Peru
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Creme de la Creme Tour - 22 Night Itinerary
Flying Business Class and staying in Luxury Hotels & Lodges from Lima to Lake Titicaca, train across the Andes to the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu including a luxury Tent Camp in the Colca Canyon and culminating with a superb luxury Amazon River Cruise
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Travel Highlights
- Flights Transatlantic in Business Class, overnight, direct, non-stop to Lima
- Discover historic Lima, its fascinating museums and excellent fusion cuisine
- Visit Arequipa with its delightful colonial sights and history
- Experience life in the Andes in a luxury tented camp in the Colca Valley
- Enjoy an extended stay at Lake Titicaca exploring the local way of life
- Travel by train across the Andean Altiplano - a memorable experience
- Stay in the Sacred Valley with mountain landscapes, markets and ancient ruins
- Take the train to the legendary archaeological site of Machu Picchu
- Explore the Inca capital of Cusco and its nearby ruins
- Immerse yourself in the Rainforest on the luxury Aira Amazon River Cruise
Tour Route
- Lima - 2 Nights
- Arequipa - 2 Nights
- Colca Canyon - 2 Nights
- Lake Titicaca - 4 Nights
- Sacred Valley - 4 Nights
- Machu Picchu - 1 Night
- Cusco - 3 Nights
- Amazon Cruise - 4 Nights
This itinerary can be tailored to your preferences by our specialist advisors, who can provide a guaranteed price based on your choice of departure date, route, duration, flights, cabin, hotels, transport and excursions.
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Lima
2 NightsDay 1 - Fly to Lima
Day 2 - Arrive and guided tour of Lima
Day 3 - Cuisine and history tour
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- Accommodation
Fly to Lima
Depart the UK on an overnight flight to Lima.
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Arrive in Lima and guided tour
Arrive in Lima in the morning and transfer to your chosen hotel for a 2-night stay including breakfast. In the afternoon, enjoy a guided tour of Lima including the historic centre. Visit the Presidential Palace, Plaza San Martín and the Larco Herrera Museum, with a fabulous collection of ancient artefacts Inca and pre-Inca cultures of Peru.
Monday, 26 May 2025
Cuisine and history tour
Today, explore Lima's famous fusion cuisine with your guide, visiting a local market and Chinatown. After an included lunch, visit Barranco, and a private collection of Peruvian weavings, potery and ancient treasures.
Marvin Abato
Belmond Miraflores Park
The Belmond Miraflores Park is a deluxe oceanfront boutique hotel surrounded by a lush gardens, located in Miraflores, one of Limas most exclusive residential districts.
A modern exterior hides a touch of finesse throughout the hotel, whose 81 rooms and suites are luxuriously decorated with marble and granite bathrooms and king size beds. The observatory Restaurant on…
Hotel "B"
A superbly renovated family house in the bohemian area Barranco, Arts Hotel "B" is a fusion of high-ceiling historical elegance and modern cultural sophistication. The rooms are spacious and elegant with modern amenties, some with balconies overlooking the boulevard or the square. The restaurant offers excellent modern Peruvian cuisine, providing the highest levels of service.
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Arequipa
2 NightsDay 4 - Fly to Arequipa
Day 5 - City tour & Santa Catalina Convent
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Fly to Arequipa
Transfer to the airport and fly to Arequipa. On arrival, transfer to your chosen hotel for a 2-night stay on a bed and breakfast basis. The rest of the day is at leisure. Arequipa is Peru's second largest city, set in a rich green valley at the foot of the mighty El Misti Volcano. The buildings in the centre have been built almost exclusively of the volcanic material 'sillar', a white, porous rock, giving Arequipa its nickname of 'The White City'.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
City Tour & Santa Catalina Convent
Your guide and transport will meet you at your hotel for a delightful city tour which visits the church of La Compania and other colonial buildings, including the Plaza de Armas and the Cathedral. The Santa Catalina Convent once held some two hundred nuns and is a maze of colourful alleyways and rooms, providing a fascinating insight into the way the nuns lived including "upper class" nuns who brought their servants to live in the convent to attend them.
Cirqa Relais & Châteaux Hotel
The Cirqa Relais & Châteaux hotel is located only one block away from the city’s main square. The striking historic complex formed part of the San Agustin church and lies within walking distance of many of Arequipa’s architectural jewels.
Honouring this original concept, Cirqa is a place of both rest and fine cuisine. In the parador,…
Colca Canyon
2 NightsDay 6 - Puqio Tented Camp, Colca Valley
Day 7 - Tour of Colca Canyon
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Puqio Tented Camp, Colca Valley
The Colca Valley is located in the Andes a few hours north of Arequipa. We travel to Pujio Tented Camp for a 2-night stay on a full board basis. Deep in the heart of the Colca Valley experience fuming volcanoes, sweeping grasslands, and untrodden pathways on a range of included excursions. In the evening Clay oven and open flame meals feature Andean flavours and traditions. At night, rustic elegance rejuvenates body and spirit with like-minded travellers.
Friday, 30 May 2025
Tour of the Colca Canyon
Our full day tour into the world's deepest Canyon to walk along the ancient farming terraces, the local villages and communities where people still dress in their traditional clothing, and visit the Cruz del Condor lookout point, with a chance of seeing the magnificent Andean Condors soaring above.
Lake Titicaca
4 NightsDay 8 - Travel to Lake Titicaca
Day 9 - Visit Uros & Taquile Islands
Day 10 - Daily Excursion Selection included: market, picnic, tekking
Day 11 - Daily Excursion Selection included: market, picnic, tekking
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Travel to Lake Titicaca
We continue our journey across the altiplano desert landscape to Lake Titicaca, staying for 4-nights on a full board basis at the fabulous Titilaka Lodge, a luxury refuge designed to take advantage of its magnificent shoreside setting about 1 1⁄2 hours from the town of Puno.
Sunday, 01 June 2025
Visit Uros & Taquile Islands
Full day excursion by boat onto the lake, beginning with the floating reed islands of Uros. Although the Uros Indians of these islands have intermarried with Aymaras and no pure-blooded Uros exist, many of the inhabitants of the islands still practice the old traditions of fishing, trapping birds and living on the lake plants. The totora reeds which grow abundantly in the shallows of the lake are used to build and maintain their floating islands, their boats, and also their houses.
Monday, 02 June 2025
Daily excursions included
Daily activities in the area are provided by local guides born in the area, who have an intimate knowledge and understanding of the surrounding landscape and culture. Excursions include nature and archaeology adventures, visiting living cultures in the local villages, colonial churches and islands like Taquile and perhaps most unique of all, the nearby man-made floating islands of the Uros people.
Tuesday, 03 June 2025
Included excursions
The last day at Titicaca Lodge, where you can relax by the lake and take another included guided tour.
Manuel Quispe
Titilaka Lodge
Experience Lake Titicaca on a secluded private peninsula staying in a luxury lodge on the lake shore.
Titilaka Lodge features sumptuous lake view suites, intimate fireside dining, wraparound terraces, and a heated outdoor pool. A serene setting, surrounded by incomparably blue waters, graced with dramatic dawns and spectacular sunsets.
The lodge is all-inclusive, with 18…
Sacred Valley
4 NightsDay 12 - Train to Cusco and onto the Sacred Valley
Day 13 - Sacred Valley of the Incas Tour
Day 14 - Exploring the Sacred Valley
Day 15 - At leisure
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Train to Cusco and onto the Sacred Valley
Crossing the Andes from Puno to Cusco is an unforgettable experience. The Peru Rail Titicaca Train features an open-air observatory car, two dining cars decorated in the style of the Pullman cars of the 1920s with exquisite service and fine gourmet food! The journey takes over 10 hours. On arrival in Cusco, transfer to your luxury hotel in the Sacred Valley for a 4-night stay on a bed and breakfast basis.
Thursday, 05 June 2025
Sacred Valley of the Incas tour
Enjoy our extensive, special full day tour of the Sacred Valley. Begin by visiting the market at Chinchero, where locals come to barter and sell local produce and handicrafts. Also visit a local weaving collective, to learn the traditions of weaving by hand on a back-strap loom. Next you will proceed to Moray, thought to have been an open-air crop laboratory of the Incas, followed by the pre-Inca salt pans of Maras. After lunch, visit the stunning fortress town and ruins of Ollantaytambo. This large archaeological complex is believed to have been a significant agricultural, administrative, social, religious and military centre. The town itself is geometrically perfect; with straight streets, trapezoidal doors, and Inca drainage systems. Finally we travel to the colonial town of Pisac, built on the ruins of an Inca citadel and located at the entrance to the immensely fertile Urubamba "Sacred" Valley. Here you can see the bustling market, and watch the sunset over the mountains from the ruins.
Friday, 06 June 2025
Exploring the Sacred Valley
Today you are free to explore the Sacred Valley at your leisure, depending on your interests. Your chosen hotel has many activities, including hiking, horse riding, local markets and ancient Inca sites.
Saturday, 07 June 2025
At leisure
At leisure at your hotel.
Fernando Chara
Sol Y Luna
Located in Huicho in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Sol y Luna has a stunning setting between the snow-capped mountain ranges of the Cordillera del Vilcanota and the Cordillera del Vilcabamba.
The hotel is a series of adobe bungalows, each with private facilities and a terrace, decorated in a rustic style and set…
Machu Picchu
1 NightDay 16 - Train Journey to Machu Picchu & Private Tour
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Machu Picchu private tour
Board Peru Rail's 'Vistadome' train at Ollantaytambo for the journey to Machu Picchu. This is a spectacular journey through a dramatic and changing landscape with some fantastic views. Upon arrival in Aguas Calientes, you will be met by your guide and check-into your chosen hotel for a 1-night stay on a bed and breakfast basis. After lunch, you will have a private guided tour of the extensive archaeological site to learn about the history and culture of the Incas.
Sanctuary Lodge, Belmond Hotels
Set in its own gardens and the only hotel in such close proximity to the magical ruins, the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge offers twenty-nine well-appointed rooms and two suites. Also located just outside the gates to the Lost city of the Incas, this beautiful hotel is the only one to command views of the site.…
Cusco
3 NightsDay 17 - Machu Picchu and return to Cusco
Day 18 - Guided tour of Cusco
Day 19 - At leisure in Cusco
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Machu Picchu and return to Cusco
The morning is free to explore. You may wish to climb Huayna Picchu, a steep climb but well worth it for the fantastic views of the valley and a different perspective of Machu Picchu. Alternatively, there is a gentle climb, back along the Inca Trail, to Intipunku: the Gate of the Sun, and the first sight one has of the complex if walking the Inca Trail. In the afternoon, take the bus back down to Aguas Calientes and the train back to Ollantaytambo Station and on to Cusco where you stay for 3-nights on a bed and breakfast basis.
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Guided tour of Cusco
Today enjoy a half-day tour of Cusco, visiting the Cathedral in the main square of Cusco and the Koricancha, the Spanish church built on Inca stone foundations. Drive to the mountains above Cusco to visit the archaeological sites of Sacsayhuaman, a mighty fortress, built using massive stones some of which weigh over 100 tons. We will also explore Tambomachay ruins, and on the return we stop at a vantage point above Cusco for a superb view of the city and the surrounding mountains.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
At leisure in Cusco
Your last day in Cusco, soaking up the delightful ambiance of one of Latin America's most popular places to visit.
La Casona
Enjoy superb cuisine, elegant furnishings, attentive service and spacious rooms in the first luxury boutique hotel in Cusco, with a unique mix of culture and tradition. Carefully restored from its former life as a 16th century mansion, La Casona presents modern luxury without sacrificing authenticity. Eleven spacious suites surround a sumptuous courtyard. Contemporary amenities create the…
Amazon Cruise
4 NightsDay 20 - Fly to Iquitos and embark the M/V Aria Amazon
Day 21 - Yanallpa and Dorado Rivers
Day 22 - Pacaya, Ucayali and Tapiche Rivers
Day 23 - Explore the Amazon
Day 24 - Fly back to the UK
Day 25 - Arrive in the UK
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Fly to Iquitos and embark the M/V Aria Amazon
Fly to Lima airport and onward to Iquitos. From here journey together by air-conditioned vehicle through the Peruvian countryside to arrive at our Nauta Lounge in time for lunch, or there will be a box lunch en route depending on the flight arrival time. In the afternoon, set off on your first skiff excursion to visit the birthplace of the Amazon. At 6:00pm, board the M/V Aria Amazon. Settle into your generously proportioned suite as you begin one of life’s greatest adventures.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Yanallpa and Dorado Rivers
Today we explore the black waters of the Yanallpa River, disembarking to walk deep into the Amazonian rain forest. Later, we board the skiffs again to cruise along the El Dorado River for a dusk excursion in search of exotic nocturnal wildlife and with extraordinary stargazing.
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Pacaya, Ucayali and Tapiche Rivers
The rewards of our early start today are plentiful, including a breakfast picnic accompanied by jungle symphony and fishing along the black waters of the Pacaya River. After lunch, venture out by skiffs on the Ucayali River alongside the banana boats transporting their jungle products to the port of Requena, keeping an eye out for pink river dolphins. Focus our hi-tech telescope on the night sky to identify the planets and constellations.
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Explore the Amazon
Choose to go jungle walking, canoeing, kayaking or swimming on the black water Yarapa or Clavero River in the morning. Visit a remote Amazonia village in the afternoon. This evening before dinner, you will gather to introduce you to some of the crew members whom you may not have met, working "behind the scenes" to ensure your countless exceptional experiences aboard the Aria Amazon.
Monday, 16 June 2025
Fly back to the UK
Transfer to the airport and fly to Lima to connect with your overnight flight in Business Cabin Seats back to the UK.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Arrive in the UK
Arrive in the UK in the morning.
Aria Amazon
Built in 2011 and fully renovated in 2015, the Aria Amazon exceeds the expectations of today’s most sophisticated travellers. Extremely generous dining and lounging areas include an outdoor river facing jacuzzi, bar and dining room. Floor-to-ceiling windows give amazing views over the river from all of the 16 air-conditioned suites, each measuring 250 square feet…
Price Guidelines
| Season | Low Season |
|---|---|
| Travel Dates | Year round |
| Room Arrangement | Deluxe |
| Multiple Travellers - Twin Rooms | £16,608 |
Prices are a guideline per person, for travel within the next year and booking early and are subject to availability. Please see below what is included and request a detailed quotation with a guaranteed price for your specific departure date and for Special Events, Summer, Christmas, New Year's Eve & Easter.
What's Included
- 25 days/22 nights
- International flights (2 overnights)
- Internal flights
- Accommodation as shown on the itinerary
- 22 breakfasts, 10 lunches, and 9 dinners
- Transfers to and from airports
- Transport throughout the itinerary
- Excursions listed, all with expert, English-speaking guides
- Exclusive list of restaurant suggestions
- Prices are per person
- Prices for Special Events, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Easter on request
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