Peru Familiarization Trip

Welcome to Peru! After arrival, transfer from the airport to your hotel. Enjoy the day at leisure for you relax, book a supplemental spa treatment or enjoy the amenities of the hotel.

Later in the evening, the group will toast the beginning of the familiarization trip with dinner on property. The remainder of the evening is at leisure.

Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Aranwa Sacred Valley & Wellness

Start your day with an early morning wellness class and breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel in the Sacred Valley for a day full of culture and beautiful nature. Your day will begin with a visit to Moray, a small community famous for its embedded amphitheater that is formed by circular terraces which seem to disappear into the ground. Scientists think Moray played an important role in agricultural research conducted by the Incas.

We will continue our visit as we head to the salt mines located near Maras, a very photogenic place, dating from colonial times. We will walk around the salt mines while the guide tells us about the history of this interesting place. Our day will end with a visit to Chinchero, believed to be the mythical birthplace of the rainbow. On Chinchero’s main plaza, find a colonial church built in the 17th century. On Sundays, mass takes place, but on that day you can wander around the market of the town.

We will finish our tour by visiting Ollantaytambo before returning back to the hotel for your evening at leisure.

*The order of the visits may change.*

Meals: Breakfast 
Accommodation: Hotel Aranwa Sacred Valley & Wellness

Start your day off with breakfast at the hotel before heading to the Piuray Outdoor Center. Piuray Lake offers spectacular scenery, and plenty of birds. Start with a safety briefing and paddle technique on land, then enjoy the beauty of the lake. After an hour and a half of paddle boarding or kayaking along the lake’s shore, we will head back to the hotel where you can take part in an optional wellness class before having the evening at leisure to relax.

Meals: Breakfast 
Accommodation: Hotel Aranwa Sacred Valley & Wellness

Start your day off with an early morning yoga class offering a spectacular view of the Sacred Valley.

After breakfast, transfer from Urubamba to the Ollantaytambo station while getting on the Vistadome or the 360 train. The Vistadome and 360 train offers a unique connection with scenery along the way to Machu Picchu, making passengers feel as if they are a part of the nature that surrounds them.

Upon arrival, enjoy a half-day tour of Machu Picchu, which was re-discovered in 1911 by the explorer Hiram Bingham. This citadel is considered to be one of the most extraordinary examples of landscape architecture in the world. In an enclave on the saddle of a mountain overlooking the deep canyon of the Urubamba River in an area of lush tropical forest, it served as a place of worship, a site for stargazing and a private hacienda of the family of the Inca Pachacutec.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was chosen as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

After your visit, enjoy lunch at Tinkuy restaurant at Sanctuary Lodge before returning to Cusco on the Vistadome Train.

*Train schedule subject to availability.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Accommodation: Aranwa Cusco Boutique Hotel

Begin with a leisurely breakfast and an optional morning yoga class at the hotel. After freshening up, it will be time to explore magical Cusco! This beautiful city has history from both the Inca and Colonial times. Start this half-day tour at Cusco’s main square, which was called Huacaypata (Warriors Square) by the Incas. While the guide tells you more about the history of this special place, admire the city’s cathedral that was built between 1560 and 1664 with the red granite stones from the Inca Fortress of Sacsayhuaman. The cathedral is one of the most impressive buildings in Cusco and hosts one of the most significant collections of gold and silver work in the colonial period.

We continue to Koricancha and the Convent of Santo Domingo. The convent was built on top of the most important Inca temple, dedicated to the worship of the sun, with walls covered with gold leaves. As we wander through the streets of what was once the capital of the Inca Empire, you can feel as if you are traveling through time.
After freshening up at the hotel, we will depart for a farewell dinner. Menus are prepared by one of Peru’s most famous chefs, Jorge Luis Ossio, and MAP Café is one of Cusco’s best restaurants.

Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Accommodation: Aranwa Cusco Boutique Hotel

Begin your day with an early morning wellness session and breakfast at the hotel. The remainder of your day is at leisure before you depart to the airport in Cusco for your flight home.

Meals: Breakfast