Across the Andes to Machu Picchu

When: Anytime

Length of tour: Below a 13-day itinerary is proposed but any length of tour can be customized to your needs.

Number of guests: minimum two for the following itinerary

Fee: Approximately $2400 for 2 people for the 13-day tour. This includes 7 Camping nights, 5 hotel nights, food, our own vehicle, and the best quality expedition equipment.

FOOD:
Supplies required for our trips are all bought in well-known markets. This assures high quality. No trip shall be ruined by lack of quality of meals. We also carry vegetarian foods if required, and of course if you want to cook we have a kitchen.

Meals we'll have on base camp or along our way on trekking, are cooked minutes before you take them. You'll be able to watch it and even participate if you desire.

We avoid too much seasoning. We plan easy to digest foods, balanced on volume and content for the physical effort each day's journey requires. Good and balanced food is the best fuel for adventure. Also vegetarians will get what they need..., Only previous request is needed.

The 4X4:
You can be always talk with the driver while we're on the road. All of our seats face foreward so you won't have to sit backwards unable to see the landscape. We also have full size panoramic front-windows, as well big side windows to enjoy the best views, assured by high a chassis too. We carry everything we can need. Everyplace we go we have our tents, stove, camping tools, fresh water tanks, first aid kit and best quality food.

Continuing to the south, we'll find Nazca lines, a mosaic of gigantic stylized figures of a monkey, fish, spider and a hummingbird among many other ancient drawings and geometric figures, visible only from the air.

At the campsite we'll have one of our best nights, sitting under the stars and eating from the grill.

In Arequipa, white city we'll see the Santa Catalina Convent, an extraordinary inside town where nuns live since colonial era. The pretty Plaza de Armas forms the city core, bordered by a Jesuit church founded in 1689, known as the Compania. There are many other fine restored mansions and churches such as the Cathedral.

Continuing our way, we'll pass very close to the Misti volcano, where we'll be able to see part of its deep crater.

From here, we'll to get to the Colca Canyon (the world deepest), famous for glorious landscapes, prehispanic agricultural terraces, women in beautiful and unique traditional dress, archaeological sites and picturesque colonial buildings. Here we'll be able to see here the king of the air: Peruvian condor, as well as llamas, alpacas and even wild vicuņas.

In Titicaca lake we'll see the amazing "floating islands" made by indigenous "Uros" out of reeds to live on them. It is about 10 huts to a village made of reeds too, a plant used even as food, with a taste like asparagus or bamboo.

Highlights around include Sillustani, a remarkable archaeological site consisting mostly of Inka and Pre-Inka funerary towers and Taquile Island, where you'll find archaeological sites and traditional textiles for sale.

From here, we'll drive to Cuzco city, where we'll start the most important trekking we could find in Peru, the 4 days Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. We'll see Puyupatamarka ruins, or "Incas' bath", where they used to purify their souls before arriving to the sacred city.

Most of the trail is a rock path; all the ruins at the trail are made of solid rock, which is just a sample to show you Inca's building experience in the Andean area. We'll trek 2 passes at 4,200 and 3900 mts. height, and see the best views of the mountains while we be trekking towards our final exciting destination: the gorgeous Machu Picchu citadel.