The Andes Loop Hop Bus Pass Details
10 Destinations - 11 Sectors - 6 Included Activities - Minimum 20 Days Recommended
Sector 1 Lima
Recommended Nights: 3
Recommended Add-on: City Tour
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper (Cama) Bus
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.
Sector 2 Paracas
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.
Sector 3 Huacachina
Recommended Minimum Nights: 2
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper (Cama) Bus
Included Activity: Dune Buggy (with Sandboarding Included)
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.
Sector 4 Cusco
Recommended Minimum Nights: 4
Included Activities: Sacred Valley Tour, Puno Hopper (Between Cuzco & Puno)
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Tourist Bus
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 worlds truly marvelous sites, Machu Picchu, is only a train ride away, or even take a 4 day hike on the famous Inca trail or Inca Jungle (Bike & Hike).You will also board the Puno Hopper bus headed to Cuzco. In this included trip you will stop at 4 sites of interest with explanations by a local guide.
Sector 5 Puno
Recommended Minimum Nights: 1
Included Activities: Uros Islands Trip
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
Recommended Add-on: Taquile Island Day Trip, Amantani Home Stay & Taquile Island Overnight Tour, Uros Island Eco Trip
Puno is the gateway to the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. Here you have an included trip to see the Uros Islands, made from reeds and which float to support a people who have made, maintained and inhabited them for centuries. After you have finished exploring the lake from Peru, jump on your next bus to Copacabana to see it from Bolivia.
Sector 6 Copacabana
Recommended Minimum Nights: 2
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
Recommended Add-on: Sun Island Overnight Trip
Located on the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, the amazing fishing village of Copacabana will offer you great opportunities to witness breath taking views of the lake and share its unique cultural events with you all year round. Take a boat trip to the Sun Island or just soak up the Andean culture around the village.
Sector 7 La Paz
Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
Recommended Add-on: Bike the Death Road, Tiwanaku Tour
La Paz is the highest capital city in the world and features a unique urban landscape which trickles into an impossible valley. Spend a couple of days or weeks even, to soak in the energy of this enchanting city. Visit the witches market, the valley of the moon, and dare to take on the world's most dangerous road. No trip to South America is complete without a visit to the La Paz!
Sector 8 Puno
This is just a stop-over before your bus to Arequipa.
Sector 9 Arequipa
Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Included Activities: Colca Canyon Overnight Trip
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper (Cama) 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 siltstone, 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.
Sector 10 Nazca
Recommended Minimum Nights: 0
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed 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 desert.
Sector 11 Lima
Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Recommended Add-on: City Tour
You have made it full-circle back to Peru's Capital. Time to celebrate by exploring Lima's great nightlife and relaxing beaches before your return home or continued travels!