Definitive Tour of Machu Picchu: everything you need to know

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Day 1 Lima
- Upon your arrival, reception at the airport and transfer to your hotel.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Lima.
Day 2 Lima – City Tour
- Our guided visit to Lima allows you to see the Historical Center: Main Square, the Government Palace, the Archbishop's Palace, the City Hall and old streets with colonial mansions and Moorish balconies. You will also visit the historic Santo Domingo Convent , an icon of colonial architecture. The tour goes all the way to modern district of San Isidro and Miraflores, where you’ll appreciate archaeological sites of sacred Inca structures and also, you will observe the Pacific Ocean coast from the vast seafront.
- Finally, visit Larco Museum, which houses the incomparable private collection of Treasures of Ancient Peru and inspires its visitors making them discover, understand and enjoy the more than five thousand years of history of ancient Peru through more than 45,000 pieces.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Lima.
- Included: Breakfast.
Day 3 Lima - Cusco
- Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Cusco.
- Upon arrival transfer to the selected hotel.
- Day at leisure.
- Explore the wonders of the city and enjoy Cusco's colonial churches and mansions built over original Inca constructions; admire its beautiful plazas or just stroll its picturesque cobblestoned streets.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Cusco.
- Included: Breakfast.
Day 4 Cusco – Mystical City Tour
- Private transfer to the rear area of the Sacsayhuaman temple, where you will visit an Inca water reservoir and the forest surrounding the fortress. Mystical explanation of the area. The route continues towards Tambomachay. There you will get fascinated by the mystical explanation of this place full of a particular energy.
- The tour continues to the Temple of the Moon, en route stopped at the Temple of the Monkey, there, at a place of a singular energetic significance you will be prepared spiritually for the ceremony you will get part later. Visit this astronomical viewpoint. The tour continues to the Temple of the Moon, a temple built to worship fertility. The most important cave in this center has a crack at the top where a thin ray of light burst on a cold stone table. This area features female characters; in fact many find similarities with the uterus and the opening of the ceiling with a vagina. Also, you can find some phallic shapes at the entrance.
- You will then participate in an “Payment to Earth Ceremony" led by a “Shaman” or Andean priest. Offering ceremonies, commonly known by the Andean population as “payments” to the goddess Earth or “Pachamama” in quechua, their native language, are rituals of ancestral origins, part of a system of reciprocity between the material world and the spiritual world. It is a ritual whose purpose is to thank and give back to Mother Earth for what she has given to you, in it you can also ask her for your deepest desires to come true, and what we want for your loved ones. After the ceremony, you will enjoy a delicious picnic on a beautiful green meadow surrounded by a magical atmosphere. After a short break the tour continues with a guided visit of the fortress of Sacsayhuaman.
- Finally the tour ends with a tour to the temple of Koricancha and a panoramic visit to the city of Cusco.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Cusco.
- Included: Breakfast, lunch.
Day 5 Cusco – Sacred Valley
- MYSTICAL CEREMONY SACRED VALLEY & TIOBAMBA CHURCH
- You will be picked up from the hotel, on route brief stop to buy flowers and fruits for the offering ceremony. On the way to the Sacred Valley, you will stop at the viewpoint of Yanahuara to appreciate the panoramic view of the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Guided visit to the Church of Tiobamba. After the visit to the church, you will participate in a “Petition Ceremony”, in which the Shaman will invoke the sacred spirits of the Apus (mountains) so that they and other Andean ancestral deities can help you fulfill your most important yearning. Then you will be offered a pachamanca for lunch, a dish prepared by cooking, with the heat of preheated stones, meats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. More than a meal, it is a community rite in the Andes. After lunch you will go to the poin where the shaman will make a bonfire to burn the offering of the mystical ceremony previously performed. At the end of this day the shaman will read your future in the sacred coca leaves. Transfer to the selected hotel in the Sacred Valley.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Sacred Valley.
- Included: Breakfast and lunch.
Day 6 Sacred Valley - Machu Picchu
- Transfer from the hotel to the train station.
- Bus ride to Machu Picchu.
- VISIT TO MACHU PICCHU GUIDE + SHAMAN
- During the visit will be accompanied with both the guide and the shaman so that you can have both the archaeological and mystical views of the area. This takes about 3 hours and then you will have about 30 more minutes to walk on your own.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Machu Picchu.
- Included: Breakfast, lunch.
Day 7 Machu Picchu
- MAMA COCHA MYSTIC CEREMONY
- Pick up from the hotel to head towards Mandor. You will walk approximately one and a half hours to this beautiful place where you will find a waterfall and abundant vegetation. You will visit a botanical garden where you can appreciate impressive orchids. In this wonderful place will participate in a special mystical ceremony known as "Pay to the Mother Cocha", Cocha is the Inca god of water.
- Overnight at selected hotel at Machu Picchu.
- Included: Breakfast.
Day 8 Machu Picchu - Cusco
- Day at leisure
- At the appointed time, you will return to the station to take your train ride back to Cusco.
- Overnight at selected hotel in Cusco.
- Included: Breakfast.
Day 9 Cusco
- Transfer to the airport to take your flight to Lima and your international flight back home.
- Included: Breakfast.

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