When
Family departures during July and August when it is usually warm and sunny by day in the Andes and cool at night. Lima on the coast is cool and misty. Other departures available June to December.
Stay
Your family will stay 14 nights in comfortable tourist class hotels and lodges.
Price
From £2,378 per family member, for 14 days. Children may be eligible for a flight discount. Includes international flights, all transport, twin room accommodation in tourist class hotels, breakfast daily; lunch days 7- 8, full board days 3,4,10;excusions as per itinerary, full-time Journey Latin America tour leader. Children aged 10 and over accepted. Teenagers aged 16 and over are welcome on all other ‘Garza’ departures.
Itinerary
- Day 1
- Arrive Lima.
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- Day 2
- Fly to Arequipa, colonial city at the foot of a snow-dusted volcano. Tour of Santa Catalina Convent.
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- Day 3
- Drive past vicuña herds to the cliffs of remote Colca Canyon.
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- Day 4
- Early morning condor-spotting, visit colourful traditional villages.
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- Day 5
- Six hour scenic drive to Lake Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world at 4000m.
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- Day 6
- Boat trip to the reed islands of the Uros Indians and ride in one of their reed canoes.
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- Days 7 – 9
- Six hour drive to Cusco, capital of the Inca empire and beautiful colonial city surrounded by snowy peaks. Visit markets, museums, ornate churches and Inca temples. Day trip to the Incas’ fertile Sacred Valley.
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- Day 10
- By Rail through a narrow river canyon to the lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu.
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- Day 11
- Return to Cusco.
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- Day 12
- One hour flight to Lima, city tour of the capital.
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- Day 13
- UK clients depart, arrive in the UK, day 14.
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- What’s it like?
- Beth Jewell aged 8… “This was a brilliant but tiring holiday, we did so much in 2 weeks and it was so much fun. The things I liked best were walking the Inca Trail and relaxing while we camped at Puerto Inca. My mum and dad had read that the Inca Trail would be very hard (it had been described in a book as brutal) and I was the youngest child in the group. But in the end the walk was quite easy; you just had to keep going for hours and when we reached the Sun Gate and saw Machu Picchu from such a height it was really amazing. We stopped and made our own cairns (rock piles) for good luck. We saw loads of alpaca and llamas; I even got to stroke a baby one.
- “At the Colca Canyon it was exciting to see all the huge condors swooping on the thermals. Cusco is great for shopping and seeing big Inca sights and the cathedral in the square was weird with lots of chambers and full of gold. The mummies at Nazca were not as scary as I thought they would be but it was odd seeing their hair and bodies all wrapped up. When I came back I was telling my friends about what I’d done and they wished they could have gone too."
