• 8 Breakfast (B)
• 3 Lunch (L)
• 1 Dinner (D)

• Visit the famous Pisac Market where local indigenous communities sell their wares and produce. Visit the workshop at Mrs. Ernestina’s Empanada Shop, a family business since 4 generations and learn how to make empanadas before getting a taste.
• Machu Picchu: Visit Coricancha, or the ‘Temple of the Sun’, the most important temple in the Incan Empire.  
• Explore the “City of the Kings” and see the Cathedral, Government Palace, Archbishop’s Palace, City Hall and visit San Francisco Monastery, famous for its catacombs
• Lake Titicaca: Visit to Unos Islands & island of Taquile
• Visit Coricancha, or the ‘Temple of the Sun’, the most important temple in the Incan Empire
•  Visit the ruins of Sacsayhuaman, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

• Selected hotel dinners, with optional meals to purchase
• 3-star 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. 
• Sacred Valley: Join a Make Travel Matter® Experience at Chinchero Sunday Market, where fruit, vegetables and handwoven goods fill the stalls. Your Local Specialist will introduce you to local produce such as potatoes, with the chance to taste seasonal fruit and learn about chicha, the traditional corn-based drink.
• 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.
• Step inside the family home of Mrs Rosa, where Incan stonework has stood for generations. You’ll learn how guinea pigs are traditionally raised within the household and hear about customs that have been passed down through the family, offering a personal look at traditions still practised today.
• 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.
• At a women-owned empanada workshop in Pisaq, you’ll join Mrs Ernestina to learn how her family makes traditional empanadas using seven varieties of flour. Follow techniques passed down through four generations, then bite into a freshly made empanada and taste the results for yourself.
• Lake Titicaca: Cruise across Lake Titicaca to Taquile Island, where you’ll meet Indigenous locals and explore their UNESCO-listed textile traditions. You’ll share a home-cooked lunch and see how the community’s weaving and knitting reflect cultural identity and status. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.

Journey from the Sacred Valley as you board the train through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes, then continue by shuttle to the citadel. Meet your specialist for a guided exploration of Machu Picchu, one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.

Trace precision-cut Inca stonework at the Temple of the Sun and agricultural terraces that cling to mist-laced ridges. Learn how astronomy, ritual and daily life intertwined in this mountaintop sanctuary, set amid orchids and cloud-forest peaks.

MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience in the highland village of Chinchero Sunday Market, where stalls brim with handwoven textiles and native produce. Meet local families, taste seasonal Andean produce, and learn about chicha, the corn-based drink central to community life.

Amid views of snow-capped cordilleras, see llamas and alpacas and hear how ancient farming, dyeing and weaving traditions are preserved. Your visit supports local livelihoods while deepening insight into Andean culture.

Immerse yourself in the bustle of the Pisaq Market, where baskets of corn, peppers and herbs mingle with Andean handicrafts. Step into a women-owned empanada workshop to learn to make empanadas using traditional techniques and a seven-flour recipe.

From the warm glow of a wood-fired oven to the nutty aroma of heritage grains like quinoa and kiwicha, this tasting celebrates Sacred Valley flavors and the artisans who keep culinary traditions alive.

In a quiet Sacred Valley hamlet, step inside a family home where Incan stonework has sheltered seven generations. Meet Mrs. Rosa and learn about raising cuy (guinea pigs), courtyard gardens and the rhythms of living Andean traditions.

Among adobe walls and timeworn lintels, hear personal stories that illuminate community ties, seasonal rituals and the resourceful use of local materials—an intimate window into enduring highland culture.

Visit mighty Sacsayhuamán, the Inca stronghold above Cusco famed for its cyclopean stone walls and panoramic views over Cusco. Walk the zigzag ramparts to appreciate the precision joins and strategic design of this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Learn how megaliths—some weighing over 100 tons—were quarried and set without mortar, and how the complex remains a ceremonial focal point during the Inti Raymi sun festival.

Join a guided walk through Cusco’s cobbled streets to the famed Twelve-Angled Stone, a showcase of mortarless Inca engineering. Continue to Koricancha (Temple of the Sun), where Inca-Spanish fusion architecture frames cloisters atop sacred foundations.

Hear how the conquistadors transformed Koricancha into the Santo Domingo convent, yet the resilient Inca stonework endured earthquakes that toppled later walls—an eloquent testament to Andean mastery.

Cruise Lake Titicaca across deep-blue waters to the floating Uros Islands, stepping onto springy totora reed surfaces as residents share how they craft homes and boats. Continue to Taquile Island to meet master weavers and explore UNESCO-listed textile traditions.

Savor a lakeside lunch of fresh local fare and learn how communal work, symbolism in patterns and sustainable practices shape life on the world’s highest navigable lake.

Stroll through Parque de la Reserva’s Magic Water Circuit as jets leap and shimmer in time to music. Watch choreographed fountains arc over pathways and reflect the city lights while lasers sketch patterns across mist.

From interactive tunnels to soaring displays, the spectacle blends playful engineering with a festive Lima evening mood—an urban art experience beneath the stars.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Discover the concentric bowls of Moray agricultural terraces, an Inca earthwork thought to test crops across microclimates. Continue to the honeycombed pools of the Maras Salt Pans, where families harvest crystalline salt from mineral springs as they have for centuries.

Set against ochre hillsides and snow-tipped peaks, these ingenious landscapes reveal Andean innovation in agriculture and resource use.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Visit Pikillacta pre-Incan citadel, a vast Wari-era complex of straight adobe streets and plazas predating the Inca by centuries. Walk along defensive walls and neighborhoods that hint at a sophisticated urban plan across the Andean foothills.

Understand how the Wari influenced later cultures through architecture, agriculture and road networks that helped shape the region’s development.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Roll up your sleeves for a hands-on chocolate workshop at a local cacao studio. Follow the journey from cacao to bar—roasting, grinding and tempering—and taste Peruvian cacao celebrated for its fine aroma and Andean terroir.

Learn about sustainable sourcing and regional varietals while crafting your own artisanal treats to take away.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Venture beyond the main plazas on an off-the-beaten-path stroll through artisan lanes, local markets and tiny shops. Hear stories of Cusco’s past amid hidden courtyards and cemeteries that reveal everyday life behind the city’s grand facades.

Meet residents, discover quiet chapels and learn how traditions endure in neighborhoods little changed by time.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Challenge yourself on a guided trek to hike Rainbow Mountain (Vinicunca), where mineral-rich slopes ripple in reds, ochres and greens. Traverse the high-altitude Andes past grazing alpacas, pausing to photograph bands of mineral colour against glaciated peaks.

Guides share tips for pacing and altitude, plus insights into local communities and sacred landscapes.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Costsaver

Explore Lima’s UNESCO-listed heart on a guided panoramic tour, taking in the Plaza Mayor and Cathedral, ornate balconies and the stately Government Palace. Stroll through elegant squares and colonial arcades that reveal why Lima is known as the “City of the Kings.”

Descend beneath baroque cloisters to San Francisco Monastery and catacombs, where echoing corridors and bone-lined chambers illuminate Lima’s layered past. Hear how Old World styles fused with Indigenous craftsmanship to create the city’s distinctive architectural character.