Ultimate Tailor-Made Family Private Tour Peru 9D/8N

This private, family-focused journey combines the highlights of Cusco, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and Lima in an exclusive 9-day experience designed for comfort and cultural depth. With your own expert guide, you will explore ancient Inca sites, hike a section of the Inca Trail, discover vibrant local traditions, and enjoy hands-on activities such as chocolate making. Scenic train rides, curated culinary moments, and carefully selected hotels complete a balanced program tailored to families of all ages. The result is an unforgettable immersion into Peru’s history, landscapes and coastal lifestyle, arranged with seamless logistics from arrival to departure.

Itinerary

Upon arrival at the Cusco airport, you will meet your private guide who will be in charge of your stay. You will then drive to Llama Farm, Manos de la Comunidad, a museum dedicated to South American camelids. You will also have the opportunity to see intricate textile traditions that trace their roots to ancient Andean civilizations and admire beautifully woven fabrics.

We will plan your lunch—either at a Cusco restaurant or on the way to the Sacred Valley—depending on your arrival time. After our visit, you will continue driving through the outstanding landscape. We will stop along the drive for family photos before continuing to your hotel in the Sacred Valley. Driving time will depend on your chosen hotel location.

Today, your private guide will pick you up from your hotel for an incredible day exploring the Urubamba mountain range.

Our first stop is the Chinchero weaving Andean community. We will then drive to Moray, where experts believe its grassy amphitheaters served as an agricultural research center during Inca times. The circular architecture of the terraces creates a different microclimate on each level.

Next, we will proceed to Salinas, the salt pans. Along the way, we will pass through Maras, a small colonial town famous for supplying salt to the Cusco region in Inca and colonial times. Salineras has over 3,800 pans still in use by the local communities of Maras and Pichingoto. Here, you will have the chance to try the salty water coming from underground and test the mineral-rich salt.

After visiting Salineras, we will continue to Ollantaytambo, considered the last living Inca town. After exploring this site, your guide will drive you back to your hotel.

Our guide will pick you up from your hotel in Ollantaytambo and accompany you on a 10-minute walk to the train station. You will then take a 1 hour and 20-minute train ride, enjoying the beautiful valley and the changing landscape until you reach Km 104.

Upon arrival, you will check in with the park rangers and then explore the first archaeological site, Chachabamba. From here, we will begin the ascent along the original Inca Trail for three hours to the Wiñayhuayna Archaeological site, where your guide will provide a tour. A lunch break will follow.

After lunch, we will continue hiking for approximately one hour through a lush, green section of the Inca Trail, featuring exotic flowers like orchids, until we reach the Sungate (Intipunku). This point offers your first spectacular view of Machu Picchu and Wayna Picchu mountain. You will have free time here to enjoy the scenery.

We will then descend for about 45 minutes to the citadel itself, where you will have plenty of time to take photos of this beautiful and peaceful ancient city. Depending on the weather, you may be able to see the sunset over Machu Picchu.

After your free time, we will exit the citadel and take a 30-minute bus ride down to Aguas Calientes town to check into your hotel. Your guide will provide detailed information for the following day.

Note: Vistadome service train It is a luxury train from Peru Rail that offers a scenic journey to Machu Picchu with large windows in the walls and ceiling for spectacular views of the Andean landscape.

After breakfast, your guide will pick you up from your hotel for a short bus journey to the entrance of Machu Picchu. Today is dedicated to exploring this magical lost city of the Incas, learning about its history, construction, and discovery.

Following these activities, we will exit Machu Picchu and take a bus back to Aguas Calientes town. From there, we will take the train back to Ollantaytambo, and then private transportation will take you back to your hotel in Cusco.

Note: Embark on a Unique Journey to Machu Picchu aboard the Vistadome Observatory Train, where Every Moment Becomes a Magical Encounter.

Immerse yourself in the beauty of the landscapes unfolding before your eyes through panoramic windows, celebrate the rich Andean culture in our bar carriage, and marvel as the majestic route reveals itself aboard the observation carriage.

Your private guide will pick you up from your hotel. You will first visit the Koricancha temple and then go around the San Blas neighborhood, which is considered an old master in art. Afterward, you will continue to visit San Pedro, the oldest and biggest traditional local market.

We will then have a break for lunch. After lunch, you will continue with the chocolate-making class. Once you have made your own chocolate, you will be taken back to your hotel.

Your private guide will collect you from the Hotel very Early  Morning after we will drive for three hours to get to the community of QUISIUNO located at 4600 meters. 14,600 ft. In the south of Cusco in this journey, we will be able to see beautiful landscapes local Andean Farms of Corn, quinoa, potatoes, and vegetables in higher altitudes we will pass to Llama and Alpaca the south American camels Before we start hiking we will have Breakfast, After enjoying your breakfast you will ascend gradually for 2:30 hours to get the main point of a rainbow mountain or VININKUNKA 5,000mtrs, 15,900ft. above sea level, with the Option to take or ride the Horse Here, you will have time to enjoy this beautiful and colorful mountain as well you will be able to see the highest mountain in the Cusco Region, called Ausangate, 6,400 meters, 20,300ft. after your free time, then you will come back the same way for two hours. once you will get back to Quesiuno, you will enjoy your Box Lunch with amazing views of the Vilcanota mountain range After you will return to your Hotel Cusco. trekking time 4 to 5 hours, the altitude from 4600 meters to 5000 meters, a moderate hike in height. any change in the itinerary or departure time can be fixed.

Today, we will pick you up from your hotel in Cusco and transfer you to the airport for your flight to Lima.

Once you arrive in Lima, a transfer will be waiting to take you to your chosen hotel, after which you will have free time to explore by yourself the beautiful neighborhoods like Miraflores, Barranco, or small walk along the Pacific Ocean by Costa Verde.

Lima is the largest and most populated city in Peru. you will visit the historic downtown áreas and as the cathedral, San Franciscan church, and the Larco museum. After your visit, your private guide will bring you back to your Hotel. Lima is very well known, particularly for its excellent cuisine, like our traditional CEVICHE Food from the coast. Or our Pisco Sour, a Peruvian coastal. Your travel designer can arrange any of these beautiful restaurants for you, as well. Depending on your interests and expectations, we can put together the best things to see and to do in the city to make your journey more memorable.

According to your flight schedule, the transfer is going to pick you up to depart the hotel this morning for your homebound flights.

Included

  • Private touristic transportation from Cusco Airport to the chosen Sacred Valley Hotel
  • Private touristic transportation from your hotel to each visiting place
  • Private Guide
  • Integral Touristic tickets to visit Chinchero, Maras, Moray & Ollantaytambo
  • Private touristic transportation to pick you up from your hotel to go to the train station
  • Train: Vistadome service to go until Km. 104 to start with the short Inca Trail
  • Entrance to Short Inca Trail
  • Buses: To go down from Machu Picchu to Aguas Calientes town
  • Entrance to Machu Picchu
  • Buses to go up and down (Aguas Calientes – Machu Picchu – Aguas Calientes)
  • Vistadome Observatory train tickets from Machupicchu to Ollantaytambo
  • Private transportation from Ollantaytambo to the chosen hotel in Cusco
  • Entrance to Koricancha
  • Chocolate Classes
  • Private Touristic transportation
  • A horse for each person in Rainbow Mountain
  • Entrance to Rainbow Mountain
  • Breakfast (Coffee, tea, hot water, bread, cheese, jamon)
  • Amenities
  • Private touristic transportation from the Lima airport to the chosen hotel
  • Transfer guide to the hotel in Lima
  • Private touristic transportation from the Lima airport to the chosen hotel
  • Transfer guide to the Airport in Lima

Not included

  • Food (The guide will recommend the best restaurants)

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