Peruvian Group: febrero 2009

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* Cultural Tours

Northern Kingdoms (3 days / 2 nights)

Day 1:

Transfer to Lima airport. Arrival transfer to the hotel in Chiclayo
Day 2:

Stroll through the healer's market, where the city's renowned shamans shop for their paraphernalia.Visit Peru's most important archeological museums for a complete overview of the region's pre-columbian cultures of Chimu and Mochica, displaying fine examples of pottery, metalwork and textiles excavated in the area, including treasures from the tombs of Sipan (3rd and 4th centuries).Lunch at a country side restaurant. Enjoy sunset at the impressive 26-pyramid complex of Tucume.
Day 3:

Upon Arrival in Trujillo, visit the citadel of Chan Chan, ancient capital of the Chimu Empire (8th century) and the largest adobe city in the world.Lunch at a restaurant in Huanchaco. Visit the Temple of the Moon and tour the Trujillo's elegant Colonial quarter. Transfer to Trujillo airport.

Arrival transfer in Lima.

* Ecoadventure Tours

Kuelap (5 days / 4 nights)

Day 1:

In the morning you will depart from Chiclayo by private car/bus with air conditioning.You will arrive in the late afternoon in Chachapoyas. Box lunch and dinner included.Overnight at Hostal El Chillo.
Day 2:

After breakfast you will an excursion by horse to visit the colorful funeral buildings of Revash perched on a ledge up high on a cliff. Box lunch.Then you will continue to Leimebamba to visit an amazing collection of pre-Inca mummies discovered in the Laguna de los Condores.
Day 3:

After breakfast you will visit Kuelap, a spectacular pre-inca walled city hidden on top a precipitous mountain.Although Kuelap was discovered 60 years before Machu Picchu, it is not as well-know to the outside world.Nevertheless, recent amazing discoveries in nearby areas that relate to Kuelap and to its history have captured. the attention of archaeologist, international magazines and film companies.Following your visit to Kuelap, you will return to Chillo for the night. On the way you will have the opportunity to stopover to observe the burial towers of Macro, an outpost of the Chachapoyas culture built into cliffs overlooking the Utcubamba River.It is unique location allowed for contact via signal fires with the fortress, high above in the mountains and visible through a cleft in the valley hills. Dinner and overnight at Hostal El Chillo.
Day 4:

Morning trek to Chachapoyas burial towers of Macro.Free afternoon for relaxation, or take a tour (at extra cost) to Karajia and the mysterious Sarcophagi carved into the hillside.
Day 5:

After an early breakfast you will return to Chiclayo by road. Box lunch included. Late afternoon arrival and transfer to selected hotel.

* Living Tourism

Millenary Peru

Day 1:

Arrival and acclimatization.
Day 2:

Visit the Casa-Solar de Aliaga, perhaps Lima's oldest which, uniquely, is inhabited by descendants of its original owner, Jeronimo de Aliaga, one of the first Spanish conquerors to arrive in Peru.We will also visit one of Lima’s beautiful colonial convents.After that, you have to visit the private collection of pre-Columbian and vice regal art belonging to Enrico Poli, an artistic and cultural treasure.
Day 3:

Our destination today is Nasca. Before reaching Nasca, three hours from Lima, we will stop at Huacachina, near the town of Ica, Huacachina is an oasis in the desert where, in the 1920s, then president Augusto Leguia built a resort in the French style for Lima's aristocracy.We will see what is left of this past splendor, and can go sand-boarding, walking or boating. We will lunch in the old Hotel Mossone. Approximately two hours later we will arrive at Nasca, but we will first stop at a tower built by the roadside from which we can see the lines.In Nasca we will visit the Antonini museum, which has some extraordinary exhibits from the Nasca culture, which flourished in the desert between the 2nd and 7th centuries B.C.C. There are shrouds, tapestries, ceramics, musical instruments and trophy heads, among other things.We will stay in the Hacienda Cantayo hotel, a magnificent establishment built near to an archaeological site (Cantayoc) where we can see aqueducts built by the Nasca people which are still in use today to carry water to irrigate the fields.
Day 4:

Before leaving Nasca we take a light aircraft to fly over the Nasca lines. Beyond Nasca, we may also stop at Puerto Inca, a beautiful beach where the only Inca remains to be discovered on the coast can be seen on the sea shore.
Day 5:

An early start to visit the centre of the city of Arequipa, the famous white city.Today Arequipa is Peru's second important city and is also the world's largest centre for the manufacture of alpaca textiles.After visiting Arequipa, we will lunch in a classic Arequipa picanteria to sample some exceptional food. In the afternoon we will go to the Colca Valley, which will take us 4 hours by road through the beautiful highland scenery.
Day 6:

This valley is a first-class place from which to observe the Andean Condor, and that is what we will do during the morning.After that, the afternoon will be free, we can use it to visit some of the fourteen colonial settlements scattered along the valley, with their mestizo-style churches and traditional communities.We can also walk or ride (to the Inca site of Uyu Uyu), bathe in the thermal springs or go to see the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest in the world.
Day 7:

We leave early for the island of Suasi. We will reach Suasi at the end of the day to start enjoying this beautiful island.
Day 8:

The previous day we will have witnessed an unforgettable sunset over the island. Today the sunrise is equally impressive. We are on the island of Suasi, in Titicaca Lake.Suasi is a private island belonging to a native habitant of Puno called Martha Giraldo, who has built a beautiful hotel where ecological concepts are applied for tourism.Today is a free day to make some activities such fishing, climbing, walking or observing the native camelids.For those interested in the esoteric, Suasi has a special energy, according to international experts.

Day 9:

We leave Suasi after breakfast to Puno by motorboat. We will visit Uros island on route, after arrival in Puno we will transfer to the hotel.
Day 10:

We leave to Cusco. This route passes through some impressive scenery and villages, we will stop at the important pre-Inca site of Pucara. We will have lunch on route on a local restaurant.Then, we proceed to the temple of Raqchi, built by the Incas in honor of the god Wiracocha. It is on several levels and its walls and ceremonial platforms survive.Checacupe is the name of the village we will visit at the end of the day. The village has a colonial-era church built on Inca foundations, revealing the conflict between the Spanish and Inca cultures which form the basis of Peru's present day culture. We will spend the night in a comfortable hotel in the city of Cusco.
Day 11:

We will spend two days in the valley. There are Inca remains all over the valley, such as the village of Ollantaytambo, which contains a fortress built to defend it against the invading Chankas.Ollantaytambo is also an Inca village whose stone houses are still inhabited by the descendants of those ancient Peruvians.The people of this area are characterized by their woolen costumes dyed in red and black. We will visit Huilloc, a small community of weavers to see the ancestral textile industry.Today's lunch will be unforgettable. fertile land. The house was built by the old Lambarri Orihuela family as a place to keep and exhibit their valuable collection of art At noon we will arrive at the Orihuela estate, located on high ground in the valley which provides a unique view of this green and from the pre-Columbian and vice regal periods. The Lambarri family await with a buffet lunch based on the valley's culinary traditions.
Day 12:

Maras is the name of a place and of an indigenous community. The soil of Maras is rich in salt, its people have always made a living by extracting this resource using terraced salt pans.The salt pans are a magical sight, gleaming white in the sun. Today we will visit Maras and see the salt being extracted in the traditional way.After that we will go to Moray, another Inca site, where different crops were planted on circular terraces built to create microclimates and for research with different species. In the afternoon we can go canoeing, horse riding or just walk amid nature in the Sacred Valley.
Day 13:

Between the Sacred Valley and the marvelous city of Machu Picchu, the Incas built a stone-paved road conceived as a ritual journey of purification that would take pilgrims to the sacred city of Machu Picchu.Today we will walk a section of this Inca road from the point at which we alight from the train.The walk will take around five hours through a landscape of cloud forest containing archaeological remains of great ceremonial and productive importance, such as Chachabamba and Winay Wayna. We will continue walking until we reach a place called Intipunko, which means the Door of the Sun.This was designed by the Incas to give a panoramic view of the city of Machu Picchu from above. We will spend the night in a hotel.
Day 14:

Dawn in Machu Picchu is a spiritual experience that has no rival.Then we will descend to the Inca city to tour it accompanied by professional guides who will answer all our questions and concerns.We will get to know the ritual city, the palace of Inca Pachacutec and his royal panaka (court).Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by the American explorer and archaeologist Hiram Bingham, with support from Yale university and National Geographic.As part of our visit we will climb to Huayna Picchu, which is also rich in Inca relics; from there we will have an impressive view over the archaeological complex and the high jungle valley.Optional activities in Machu Picchu include bird watching, searching for orchids, trekking among nature and Inca ruins or a restorative session of aroma therapy. In the afternoon we will board the train to Cusco.
Day 15:

Cusco, which in quechua means Navel of the World, was the capital of the Inca empire and the centre of the four-way expansion of that culture, known as the four Suyos.The city is filled with Inca buildings designed for religious, administrative, military and domestic purposes. After the conquest, the Spanish built a new city on top of the one they found, such that visitors can see something unique in history: a culture superimposed upon another, older one, for the purpose of domination.The Spanish colonial monuments in Cusco are among the richest and most luxurious in the Andes. In the morning we will visit some of them, and also stop at Koricancha, which was the most important Inca temple as it was dedicated to the worship of the sun.The Spanish built a church and Dominican monastery on top of this temple, which reveals the two cultures existing together. Today we will also visit the recently inaugurated Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in a marvelous colonial mansion, the Casa Cabrera, on the Plazuela de Las Nazarenas. In the afternoon we will stop at the Inca complex of Tipon, a splendid testimony of that culture, built by a cult that venerated water.Then, we leave for the village of Huasao, south of Cusco, an ancient settlement of faith healers and shamans who continue to make contact with invisible worlds today as they have since before the Spanish conquest.
Day 16:

Today we will go where few conventional tourists venture. We start to the north of the city of Cusco and our first destination is the ancient Inca and Spanish village of Chinchero, with its beautiful church full of murals and frescoes and its traditional handicrafts market where bartering was the rule until just a few years ago.Then we will carry on to Anta, crossing an immense plain covered with different traditional Andean crops. We will stop at the village of Limatambo to see the colonial hacienda of Sondor, still inhabited by the descendants of the original landowners.Near Sondor is the Inca temple of Tarabamba, little visited but an architectural jewel. On this route we can see how the Incas were masters in the construction of terraces, winning cultivable land from the mountains.
Day 17:

Today we are free to walk around this marvelous city. We recommend the Main Square, the district of San Blas and its artisans; the churches of La Compañia, La Merced, San Francisco and San Cristobal, the Palacio del Almirante Museum of Archaeology, and the surrounding archaeological remains of Sacsayhuaman, Quenqo, Tambomachay and Puka Pukara. Nevertheless, the most enjoyable way to spend the day can simply be to walk around the city and enjoy its immense vitality.Cusco is a very cosmopolitan city and this is evident by day, but especially at night, in its infinite number of bars, discos and restaurants.
Day 18:

In the morning we will take our flight back to Lima to connect with your international flight, or you could continue your adventure in Peru and discover more hidden treasures.

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