Welcome to Peru!

You will be greeted by the friendly Kindle Journeys team. Look out for your name on a paging board. The team member will guide you through the welcome formalities and have your driver take you to your hotel to check-in.

Relax and prepare yourselves for the exciting Peruvian adventures ahead.  

Hotel: nhow Lima
Included Meals: None

Be sure to enjoy a hearty and relaxing breakfast before we take you to a private tour of Lima, the beautiful colonial canter of the city. 

Morning:  You will take a close look at the catacombs under the Convent of San Francisco, which houses the historical remains of colonial Lima! Afterwards, you will visit the Casa Aliaga: one of the oldest mansions in the New World.  

Afternoon: We will take you on a one-of a kind culinary experience to learn the best local ingredients in Lima. You will head to our headquarters in Barranco, the Art district of Lima, which is known for exceptional galleries and food. We will some of our favourite places for great teas, local coffee, and chocolate.  

Hotel: nhow Lima
Included Meals: Breakfast, Late Lunch

After breakfast, we will escort you to the Lima airport for your morning flight to Cusco. Once in the air do not miss to watch out of the airplane window to appreciate the gorgeous snow-capped peaks of the Andes. Our team will be waiting for you as your flight lands at the Cusco airport. Before you can even feel the altitude, we’ll take our way into the Sacred Valley.

Just 45 minutes outside of Cusco, true Peruvian countryside will stretch away on either side of you, cows and sheep grazing tranquilly road-side. Your journey will take you to visit the Living Museum of Manos de la Comunidad, where you will see traditional weavers at work and come face to face with llamas, alpacas and other Andean camelids.

After the wonderful visit, we will all head to our last stop of the day at the Inkariy Museum. This is a very special and unique museum as it is a place you can find a perfect explanation about 8 cultures that presided the Inca Culture.

After this experience, you will be whisked away to enjoy a home cooked Peruvian meal. At the end of this delicious lunch, your guide will escort you to your amazing sacred valley hotel and help you check in.

Hotel: Aranwa Wellness & Spa Hotel, Sacred Valley
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, we will head to Maras where one gets to be amazed. View from top of the valley looking down on the salt mines is unique. Thousands of white bottomed salt pools smothering the hillside leaves one wondering if eyes are tricking us. Enjoy!  You will be able to appreciate a true work of art, as the water flows through an intricate network of waterways and evaporation pools that have been in continual usage dating back to pre-Incan times.

Next stop will be Moray – an archaeological site shaped as an amphitheatre, believed to be utilized as an agricultural experimental station by the Incas. Three natural limestone sinkholes were ringed with concentric terracing, each providing unique temperatures and soil mixtures to reflect the varied growing conditions found across the Incan Empire. After a wonderful morning, we will stop to enjoy lunch in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

Following our time enjoying a leisurely lunch, we will head out for learn about Casita Huarán. For many years Quechua Youth has approached this home seeking new opportunities of work, education, and understanding, and Tania Herrera, local fearless leader opened their doors to the kids to a Safe and Free Space, which is now their second home and family. This beautiful bond of trust was born and naturally unfolded the real stories of adversity these families were confronting. The best way to support the initiative is to provide school supplies – you can either bring these along or provide donation for this purpose.

Hotel: Aranwa Wellness & Spa Hotel, Sacred Valley
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner with site inspection

EXPERIENCE: Today after breakfast, you will head to Huatata, a very special and unique place inside the Sacred Valley. This small village is the home town of a natural-born culinary wizard, Manuel Choqque is a fourth-generation farmer from Huatata. After studying agricultural engineering in the Peruvian capital, he returned to his hometown to take over the family business and focus on the natural genetic improvement of native potatoes known as ocas and mashuas.

He began collecting ancestral potato varieties by himself as a hobby, studying products from Inca and preInca cultures that were no longer used. Today, he has more than 380 varieties of native potatoes, which he improves by imitating bees with manual cross-pollination.

During his research, Manuel discovered that the oca (oxalis tuberosa) contained high levels of sugar and therefore had the potential to be used for alcoholic beverages. After two years of research and experimentation, he launched his own oca wine, which he called Miskioca which, in this fascinating and unique experience, you will taste along with a wide different type of potatos flavoured with local sauces.

Afterwards, you will enjoy a special lunch, Pachamanca, which is a dish with profound cultural significance for the peasant society of Perú. How this dish is prepared is also amazing. The ingredients (Beef, pork, chicken, and vegetables) are previously seasoned with some species like Chincho, huacatay, pepper, and some others. Then all ingredients are cooked or baked with the aid of hot stones in an earthen oven.

Hotel: Aranwa Wellness & Spa Hotel, Sacred Valley
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch.

Enjoy an early morning breakfast and get ready for your train ride. We will leave the hotel at 8:15 am and head out to Ollantaytambo, which is where we will board our train from.

Let the journey to Machu Picchu begin!

Upon arrival, we’ll all be transported up the hill, (30min) to the entrance way of the magnificent Inca citadel.

Then ascend stone steps, through heavy tree cover to finally emerge at the top of the world – Machu Picchu! Your expert guide will give you a private tour of the ancient city. We will spend all of 3 hours in Machu Picchu.

After finishing your visit, you will have time to explore and proceed to have lunch.

After lunch you will proceed to the bus station in order to take your bus down to Aguas Calientes where your guide will help you check in into your hotel.

Hotel: Aranwa Boutique Hotel, Cusco
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, your guide will proceed to illuminate the glorious past of Cusco! You will head the Santo Domingo monastery, built on top of the ancient Inca temple of the sun, to the incredible colonial cathedral in the Plaza de Armas as well as La Merced Convent to impeccably-wrought Inca stones that form the base of modern buildings, you will learn about the astonishing mix that is Cusco.

Later on, your guide will take you to discover the amazing ruins of Sacsayhuaman. One thinks that it began to be constructed during the government of Inca Pachacutec in century XV.

It is believed that more than 20 thousand men extracted the stones from the nearby quarries and moved it 20 kilometers to the hill of the city of Cusco. How the Incas built Sacsayhuaman with structures of an unlikely weight and size for the time? Many questions are still a mystery. There lies the beauty of this archaeological site.

Later on, you`re going to have some free time.

Hotel: Aranwa Boutique Hotel, Cusco
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner with site Inspection

After breakfast, and at the appropriate time, you will be escorted to the Cusco airport in order to take your flight back to Lima. Once in Lima, your host will assist you with the check in process into your international flight back home.

Hotel: None
Meals Included: Breakfast

Today your day starts early in the morning, after breakfast, for a 3.5-hour drive to the fascinating adventure on the Montaña de Colores.  The hike to the rainbow mountain will take around 40 minutes and is a distance of less than one kilometer. Throughout your journey you will pass through a vibrant green valley with the snow capped peak of Apu Ausangate towering in the distance. 

You will see hundreds of roaming alpacas, and have the chance to truly see how Quechua people live. As you get closer to the Rainbow Mountain you will begin to see the first signs of the colored minerals that formed the painted hills. Your guide will explain what makes up the existence of the Rainbow Mountain and how it was formed, and finally with one last push you will hike up to a vantage point that gives you a 360-degree view of the beautiful landscape that makes up the sacred land. 

We will have snacks on top and take a relaxing break to soak up the vistas, where you can enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. Shortly after you will have a boxed lunch prepared specially for you to later on depart back to Cusco, arriving at your hotel around 5:00pm.

Hotel: Aranwa Boutique Hotel, Cusco
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch