11 nights, 4 stops — the inca citadel and the wildlife of manu.
Cusco → Sacred Valley → Machu Picchu → Manu National Park.
Round trip · returns to Cusco
Arrive in Cusco, met and transferred to your accommodation. Cusco's Inca and colonial heritage makes it a destination in itself, as well as the gateway to the wild.
A historic-city day before the cloud forest. Explore the Inca capital and acclimatise.
Transfer to Sacred Valley. Inca ruins and Andean markets in the valley. A gentle day acclimatising amid the terraces.
A gentle day acclimatising amid the terraces. The Sacred Valley's terraces and ruins, along the Urubamba, were the green heart of the Inca empire.
Transfer to Machu Picchu. The citadel at first light, then cloud-forest birding below. Machu Picchu and the cock-of-the-rock gorge.
Machu Picchu and the cock-of-the-rock gorge. Machu Picchu is not only the great Inca citadel but a cloud-forest rich in cock-of-the-rock, hummingbirds and orchids.
Transfer to Manu National Park. A macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters. Cloud-forest and lowland trails for Manu's wildlife.
Cloud-forest and lowland trails for Manu's wildlife. A full day in the world's most biodiverse park. Manu's altitude range, from cloud forest to Amazon, gives it the greatest biodiversity of any park on earth.
A full day in the world's most biodiverse park. Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
Rainforest trails, clay licks and night safaris.
A macaw clay lick and oxbow-lake otters.
A final morning in Manu National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The dry season — the best Andes and cloud-forest travel.
A year-round Andean hub.
A restored colonial palace facing the Qorikancha, Cusco's finest heritage hotel.
An elegant hacienda-style lodge with valley and mountain views in the Sacred Valley.
A lowland Amazon lodge in Manu, beside a macaw clay lick and oxbow lakes.
A converted 16th-century monastery in the heart of old Cusco.
A relais-and-châteaux casita resort set in gardens in the valley.
A comfortable, reliable hotel near the Plaza de Armas.
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