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DAY 1 CUSCO CITY TOUR
Upon arrival to Cusco Airport. Reception and
transportation to the Hotel where you will receive
an aromatic coca tea to stimulating for the height,
will have the free morning to rest and also we
suggest you have a light lunch in either your hotel
or in one of the surrounded; in the afternoon we
will depart on a City tour (entrance to the
archaeological centers and museums including) we
will visit the Main square, Cathedral, the
Koricancha (temple of the sun) and in addition we
will make a route bordering archaeological centers
like Sacsayhuaman Fortress, Q'enko, Puka Pukara and
Tambomachay, tour finishes 6:30pm approximately at
the main square in order you can take dinner in one
of the exquisite restaurants in the area, then
overnight. (No meals included)
*Optional Buffet Dinner with Folkloric Show:
Adding $24 per person
DAY 2 FULL DAY SACRED VALLEY TOUR
Breakfast. You will be picked up at 8:15 am. Full
day excursion to the Urubamba Valley visiting: the
colorful Indian market in Pisac where a mixture of
color and tradition will be able appreciated besides
will have a good opportunity to try our bargain
skills on the free time to interact with the local
craftsmen to purchase their hand-made souvenirs. The
Valley has a distance of 31 km (19 miles) of Cusco,
and an altitude of 2,970 ms (9,700 p), Pisac is
located to the entrance of the Sacred Valley and
followed by Ollantaytambo, the older town
continuously occupied of the American continent. The
narrow streets of Ollantaytambo, along with their
channels that have not varied from the time Inca,
evoke their ancestral inheritance, lunch in a
typical restaurant and then the last visit will be
to Chinchero market.
Chinchero is believed to be the mythical birthplace
of the rainbow. Its major claim to tourism is its
colorful Sunday market which is much less
tourist-orientated than the market at Pisac. At the
end, return to Cusco main square at 6:30pm approx.
The night is free for you to eat in a restaurant of
your choice; although we always have plenty of
suggestions for you should you require them. (B, L)
Note: Take this tour on market days: Tuesday,
Thursday and Sunday
Bilingual Guided tour on different days
DAY 3 MACHU PICCHU TOUR
*Note: Doesn’t work on Sundays
Breakfast and at 8.15am pick up to go Poroy Train's
station. The Hiram Bingham departs from Poroy
Station (20 minutes outside Cusco) at 9.00am which
gives a more leisurely start to the day than the
traditional 6am departures of other train services
to Machu Picchu.
Brunch is served on board the train whilst
passengers watch the spectacular scenery unfolding
before them. From the agricultural plains of the
Sacred Valley, to the crashing waters of the
Urubamba River, and as you get closer to Machu
Picchu the soaring mountains, the scenery is
constantly changing, and the Hiram Bingham travels
at a speed where this can be appreciated.
The train arrives into Aguas Calientes where private
minibuses await passengers to escort them on the
fifteen minute journey up to the citadel, avoiding
the queues.
Upon arrival at the Machu Picchu entrance,
passengers can go straight into the citadel as
tickets will have been pre-purchased for all guests.
A guide will escort you around the citadel in small
groups, pointing out the best of the ruins and
recounting the history of this Inca settlement.
After the guided tour, guests are given the choice
to wander alone through this fascinating World
Heritage site, or to enjoy Afternoon Tea at the
Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge, the Orient-Express
hotel located right at the entrance to the citadel.,
overnight at the select hotel in Aguas Calientes
town (B)
DAY 4 BACK IN CUSCO
*Note: Doesn’t work on Sundays
Morning at leisure by your own (entrance and bus fee
to Machu Picchu archaeological site not included on
the fee) in the afternoon return to Cusco.
The Hiram Bingham departs at 18.00. Guests are
welcomed back on board with pre-dinner cocktails
served in the Bar Car with live musical
entertainment. Later a 4-course, à la carte dinner
is served in the dining cars. The train pulls into
Poroy station just outside Cusco at 21.25. Upon
arrival transfer to your hotel. Overnight.(B,L)
WHAT'S INCLUDED ON HIRAM BINGHAM?
On-board meals with Peruvian wine, cusqueña Beer,
soft drinks and hot drinks (brunch on outward
journey, dinner on return), on-board entertainment,
guides, bus transfers, entrance to the Machu Picchu
sanctuary and afternoon tea at Machu Picchu
Sanctuary Lodge, pre-dinner cocktails
DAY 5: SOUTH VALLEY(Tipon -
Pikillacta-Andahuaylillas )
(Note: Take this tour on: Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat)
Breakfast and pick you up from your hotel at 7:45 am
for a tour in the valley south where you can visit
the following sites:
TIPON: A large area of crop that contains 12
impressive terraces that are now grown, whose walls
were built with finely carved stone. More impressive
still is the irrigation system which is still
serving agriculture and the advantage is the water
in the spring season.
PIKILLAQTA: Presents characteristics of a
major urban center for the development time of the
Wari empire with over a thousand spaces between
buildings, colcas (deposits food), athletic fields
or houses, temples, long and narrow streets with
buildings that took up to 4 stories high.
ANDAHUAYLILLAS: Typical Andean village time
the colony of origin and unique architecture.
Andahuaylillas stressed in his Catholic church from
the colonial era with a beautiful decoration and
wall painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth
century known as the Sistine Chapel of Cusco.
We return to Cusco at approximately 1:30 pm. Rest of
day at leisure. Overnight (B, Box lunch)
DAY 6: MARAS AND MORAY
Departure day at 9:00am you will visit Maras, from
which one can reach the salt flats and the Moray
ruins, is located on the northwestern side before
entering the city of Cuzco. The salt flats display a
spectacle of unusual beauty. Located on a wide-open
hill above the Urubamba Valley, the salt water runs
along channels, which extend through the flooded
lands and follow a more or less rectangular pattern,
depending on the variations in the land.
The water, which is exposed to the sun, leaves salt
on the bed. Viewed from the peak, the myriad of
rectangles look Like an enormous painting designed
by nature. Inland, not far from Maras, one can find
the Moray ruins, there are three "coliseums", used
by the Inkas as a sort of open-air crop laboratory,
and the terraces arranged in concentric circles and
spread out at intervals from the lower to the upper
region as reminiscent of a Greek theatre. Lunch time
and then in the afternoon back to Cusco to the hotel
(B,L).
DAY 7: TRANSFER OUT
Breakfast and bus service to the airport and end of
our services (B).
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