Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper Bus
Recommended Add-on: City Tour
Arrive to Lima and discover a modern city full of lovely parks, plazas, and even beaches. In times past Lima was thought as just the entry point to Peru where people would spend a night before exploring other parts of the country. Now travellers are staying a few nights to take advantage of the cities nightlife, museums, and fun activities.
Recommended Minimum Nights: 0
Included Activity: Ballestas Island Boat Tour
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Van Transfer
You will leave Lima very early so as to take advantage of a full day. The bus will stop on the Paracas peninsular for your included boat tour of the Ballestas islands, which boasts an abundance of visible sea creatures. It is nicknamed 'Little Galapagos' because of all the creatures that live here. You will also see a massive etching in the sand left by the ancient indigenous.
Recommended Minimum Nights: 2
Included Activities: Dune Buggies & Sand Boarding Tour
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
After your Ballestas Island tour you will hop onto another bus to the city of Ica, only a short distance from Huacachina by taxi. Huacachina is a real oasis town set around a fresh spring lake amongst towering sand dunes. The afternoon you arrive you will head out on dune buggies and then take to the sandy slopes for some sand boarding.
Recommended Minimum Nights: 0
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper Bus
Recommended Add-on: Nazca Lines over-flight
Your next bus trip takes you to Nazca, the once centre of a pre-Inca civilization which left remarkable and mysterious images on the desert floor, best seen from the air (optional Nazca Lines flight). Take a trip out to see the preserved Nazca mummies out in the dessert. You then board your night bus to Arequipa.
Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Included Activities: Colca Canyon Overnight Trip
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper Bus
Recommended Add-on: Upgrade to Colca Canyon 2 or 3 days trek
You will arrive to Arequipa, the capital of southern Peru. The city which features a beautiful white cathedral along with other grand buildings made from white volcanic sillastone, the reason why Arequipa is known as the 'White City'. Visit the museum which houses Juanita the Ice maiden found frozen and preserved on top of a nearby volcano, and explore the walled convent of Santa Catalina, Latin-colonial architecture at its best which has hosted many years of secrets before the public were allowed to enter.
Your included activity will take you high into the Andes, you will visit the Colca Canyon, home to many indigenous communities and thermal pools to soak in. You will see the rare giant condor which soars frequently at eye level around the Condor Pass, but remember there is no guarantees that they will be flying the day you are there.
Recommended Minimum Nights: 4
Recommended Add-on: Inca Trail, Salkantay Trek, Inca Jungle, Lares Trek, Machu Picchu Tour
The Inca Capital of Cusco, the navel of the earth as its name suggests in local Quechua. Cuzco is a city where history abounds in Inca foundations built upon by the Spanish conquistadors. You will need at least 2 whole days to see Cusco and its nearby surrounds, but be warned, it is hard to leave, and why should you leave so soon when one of the world's truly marvelous sites, Machu Picchu, is only a train ride away, or take a 4 day hike on the famous Inca trail or Inca Jungle (Bike & Hike).