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Peru

10 days Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu & the Amazon

8 days Lima, Cusco, Urubamba & Machu Picchu

8 days Lima, Cusco, Machu Picchu & Tambopata National Reserve

KT004 10 DAYS LIMA, CUSCO, MACHU PICCHU & THE AMAZON

 * Arrival in Lima should be on Sunday morning

Day 1 Sun LIMA

Arrive in Lima. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Guided visit to Colonial and Modern Lima including the old center of the city and the modern sector where the 3 synagogues and the Jewish school are located..

Overnight in Lima

 Day 2 Mon LIMA – CUSCO

Transfer to the airport in time for the flight to Cusco. Meeting and transfer to your hotel.

Balance of the morning at leisure to adjust to the high altitude (11,000 feet).

Private visit to the city. Visit Main Square and the Koricancha. Continue to the surrounding remains:

Sacsayhuaman Fortress: At a walking distance from the centre, it has big walls of monumental stones distributed in zigzag and in three platforms that have an average of 360-m. /1,181 ft. There are stones of as much as 9 m/30 ft long and 5-m/16 ft wide.

Tambomachay: Known as the Inca Baths, it is said to have been a sanctuary for water worship.  Clear running water flows through its stairways.

Puca Pucara Red Fortress: It is formed by terraces, stairways, turrets, urns, vaulted niches and platforms.

Kencco Amphitheatre: Built in rock, it is said to have been an Inca worship site. There are passages, canals, and stairways with stone engravings representing the puma, a sacred animal.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 3 Tue CUSCO - URUBAMBA – CUSCO (TUESDAY, THURSDAY OR SUNDAY)

Excursion to Urubamba Valley (Regular service). Visit the village of Pisac and its authentic and traditional Indian Market, where Indians barter their products. Continue through the Urubamba Valley to Ollantaytambo, favorite residence of the Incas, with its terraces running up the steep slope to the top where a carved stone throne allowed the ruler a magnificent view of his holdings. You will also see the fabulous Inca ruins of Ollantaytambo. Drop-off at the hotel in Cusco Overnight in Cusco

 Day 4 Wed CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO

Transfer to the station for a morning train ride to the unparalleled, Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas". It is the most important attraction in the Department of Cusco, recently chosen as one of  “THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD”. Machu Picchu shows the knowledge of a culture that was able to build a citadel with gigantic rocks perfectly fitted together and in a site of difficult access. Still today, the attention is drawn on how and from where these people could transport such enormous stones. There are no stone pits in the region nor had the Incas discovered the use of the wheel. It was known in the world after its discovery by Hiram Bingham in 1910.

Arrive in Aguas Calientes. Bus up to the Sanctuary. Guided visit. Descend by bus to Aguas Calientes. Vistadome train to Cusco. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 5 Thu CUSCO

Day at leisure in Cusco

Overnight in Cusco

Day 6 Fri CUSCO – LIMA

Transfer to the airport in time to take the flight to Lima. Meeting and transfer to your hotel.

Balance of the day free

Shabbat service

Overnight in San Isidro (Lima)

Day 7 Sat LIMA

Day free

Overnight in San Isidro (Lima)

Day 8 Sun LIMA – IQUITOS – CEIBA TOPS

Transfer to the airport in time to take the flight to Iquitos. Meeting at the airport, brief city orientation and transfer to the Explorama dock. 25 miles journey down the Amazon River to Ceiba Tops.

Afternoon hike in the beautiful primary rainforest reserve surrounding the lodge which includes many huge trees festooned with epiphytes. After dinner there may be local flute or guitar music at the El Toucan Bar or the guides are always ready to relate some of the many legends of the Amazon forest.

Overnight at CEIBA TOPS

Day 9 Mon CEIBA TOPS

Morning boat ride spotting for dolphins to visit a small village of Yagua Indians where your guide will explain the local Yagua Indian culture and how it was affected by the arrival of Europeans and the passing of time. There will also be an opportunity to see some of the local crafts and for a demonstration of the blowgun which some of the Yagua elders still use for hunting.

Afternoon: Walking excursion to the neighboring town of Indiana. Originally a Franciscan mission, Indiana has grown into a large river community with its own market, high school and small hospital.

Overnight at CEIBA TOPS

Day 10 CEIBA TOPS – IQUITOS – LIMA - HOME

Your choice of morning walking or boating excursion to further enjoy the rainforest and Amazon River. Afternoon transfer to Iquitos and to the airport in time to take the flight to Lima. Meeting and assistance to connect with international flight

END OF SERVICES

INCLUDED:

• Services as per itinerary with local English speaking guides, entrance fees included.

• City tours in Lima and Cusco on private basis; other services on regular basis

• Accommodation at selected category of hotels in  room with private bath

• Vistadome train ticket Cusco-Machu Picchu-Cusco; bus station-Sanctuary-station; entrance ticket to the Sanctuary

• 3 days-2 nights program at the Ceiba Tops in the Amazon

• Local air ticket Lima-Cusco-Lima and Lima-Iquitos-Lima, including Peruvian taxes

NOT INCLUDED:

•  Services not specified in program

• Kosher meals (on request)

• Airport taxes: $ 7.30 on local flights and $ 30.50 on international departure

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KT001 8 DAYS LMA, CUSCO & MACHU PICCHU

 * Arrival in Lima should be on Sunday morning

 Day 1 Sun LIMA

Arrive in Lima. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Guided visit to Colonial and Modern Lima including the old center of the city and the modern sector where the 3 synagogues and the Jewish school are located. 

Overnight in Lima

Day 2 Mon LIMA – CUSCO

Transfer to the airport in time for the flight to Cusco. Meeting and transfer to your hotel.

Balance of the morning at leisure to adjust to the high altitude (11,000 feet).

Visit to the city. Visit Main Square and the Koricancha. Continue to the surrounding remains:

Sacsayhuaman Fortress: At a walking distance from the centre, it has big walls of monumental stones distributed in zigzag and in three platforms that have an average of 360-m. /1,181 ft. There are stones of as much as 9 m/30 ft long and 5-m/16 ft wide.

Tambomachay: Known as the Inca Baths, it is said to have been a sanctuary for water worship.  Clear running water flows through its stairways.

Puca Pucara Red Fortress: It is formed by terraces, stairways, turrets, urns, vaulted niches and platforms.

Kencco Amphitheatre: Built in rock, it is said to have been an Inca worship site. There are passages, canals, and stairways with stone engravings representing the puma, a sacred animal.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 3 Tue CUSCO - URUBAMBA – CUSCO (TUESDAY, THURSDAY OR SUNDAY)

Excursion to Urubamba Valley. Visit the village of Pisac and its authentic and traditional Indian Market, where Indians barter their products. Continue through the Urubamba Valley to Ollantaytambo, favorite residence of the Incas, with its terraces running up the steep slope to the top where a carved stone throne allowed the ruler a magnificent view of his holdings. You will also see the fabulous Inca ruins of Ollantaytambo. Drop-off at the hotel in Cusco

Overnight in Cusco

Day 4 Wed CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO

Transfer to the station for a morning train ride to the unparalleled, Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas". It is the most important attraction in the Department of Cusco, recently chosen as one of  “THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD”. Machu Picchu shows the knowledge of a culture that was able to build a citadel with gigantic rocks perfectly fitted together and in a site of difficult access. Still today, the attention is drawn on how and from where these people could transport such enormous stones. There are no stone pits in the region nor had the Incas discovered the use of the wheel. It was known in the world after its discovery by Hiram Bingham in 1910.

Arrive in Aguas Calientes. Bus up to the Sanctuary. Guided visit. Descend by bus to Aguas Calientes. Return to Cusco by Vistadome train. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 5 Thu CUSCO

Day at leisure in Cusco

Overnight in Cusco

Day 6 Fri CUSCO – LIMA

Transfer to the airport in time to take the flight to Lima. Meeting and transfer to your hotel.

Balance of the day free

Shabbat service and dinner

Overnight in Lima

Day 7 Sat LIMA

Day free

Overnight in Lima

Day 8 Sun LIMA – HOME

Transfer to the airport

END OF SERVICES

INCLUDED:

• Services as per itinerary with local English speaking guides, entrance fees included.

• Accommodation at selected category of hotels in  room with private bath

• 1 Vistadome train ticket Cusco-Machu Picchu-Cusco; 1 bus station-Sanctuary-station; 1 entrance ticket to the Sanctuary

• Local air ticket Lima-Cusco-Lima, including Peruvian taxes 

NOT INCLUDED:

•  Services and meals not specified in program

• Kosher meals (on request)

• Airport taxes: $ 7.30 on local flights and $ 30.50 on international departure

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KT002 8 DAYS LIMA, CUSCO, MACHU PICCHU & LAKE TITICACA

* Arrival in Lima should be on Sunday morning

 Day 1 Sun LIMA

Arrive in Lima. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Lima

 Day 2 Mon LIMA – CUSCO

Transfer to the airport. Flight Lima-Cusco. Meeting and transfer to the hotel

Private visit to the city. Visit Main Square and the Koricancha. Continue to the surrounding remains:

Sacsayhuaman Fortress: At a walking distance from the centre, it has big walls of monumental stones distributed in zigzag and in three platforms that have an average of 360-m. /1,181 ft. There are stones of as much as 9 m/30 ft long and 5-m/16 ft wide.

Tambomachay: Known as the Inca Baths, it is said to have been a sanctuary for water worship.  Clear running water flows through its stairways.

Puca Pucara Red Fortress: It is formed by terraces, stairways, turrets, urns, vaulted niches and platforms.

Kencco Amphitheatre: Built in rock, it is said to have been an Inca worship site. There are passages, canals, and stairways with stone engravings representing the puma, a sacred animal.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 3 Tue CUSCO - MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO

Transfer to the station for a morning train ride to the unparalleled, Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas". It is the most important attraction in the Department of Cusco, recently chosen as one of “THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD”. Machu Picchu shows the knowledge of a culture that was able to build a citadel with gigantic rocks perfectly fitted together and in a site of difficult access. Still today, the attention is drawn on how and from where these people could transport such enormous stones. There are no stone pits in the region nor had the Incas discovered the use of the wheel. It was known in the world after its discovery by Hiram Bingham in 1910.

Arrive in Aguas Calientes. Bus up to the Sanctuary. Guided visit. Descend by bus to Aguas Calientes. Vistadome train to Cusco. Meeting and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Cusco

Day 4 Wed CUSCO – PUERTO MALDONADO – POSADA AMAZONAS

Transfer to the airport in time to take the flight to Puerto Maldonado. Upon arrival, we will welcome you at the airport and drive you ten minutes to our Puerto Maldonado headquarters. While enjoying your first taste of the forest in our gardens, we will ask you to pack only the necessary gear for your next few days, and leave the rest at our safe deposit. This helps us keep the boats and cargo light.

Puerto Maldonado to Tambopata River Port. Skirting Puerto Maldonado, we drive 20 kilometers to the Tambopata River Port, entering the Native Community of Infierno. The port is a communal business.

Tambopata River Port to Posada Amazonas. The forty five minute boat ride from the Tambopata Port to Posada Amazonas will take us into the Community’s Primary Forest Private Reserve.

Orientation. Upon arrival, the lodge manager will welcome you and brief you with important navigation and security tips.

Canopy tower: A twenty minute walk from Posada Amazonas leads to the 30 meter scaffolding canopy tower. A banister staircase running through the middle provides safe access to the platforms above. From atop you obtain spectacular views of the vast expanses of standing forest cut by the Tambopata River winding through the middle. Now and then toucans, parrots or macaws are seen flying against the horizon, or mixed species canopy flocks land in the treetop next to you.

Ecotourism Lecture. A daily presentation on the Infierno ecotourism project is available every night from a staff member.

Overnight at the POSADA AMAZONAS

Day 5 Thu  POSADA AMAZONAS

Tres Chimbadas Oxbow Lake: Tres Chimbadas is thirty minutes by boat and forty five minutes hiking from Posada Amazonas. Once there you will paddle around the lake in a catamaran, searching for the resident family of nine giant river otters (seen by 60% of our lake visitors) and other lakeside wildlife such as caiman, hoatzin and horned screamers.

Ethnobotanical Tour: A twenty minute boat drive downriver leads you to a trail designed by the staff of the Centro Ñape. The Centro Ñape is a communal organization that produces medicines out of forest plants and administers them to patients who choose their little clinic.

They have produced a trail which explains the different medicinal (and other) uses of selected plants.

Night walk. You will have the option of hiking out at night, when most of the mammals are active but rarely seen. Much easier to find are frogs with shapes and sounds as bizarre as their natural histories.

Overnight at the POSADA AMAZONAS

Day 6 Fri POSADA AMAZONAS – PUERTO MALDONADO – LIMA

Return to Puerto Maldonado and on to airport. Flight Puerto Maldonado-Lima. Meeting and transfer to the hotel

Shabbat service

Overnight in Lima

Day 7 Sat LIMA

Day at leisure

Overnight in Lima

Day 8 Sun LIMA – HOME

Transfer to the airport

END OF SERVICES

INCLUDED:

Services as per itinerary with local English speaking guides, entrance fees included.

City tours in Lima and Cusco on private basis; other services on regular basis

• Accommodation at selected category of hotels in  room with private bath

• 3 days-2 nights program at Posada Amazonas in Tambopata National Reserve

• 1 Vistadome train ticket Cusco-Machu Picchu-Cusco; 1 bus station-Sanctuary-station; 1 entrance ticket to the Sanctuary

• Local air ticket Lima-Cusco; Cusco-Puerto Maldonado; Puerto Maldonado- Lima, including Peruvian taxes

NOT INCLUDED:

• Services and meals not specified in program

• Kosher meals (on request)

• Airport taxes: $ 7.30 on local flights and $ 30.50 on international departure

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