Imperial Local Living Circuit: Lima - Cusco - Puno in 7 days

Itinerary

Day 1 | Circuit

Welcome to Lima & City Tour

Airport pickup and transfer to your hotel.

The tour begins with the gathering of our passengers from their hotels in Lima, and then we stop at the Intihuatana Park, located on the Malecon of Miraflores, where we will observe the Pacific Ocean. We start our tour by modern residential districts of Miraflores and San Isidro. We observe outside the Huaca Pucllana, a ceremonial pre-Inca temple pyramid that has survived the urban sprawl of Lima.

We will continue our journey to the park El Olivar and the Financial Center, and then we drive to the Historic Center of Lima, declared by UNESCO in 1991 as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, where the center of the Spanish colony was established in the sixteenth century and erected the first buildings. Know the Plaza San Martin, balconies, and old houses, the Plaza Mayor, and its most important buildings like the Government Palace, the Cathedral of Lima, the Archbishop's Palace, and Municipal, Desamparados Station, among others.

We enter one of the most important monasteries of the seventeenth century. Where the relics of the three Peruvian saints, Santa Rosa de Lima, San Martin de Porres, and San Juan Macías, are preserved. Then return to Miraflores, and ending our tour, we will have the option to stay in the Indian market in Larcomar or return to our hotel.

Day 2 | Circuit

Flight Lima - Cusco (Free Time to Explore & Relax)

Breakfast at hotel

At the scheduled time, transfer to Lima airport.

Flight Lima Cusco (on behalf of the Passengers)

Reception at Cusco airport and transfer to your hotel.

Free afternoon to acclimatize to the altitude or activities on their own.

Day 3 | Circuit

Living Experince in Cusco - Willoq

Breakfast in the hotel

We will pick you up at 6 am at your hotel in the direction of Ollantaytambo (Inca city inhabited). Here we will do a small visit to the city, and after we will follow towards the native community of Willoq, located at 14 km from Ollantaytambo. Once at Willoq, our local friends will receive you with a welcome drink (coke or “muña” tea) and their folk dance. After, they will show and share with you their uses, traditions, and daily activities (textiles, agriculture, gastronomy, etc.). The time spent will take between 3 or 4 hours. Following we have a typical lunch and after a rest and some interaction. Transfer to the Ollantaytambo train station. 

INCLUDED: Transport Cusco-Willoq-Cusco; typical lunch; English guide.

19:00 PM. They will board the train to Aguas Calientes.
20.43 PM. Arrival and transfer walking to the chosen hotel.
Overnight at Aguas Calientes.

Day 4 | Circuit

Excursion to Citadel of Machu Picchu – Cusco

Early breakfast at the hotel.
After breakfast, transfer walking to the bus station, where you will board a minibus to ascend to the esplanade of Machu Picchu and take a guided tour of the main buildings. In the afternoon, transfer back to Aguas Calientes.
In the afternoon return to Cusco. Arrival reception and transfer to the hotel.
16:22 approximately train to return to Ollantaytambo.
Transfer from Ollantaytambo to Cusco.

Overnight at Cusco. 

Day 5 | Circuit

Trip Cusco – Puno

Breakfast at hotel

At the appropriate time, transfer to the bus station to Puno. If the hotel category is 4 or 5 stars, the trip will be by train on Peru Rail Titicaca; these outputs are only on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, if different. The trip from Cusco to Puno will be in a tourist bus.

Reception in Puno.

Overnight in Puno.

Day 6 | Circuit

Amazing Night With Stars - Sleep in Uros Lodge – Puno

Breakfast in the hotel

At a convenient hour, pickup from the hotel to transfer to Uros Lodge.

Pleasant place to sleep in Uros, free of pollution, acoustic and relaxing noise, located 30 minutes from the city of Puno, overnight and family coexistence in the floating islands of the Uros.

The rooms are built like the island with a reed base overlooking the lake, a firm wood floor, and decorated and implemented with fabrics and crafts, to sleep in Uros with comfortable mattresses and cushions decorated with textiles.

Our experience begins with the transfer of your hotel to the town center of Uros-Chulluni where we embark to the floating islands of the Uros. Received by a local family, they take us to their lodging of rural family in their boats, customs to 15 minutes. Of the indicated port, then we will settle in the rooms properly equipped for experiential tourism; once installed, we will taste of a delicious lunch offered by the family, and then we will be able to appreciate its different activities in the Uros, such as the artisanal fishing, cut of the reeds, its dress with typical native clothes, kayak in boats of reeds, and visits to the surrounding communities; also, the guests will be able to learn traditional techniques of craftsmanship and weaving.

In the afternoon we will have the dinner offered by the locals of the accommodation; we will spend the night.

Overnight in the Lodge in Puno.

Day 7 | Circuit

Return Puno – Lima

Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer hotel - airport.
Flight Puno–Lima. (NOT INCLUDE)
Arrival in Lima.
Waiting at the airport for an international flight.

What's Included?

LIMA

• Transfer IN/OUT in Lima airport–hotel–airport
• 1-night hotel in Lima with breakfast
• City Tour in Lima Traditional.

CUSCO

• Transfer IN/OUT in Cusco bus station–hotel–airport
• 2 nights in a hotel in Cusco with breakfast
• Living experience in the community of Willoq.
• Train Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes - Ollantaytambo.
• 1-night hotel in Aguas Calientes.
• Tour the Citadel of Machu Picchu.
• Ticket entry to Machu Picchu.
• Bus Conssettur.

PUNO

• Transfer to the airport: Puno–Lima.
• 01 night hotel lodge in Puno, Titicaca Lake, with breakfast
• Full-day Titicaca Lake + typical lunch.

What's not Included?

• International and local flight tickets

Additional Services

What to Bring?

• Original passport
• Hiking shoes
• Rain jacket or poncho
• Sweater, gloves, and hat
• T-shirts and shirts
• Comfortable pants
• Sun hat
• Sunglasses
• Sunblock
• Camelback or bottle
• Water
• Insect repellent
• Personal medicines
• Camera
• Lighters
• Short pants
• Money in cash

PRICES

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Important information

Imperial Local Living Circuit: Lima - Cusco - Puno in 7 days Map