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00 pr ic e s sh ow Flight - 1 night Lima - 1 night Cuzco - 2 nights Sacred Valley - 1 night Machu Picchu - 1 night Cuzco - 1 night Lake Titicaca - 2 nights Lima - 1 night Flight - 1 night key vJv features · VJV Exclusive Event · Reduced Prices (selected dates) · VJV Sightseeing Programme · Extension Options · Upgraded Flight Option · Walking Content: 3 (see page 145) · Group Size: 5 ­ 30 per person in a twin room standard Accommodation LAn Airlines from Heathrow ne w £4 11 nights from £2199 n in re PERU P s re ri a d c v u e e c s u e P d to d MACHu PICCHu Mar 11, 18..£2245 Apr 22 .........£2249 May 6 ..........£2299 May 27 ........£2239 Jun 10 .........£2329 2012 ­ Sundays loST World of The incaS From Machu Picchu through the Andes to Lake Titicaca Jul 29 .......... £2469 Aug 19 ......... £2279 Sep 16 ......... £2249 Oct 14 ........ £2249 Nov 11......... £2199 2013 ­ Sundays H Jan 20 .........£2399 Mar 3, 31 .... £2449 Feb 17 .........£2399 Apr 14 ......... £2499 Single supplement ...£350 (2013 £370) Upgraded Hotels ......................£395 Single supplement .....................£590 LAN Business Class .................£1995 Supplements per person Optional excursion programme Machu Picchu 2nd day ticket (includes round-trip shuttle bus) ..£41 Private Journey this tour may be taken as a Private Journey (see page 144) based on 2 persons on the above dates. add £995 per person (2013 £1195) Price includes Air travel, UK departure taxes, transfers, 9 nights' accommodation, breakfast daily, two lunches and one dinner, itinerary as described, services of guides and local representatives. Not included Travel insurance, overseas departure taxes, optional excursions, tipping (see page 145), any government taxes or compulsory charges introduced after publication. iram Bingham's sense of wonderment ItInerary when, in 1911, he discovered Day 1 Fly overnight from London Heathrow to the `lost' city of the Incas can Lima via Madrid. scarcely be imagined. Not only Day 2 Early morning arrival in Lima was there no written record and transfer to your chosen hotel. An PERU that Machu Picchu had afternoon tour of the Peruvian capital ever existed but its ruins BRAZIL includes the impressive buildings of were extensive, unspoiled the Plaza de Armas, the UNESCO World and stood in surroundings of Heritage 17th-century church of San outstanding natural beauty. The Francisco and the hacienda-housed Inca Empire stretching from Chile LIMA· Larco Herrera Museum. ·Machu Picchu to Ecuador was the largest the Day 3 Fly to Cuzco (3,400 metres) with ·ollantaytambo Americas has ever seen and at its the rest of the day at leisure to acclimatise. Ica· Cuzco· time was the greatest in the western Two nights at your chosen hotel. nazca· hemisphere. Highly advanced it had Puno· Day 4 Sightseeing includes the Temple LAKE TITICACA nonetheless failed to discover the wheel of the Sun, Cathedral and the Plaza and had developed no writing system for its de Armas, the imposing Inca fortress language, Quechua. This allied to the fact that of Sacsayhuaman, the underground its heartlands lay mainly amongst the inaccessible temple of Kenko and the Inca baths of peaks and jungles of the interior of Peru largely explains Tambo Machay are also visited. why these important sites remained undiscovered for so Day 5 Drive along the scenic Urubamba long. This arrangement explores Machu Picchu and the Valley, the so-called `Sacred Valley of the Incas' principal Inca sites in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Several and visit Chinchero Village, Maras Salt Mines, Moray outstanding colonial monuments are also visited in Lima and Terraces and Ollantaytambo to view the best surviving example contact is made with present-day descendants of of Inca town planning. the Inca, the Quechua-speaking Indians living in Overnight at your chosen Andean mountain villages and on the shores of VJV Exclusive Event hotel in the Sacred Valley. Lake Titicaca. LARCO MUSEUM uc ay ali Independent Arrival (see page 144) Notes Price reduction .............. deduct £700 In 2013, a slightly revised itinerary operates in a different sequential order. One night in Cuzco is replaced with an extra night in the Sacred Valley. Call or visit www.vjv.com for further details. Machu Picchu now has a daily limit on tickets issued so to avoid disappointment we recommend prebooking your 2nd day ticket. On occasion hotels of a similar standard may be substituted. See page 145 for note on altitude. stanDarD aCCoMMoDatIon The hotels utilised are the 4-star José Antonio hotels in Lima, Cuzco and Puno, 3-star Sonesta Posadas del Inca Yucay (Sacred Valley) and 4-star Hatuchay Tower Machu Picchu Hotel. On occasion, hotels of a similar standard may be substituted. UpGraDeD aCCoMMoDatIon For those in search of extra comfort and luxury we have carefully selected in each place a 5-star hotel (4-star in Puno). The hotels utilised are the Estelar Miraflores in Lima, Aranwa Cuzco Boutique, Aranwa Sacred Valley, Sumaq Machu Picchu and Casa Andina Private Collection in Puno. On occasion hotels of a similar standard may be substituted. PRIVATE VISIT Enjoy an after-hours guided visit of the museum, showcasing 3,000 years of development of Peruvian pre-Columbian history. From August 2012, also enjoy a cocktail reception. 132 0845 166 7008 www.vjv.com