Ultimate Peru

This fascinating tour, which combines some of Peru's most magnificent natural spectacles with its Inca and Spanish colonial legacy, has all the ingredients for one of South America's great adventures.

From Lima, fly south to the colonial city of Arequipa and visit the spectacular Colca Canyon, home to the soaring Andean condor.  You then continue to the world's highest navigable lake, Lake Titicaca before a full day's train journey across the high Alti Plano to Cusco, historic capital of the Inca Empire and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  From here, you visit the 'Sacred Valley of the Incas' and travel by narrow gauge railway to the mountain-top citadel of Machu Picchu.  This extensive journey ends in the tropical rainforest of the Tambopata Reserve, sanctuary to a profusion of wildlife.

Sample itinerary:

Day 1: Fly London to Lima via Madrid. Overnight Casa Andina Private Collection.  Day 2: Fly to Arequipa.  Overnight Casa Andina Private Collection. Days 3/4: Two day excursion to Colca Canyon. Overnights Colca Lodge.  Days 5/6: Drive to Puno.  Full day excursion to Uros and Taquile Islands.  Overnights Casa Andina Private Collection.  Days 7/8: Train to Cusco. Overnights Casa Andina Private Collection.  Day 9: Full day excursion along the Sacred Valley.  Overnight Hotel Rio Sagrado.  Day 10: Train to Machu Picchu with guided tour of ruins.  Overnight Hotel Sumaq Machu Picchu.  Day 11: Return to Cusco by train. Overnight Casa Andina Private Collection.  Days 12/14: Fly to Puerto Maldonado. Walking and canoeing in the Tambopata Reserve. Overnights Hacienda Concepcion. Days 15/16: Fly to London via Lima and Madrid.