Culinary package peruvian flavour (Lima, Cusco, Puno) 11D/10N

Arrive to the airport Jorge Chavez where a representative from Kontiki Tours will pick you up and take you to the hotel, where he/she will explain the whole itinerary of the Peruvian flavour package.

Night in Lima

We will start our tour with the visit to the ceremonial centre Pre Inca called Huaca Pucllana, following this we will visit the historic centre of Lima that was declared humanity patrimony by the Unesco.

In the centre of Lima we will visit the cathedral of Lima, the government palace, the Archiepiscopal palace, the church and the San Francisco Convent were you will visit the famous catacombs.

After this we will visit the modern lima that will include the districts of San Isidro and Miraflores, here you will be able to enjoy the park love that is frequented by everybody and in special dates by couples. Then we will pass to Larcomar a stylish and beautiful shopping mall that has an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean.

After visiting these places, we will take you to a good restaurant in Lima to eat lunch and then take you to your hotel, in the afternoon we will take you to a Peruvian house (or the market) were they will teach you how to make the famous Cebiche.

At the end of the class we will take you to your hotel.

Night in Lima

We will start the tour with the enigmatic city of Pachacamac ubicated 35 minutes afar from Lima, in this great city you will fide constructions in form of pyramids that were temples of Pre inca cultures. Here the highlights are the Pachacamac Oracle, the temple Acllahuasi, the painted temple, the sun temple and the museum of the site

We will continue out tour with a show of the famous Peruvian paso horses ubicated in a gorgeous house hacienda in the valley of Lurin, here we will learn about the history of the hacienda and learn more about this special horses that are unique in the world.

The show includes riders and horses dancing to the music, here you will also be able to ride the horse and take great pictures.

Then we will go to a house to learn how to make the famous dish Lomo Saltado.

At the end of the lesson we will take you to your hotel.

Night in Lima

After the breakfast in the hotel, you will be picked up to take the airport express bus in Miraflores to go to the Jorge Chavez airport to take your flight to Cusco.

Cusco is at 3399 meters high (11 150 feet) which will be the highest altitude in this tour, we recommend taking some pills to help you with this (we can buy the pills for you). We will also prepare a bottle of oxygen for people that need it.

Our representative will pick you at the airport and take you to the Sun temple (Korikancha) which is one of the most important temples of the Inca empire, it is said that in the temple there was many big statues of gold and the building decorated in honour of the sun god, here you will also see the anti-seismic Inca technique.

After that we will visit the famous 12 angles stone, the main square, the San Cristobal church and we will take lunch near the main square.

Then we will visit the San Pedro market, were we will buy the ingredients for the dishes we will prepare that day made of Quinoa. After shopping we will go to the cooking school or a peruvian house to learn how to prepare the dishes.

After the class we will take you to your hotel

Night in Cusco

In the morning after breakfast we will go to Urubamba, in the way we will visit Sacsayhuaman (Inca fortress), Qenko (Inca adoratory) and Puca Pucara (one of the Inca empire administrative and military centre of the Inca empire).

We will go to a buffet restaurant for you to eat all the dishes you know how to prepare and other more that you will learn how to make in the following days.

After that we will learn how to make the delicious Aji de Gallina in the hotel or a peruvian house near the hotel.

The afternoon will be then be free you to enjoy the hotel and rest.

Night in Urubamba

In the morning after breakfast we will take you from your hotel to the station of Urubamba to take the train to Aguas Calientes, then we will take you to the bus station of Aguas Calientes to Machuppichu. In this magnificent city you will be able to visit: the temple of the condor, the temple of water, the temple of the three windows, the main plaza, etc. after this you will be able to climb Huaynapicchu (reservation with months of anticipation as the tickets are limited)

After the Machuppichu visit you will have free time to enjoy lunch in a typic restaurant, we recommend eat guinea pig or alpaca meat.

We also recommend relaxing at the thermal water near the hotel.

In the afternoon we will take you to the train station of Aguas Calientes to take your train back to Ollantaytambo and then we will take you to your hotel in Urubamba.

Night in Urubamba

After breakfast we will depart to Cusco.

In the way to Cusco we will visit the Inca salt flat Maras, where you will be able to take great pictures of the view and buy the delicious unique salt.

After Maras we will visit Moray. Recognized place for its influence that it had in the Inca agriculture, it can be said that Moray was like a laboratory with emphasis in agriculture. The Incan mind did not  have limits as you will be able to understand seeing Moray.

To finish the tour of the day we will visit Chinchero, an important textile city where you will be able to appreciate the different textiles of the region and where you will also be able to buy a unique present for friends at home.

At the arrival of the city of Cusco we will take you to the hotel to rest a few hours in the hotel we will teach to make the famous cocktail Pisco Sour.

Night in Cusco

In the morning you will be able to visit some recommend museums by yourself (or with guide for an extra cost), we will also visit different markets in Cusco to see the difference of the places, quality of products and possibly some food ingredients you did not know yet.

We also recommend visiting the chocolate museum for good souvenirs to bring back home.

We will take you back to your hotel and recommend you some restaurant were you could eat lunch. In the afternoon we will take you to a Peruvian house to learn the other famous dish known as Causa, at the end of the class we will take you to the airport of Cusco to take your flight to Puno.

In Juliaca (where the airport of Puno is) we will be waiting for you to take you to your hotel in Puno

Night in Puno 

After breakfast we will pick you up from your hotel to take you to the Pier to take the boat that will take you to the flouting island of the Uros.

The Uros people have lived in these flouting islands for hundred of years, the Uros people knew how extract this abundant Totora reed to put them together and form little flouting islands that will be attached later.

Even though the world is rapidly changing and more people decide to live in the city the Uros people has continued with their tradition of living and making this flouting islands they are know as the water clan for this reason.

The work they do is not easy as they have to change the Totora from time to time, having to remake their houses, boats and land as all of them are from Totora that has to be changed every certain period.

After visiting the fluting island of Uros we will depart in the same boat we took to Taquile, in Taquile we will have a typic lunch from the region and special tea from the area.

After lunch we will visit more of the island of Taquile, we will be able to see stunning view of the Titikaka lake and take great picture.

Taquile is also well know for their handmade art (textiles, pottery, etc). contrary to many other cultures in Taquile the men are the ones that do the textiles, in order to marry and have a good status in the community they have to show how well they can do their textiles. You will see many of them doing their textiles in the way and will be able to buy some of them.

After visiting Taquile we will take again the boat to go back to Puno pier, in the pier we will be waiting for you to take you to your hotel.

In the afternoon you will learn how to make an Andean dish in the hotel or in a Peruvian house, there we will explain also in what consist the Andean diet.

In the morning after breakfast we will take you from the hotel to the famous Chullpas of Sillustani, one of the biggest necropolises of the world.

Surrounded by a stunning view you will find the Chullpas in the middle, the Chullpas are a kind of tower made of stone, constructed by Collas and Incas to bury their dead.

The biggest and most imposing towers were made by the most important chiefs and priests. The civilizations of the area thought that a cemetery was a place of rest and rebirth that is why they choose a beautiful place to build their cemetery and this places when build were considered sacred places.

This is a magic place to take great pictures, you will enjoy here the view of the mountains and the small lake Umayo.

After that visit we will go fishing to catch the famous gold fish of the Titikaka Lake. The Titikaka Lake is one of the few places where you an catch this kind of fish.

In this activity you will be able to participate with local people and share some fishing techniques.

Finishing this activity we will take you back to your hotel for rest

Night in Puno

After breakfast we will take you to the airport of Puno to take you flight to Lima and to your home country

End of our services.