• 6 Dinner (D)
• 12 Breakfast (B)
• 5 Lunch (L)

• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• 4-star hotel and overnight cruise stays
• Deluxe coach, cruise and train travel, and select flights

• Lima: Take in the highlights of Lima, the ‘City of the Kings,’ including a panoramic view of the ancient districts. Join a local specialist for a visit to the UNESCO-listed Historic Center. Learn how before it was destroyed by earthquakes in the mid-18th century, observing how the historic buildings display a collaboration between local craftspeople and others from the Old World. Then drive along the coastline as you learn more about the fascinating history of Peru’s capital city. 
• Cusco: Visit the mystical Incan stronghold of Ollantaytambo. These famous ruins are a massive Inca fortress made of large stone terraces stretching out across a hillside. Walk among the stone platforms, the sun temple of six monoliths and the Princess Baths fountain ? the Baño de la Nusta at the base of the ruins flowing from carved stone into a pool. Over your exploration, learn how the old town is an Inca-era grid of cobblestoned streets and adobe buildings.
• Machu Picchu: Soak in every moment of your Machu Picchu tour in style as you descend to the Lost City in the clouds aboard the Vistadome train. Travelling the Inca Trail, you’ll traverse dramatic landscapes with a panoramic view of the soaring peaks, river, and ruins. Sit back and relax as you enjoy this multi-sensory journey complete with background music, an informative audio commentary highlighting interesting sites, and an included light snack.
• Machu Picchu: Take a shuttle to the top of the mountain where you’ll meet your local specialist for a guided hike of Machu Picchu. You’ll learn about Machu Picchu’s history and the use of each section of including ceremonial, storage, agriculture, temples, astronomical, and observatory as well as the possible reasons why the Incas left Machu Picchu.
• Cusco: Enjoy the flavours of chicha, a Peruvian corn beer. Hear about how chicha is brewed by the local indigenous women and its history dating back to the time of the Incas as a favourite drink of the Andes. Learn about the two types of chicha, alcoholic sour chicha de jora made from fermented jora corn and the non-alcoholic, sweet chicha morada.
• Machu Picchu: The ruins of Machu Picchu beckon yet again and we enjoy one final opportunity to reconnect with its story. Journey to take in the ruins at sunrise spending some time on your own to explore the hill-top fortress. Soak in every moment at this iconic site, making stops at points of interest while your guide shares their insights on the archaeological sites.
• Cusco: Join your Local Specialist for a guided walk through Cusco’s colonial centre, including the nearby 13th-century Incan settlement of Koricancha. Here in Cusco’s Golden Temple of the Sun dedicated to the Sun God Inti, view the trapezoidal and irregular shapes and rounded edges. Note how the stones fit together and were built simply by placing them on top of each other without using any mortar. This staggered placement also enables them to withstand earthquakes.
• Cusco: Begin your day at the ruins of the UNESCO-listed Sacsayhuamán fortress overlooking Cusco. With zig zagging walls and ruins of giant stones, see how the shape and harmony of the landscape is similar to Machu Picchu. Stroll through this Incan architecture of sacred buildings such as residential buildings, towers, shrines, warehouses, roads and aqueducts. And while you may not be able to take in the grand scale, the complex design is based on the shape of the head of a puma, a sacred animal in Inca spirituality.
• Lima: Join a local specialist for a tour of the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum which houses the largest private collection of pre-Columbian Peruvian art in the world. You’ll also explore the extensive collection of Peruvian gold and silver from ancient times. Learn the history of the museum founded by Rafael Larco on July 28th, 1926 in Trujillo followed by in 1958 when Larco moved his collection to Lima to a unique colonial residence built on top of a VIII century pyramid.

• Lima: You’re treated to a lesson on how to pour the perfect sour, Peru’s native drink. In the good hands of professional chef Ignacio, the results are sure to be delicious. Ignacio will explain the history of Pisco – a type pf wine, the typical Pisco Sour, and an internationally less known but locally more popular drink called “Chilcano”. This cocktail of pisco, lime juice, Ginger ale and bitters is a refreshing twist on the pisco sour that will have you eager to share the recipe with your friends.

Ascend wooden steps on Bartolomé Island for a sweeping view of tuff cones, lava fields and the photogenic spire of Pinnacle Rock. The panorama reveals Santiago Island beyond and the raw forms of a young volcanic landscape.

Return to the bay to snorkel over sandy platforms where Galápagos penguins, sea lions and reef fish sometimes glide by. Your guide explains how currents and geology create this rare high-equatorial penguin habitat.

Visit the Cerro Colorado Tortoise Reserve, home to the breeding centre of La Galapaguera, to see Galápagos giant tortoises at different life stages—from tiny hatchlings to lumbering adults.

Learn about threats and restoration efforts that safeguard San Cristóbal’s endemic subspecies. Trails and interpretive displays illuminate how conservation, biosecurity and habitat recovery underpin the archipelago’s living laboratory of evolution.

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Discover Lima’s heart on a guided panoramic tour through the UNESCO-listed Historic Centre, taking in balconied mansions around Plaza Mayor and the austere beauty of the Cathedral of Lima. Feel the pulse of the “City of Kings” as colonial facades meet a modern Pacific skyline.

Visit the Church and Convent of San Francisco to descend into its hidden catacombs, a sobering window into colonial-era Lima. Your Local Specialist shares the city’s layered past—from viceregal splendor to republican rebirth—bringing context to the architecture and traditions you see today.

Explore a neighborhood market with a culinary insider and join a hosted cooking class that celebrates Peru’s pantry—gleaming seafood, sun-sweet fruit, Andean grains and native chilies. Learn to stir-fry lomo saltado and craft a Chilcano, a refreshing pisco cocktail brightened with lime and ginger.

Hear how Peru’s celebrated cuisine blends pre-Columbian staples with Spanish, African, Japanese and Chinese influences. In a convivial school setting, taste, toast and talk flavor as you discover why Lima is Latin America’s gastronomic capital.

Visit the acclaimed Larco Museum, housed in an 18th-century mansion built atop a pre-Columbian pyramid. Admire exquisite ceramics, textiles and gold in galleries that trace 5,000 years of Andean creativity, from Moche fineline pottery to pre-Columbian art masterworks.

As evening falls, dine in the museum’s garden, scented with bougainvillea and jasmine. Surrounded by softly lit adobe walls and gold and silver galleries, savor contemporary Peruvian dishes that echo the heritage on display.

Connect at Manos de la Comunidad on a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience, where community artisans demonstrate carding, dyeing and back-strap weaving. Meet the four Andean camelids—llama, alpaca, vicuña and guanaco—whose fibers sustain centuries-old textile arts.

Step into a private space to learn about the Linderaje tradition, a community rite that reaffirms local borders through pageantry and dance. Your visit supports training and fair income, helping preserve techniques and sustainable communities across the Sacred Valley.

Climb the agricultural terraces of the Ollantaytambo Fortress, a mountainside bastion where Incas once resisted the Spanish. Trace finely fitted walls to the radiant Temple of the Sun, carved from rose granite blocks hauled from across the valley.

Hear how this living Inca town still follows its original street grid, with canals murmuring between adobe homes. Your Local Specialist unlocks construction methods, waterworks and sacred alignments that reveal the Incas’ mastery of stone and landscape.

Board the Vistadome train for a picture-window journey along the Urubamba River, where terraces cling to cliffs and glaciers crown the Sacred Valley. Panoramic carriages flood the cabin with Andean light as peaks and hamlets glide by.

Listen to onboard commentary and Andean melodies while savoring a light snack. With panoramic windows framing rapids and jungle-fringed slopes, the approach to Machu Picchu becomes part of the experience, not just the route.

Enter the cloud forest sanctuary of Machu Picchu with a Local Specialist. Walk among precision-cut walls, ritual stones and stone terraces that appear to grow from the ridge itself, suspended above the Urubamba River’s deep gorge.

Learn prevailing theories of this 15th-century royal estate as you visit agricultural sectors, temples and observatories. From orchids at your feet to mist drifting across the Andean cloud forest, every angle reveals a different facet of Inca ingenuity.

Witness sunrise over the citadel as first light gilds terraces and peaks. Follow quiet paths to classic viewpoints—such as the Guardhouse overlook—to take in the layered silhouettes of Huayna Picchu and the surrounding cordillera.

Use unhurried time to linger, photograph and reflect. With the morning breeze carrying birdsong and the scent of wet stone, this contemplative visit lets you connect with the site’s setting as much as its stones.

Visit a traditional roadside chichería to taste two Andean staples: chicha de jora, a lightly sour, fermented corn beer, and chicha morada, a spiced, non-alcoholic brew of purple maize, pineapple and cinnamon.

Learn how women brew chicha in clay chombas and signal availability with a red flag called a risti. Stories of harvests, festivals and communal work bring this everyday drink into cultural focus.

Stroll the cobbles of Cusco’s colonial core to the Cathedral of Cusco on the Plaza de Armas, then step into Qorikancha (Temple of the Sun), once sheathed in gold and later absorbed into the Spanish Church of Santo Domingo.

Continue to hilltop Sacsayhuamán, whose zigzag ramparts of cyclopean stones showcase Inca engineering at monumental scale. Your Local Specialist reveals how Inca stonework, seismic know-how and symbolism endure beneath baroque facades.

Explore Quito’s Centro Histórico, the first UNESCO World Heritage city, where plazas, monasteries and gilded churches unfold against Andean peaks. Admire the sumptuous interior of La Compañía de Jesús and the bustle around San Francisco Plaza.

Travel north to the Middle of the World to stand on the Equator and learn about hemispheres and indigenous cosmologies. Photo ops abound at the monument while your guide shares stories of Quito’s highland cultures and geography.

Sail the archipelago aboard the M/V Galápagos Legend, a comfortable expedition ship designed for wildlife discovery. Days unfold with zodiac landings, snorkeling sessions and shore hikes; evenings bring briefings, stargazing and sea breezes on deck.

Guided by National Park-certified naturalists, learn island geology, evolution and endemic species behavior. With small groups and well-timed excursions, the cruise balances active exploration with moments to watch the Pacific’s changing light.

Walk volcanic trails on North Seymour Island to observe courtship displays of blue-footed boobies and the scarlet pouches of magnificent frigatebirds. Sea lions lounge along wave-washed shores while swallow-tailed gulls nest nearby.

Slip into the water to snorkel in clear waters, watching reef fish flicker over lava ledges. Your naturalist interprets this bustling rookery, highlighting seasonal behaviors and the island’s role in the archipelago’s ecological web.

Traverse the rippled crust of Sullivan Bay, where 19th-century eruptions left vast pahoehoe lava flows frozen in ropy swirls and tree-mold impressions. It’s like walking across a cooling ocean of stone.

Pause to study hornitos, pressure ridges and glassy basalt textures—geological time on display. Cap the visit with a relaxed beach interlude, where a quick swim or shoreline stroll softens the stark drama of the lava fields.

Hike the slopes of Punta Pitt, an eroded tuff cone with sweeping sea views. This is among the few sites where you can see red-footed, blue-footed and Nazca boobies sharing the same headland, each with distinct nesting habits.

After the hike, choose to snorkel or kayak along the coast, scanning for sea lions and marine birds. Your naturalist sets the scene with insights into island uplift, currents and the food chains that sustain these colonies.

Wander the white sands of Cerro Brujo, backed by lava formations and views toward Kicker Rock rising from the sea. The broad, shallow bay often hosts playful sea lions and foraging shorebirds.

Follow a sandy path to a hidden lagoon where black-necked stilts and pintail ducks may be spotted. Your guide explains how wind, salt and volcanic soils shape this stark, beautiful coastal habitat.