In Lima, together with a renowned local chef, learn how to cook typical Peruvian dishes. Meet photographer Cristina Hara and immerse yourself in colorful markets, exotic aromas, and products from all regions of Peru. Try the kitchens of Central and Maido, among the best 20 restaurants in the world.
Once in the mountains, enjoy a cuisine based on pre-Hispanic seasonings and techniques. Try appetizers and cocktails typical of our region inside the tower of a church built in the sixteenth century, and delight your palate with the cuisine of Cicciolina, the best restaurant in Cusco.
Discover the “behind the scenes” of MIL restaurant and the ingenuity of Virgilio Martínez, recognized as the best chef in the world more than once.
Connect with the life of the local farmers and learn more about Andean cuisine and local practices. Meet Manuel Choque and discover the secrets of Andean tubers in the country with the world’s widest variety of potatoes.
Learn everything about the history of beer and its Andean version through the experience and stories of a local and distinguished brew master.
Your journey begins in Lima, a pre-Hispanic and vice-royal city, whose historic center has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has been recognized as the gastronomic capital of America.
At the airport, a Terra Explorer guide will welcome and accompany you to your hotel.
Meals included: Snacks.
Accommodation: Hotel in Lima.
Together with a renowned Peruvian chef, learn more about Peru’s history through culinary arts in Lima, one of the world’s most outstanding gastronomic destinations.
Witness exotic aromas and products from all regions of the country visiting one of the city’s most emblematic markets.
Learn to cook the famous Ceviche and Lomo Saltado, dishes that combine a pre-Columbian legacy, Spanish heritage, strong African, Chinese, and Japanese influences, the essence of contemporary Peruvian cuisine.
Tonight, enjoy a dinner at Maido, considered today the best restaurant in the country.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel in Lima.
Together with Cristina Hara, a documentary and gastronomic photographer, embark on an experience that will take you to capture the other side of Lima’s gastronomy life.
You will visit local markets and be amazed by the variety of products. Through aromas and exotic fruits, you will witness Peru´s incredible biodiversity. Get to know the fishing terminal and document a day in the life of an artisanal fisherman.
Later with Ignacio, discover more about our roots through the flavors of the most famous drink in Peru: pisco, a grape distillate produced in these lands since the end of the sixteenth century. We will visit three epic bars for this experience, each with a different proposal for tasting pisco, from drinking it pure or turned into Pisco Sour and several other cocktails.
Tonight, dine at one of the top 5 best restaurants in the world: Central, by renowned Peruvian chef, Virgilio Martinez.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel in Lima.
After a one-hour flight, you will arrive in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire and cultural heritage of humanity. At the airport, a Terra Explorer guide will welcome and accompany you to your hotel.
The city of Cusco is located at 3300 meters above sea level, so we recommend you rest a little to acclimatize optimally.
On the way to dinner, and when you least expect it, colorful dancers will come out from the corners of the narrow streets of the historic center of Cusco, surprising you with their incredible energy and skills. Dance is a cultural expression, and in this case, it will be the Saqras, little devils that represent playfulness and naughtiness, who will surround you with their magic.
Have dinner at Ciciolina, winner of the Summun award as the best restaurant in Cusco for 10 consecutive times.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in Cusco.
Witness Cusco’s living culture through the aroma, products, and characters that inhabit the city’s oldest market. With a local chef, you will buy all the necessary ingredients to cook and savor delicious and traditional dishes in the kitchen of one of Cusco’s finest restaurants.
From Cusco’s main square, walk through the artsy neighborhood of San Blas to the church of San Cristobal. On the way, we will surprise you with the aroma of a good Peruvian coffee, one of the best in the world and with the best chocolate here, in the land of cocoa.
When the sun sets and its rays start painting the skies with orange and golden, you will enjoy exquisite appetizers and typical cocktails of our region, while experiencing the mysticism of being inside the stone tower of San Cristobal, built in the sixteenth century.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in Cusco.
Discover the “behind the scenes” of MIL restaurant and Virgilio Martínez ingenuity, awarded as the best chef in the world more than once.
Visit an ancient laboratory from the time of the Incas, connect with the lives of local farmers, their local produce, and different healing plants.
Witness how the days’ experience is reflected in an 8-course menu that will uncover all your senses.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Together with the distinguished agronomist Manuel Choque, a native of the Huatata community, discover the secrets of Andean tubers, in the country with the world’s widest variety of potatoes.
Taste colorful potatoes roasted in a “Huatia”, a traditional way of cooking in the Andes with the earth’s heat. Taste wines made of oca or black mashua, exquisite experiments created by your host.
We invite you to a private villa in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas to taste a “Pachamanca,” a traditional meal very representative of the Peruvian Andes. It consists of cooking different ingredients underground with hot stones, earth, and herbs, a millenary technique that dates back to pre-Incan cultures in the fifth century.
Accompany your lunch with a private Criolla music concert. Its origins date back to the first decades of the 20th century when Lima interpreters began to fuse musical elements such as the Viennese waltz, the Spanish jota, Peruvian pre-Hispanic melodies, and African-American rhythms.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Learn everything about the history of beer and its Andean version through the experience and stories from a local and distinguished brewmaster.
Together with him, visit a modern brewery, a millenary brewery, and the distillery that produces the only barley and Jora-based whiskey in the world, all three located in the heart of the Sacred Valley.
Later today, and accompanied by a member of the Lambarri Orihuela family, immerse yourself in a century of history and a private collection of Peruvian art, visiting the old Huayoccari hacienda.
With a spectacular view of the Sacred Valley and surrounded by seventeenth and eighteenth-century furniture, colonial paintings, lots of popular art, and baroque music, enjoy a delicious lunch typical of the region.
In the afternoon, in the hacienda’s gardens, enjoy a classical dance of Marinera with Paso horses, one of the most impressive shows in Peruvian tradition.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Discover the culinary traditions and the primary ingredients used in the Peruvian highlands. Visit an organic farm and learn about local vegetables and herbs. See the guinea pigs, rodents native to this area, and the primary guest in local feasts.
Familiarize yourself with the production and roasting processes of a good coffee. Visit the distillery and prepare your own “Andean Elixir” using the best cane distillate in Peru. With the help of a local chef, prepare and taste traditional dishes without fusions, just as they have been served in the high Andean communities for a very long time.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Visit the agricultural interpretation center of the Huayllafara Community, where through the use of millenary calendars, they determine planting and harvesting times.
Cook with them as they have since ancient times, outdoors and by the heat of the fire. Prepare a delicious “uchucuta”, a spicy cream made from rocoto chilis and herbs, and taste a delightful “lawa” (soup in Quechua), prepared with stone-ground corns. A healthy lunch without condiments, straight from the earth to the plate.
Return to Cusco.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in Cusco.
Transfer to the airport in Cusco city.
Meals included: Breakfast.
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