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Peru: Ancient Land of Mysteries Lima - Machu Pichu - Lake Titicaca. Tuesday, October 4 – Sunday, October 16, 2011. Day 1: Tuesday, October 4. Shuttle from Vincentown leaves at +/- 10 a.m. 1:59 p.m - Flight 2111 to Miami – Arr. 4:59. Day 1: Tuesday, October 4.
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Peru: Ancient Land of Mysteries Lima - Machu Pichu - Lake Titicaca Tuesday, October 4 – Sunday, October 16, 2011
Day 1: Tuesday, October 4 Shuttle from Vincentown leaves at +/- 10 a.m. 1:59 p.m - Flight 2111 to Miami – Arr. 4:59
Day 1: Tuesday, October 4 LAN Airlines is a Chilean Company LAN Flight 2515 – 7:15 PM from Miami Arrives in Lima at 11:55 PM
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 Doubletree El Pardo by Hilton
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 Lima, “City of Kings” Doubletree El Pardo Miraflores section of Lima
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 Lima’s Plaza de Armas and Cathedral
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 San Francisco Monastery, Library and Catacombs, Lima
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 Another view of Lima’s Plaza de Armas – showing its Government Center
Day 2: Wednesday, October 5 San Isidro and Miraflores Both districts of Lima, contiguous, are characterized by their modern constructions, beautiful parks, small and big plazas, offering the best security and protection to their visitors. These are the most cosmopolitan areas in Lima. Miraflores is Lima's modern suburb with good views over the sea. It gets a bit more lively in the evenings, and the place has thriving night-life San Isidro is Lima's garden district, as it stands out for its green zones and exclusive residential areas. Despite de buildings boom, San Isidro has kept something of the aristocratic atmosphere for which this suburb was known for at the beginning of the century. Miraflores section of Lima
Day 3: Thursday, October 6 Flight 2073 – Lima to Cuzco – 8:45 a.m – 10 a.m. Descending through the Andes to the Sacred Valley of the Incas
Day 3: Thursday, October 6 Cuzco collage
Day 3: Thursday, October 6 Some 40 minutes from Cusco in the eastern end of the Sacred Valley is the small village of Pisac. Visited principally for its vast Inca ruins set high up on the mountain top, this small slightly backward village has grown in popularity in recent years for its daily artisan and food market Pisac Village
Day 3: Thursday, October 6 We’ll visit this ceramic studio
Day 4: Friday, October 7 Ollantaytambo ruins – only Inca settlement that has been continually inhabited since its inception.
Day 4: Friday, October 7 We’ll do as the natives do, and enjoy a taste of “chicha” – a unique regional drink made from Maize – at a local pub.
Day 5: Saturday, October 8 We will take the Vistadome train through the Andes to “The Lost City of the Incas”.
Day 5: Saturday, October 8 Discovered: July 24, 1911
Day 5: Saturday, October 8 National Geographic magazine presented Machu Picchu on the cover of its April issue to celebration the 100 year anniversary of Hiram Bingham's rediscovery.
In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of the last Inca ruler, Manco Inca.With a combination of doggedness and good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu, perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urumbamba River.The buildings were of white granite, exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not discovered Vilcabamba, but he had nevertheless made an astonishing discovery. Book Written in 1948
Machu Picchu from outer space, courtesy of NASA NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS,and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Day 5: Saturday, October 8 Optional excursion $80 Mystical Shaman Ceremony Opening your heart through the portal of Machu Picchu, you will connect withyour soul body — your soul light — to anchor in the higher dimensional frequencies from the Pleiades to raise your vibration — your light body — to awaken your Earth Star Matrix. Come join us in a creation of harmony, peace and celebration for the mother earth and the great spirits of nature... We are living in the time that the ancient Incan prophecies called Pachacuttek; literally translated "a turning over of the earth".
Day 5: Saturday, October 8 Sumaq Machu Picchu Hotel, Aguas Calientes
Day 6: Sunday, October 9 Optional excursion Machu Picchu Bird Walk Visit an area rich in biodiversity. Over 400 species of birds and approximately 700 kinds of butterflies flock to this wild paradise where 200 species of orchids create a colorful canvas. Leisure morning to re-explore Machu Picchu or do the optional Machu Picchu Bird Sancturay One of 200 species of orchids The Torrent Duck
Day 6: Sunday, October 9 Return to Cuzco by Train
Day 6: Sunday, October 9 Today we visit a Cuzco Orphanage
Day 6, 7: Sunday-Monday, October 9-10 Sonesta Hotel, Cuzco
Day 7: Monday, October 10 Cuzco collage Colonial City tour of Cuzco Cathedral of Santo Domingo Plaza de Armas
Day 7: Monday, October 10 Included in Colonial City tour today: Above & Below: Qenko Temple, dedicated to “Mother Earth” Sacsavyhuaman Fortress – A mystery how the Inas built it. Evening: Andean folkloric music and dance
Day 7: Monday, October 10 Part of OPTIONAL excursion Terraces at Moray. - Optional Excursion costs $45 Experimental agricultural development site of the Incas
Day 7: Monday, October 10 Part of OPTIONAL excursion The sight of the "salt mine" - as many call the Salinas - is rather surreal. We warmly recommend you to visit this place, especially if you're a photographer. The Incas have been extracting salt here hundreds of years ago using the same technique.
Day 7: Monday, October 10 Our day ends with entertainment
Day 8: Tuesday, October 11 The region spreading outwards around the Plaza San Blas has become known in Cusco as the artisan quarter and this part of the city is brimming with local galleries, workshops and crafts people.
Day 8: Tuesday, October 11 Flight 2111 to Puno: 2:05 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Fly along the shores of Lake Titicaca Dinner included – Relax this evening in our Lakeside Hotel
Day 9: Wednesday , October 12 Morning cruise to floating islands of the Uros people
Day 9: Wednesday , October 12 Chullpas de Sillustani – archeological area of 13th century funerary monuments. Afternoon home visit