Two nights eating well in Lima, three in the Sacred Valley to get used to the altitude gently, a night at the foot of Machu Picchu so you can visit twice, and three in Cusco to finish. A private guide throughout.
Open any day for the detail. Everything here can move: add a night, swap a hotel, change the order.
Land in Lima and rest in Miraflores, on the cliffs above the Pacific. The next day, walk the colonial centre with a guide and spend the evening on what Lima does best: ceviche at lunch and a long tasting menu at dinner.
Fly to Cusco and drive straight down into the valley, which is lower and easier on the body. Visit the Pisac market and ruins, the salt pans at Maras and the circular terraces at Moray, and the Inca town of Ollantaytambo.
Take the train from Ollantaytambo along the Urubamba gorge to Aguas Calientes. Your guide takes you round the citadel in the afternoon, when the day visitors have started to leave.
Go back up on one of the first buses for the citadel in the morning light, then take the train and road back to Cusco. The city is higher, so take the afternoon slowly.
Walk the city with a guide: the Qorikancha, where Spanish churches sit on Inca walls, the San Pedro market, the hillside quarter of San Blas, and the massive stone terraces of Sacsayhuamán above the town.
Fly from Cusco to Lima to connect with the overnight flight home to London Heathrow.
Travel to Machu Picchu on the Belmond Hiram Bingham train, with lunch served on board.
Add three nights at a rainforest lodge near Puerto Maldonado, a short flight from Cusco.
Add two nights on the shores of Lake Titicaca, reached by a scenic train across the Altiplano from Cusco.
Planned for May to October, when Peru is at its best. Outside those months it still works, with different trade-offs; ask us.
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