Peru, Peru Tourism, Peru Travel, Machu Picchu.
Peru, Peru Tourism, Peru Travel, Machu Picchu.
DAY
Visits the most interesting sites: the Lima Cathedral, Pizarro´s Grave, San Francisco Catacombs, passing through the Senate Building, the Palace of Torre Tagle. Then visit the residential areas: Orrantia, San Isidro, Miraflores, and Barranco, where you can see and enjoy a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean.
In the afternoon, visit to the Queirolo winery in the traditional neighborhood of Pueblo Libre (Free People). At night, a delightful dinner at the Brujas de Cachiche restaurant, where you could enjoy the perfect Pisco Sour or their new invention: the Brujas Sour, a Pisco Sour made out of pisco and maca, a native plant from Peru. Delicious!
LIMA
1
DAY

Transfer to the airport to visit the city of Trujillo, known as "the City of the Eternal Spring", where you will visit the Main Square, the Cathedral and the beautiful residential and commercial areas which contain grandiose colonial houses and well preserved porches, balconies and churches such as the Colonial Mansions of "Casa Iturregui" and "Casa Bracamonte".
The tour continues to one of the most important centers of the ancient Moche culture. This pre-Inca civilization, a warrior culture, once dominated the valleys of the northern coast of Peru. Experience the amazing adobe engineering of the Temple of the Sun (sol), the tallest pyramid in the Americas at a height of 48 meters, which is estimated to have involved over 200,000 workers in its construction and over 140 million adobe bricks. Steps away is the temple of the Moon (Luna), the Moche political center where recently uncovered friezes of mystical images are believed to belong to a divinity of sacrifices.
Overnight at selected hotel.


TRUJILLO
2
DAY
Transfer by bus to Chiclayo city. The tour starts visiting the complex of Huaja Rajada which comprises two huge pyramids mad of adobe mud in front of which there is a platform which is thought to have contained the royal mausoleum. The intact remains of an important Mochica ruler known as the Lord of Sipan were discovered here in 1987. Then continue to the Royal Tombs of Sipan Museum. Rated as one of the most outstanding archaeological museums in South America, the building is modeled after an ancient pyramid of the region. Here you can find a reconstruction of the tomb of Sipan, dubbed the "Tutankhamen of the Americas" because of the golden splendor of his tomb : hundreds of pieces of pottery and exquisite gold jewelry. Overnight at selected hotel .
CHICLAYO
3
DAY
Transfer to the airport to take the flight back to Lima.  
LIMA
4
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