6 Days Ethnic Peru Winter Tour Package by Thomas Cook

Day - 1 - Lima

Arrive Lima, Meet and transfer to your hotel (Private Service). Check into the hotel and the rest of the day is free at leisure. Overnight in Lima.

Day - 2 - Lima

After breakfast proceeds for a city tour of Lima. See the Historical Center: Plaza Mayor ("Main Square"), the Government Palace, the Archbishop's Palace, the City Hall and old streets with colonial mansions and Moorish balconies. You will also visit the San Francisco Convent, which has the most magnificent monumental collection of colonial art in America.

The tour will continue through the most traditional residential areas of Lima which include San Isidro, Miraflores and Larco Mar, a stop of international thematic attractions which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean. Also Visit one of Peru's largest private collections belonging to Miguel Mujica Gallo, the Gold Museum which displays countless superb examples of pre-Hispanic gold, silver and copper necklaces, rings, bracelets, masks, vases, erotic pottery, tools, statuettes, and many others. Overnight in Lima.

Day - 3 - Lima – Cusco

Alter breakfast proceed by coach to the airport to catch a flight to Cusco. Alter this 50-minute flight arrive into Cusco and proceed for a city tour & the ruins. The tour will show you the amazing colonial city built on the foundations of the Inca palaces. You will visit the Koricancha or Temple of the Sun, where you can appreciate the incredible masonry of the Incas, the Plaza de Armas and the Cathedral with its carved woodworks, altars and paintings.

Then you will be driven to the Inca fortress of Sacsahuamán, to the underground cave and temple of Kenko and to Tambomachay, known as the Baths of the Inca. Proceed to the hotel and check-in. Overnight in Cusco.

Day - 4 - Cusco - Aguas Calientes

After breakfast at the hotel proceed to the train station to catch a train to Aguas Calientes Station in Machu-Picchu. On arrival, you will be transfered by bus to the top of the mountain and citadel of Machu-Picchu, one of the most renowned examples of Inca architecture, surrounded by lush cloud forest. Lost in history, it was not discovered until 1911 by the American explorer Hiram Bingham. Proceed back to Aguas Calientes. Overnight at Aguas Calientes

Day - 5 - Aguas Calientes- Cusco

After breakfast check out of the hotel and proceed to the train station to catch a train to Cusco. Arrive Cusco and be driven through a scenic landscape to the Urubamba Valley, the "Sacred Valley of the Incas". Arriving at the town of Pisac, an hour drive from Cusco, you will visit the colourful Pisac Market, where the local Indians meet to sell their merchandise as they have done it for centuries.

There is also a handicraft market. The tour continues to the town of Ollantaytambo from where you will climb up to its imposing Inca fortress at the top of the mountain. Return back to Cusco. Overnight in Cusco.

Day - 6 - Cusco

After breakfast proceeds to the next destination.