Begin your journey with a welcome dinner at Ani’s home, a beautiful villa located on the banks of the Vilcanota River in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Cycle through beautiful hills and paddle lake while observing communities frozen in time. Enjoy Terra Explorer-style luxury glamping and explore remote spaces with the sophistication and comfort of luxury accommodations.
Visit the legendary salt mines and immerse yourself in the mysterious Inca agricultural laboratory of Moray. Combine climbing a via ferrata, spending the night inside a transparent capsule 400 meters (1,352 ft.) above the ground, and descending on zipline cables. Travel back in time and hike the main route that connected the inhabitants of the ancient Inca Empire with the citadel of Machu Picchu.
Together with a renowned Peruvian photographer, discover the historic center of Cusco and explore a little-known mountain with the permission of the community that jealously guards it.
Your journey begins 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 Sacred Valley Lodge.
On the way you will discover the Andes, the longest mountain range on the planet, inhabited by legendary indigenous communities and areas untouched by modernity. In the following days, this place will allow you to connect with different ways of seeing the world.
For a welcome dinner, we will visit Ani Vellutino. She is the matriarch of a family that loves nature, outdoor life, and above all, good food. She passes her days strolling through local markets, carefully selecting the finest ingredients, and later turning them into a delicious feast for her guests.
Ani, also a lover of good conversations, opens the doors of her lovely villa, located on the banks of the Vilcanota River facing the Pitusiray Mountain, to share with us her fabulous food, her personality, and the warmth of her home.
Meals included: Dinner.
Accommodation: Hotel in the Sacred Valley of the Incas or private house.
Visit the home of a master weaver in the community of Chinchero. Share a morning with her family and learn about different types of local fibers and ancestral dyeing techniques. This craft has been passed from generation to generation since pre-Inca times.
From here, ride mountain bikes to Huaypo, a beautiful lake perched high in the Andes. Surrounded by majestic mountains and snow-capped peaks, cross impressive landscapes, farmlands and communities, while discovering one of the most beautiful places in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
On the shores of Huaypo Lake, enjoy a luxury picnic in the outdoors.
Tonight, enjoy luxury glamping in Terra Explorer style and explore remote spaces with the elegance and comfort of luxury accommodations.
Learn about local herbs, their exquisite flavors and medicinal properties, as we welcome you with a unique teatime. Relax with a lakeside massage and, at nightfall, enjoy a fire under a starry sky.
Get back to basics and delight your palate with a candlelight dinner.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Luxury Glamping for Couples at Huaypo.
After an outdoor breakfast under the first sun rays of the morning, explore Huaypo paddling its waters on expedition kayaks.
In a world in which we are encouraged to return to the essential, we find in the Rainbow Ceremony of Marlis Ferreyros an opportunity to seal the love between two people in a genuine and very special way. Taking into account the knowledge of Andean ancestral wisdom, with love, respect, and humility, this ceremony is created with your most intimate intentions, gratitude, and commitment. At the end of the ceremony you will offer all these to Mother Earth. Seal your alliance in a ceremony designed for you, surrounded by the energy of the Andes.
During the afternoon, visit the impressive salt mines of Maras, over three thousand salt wells built by the Incas on the slopes of the mountain “Qaqawiñay, which are still used today.
Explore Moray, the circular terraces that make this center of agricultural experimentation one of the most enigmatic archaeological remains of the Peruvian Andes.
Return to Huaypo lake and enjoy an ultimate luxury service while connecting with nature in its purest and most natural state.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Romantic Glamping at Huaypo.
Challenge the heights and ascend the stairs, cables, and steel bridges of a via ferrata, until you arrive in total safety to a capsule connected to a cliff at 400 meters (1,352 ft.) height. Enjoy the experience of spending a night in the famous Sky Lodge.
In the middle of the journey, enjoy a unique lunch inside the dining capsule, with an impressive view of the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Spend the night in this hanging shelter and sleep, literally, under the Milky Way.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Skylodge Adventure Suites.
After a delicious breakfast suspended on the slope of this mountain, descend a seven cable Zipline of 150 to 500 meters (507- 1,690 ft.) in length, and allow yourself to fly over this magnificent place safely and with exhilarating fun.
After a ride to Ollantaytambo, 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 in the Sacred Valley of the Incas or private house.
In a luxury train you will travel directly to Km 104 (Mile 64), the starting point of the trek.
Along the way, with a spectacular view of the Urubamba Valley, visit the remains of Chachabamba and the impressive archeological complex of Wiñay Wayna, built by the Inca Pachacutec in the fifteenth century.
Continue hiking through one of the best-preserved sections of the Inca Trail, cross a cloud forest with abundant flora and fauna, including more than 300 types of orchids, until you reach the Sun Gate.
Enter through the gate and be amazed by the majestic Inca citadel, an image that will surely remain in your memory forever.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel in Machu Picchu town.
Calmly luxury tour to Machu Picchu and discover the history of Peru as you walk through squares, temples, fountains, monuments, and residences of what once was the most important religious, political, and cultural center of the Inca Empire.
Optionally, climb to the summit of Huayna Picchu Mountain or the top of Machu Picchu Mountain, two natural viewpoints with striking views of the entire citadel.
In the afternoon, board the train back to the Sacred Valley or to the city of Cusco.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Luxury hotel in Cusco city or private house.
Join a renowned Peruvian photographer in luxury adventure in Cusco city from a different perspective.
Discover details of the ancient capital of the Inca Empire through your own lens, capturing architecture, Inca stone walls, the market, and old colonial mansions.
Compare Cusco’s contemporary reality with its past, as Diego will show you the exact spots documented almost a century ago by Martin Chambi, one of the most important Latin American photographers of the early nineteenth century.
The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art opens its doors to you for an exclusive, private lunch served in its “Wood Room.” You will indulge in a 5-course meal exquisitely prepared with ingredients from the coast, mountains, and Amazon of Peru, and inspired by the ancestral technique using wood smoke.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Luxury hotel in Cusco city or private house.
Walkthrough one of the least explored and most impressive places in the Southern Valley of Cusco by exploring the mountains of Palccoyo, whose colors look like a rainbow perched on the earth.
Be welcomed by the community of Palccoyo and enter the Andes surrounded by the impressive Ausangate snow-capped mountain. Cross a rock forest and feel the immensity of the universe from the top of a viewpoint overlooking the Red Valley until you reach these orange, red and turquoise blankets of earth.
After the hike, we will surprise you with an exquisite luxury picnic lunch in the outdoors.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Luxury hotel in Cusco city or private house.
Transfer to Cusco’s airport.
Meals included: Breakfast.
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Our experiences are designed considering the least possible exposure, where the final destinations are usually remote places. By their very nature, our adventure activities are considered to be low risk, mainly because they are performed outdoors where ventilation is constant and making it easy to achieve social distancing.
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