Nazca Lines and Machu Picchu Tour 8 Days

Breakfast in your hotel.
03:00a.m. Transfer from your hotel to the terminal Cruz del Sur.
07:15a.m. Pick up from Paracas bus terminal.
08:00a.m. Ballestas Islands Tour.- We board our 2 outboard motor boats that will take us to the wonderful Ballestas Islands, the most important wild sanctuary of the Peruvian coast where we can observe sea lions, booby birds, pelicans, penguins and other sea birds.
11:00a.m. Transfer from Paracas to Huacachina (Duration: 1 hour)
Lunch (not included)
01:20p.m. Start of the Ica City Tour (Duration: 3 hours) to the following places:
Main Square of the city of Ica; a place with 2 beautiful obelisks which represent the 2 great cultures that flourished in the region of Ica.
Artisan Wine Cellar "El Catador"; We will see the press that is used for the grapes and the vintner will show and explain to us the traditional artisan method of making wine and pisco.
Luren sanctuary; a majestic church that was affected but it’s still standing after the earthquake of August 2007.
Huacachina lagoon; known as the oasis of America, a beautiful place surrounded by palm trees, huarangos (American carob tree) and immense sand dunes.
16:00p.m. Buggy & Sandboarding- You can experience the adrenaline of these different adventure sports (1 hour)
18:00p.m. Return from the tour
Pick up and transfer to the accommodation of your choice
Overnight in Ica

Breakfast in your hotel
09:05a.m. Transfer Ica- Nazca (2 hours Approx)
11:15a.m. Pick up at Nazca, transfer to the airdrome
Enigmatic Circuit: Overflight of the Nazca Lines
Overflight on the Nazca Lines: Start of tour at Maria Reich Newman airdrome.
The Nazca Lines are in the south of Peru, on a desert plateau between the Valleys of Ingenio and Nazca.
In this tour you can have a perfect view of the lines that create the gigantic figures of birds, animals, plants and deities. Unique in the world because the only way to see it’s huge size and dimensions is from the sky.
In this excursion you will get the opportunity to see first hand the enigmatic lines and geoglyphs of Nazca, recognized as a world heritage site.
Return bus to Lima at 03:30pm (7 hours)
Overnight in your hotel in Lima.

Breakfast in your hotel and transfer to Lima Airport
Flight Lima- Cusco
Transfer to your hotel in Cusco
Free morning to relax and walk around the city.
1:00p.m. - Our staff will pick you up from the hotel to start the city tour with all its historical monuments:
Church and Convent of Santo Domingo. Spanish construction over the Inca temple of Qoricancha or Temple of the Sun. Qoricancha (in Quechua “golden enclosure”) was the main Inca religious complex dedicated to the worshiping of the sun. It’s interior walls, according to the chroniclers, were covered with sheets of gold.
Next, we visit the archaeological sites located around the city of Cusco:
The Fortress of Sacsayhuaman: 2 km from Cusco. It’s a cyclopean masonry fortress from the Inca period. It is built on three superimposed platforms that have an average of 360m. long.
Tambomachay: 7 km from Cusco; known as the Inca baths. It is considered a place of worship to water.
Qenqo: 3 km from Cusco; it’s believed that it was a shrine. It has passages, canals, stairways, engravings and a huge stone block of 5.90 m. all resembling a puma.
Puka Pukara: 6 km from Cusco. It was an administrative and military center made up of platforms, stairways, passages, towers and niches.
Return to the City of Cusco.

Breakfast at the hotel.
8:00a.m. Our staff will pick you up from the hotel to start the Sacred Valley of the Incas tour.
Taray viewpoint: Time to take out our cameras or phones and admire the beautiful landscape of the Sacred Valley of the Incas
Pisaq: Our first destination is the archaeological site of Pisaq, which includes a visit to the local market in town
Urubamba: Buffet lunch in one of the restaurants with the best typical Andean dishes.
Ollantaytambo: A town that remains untouched from the Inca times. We can get a good idea of how this religious, military and cultural center looked like.
Train to Machu Picchu town: 16:30p.m
18:10p.m. Arrival at the town of Aguas Calientes.
Pick up from the train station to take you to the hotel of your choice
Meeting with the guide to agree on the departure time of the next day to Machu Picchu sanctuary.

Breakfast at the hotel.
At the time agreed with the guide, we will take the bus up to Machu Picchu (30 minutes approx.).
Machu Picchu sanctuary (2430amsl):
We have to show the entrance ticket or ID to begin our visit
The guide will be waiting to start the 2 hour guided tour around one of the seven wonders of the world
At the end of the guided tour, you will have enough time to take the photos and go around the site on your own before boarding the bus back to town.
Optional: Buffet Lunch in Aguas Calientes (El Mapi Restaurant) Extra Cost US $ 17.00
Optional: In your free time, you can climb up Huayna Picchu mountain or go to the hot springs in Aguas Calientes (extra cost)
Time to visit the artisan markets in Machu Picchu.
4:12p.m. We board our train heading to Ollantaytambo station.
Transfer from the train station to your hotel in Cusco.

Excursion to Rainbow mountain
Difficulty level: Intermediate
The tour to Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain) is a full day. We start 3:00am and return approx. at 6:00- 6:30pm. It’s a 3 hour trip until Hanchipacha, where we will have breakfast (Continental). Then another 10 to 15 minutes in our vehicle to the starting point of the walk. It’s 2/ 2.5 hours to the top. We return on the same route back to the parking lot where our transport will be waiting to take us to the restaurant to enjoy a delicious buffet lunch. Afterwards we return to Cusco.
Overnight in the city of Cusco