Peru holidays

Highlights: Lima - Colca Canyon trek - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu

Even if you’re short on time, you can cover all the highlights in just one Peru trip; all it takes is a bit of clever planning. In the first of our Peru holidays, you’ll follow the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, sail to the floating island of Uros on Lake Titicaca and come face to face with the majestic condors of the Colca Canyon. Because you’ll be travelling across different time zones and varying altitudes, we’ll schedule in plenty of time to relax and catch your breath throughout the course of your Peru holiday. Get ready to catch the Latino fever. In two weeks you’ll fall in love with the place, just like we did.

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Highlights: Lima city tour - Colca Canyon by 4x4 - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu

This is one of our more comfortable short Peru holidays, with an emphasis on comfort and style. In the second of our Peru holidays, you’ll be staying in unique accommodation including a colonial villa and a riverside lodge. You’ll travel to some of Peru’s most beautiful locations, in style. In the Colca Canyon, you’ll explore the remote valley by private car with driver. Back at your riverside lodge, you can admire the spectacular scenery as you relax in the lodge’s private hot springs. The accommodation isn’t the only highlight of this Peru holiday. You’ll go on a boat trip across Lake Titicaca and travel past Inca ruins and authentic villages on the way to the hidden city of Machu Picchu. This itinerary ends in Cuzco.

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Highlights: Lima - Islas Ballestas boat tour - Colca Canyon tour - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Amantani homestay - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu

Three weeks will give you enough time to see the highlights of Peru at an easy pace. This Peru holiday starts in Lima, where you’ll travel south along the west coast to get up close and personal with the world’s largest sea lion colony. Take an optional scenic flight to view the mystical Nazca lines from the air, before travelling on to sunny Arequipa and the terraced valley of the remote Colca Canyon. You’ll take the bus across the Altiplano to Lake Titicaca where you’ll spend the night in the home of a local Indian family on one of Titicaca’s islands. This Peru holiday ends in Cuzco, your starting point for a two day trek across the Andes to Machu Picchu. Finally you can catch your breath and reflect on the third of our Peru itineraries, with a couple of days in the Sacred Valley.

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Highlights: Lima city tour - Colca Canyon - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Amantani homestay - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu - Tambopata Amazon lodge

This three-week Peru holiday includes the important sights of Peru, but you’ll be travelling in a different way and have the opportunity to get closer to the locals. Starting in Lima, you’ll take a domestic flight to Arequipa, the starting point for a thrilling trek into the Colca Canyon. You’ll travel across the Altiplano to Lake Titicaca where you’ll be staying the night with a local Indian family on one of Titicaca’s islands. From there, you’ll travel to Cuzco for a two-day trek to Macchu Picchu and spend a couple of days mountain biking, rafting, hiking or just relaxing in the Sacred Valley. From Cuzco, you’ll fly on to the Tambopata nature reserve, deep in the Amazonian jungle, where your Peru holiday continues. You'll spend the next two days exploring the rainforest on foot and by canoe with a local guide.

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Highlights: Lima city tour - Islas Ballestas boat trip - Colca Canyon - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Amantani homestay - Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

For centuries the Quechua and Aymara Indians were the primary inhabitants of Peru, until the country was conquered by Spanish invaders. You can still find traces of these ancient civilizations today, and in number five of our Peru holidays, you’ll experience the Peruvian culture of times past. This Peru holiday includes several challenging treks, so you’ll need to be in good shape. Starting in Lima, you’ll travel along the coast to see the mysterious Nazca lines. From Arequipa, you’ll begin your trek into the remote Colca Canyon. On Lake Titicaca, you’ll go on a boat trip to some of the most interesting islands on the lake and stay the night with a local Indian family. Your Peru trip ends in the hearth of Inca civilization as you walk in the footsteps of the Incas on the four day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

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Highlights: Santa Cruz - Potosi mining town - Uyuni salt flats tour - Floating islands of Lake Titicaca - Amantani homestay - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu

Bolivia and Peru have such an astonishing variety of cultures and countryside that you’ll never cease to be amazed. The first of our Peru and Bolivia holidays covers it all over three weeks. You’ll begin your trip in the sub-tropical lowlands of Bolivia. You’ll stay on a country estate in the hills and explore the pretty white town of Sucre. You’ll visit a silver mine and go on a four day jeep expedition around the salt pans and coloured lagoons. Pay a visit to the witch market, and coca museum in La Paz before heading to the border for the second leg of your Peru and Bolivia holiday. In Peru, you’ll take a boat trip across Lake Titicaca and stay the night on one of the islands in the middle of the lake. Finally you’ll travel to Cuzco, the starting point of your two-day trek into the Andes to Machu Picchu. You’ll spend the last two days of your Peru and Bolivia holiday relaxing in the Sacred Valley.

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Highlights: Lima - Colca Canyon tour - Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu trek - Witch market in La Paz - Uyuni salt flats tour - Potosi mine visit

On the second of our Peru and Bolivia holidays, you'll be travelling across Peru and Bolivia in three weeks, meaning you’ll spend quite a bit of time on the bus. Alternatively, if you’d rather not spend a large chunk of your trip chugging across the Andes on a local bus, you could cover some of the longer distances by plane. As a bonus, you’ll be treated to some amazing views from your plane window across the desolate landscape of volcanic craters and snow-capped peaks of the Andes. You'll start this Peru and Bolivia holiday with a flight to Arequipa for a visit to the Colca canyon before flying on to Cuzco and the heart of Inca culture at Machu Picchu. From there, it’s on to Lake Titicaca and then La Paz, before continuing overland to southern Bolivia. Here, you’ll see the dazzling salt pans and the highest city in the world, before ending your trip with a couple of days relaxing in the laid-back town of Sucre.

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