Archaeological Peru

TORONTO – LIMA Fly from Toronto to Lima. Welcome and transfer to your hotel. Check-in and overnight.
Hotel Hilton Lima Miraflores, Standard ★★★★

LIMA of Peru. Founded in 1535, Lima was once the capital of Spain’s South American Empire for 300 years. Private morning tour featuring the Plaza Mayor, Government Palace, the 17thcentury Baroque Cathedral and Church of San Francisco and finally, the Palacio de Torre Tagle, Lima’s most elegant colonial mansion. Visit the Larco Herrera Museum, featuring gold and silver treasures from Ancient Peru. Enjoy the rest of your day at leisure. Overnight at hotel.
Hotel Hilton Lima Miraflores, Standard ★★★★

LIMA – TRUJILLO Enjoy breakfast; transfer to the airport to board your flight to Trujillo, a coastal city located on the banks of the Moche River near the Pacific Ocean. Trujillo is also home to two major archaeological sites of pre-Colombian monuments, which you will discover tomorrow. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel for overnight.
Libertador Trujillo, Standard ★★★★

TRUJILLO Breakfast. Today, visit the Sun and the Moon pyramids, the center of power in the Trujillo Valley during Moche ancient times. Be impressed by a stunning set of mud-brick friezes on the walls of the Temple of the Moon; visit a traditional family that descends from Mochica people. Drive to the seaside town of Huanchaco for lunch and to watch local fishermen on their traditional reed boats. Visit the ancient City of Chan Chan, once home to 100,000 habitants who stubbornly resisted the expansion of the Inca Empire. Overnight at hotel
Libertador Trujillo, Standard ★★★★

TRUJILLO  – CHICLAYO Breakfast. En route to Chiclayo, visit El Brujo Archaeological Complex, a pyramid which rises about 98 feet above the surrounding desert. Built with tens of thousands of adobe bricks, its walls are covered with polychrome reliefs depicting war motifs, goods, animals, plants and net-fishing. A well-preserved tattooed mummy of a young woman was discovered deep inside the El Brujo pyramid, now exhibited in the Lady of Cao Museum. Overnight at Hotel.
Wyndham Costa del Sol Chiclayo, Standard ★★★★

CHICLAYO After breakfast, visit the magnificent burial platform of Huaca Rajada, where the world famous Tomb of the Lord of Sipan was discovered. Admire fabulous gold artifacts, precious stones and the ancient Moche civilization’s history. Visit Túcume, an imposing 26 pyramid site of the Lambayeque culture; visit the brand new Tumbas Reales Museum. Overnight at Hotel
Wyndham Costa del Sol Chiclayo, Standard ★★★★

CHICLAYO – CUZCO After breakfast, board your flight to Cusco with a stop in Lima. Begin at Koricancha, once the Inca’s sumptuous Temple of Sun before becoming the Spaniard’s Santo Domingo church. The Inca stonework here is the finest to be seen anywhere which remains standing despite many earthquakes. Visit the cavernous Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas. See three other nearby sites: Tambomachay, an Inca fountain and ritual bathing centre; Qenqo, a great stone carved with steps and pictures and a sacrificial table and finally Puca Pucara, meaning Red Rock. The order in which the ruins are visited will depend on local conditions as the guides will endeavour to visit each set of ruins at their quietest. Overnight at Hotel.
Novotel Cusco, Colonial ★★★★

MACHU PICCHU  After breakfast, board the Vistadome Train to Machu Picchu Town, where you will board a bus that will take you to the citadel of Machu Picchu for a guided tour. Lunch at the Belmond Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge followed by a bus ride back down to town. In afternoon, board the train back to Cuzco. Overnight at Hotel.
Novotel Cusco, Colonial ★★★★

SACRED VALLEY  Breakfast. Visit the Písac Market and continue to the Ollantaytambo archaeological complex, including an Inca temple, agricultural terraces, and urban area. Ollantaytambo was an important administrative center with probable military functions considering the walls and towers. Return to Cuzco.
Novotel Cusco, Colonial ★★★★

CUZCO – LIMA Breakfast at the hotel. Morning at leisure. Afternoon transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima. Your homebound flight departs later that evening.

TORONTO Morning arrival in Toronto.