Fantastic 12-day Peru & Ecuador

Reception and assistance at the International Jorge Chavez Lima airport by a representative from Peru Travels.

The airport is located 30 minutes away from Miraflores area, where most of the hotels, restaurants and bars are located. Please be aware hotels check-in time starts at midday, if you arrive earlier you will have to wait until the room is ready.

Overnight at your selected hotel.

After breakfast, our team will meet you at your hotel to take our transfer to the airport for your flight to Cusco. Upon your arrival into Cusco, we will transfer you to your selected hotel. You will have a free morning to acclimatize and rest.

In the afternoon, we will pick you up for the City Tour. It starts at the impressive Colonial Cathedral in Cusco that contains over 400 paintings from the Cusquenian School and several spectacular altars. After that, we will visit the Temple of the Sun, main religious center of the Incas dedicated to the Sun Cult. According to the chroniclers, the walls of this temple were entirely covered with gold.

From here, we will go by bus to visit the four surrounding ruins located at less than 8 km. We start with the Sacsayhuaman Fortress, Q’enqo, Puca-Pucara which means “Red Fortress” this site was an administrative and military center and Tambomachay considered as a place of the cult to the water. Finally, we will return to your hotel.

Overnight at your selected hotel.

Early breakfast at the hotel to start our visit to Machu Picchu archeological complex, located in a subtropical Cusco area at 2 350 m.a.s.l.

Early in the morning we will transfer from your hotel to the train station. The trip in train takes nearly 3 and a half hours to get to Aguas Calientes town, following the course of the Vilcanota River.

Upon you arrival to Aguas Calientes, our guide will be waiting for you to take the bus to Machu Picchu which takes about 20 minutes to get to the entrance point. In Machu Picchu we have a2 hours guided tour and another 2 hours to explore the ruins individually. You will know the amazing Machu Picchu Citadel and the Intiwatana (Solar Clock).

Finally, you will take the bus back to Aguas Calientes where you will spend the night.

Overnight at your selected hotel.

Breakfast at your hotel and today will be a day at leisure.

We suggest you visit Machu Picchu Citadel once again or hike the Huayna Picchu to receive the cosmic and tellurics energy that the Sacred “Apu“ Mountain has. (Entrance tickets not included for the second visit).

The hike to Huayna Picchu starts at the Sacred Rock and passes through a gate that opens from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. There is a limited number of people that can enter each day (200 per shift).

This – one to two – hour walk is steep but the path is in excellent shape, though the last 20 meters include a steep rock slab. The Incas built terraces here, and the airy summit offers a perfect view of the entire complex, which spreads out before the summit like a map. You will get excellent photos and the view is unique. Please, if you are interested in hiking the Huayna Picchu, let us know in advance so we can do the booking and buy the entrance ticket in advance.

Another alternative is to stay in Aguas Calientes town and go to the hot springs to relax the body. In the afternoon you will take the train back to Cusco. Upon your arrival to Cusco  we will transfer you to your selected hotel.

Overnight in Cusco.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Transfer from your hotel to the airport to board your flight back to Lima. Reception at Jorge Chavez airport and transfer to your hotel.

In the afternoon, we will visit the Colonial and Modern city of Lima. The historical center is packed with 16th- and 17th-century marvels, including immaculately restored homes such as the Casa de Aliaga and the Palacio Torre Tagle.

The city tour starts on the Plaza Mayor, which is graced with a bronze fountain from 1650 and flanked on one side by the Cathedral, which was built in the late 16th century. It contains the carved wooden sepulcher of Francisco Pizarro, who was murdered in 1541 by the mob of Almagristas, a rival political faction. As you enter, the first chapel on the right is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and contains a carving of Jesus that is considered to be among the most beautiful in the Americas. But the highlight of the cathedral are the choir stalls carved in the early 17th century by Pedro Noguera.

Also, we will observe the Government Palace, which forms the other side of the Plaza Mayor and was built by the Spanish on top of the home of Taulichusco. Finally, we will visit the 16th-century San Francisco Monastery, with its beautiful cloister and entrance, as well as the catacombs or public cemetery, where slaves, servants and others without money were buried until 1821 (rich citizens were usually buried in their home chapels).

Then we will travel back to the XX century visiting modern districts with beautiful squares, small squares and avenues, as well as Miraflores with its beautiful beaches, intensive commercial trading and active nightlife. We will visit the Park of Love, where a big sculpture representing a “Couple of Andean Lovers” faces the Pacific Ocean.

Finally, we will go back to your hotel.

Overnight at your selected hotel in Lima.

At fixed time we will transfer you from your hotel to the airport to board your international flight. Please be aware hotels check out time starting at 10:00, if you have a late flight, you can leave your luggage at the hotel’s luggage room and pick it up before your transfer.

Upon your arrival to Quito, our team will be waiting for you at the airport to transfer you to your hotel in Quito.

To start you will have breakfast at your hotel.

Today will be an amazing day as we will go on the original Quito city tour in trolley and authentic middle of the world Tour

We will visit the historic center, the largest and best preserved in South America, in one of our original trolleys, which are a replica of the trams that circulated in Quito in the last century.

Visit to the Basilica del voto Nacional Church, where we will make a brief stop for an explanation of its facade, to later move towards the Panecillo viewpoint, an iconic place in the city, renowned for its beauty, and where is a giant statue of the “Winged Virgin”, where you can admire a beautiful landscape of colonial and modern Quito.

Later, we will continue to the Plaza de San Francisco, one of the representative places of the city and full of history, from where we will walk to the Plaza Grande, historical and political center of the city, surrounded by innumerable attractions including: the Cathedral, the Palace of Government, the Archbishop’s Palace and the La Compañía church. (Entrance to churches are not included).

We continue our tour meeting the traditional La Ronda neighborhood, in whose romantic setting we can find workshops where our visitors will learn with a group of authentic artisans, how their works are elaborated, and trades of yesteryear that keep alive the cultural traditions of this charming city. Also, in this emblematic street you will have the opportunity to visit an ice cream shop where you can find very traditional flavors of Ecuador, as well as a visit to one of the artisan workshops: panamá hats or joinery or tinwork or products made from honey bee.

We will stop at the “Zona Rosa” of the city, approximately an hour and a half to have free time for lunch (not included).

After that,  we will continue with our excursion “Authentic Middle of the World Tour”. We will go to the “Middle of the World City”, where you can see the monument that divides the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere of the planet. It was built during the XVII century when a French Expedition defined the precise location of the equatorial line that divides the world and it is a must-see place for those who visit Quito.

Includes entrance to the Middle of the World complex ,where you can live experiences that defy the laws of physics and occur only in this part of the world. After visiting this privileged place and registering it in your passport, you will always see Ecuador and the Middle of the World in a different way.

Breakfast at hotel before your transfer to the airport for your flight to Galapagos.

We will welcome you at the Baltra airport and take a transfer by public buses to the tip of the Itabaca canal, where you will proceed by a public ferry service in the Island of Santa Cruz.

Our transportation will be waiting for you in order to transfer you to Puerto Ayora, an area where the hotels are located on the Island. On the way, you will have the opportunity to visit the lava tunnels and a Turtle reserve.

Also, you can have a visit to the Scientific Charles Darwin Station, where you can learn more about the Galápagos Islands; the species that live in this enchanted place, its origin, the theory of Evolution, the conservation programs, and observe some Giant Turtles in captivity. (Transfer operates daily at 13h00).

Finally, Accommodation at Galapagos.

**It will be possible to operate transfers without visits and without guide at the following times: 10h00 and 15h00** (previous request)

Breakfast at hotel.

In the morning excursion to Tortuga Bay Beach, after a 40minute walk (approx.) we will arrive at this magic place, one of the most beautiful beaches in the Galapagos, with white sand and green mangroves. “Playa mansa” is where we can swim and enjoy the beach.  Then, you will have some free time for lunch (not included).

In the afternoon, tour around the bay on board a yacht, starting with a visit to “La Lobería”, named because of the presence of sea lions. Here you will be able to swim or snorkel. Then, we proceed with our tour to the “Canal del Amor”, a marvelous site where nature gives us an unforgettable view; at the end of this channel, just a few meters forward, a viewpoint where we can observe reef sharks; from here we continue with a short walk to see the marine iguanas that inhabit in “Playa de los Perros”. Punta Estrada will also be visited.

Finally we will return to Puerto Ayora.

*Note: shipping used in this excursion is a boat engine with capacity for 16 people. This tour only takes place Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Breakfast at Hotel.

Excursion in yacht to one of the following Islands: Bartolomé & Bahía Sullivan, Seymour & Bachas, Plazas & Punta Carrión, Santa Fe or similar ones. Lunch included and return to Puerto Ayora for accommodation.

** Tour Operations in Galápagos, may change due to climate conditions, operations, and logistics and are also subject to availability and itinerary changes, days of excursions, etc. However, we guarantees the number of excursions and visits to be met, but does not guarantee the itinerary or specific place to visit.

Breakfast at hotel. We will pick you up at your hotel to go to the canal of Itabaca, where a ferry will take you to Baltra Island. At the port you will board a public bus that takes you to the airport.

On the route from the hotel to the canal, you will have the opportunity to make a brief stop at the craters “Los Gemelos”, crater holes formed by the collapse of materials, surrounded by scalesia’s forests. (Transfer operates daily at 07h00, 09h00 and 12h00).

Includes only transport. Transfer Airport / Hotel in Guayaquil. Accommodation.

Breakfast at Hotel. Transfer Hotel / Airport