TRIPS: Through the Andean Inca Trails
Day by Day
Duration: 8 days/7 overnights
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Day 1
La Paz Arrival to the city, reception in the airport and transfer to the hotel. In the afternoon City tour visiting the most interesting places in La Paz, typical places like the Witches Market, artisanal markets, the colonial calle Jaén with its impressive, residential areas of the south and the well known Moon Valley, where erosion has given place to the most exotic and curious surface forms. Overnight.
Day 2
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La Paz - After breakfast, 6 hours excursion to the archaelogical place of Tiwanaku, millenarian pre-inca ruins (1.500 b.c.), located in the middle of the Altiplano, where we will appreciate the admirable lithic esculptures, monuments, Suns’ Door, Kalasasaya temple and the local museum. Includes typical lunch and entry fees. Overnight. B,L
Day 3
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Breakfast. Titikaka Lake – Copacabana – Sun Island. We drive along a highway parallel to the Cordillera real (beautiful sight) towards to Copacabana, visit to the town, the beatiful church where is the Dark Madonna . Following we board our comfortable boat and head towards the Sun Island (1 hour ride). The Sun Island is worshipped as the birthplace of Manco Kápac and Mama Ocllo the first founders of the Inca’s Empire. Some ruins like the Pilkokaina Palace, the Eternal Youth Fountain, the 200 stairs of Yumani and most remarkable agricultural platforms are part of this beatiful Island, worth to see it.
After lunch follows a 3 ½ hour bus drive to Puno (Perú). Welcome at the bus terminal and excursion to the Urus Floating Islands, part of the surprising totora islands archipelago. Overnight. B,L
Day 4
Puno – Cusco - Breakfast. Transfer to the bus terminal and departure at 8:00 a.m. off to Cusco where we arrive after a 7 hours drive. Overnight. B
Day 5
Cusco Breakfast. In the afternoon City Tour visiting the Corikancha Sun’s Temple, the Main Square, the Cathedral, Sacsayhuaman Inca Fort , El Qenko, Puca-Pucara and Tambomachay. Overnight. B
Day 6
Cusco - Machupichchu.- Breakfast. Whole day excursion to Machupicchu. We start a 3 ½ hours train trip till the base of the archeological site. From there we board a bus driving to the very top of the place from where we will enjoy a magnificent view of Machupicchu´s ancient metropolis. Back to Cusco. Overnight. B
Day 7
Cusco – Inca`s Sacred Valley. Whole day excursion to the Inca’s Sacred Valley, visiting Pisac, a picturesque colonial town, a handcraft exhibition and a native market. Also Calca, Urubamba, and the fortress of Ollantaytambo. Overnight in Cusco. B, L
Day 8
Transfer out.
