1st day | Arrival in Lima (154 masl)

Arrival at Lima’s international airport in the afternoon or night. Meeting with our personnel, transfer and lodging
in hotel (private service, English-speaking assistant). Overnight.

2nd day | Lima 

Breakfast in hotel. Day dedicated to visit San Francisco Convent and its catacombs, Nazarenas
Church, Church and Convent of Santo Domingo, the Cathedral and it Religious Art Museum (private
service, English-speaking guide) (time to have lunch, lunch is not included). Overnight.
Santo Domingo: closes on January 1st, July 1st and December 25th
Religious Art Museum: closed Saturdays (afternoon) and Sundays

3rd day | Lima / Ayacucho (2.476 masl))

Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Huamanga. Upon arrival, meeting with our
personnel and transfer to the hotel. Morning is at leisure. In the afternoon, visit the Regional Museum, the
Huamanga’s Cathedral of baroque style and the artisan neighborhood (private service, English-speaking
guide). Overnight.

4th day | Ayacucho

Breakfast in hotel. Day dedicated to visit the Historical Center of Ayacucho founded by the Spaniards in
1540 with the name of San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga. Place with majesty of churches that links its
thirty-three colonial churches and stately mansions with Baroque, Mudejar and Churrigueresco influence,
built on the bases of Andean origin, as prosper expression and center of power in the XVI, XVII, XVIII and
XIX centuries. Visit its architecture, religious and civil imagery in the temples of Santo Domingo,
Compañia de Jesus, San Cristobal, Santa Teresa and San Francisco de Paula, whose interiors
highlights fine works of art such as the altars with gold, canvas, picture gallery, beautiful images of saints
and virgins of Christianity; considered jewels of Peruvian religious and cultural heritage; in whose memories
take place religious festivities of high solemnity and Christian passion, accompanied by processions
artistically decorated with candles and lights, flower carpets, incense smell, as well as liturgical and cultural
activities in celebrations, as the Holy week (private service, English-speaking guide). Overnight.

5th day | Ayacucho / Arequipa (2.300 masl)

Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Arequipa, via Lima. Upon arrival, transfer and
lodging in the hotel. In the afternoon, visit the Cathedral and its museum, the Santa Catalina
Monastery, and the Compañia de Jesús Church and its dome (private service, English-speaking guide).
Overnight.
Cathedral’s museum: closed on Sundays
Santa Catalina: closes on January 1st, Holy Thursday (from midday), Holy Friday, and December 25th

6th day | Arequipa

Breakfast in hotel. Morning dedicated to visit the Santa Teresa Monastery and the Recoleta Convent
(private service, English-speaking guide). Afternoon is at leisure. Overnight.
Santa Teresa: closes January 1st, Holy Thursday and Friday, and December 24th and 25th
Recoleta: closed on Sundays and holidays
Convento Museo Recoleta: cierra los domingos y feriados

7th day | Arequipa / Cusco (3.399 masl) 

Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Cusco. Upon arrival, transfer and lodging in the
hotel. In the afternoon, walking tour visiting the Cathedral, the Santo Domingo Convent/ Coricancha,
the Compañía de Jesús Church and Merced Temple (private service, English-speaking guide). Overnight.
Cathedral: closed on Holy Thursday and Friday
Santo Domingo/Coricancha: closed on Sundays in the morning

8th day | Cusco / Machu Picchu (2.400 masl) / Cusco

Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to Ollantaytambo’s station (almost 2-hour journey) (private service, Spanish-
speaking driver) to take the train to Aguas Calientes (almost 1.30-hour journey, subject to availability).
Upon arrival, meeting your guide and take the 30-minute shuttle bus up to Machu Picchu (shared
Spanish/English-speaking guide only during the visit, almost 2 hours). After the guided tour, the local guide
will leave you and you will take the shuttle bus descend to Aguas Calientes town. Then, walk around 5
minutes to the train station for your train back to Ollantaytambo (almost 1.30-hour journey). Upon arrival,
transfer to Cusco (almost 2-hour journey) (private service, Spanish-speaking driver). Overnight.

9th day | Cusco 

Breakfast in hotel. Visit to the Catholic precincts in the south of Cusco, which date from the XVII and XVIII
centuries, whose baroque and renaissance artistic manifestations through architecture, painting and
sculpture are perfectly combined with the warmth of its villages and customs of its inhabitants. On the
itinerary, we will visit: Andahuaylillas (which is known as the Sistine Chapel, Huaro (the small town of
Huaro is located at 4 Km. south of Andahuaylillas. Its white church dedicated to John the Baptist was built at
the end of the 17th century. Its structure, made up of a single nave, is of classic style. Its façade is
enlivened by indigenous decorations and flanked by a bell gable. Inside, the Renaissance altar is among the
oldest of Peru. However, the magnificent pair of frescos made by Tadeo Escalante, situated on both sides of
the entrance gate, is undoubtedly the most fascinating artwork in the church), and Canincunca (its chapel
dedicated to the Virgin of Candelaria was probably built at the beginning of the 17th century for evangelizing
the indigenous populations. It stands above Urcos Lake on a significant pre-Hispanic site. The cemetery that
sits on the hill behind the chapel holds remains, which dates back to the Incan Empire. The inside of the
chapel contains an Andean Baroque iconography such as representations of vizcachas and a representation
of the Virgin of Candelaria) (private service, English-speaking guide). Afternoon is at leisure. Overnight.

10th day | Cusco / Lima