleaming serenely in its 'eternal spring' sunshine, Arequipa's historical centre is a beautiful ensemble of baroque churches and fine colonial buildings in the white stone of the region. Narrow streets run between grand plazas, with views of 3 snow-capped volcanoes.
You wait in the early morning sun at a look-out above the world's deepest canyon. Soon condors begin to appear, riding the thermals from their roosts somewhere in the cliffs below. They rise up to your level, circling so close you can almost hear the wind in their wings. They circle again, and soar away to hunt over the altiplano, or to valleys a hundred miles away and more.
Taquile Island is home to a self-sufficient Quechua-speaking traditional community, world-renowned for dramatic finely woven fabrics and traditional dress.
The Sacred Valley was heaven on Earth for the Incas. You can easily see why. A lush steep-sided valley wih a wide floor brought alive by the Urubamba river tumbling through its fields and pastures. Great for country walks, striding out on the highlands above, exploring some very very fine Incan ruins, and shopping in local markets. Hearty food, sparklingly clean air - it's the kind of place you might feel you could live in some day.
Absolutely unmissable. One of the most world's evocative sites, an Incan sanctuary beautifully set among seemingly impenetrable mountains, lost for centuries. Approach it by the Inca Trail, or by rail. Truly wonderful.
A hugely atmospheric city, steeped in its Incan past, with so much to explore. Fine temples of intricate stonework, narrow lanes running to wide plazas, vibrant traditional cultures, busy markets, lively arts, bustling restaurants, with the Andes on all sides. One of the world's great travel destinations.
Stay in a lodge in the Amazon rainforest reachable only by river. Once at the lodge guides take you on trips deep into the forest on foot or by boat, with so much to see and learn about its wildlife and how this complex ecosystem works.
Partners and travelling companions who share a love of travel, but where one is a more avid birder than the other should find this trip provides a perfect compromise. There are plentiful opportunities to bird in some really interesting places, well-seasoned with the high spots of Peru's cultures and history.
You are met on arrival at Lima airport and driven to your hotel beside an ancient olive grove, now a lovely city park, in the upmarket residential district of San Isidro.
You are driven south from Lima, birding, to the fishing village and weekend retreat of Pucusana. In countryside en route you may find Peruvian Thicknee, Yellowish Pipit, and Short-tailed Field Tyrant. Take a boat trip around the bay at Pucusana for Humboldt Penguin, Inca Tern, Peruvian Booby, Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes, Blackish Oystercatcher, Grey Gull, Peruvian Pelican, Guanay and Red-legged Cormorant. En route back to Lima visit the RAMSAR coastal marsh at Pantanos de Villa for Great and White-tufted Grebe, Andean Coot, Andean Duck, Puna Ibis, Wren-like Rush-Bird, Many-coloured Rush Tyrant, Least Bittern, Burrowing Owl, Cinnamon Teal and White-cheeked Pintail. On an adjacent beach look for terns, plovers, sandpipers and Coastal Miner.
A stroll in lovely El Olivar Park by your hotel is a civilised way to start the day with a little unguided birding. Amiable upmarket locals bid you “Good morning” in English as they jog, walk and tai-chi amid the century-old olive trees. Many of Lima’s common birds are found here: Canary-winged, Scarlet-fronted and Red-masked Parakeet, Blue-and-white and Barn Swallow, Rock Croaking and Eared Dove, Peruvian Sheertail, Oasis and Amazilia Hummingbird, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Vermillion Flycatcher, Blue Gray Tanager, Bananaquit, Saffron Finch, Scrub Blackbird, Shiny Cowbird, Longtailed Mockingbird, Groove billed Ani, Southern-bearded Tyrannulet, Pacific House Wren, Coastal Miner, and Red-backed and Harris Hawk. After breakfast at your hotel you are driven to the airport for a late morning flight to Arequipa. You are met at the airport and taken on a private tour of the ‘White City’. On your visit to Santa Catalina Monastery look for Peruvian Sheartail in its flower-filled gardens.
A morning’s journey by road across the altiplano of Pampa de Augada Blanca at 4500m, passing llama, vicuna and Andean Geese, to your hotel in the Colca Canyon. Afternoon free.
An early start to Condor Cross on the lip of the canyon. Here you have a very high chance of eye-level views of Andean Condor gliding soaring and circling past you on thermals rising from a precipitous section of the canyon, flying so close you can hear the wind in their feathers. Lunch at Chivay then drive (4hr) across the Salinas y Aguada reserve to Puno on Lake Titicaca. The tourist bus pauses for a photo stop and leg stretch at Laguna Lagunillas: a short opportunity for puna birds such as Chilean and Andean Flamingo, Giant Coot, Andean Hillstar, Puna Plover, Puna Snipe, Silvery Grebe, and Mountain Parakeet.
Lake Titicaca is home to all the high Andean waterfowl including the endangered, flightless endemic, the Short-winged (or ‘Titicaca’) Grebe. You take a boat trip to the floating reed islands of the Uros and then on to Taquile Island, while watching out for the Titicaca Grebe, White-tufted Grebe, Cinnamon, Puna and Speckled Teal. Back in Puno your hotel garden close to the lake shore may offer Wren-like Rushbird, Many-coloured Rush- Tyrant, Puna Yellow-Finch, Puna Canastero, Mourning Sierra-Finch, Black-throated Flowerpiercer, White- winged Cinclodes, Andean Flicker, Bare-faced Ground-Dove, and Eared Dove.
Early flight to Cusco to be met on arrival and driven into the Sacred Valley. You break the journey at a wayside enterprise where you can feed llamas and alpacas, and see traditional spinning, weaving and dyeing. At the picturesque market town of Pisac you browse the stalls or, for a small entrance fee, visit a small botanical garden with hollyhocks, arums, cacti, agapanthus and plot of local vegetables, pulses, corn and potatoes. You visit the very fine Incan ruins at Ollantaytambo up steep stone steps. Stay in the Sacred Valley for 3 nights.
Two days of excellent birding with a specialist local bird guide, targeting the Abra Malaga region. In dense montane scrub near Penas you search for Great Sapphirewing, Cinerous Conebill, Shining Sunbeam, Rusty-fronted, Junin Canastero and Taczanowski’s Tinamou (luck required). Continuing beyond Abra Malaga Pass, with the chance of condor overhead, you take a trail to a patch of elfin polylepis where the critically endangered Royal Cinclodes is found with other polylepis specialists: White-browed and Tawny Tit-spinetail, Line-fronted Canastero, Ash-breasted Tit-tyrant, Giant Conebill, Blue-mantled and Purple-backed Thornbill
Another early start to bird beyond Abra Malaga pass in lush cloud forest and Chusquea bamboo. Star birds here are Imperial Snipe and Parodi’s Hemispingus, and the endemics Marcapata Spinetail, Puna Thistletail, Inca Wren, Unstreaked Tit-tyrant and Cusco Brush-Finch. Among many others are Scaled Metaltail, Stripe-headed and Undulated Antpitta, Puna, Diademed and Trilling Tapaculo, Saphire-vented (Coppery-naped) Puffleg, Sierran Elaenia, Golden-collared Tanager, Andean Ibis and Three-striped Hemispingus, and local endemics Chestnut-breasted Mountain-finch and Creamy-crested Spinetail.
This morning you are taken to the train station at Ollantaytambo for the train journey to Machu Picchu along the narrow gorge of the Urubamba river (Torrent Duck and White-capped Dipper). You are met at the village and guided to the bus that runs up the switch-back mountain road to the Incan sanctuary itself. Take lunch, then meet your local guide for a tour of the ruins. While exploring the citadel you might take your eyes away from the Incan stonework for Cusco Brush-Finch, Green-and-White Hummingbird, White-tipped Swifts and in the bamboo areas, Inca Wren. Back by bus to the village to stay 2 nights.
A free day at valley level, with excellent birding along a seldom-used railway track beyond the village for Sclater’s and Bolivian Tyrannulet, Silver-backed, Saffron-crowned, Flame-faced, Rust-and-Yellow and Beryl-spangled Tanager, Grey-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Mitred and Barred Parakeet, Pale-eyed Thrush, Masked Fruiteater, Black-streaked Puffbird, Oleaginous Hemispingus, Capped Conebill, White-eared Solitaire, Highland Motmot, Andean Guan and Andean Cock of the Rock.
Morning free for further birding or a return to Machu Picchu for a walk to the Sun Gate for a classic view of the ruins. Train back to Ollantaytambo, alight and return by road to Cusco.
Your local guide collects you from your hotel this morning for a visit to Sacsayhuaman astride its hill above the city. You return for lunch and join a shared tour of Cusco, visiting the Temple of the Sun, the Plaza de Armas and the Cathedral.
Travel to the Amazon for 4 nights at a lodge in Tambopata which we will help you select. With extra days and longer logistics you could instead visit Manu or Iquitos.
At your Amazon lodge.
Returning by air to Lima you are met on arrival and transferred to a city centre hotel for the night.
Return to Lima airport for your flight onwards or home.
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Truly memorable holiday. We're not sure it has all sunk in yet. The drivers were the unsung heroes!
Best parts: Me -Amazon; my wife -walk through Sacred Valley in hailstorm.
Impressed by the way I was updated about any slight alteration to arrangements regarding pick-ups. Staff were always punctual so I was never left wondering about being transferred in good time.
Best parts: Wayqecha Lodge and Mach Picchu Pueblo
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Best value hotel in easy walking distance from the lovely El Olivar Park which is great for some early morning birding. Friendly up-market locals walk their dogs, perform yoga, tai chi and jogging here amid the centuries old olive trees. All rooms have private bathrooms and are well appointed with a desk, TV, internet access, hair dryer, safety deposit box and tea and coffee making facilities. The hotel also features an indoor pool and a fitness centre.
In a superb location next door to the Cathederal and the Plaza de Armas (main square) in central Arequipa, Sonesta Posada del Inca offers a comfortable base from where guests can explore the city. All 58 of its guest rooms have cable TV, a direct dial telephone, mini-bar and safety deposit box.
There is a restaurant at the hotel called Inkafe which features a balcony with beautiful views in the evening over the lit up central square and cathedral. There are a variety of other options for eating out in the area.
Located close to the Colca Canyon in the village of Chivay, the accommodation consists of 51 rooms in semi-detached stone cottages with thatched or clay roofs, scattered around the grounds with stone paths interconnecting them. The hotel features an onsite planetarium with daily English & Spanish presentations. The pitched-ceiling restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and in the evenings local musicians and dancers performing Andean and Colca musical traditions.
Sonesta Posadas del Inca's Lake Titicaca hotel is situated about 5km outside of Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca in a truly fantastic location.
The 62 guest rooms all have cable television, sound proof windows, air conditioning, direct dial telephones and safety deposit boxes.
There is a restaurant with panoramic views of the lake which serves a varied menu. Outside the hotel The Yavari is moored. The Yavari was a ship built in England in 1862 and delivered in pieces to Lake Titicaca from the southern Peruvian/Chile border by mule. The ship is currently undergoing a full restoration and for a small donation you can have a tour.
Located just 10 minutes from the Ollantaytambo train station, Hacienda del Valle is positioned in the heart of the Sacred Valley and offers guests a peaceful stay where they can relax in the hotel's pretty flowering gardens. The on-site restaurant serves produce grown in the hotel grounds and the cosy bar offers a wide range of cocktails.
Average rating 4.8 (9 ratings)
El Mapi is Inkaterra's new, 48-room, functional, contemporary style hotel located in the centre of Machu Picchu Pueblo - the village at the base of Machu Picchu's mountain. Bedrooms are small but well appointed each with blackout curtains, 100% cotton sheets, down duvets, hypoallergenic pillows, cotton bath robes, natural herbal amenities, 32" flat screen TVs and tight-focus reading lights. There is a cafeteria offering organic salads, fresh sandwiches, homemade soups and pastries which is open until 11pm and a bar with free Wi-Fi. Oxygen is available upon request.
Situated half way up the hill from Cusco's Plaza de Armas in the artisan residential neighbourhood of San Blas an area of narrow steep lanes. This friendly, mid range, characterful small hotel is in a restored 18th century colonial house. Rooms are arranged around a central courtyard, with simple and clean standard rooms. The upstairs suites have a small kitchenette and balconies with views across the rooftops of the city. The hotel has a bistro restaurant next door called Tika specialising in SE Asian/Peruvian fusion, and there is complimentary tea and coffee as well as Wi-Fi in the lobby.
Average rating 5.0 (1 ratings)
A luxury eco-lodge situated in the heart of a private 42,000 acre ecological reserve, surrounded by vast Peruvian rainforest. The lodge has 35 rooms and four cabañas options are offered: Superior, Superior Rio, Amazonica Suite and Tambopata Suite. All cabañas have private bathrooms with hot water, fully equipped with bathrobes, slippers, towels and environmentally friendly toiltetries. There is a tree canopy walkway and tree house which both provide fantastic views of the rainforest. Other facilities include a dining room and bar serving Peruvian dishes from the region prepared with fresh, local ingredients; and the Ena spa located on the banks of the Madre de Dios River.