Amazon to Rainbow Summit

Arrive in Peru’s vibrant capital and enjoy a warm welcome at the Lima airport, where a Peru Machu Picchu Tours representative will meet you and accompany you in a private vehicle to your hotel, offering insights into the city along the way.

* Lima is home to the Government palace as well as World-renowned, award-winning restaurants.

Discover Lima’s captivating history on a guided city tour. Your adventure begins with a journey through the historic city center (UNESCO World Heritage Site), where colonial churches, grand palaces, and elegant promenades reveal the city’s rich past. Conclude the day with a visit to the renowned Larco Herrera Museum, one of South America’s finest cultural treasures.

Enjoy the rest of the day at your own leisure.

* Visit the vibrant suburb of Miraflores or the bohemian district of Barranco, and sample some local culinary delights or a glass of Peru’s national drink ‘Pisco sour’ at one of the many cafes, bars and restaurants in the neighborhood. Suggested restaurants!

Meals: Breakfast.

Upon your arrival at the Cusco airport, our staff will greet you and transfer you to the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Along the way, stop at a Llama Farm to admire South America’s native camelids — llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and huanacos. Continue to the picturesque town of Pisac to explore its impressive Inca archaeological site, featuring remarkable stonework, ancient residential areas, Peru’s largest Inca cemetery, and spectacular agricultural terraces. You will also visit the vibrant artisan market — a perfect place to interact with locals, many dressed in their colorful traditional attire, and taste the region’s best empanadas.
Throughout the journey, enjoy photo stops with breathtaking views of the Andes and their snow-capped peaks.

* Sitting a few thousand feet lower than Cusco at 2,850 m / 9,405 ft, the Sacred Valley is the ideal place to spend your first days as you gradually adjust to the high altitude.

Begin the day with a visit to Moray, known as the “Inca agricultural greenhouse,” an experimental center where the Incas studied how crops adapted to different microclimates. Then enjoy an easy and pleasant 2-hour hike down to the Maras Salt Mines, an ancient pre-Inca network of evaporation ponds used to harvest pink salt. This off-the-beaten-path trail offers a unique perspective of the Sacred Valley, surrounded by fields of corn, quinoa, and barley, all framed by the stunning Andes mountain range.

Afterward, continue to the village of Pachar, the starting point of the Sky Lodge adventure (advance booking required). Here, you will rock-climb 1,000 ft up the cliff to reach your room—an exclusive capsule fixed to the mountainside high above the Sacred Valley. The day concludes with a delicious dinner and an unforgettable overnight stay in your glass pod, overlooking the mystical Sacred Valley of the Incas.

* Skylodge, the world’s first and only hanging lodge

* Not advisable for people who have fear of heights. ⇒ Check with our travel experts for further information and availability.

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Enjoy the amazing views of the Urubamba Mountain range as having a hearty breakfast in your glass capsule, then start a 2-hour zipline journey down to Pachar village. Next, transfer to Ollantaytambo town, explore the Inca fortress of Ollantaytambo that once was part of the Royal Estate of the Inca Emperor Pachacuti, admire the sophisticated Inca architecture and town planning, temples, astronomical centers, fountains. After, experience a traditional Pachamanca lunch, an ancient cooking technique where ingredients are cooked underground using preheated stones and banana leaves.

Meals: Breakfast and Pachamanca lunch.

Morning transfer to Ollantaytambo train station to board the train to Km 104, the starting point for your 2-day Inca trail to Machu Picchu. During the 1.5-hour journey, a light snack is provided. Once off the train, you’ll begin a 3-hour hike up the gradual slope to the Inca ruins of Wiñaywayna. Then continue on to join the last section of the famous 4-day Inca trail. This path winds its way to the Inti Punku (Sun Gate) from where you will have the first glimpse of Machu Picchu before heading down to the Inca site.

Meals: Breakfast, box Lunch.

After breakfast, You will be transferred to the Machu Picchu archaeological site by a shuttle bus.

Here you’ll tour the Machu Picchu Sanctuary for 2 hours (approx). Explore the enigmatic complex accompanied by your tour guide, who leads the way through the site, providing varied information on key areas of interest. For those seeking a challenge, we suggest hiking Huayna Picchu Mountain or Machu Picchu Mountain commonly known as “Montaña” (advance reservation required) from where you can appreciate the immensity of Machu Picchu.

After lunch, board the train back to either Ollantaytambo or Poroy town.

Meals: Breakfast.

Enjoy a morning tour of the ancient capital of the Inca Empire “Cusco city” – UNESCO World Heritage City, it takes you to Pre-hispanic Inca temples, impressive Inca complexes on the outskirts of the city such as Saqsayhuaman, an Inca complex with megalithic constructions; Q’enqo, an ancient Inca ceremonial site; the Cathedral which is one of South America’s nicest Catholic churches, the famous San Pedro Market, a local farmers market where you can see fresh local produce and delicacies. You’ll discover historic plazas, quaint local coffee shops, unique workshops and the true magic of this historical city.

Afternoon at your own leisure.

* What to do and see in your spare time: Admire the marvelous city’s Inca-Colonial architecture, visit the Inca Museum which houses magnificent ancient artifacts and colonial art, visit a silver workshop, learn all about the process and designs of the high-quality Peruvian jewelry or enjoy learning how to cook the most popular Peruvian dishes at a cooking class, if feeling adventurous! Try Cusco’s most traditional dish “CUY” (Baked Guinea pig) or Alpaca skewers quite popular at present.

Meals: Breakfast & dinner.

Early start! A 3-hour bus ride to Vinincunca village, the starting point of today’s hike, on the way, you can appreciate the Andes mountains as you pass by picturesque villages and unique landscapes. Then 1-hour hike up the gradual slope to the Rainbow Mountain viewpoint, enjoy incredible views of snowcapped mountains, Cusco‘s highest peak ‘Ausangate’ 6384 meters / 21 067 ft and the amazing geography surrounding this famous Rainbow Mountain, watch alpacas and llamas along the trail as you walk to this Sacred mountain.

* The high altitude shouldn’d be a problem today after adjusting with it in the Sacred Valley and Cusco city.

Meals: Breakfast & lunch.

Transfer to Cusco Airport for your flight to Puerto Maldonado city (45 min approx).

Receive a welcome at Puerto Maldonado Airport and take a transfer to the lodge.

Upon arrival, the lodge staff will take us to their office in town where you’ll leave most of your luggage in a safe storage room and continue traveling with a small backpack with just the necessary items for your next two nights in the jungle. Then take a motorized canoe up river to our jungle lodge in the Madre de Dios area. The lodge is eco-friendly with comfortable rooms, flush toilets (en suite), showers (cold water only), mosquito nets and lamps. Adventure into the jungle with our local, multilingual guides and encounter magnificent fauna and flora in their natural habitat. Spot everything from macaws and monkeys to peccary, jabirus, otters and butterflies.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

CHILDREN | The Children’s Rainforest Trail: Ania & the World’s Voice — A short trail designed for children with the help of ANIA, an environmental education NGO. Children ages 6-12 hike with a female tour guide through a challenging short trail where they follow maps, solve riddles and find clues that will lead them to Ania’s ‘gifts’. The trail teaches children how people live in the rainforest and leave a valuable message from Ania, “a girl born in the depths of the rainforest to fill our hearts with hope.” The concept, the story and the trail are trademarked by ANIA, a non-profit organization with the mission of creating 100,000 hectares of “Tierras de los Niños’ (Children’s Lands) – private protected areas in the management of children.

ADULTS | Visit the Parrot Clay Lick – A 15-minute boat ride and an hour walk from the lodge is a clay lick used both by parrots and parakeets. From the boat you will see them descend on most clear days to ingest the clay on a bank.

CHILDREN | Rainforest Tattoo – At the lodge we will prepare a paste from the fruit of huito and achiote (native seeds) to draw dark blue and red tattoos on ourselves. They last several days.

ADULTS | Ethnobotanical Tour – Along this trail we will encounter local flora and fauna used by the native population.

Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

After exploring the wild, it’s time to hop back into the canoe and return to the city of Puerto Maldonado