CHOQUEQUIRAO

It is the visit which takes place in the main wine cellars of pisco and Ica Valley, with its craft and industrial production, which shows that the entire process is done with the grape harvest and since all the processes to follow to obtain these exquisite liquors, and culminates with a tasting all visitors.

Optional is a lunch.

2 DAY :

NAZCA LINES

Drawings made in the soil surface (geoglyphs) are representations of animals, fishes, birds, human figures, plants, straight lines, spirals forms and trapezoids and were made by ancient Nasca civilization (400 b.C. - 600 d.C.), besides many figures are represented in textiles an ceramics nasca as well as a proof of carbon 14 applied on the ropes, huarango poles and remains of 525 bc. and this is the best evidence that it were made by the ancient Nasca.

The first lines were discovered in 1927 by Mejía Xesspe, in 1939 Paul Kosok discover the shape of a giant figure after in 1941 Maria Reiche start her researching work and protection of the lines for ever 45 years and make them known in the world.

She said this lines and figures were made for predicting seasons and constellations to guide agriculture and other activities the religious figures representing deities according andean cosmology, trapezoids were sacred places where rituals and offerings were being wade.

3 DAY :

CUSCO

VISIT OF THE CITY AND NEARBY RUINS

Approximate lasting : 4 hours

Frequency : Everyday at afternoons

SCHEDULE: The bus picks up the passengers from the hotel at the stated time. It starts a short tour by the ancient downtown, following it gets into the Cathedral for a guided visit, then it makes a visit to Qorikancha or Temple of the Sun, afterwards it starts a tour to enter and visit the four ruins nearby:

Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Puca pucara, Tambomachay, when ending the tour the passengers are taken to their respective hotels or if they wish they stay in the Main Square.

CATHEDRAL: It was constructed between 1560 and 1664, great blocks of red granite were used the facade is of renaissance style, in the interior an Altarpiece worked in silver is watched, it holds great treasures in goldsmith and paintings from Cusco of the colonial epoch.

KORICANCHA: It was building the Inca epoch to workshop the sun, its walls are large blocks of stone over these Inca remains was built the Convent of Santo Domingo.
SACSAYHUAMAN:. At 2 kms. From the city of Cusco, archeological complex of cyclopean dimensions. The construction is Inca of three platforms put over that have an average of 360mts. Length. It communicates through stairs and gates of access also in stone. Only one of these measures 9m height and 5m wide.

KENKO: It is a rocky place where stairs and ceremonial altars have been carved, it was used as an oracle or shrine, for religious ceremonies, it has a cavern on which there are carved elements related to their farming rituals. At 3 km. From the city of la Cusco, it is located a stone of 5.90 m. With the appearance of a Puma.

PUCA PUCARA: It could have been a spot for control and storage of the production of the valley nearby. At. 6kms. from the city of Cusco, it has an appearance of a military complex.

TAMBOMACHAY: They are constructions in stone finely assembled, exists two aqueducts by which flows water from a manantial whose origin is unknown, the water falls in a fountain called the Bath of the Inca. At. 7 kms. From the city beautiful fountains of water are appreciated.

INCLUDES:

Touristic transportation
Bilingual professional guide

DOES NOT INCLUDE

Entrances: Cathedral, Qorikancha
Touristic ticket S/ 70 soles (and S/.130 soles valid from July 2008)

4 DAY :

VISIT TO THE SACRED VALLEY

Lasting: nine hours

Frequency :.Everyday.

SCHEDULE: The bus will pick up from the hotel the passengers to take them to the Sacred Valley which weather and geography is special having a gathering of the best maize in the world. Some stops are made where places of interest can be watched. The first town to visit is Pisaq. we will go through its crafty market, proper place for the purchase of craft. Afterwards a stop will be made for lunch in a touristic restaurant and continue the trip towards Ollantaytambo where it will be able to make the visit to the archeological complex. Then the town of Chinchero will be visited, its streets will be toured and its church which holds canvases of the Escuela Cusqueña finished the visit we return to Cusco, the bus will leave the passengers in their respective hotels.

PISAQ: Picturesque town breed and colonial on which a fair of great prestige takes place for the tourists. The tour that is generally made includes the visit to the archeological zone, crafts market, archeological zone is formed by sector neighborhoods being thus the one of Intihuatana, the Pre-Inca cemetery, terraces among other places of much importance.

OLLANTAYTAMBO: The population that lives in the place settles the houses of their ancestors to which they have changed the roofs of straw for tiles, their Inca streets are narrow and of straight line and keeps the channels of water, it exists an astonishing terrace in the mountain by which you will go through to enjoy the sight of the archeological complex and of the valley.

CHINCHERO: In the Inca epoch it should go through the town to arrive to Machupicchu. Their actual inhabitants keep some customs from the Incas as the “trueque” changing of object instead of money and name directly their major authority the Varayoc, in the tour of its streets the typical apparels of the women of the place will be appreciated.

INCLUDES

• Touristic transportation

• Bilingual professional guide.

DOES NOT INCLUDE.

• Buffet for lunch a touristic restaurant (you may require an additional of S/. 15.00

• Touristic ticket

5 DAY :

TRIP TO MACHUPICCHU 1 DAY

Lasting : 1 day

Frequency : everyday (subjected to spaces in the train.)

SCHEDULE: It starts with the transfer of the passengers from the hotel to the train station, the tour by train from Cusco up to the town of Aguas Calientes lasts approximately three and a half hours, in the town of Aguas Calientes we go on board to the buses that transfer the passengers to the citadel of Machupicchu where they will stay for approximately two hours to make the guided visit. Ending the visit they will get back by bus to the town of Aguas Calientes for lunch, and then take the train for returning to Cusco. In the station the transport will take them to their hotel.

INCLUDES.

• All the transfers Htl/ Est., Est./Htl.

• round trip Tickets

• Entrance Tickets to Machupicchu.

• bus Tickets up and down

• bilingual professional guide

DOES NOT INCLUDE

• Lunch Buffet Aguas Calientes (you may require for $20 dollars).

6 DAY : Travel to PUNO

7 DAY :

TOURS TO : UROS, TAQUILE AND AMANTANI

Amantani island is located 26 miles (38 Km) away from the city of Puno (3 ½ hours of navigation in normal boat). Because of a more distant location, tourism on the island of Amantani has not developed in the same way as in Taquile. The main difference is that home-stays have remained a more authentic cultural experience in Amantani.

ITINERARIO

07:45 a.m.: *Pick up from hotels in downtown Puno.

08:00 a.m.: Departure to floating islands and Taquile.

08:30 a.m.: Visit of floating islands of Uros on the way to Amantani.

13:30 p.m.: Arrival in Amantani island.

14:00 p.m.: Lunch in local house.

15:00 p.m.: Hike and cultural exchange activities in Amantani.

18:00 p.m.: Dinner and overnight in local house.

19:00p.m.: folkloric party where you could wear the traditional clothes and dance with the local people.

8 DAY :

08:00 a.m.: Departure from Amantani to Taquile.

09:00 a.m.: Arrival in Taquile and exploration of the non-touristy sector of the island.