New, North Peru and South Equador highlights with Lima, chiclao, Trujillo, Cajamarca, leymabamba, Chachapoyas, Vilcabamba, Quenca, Guayaquil, extencion Galapagos
23 days
Difficulty: 1
COD: PE-118
Category: Groups Tours
Tour for 23 days North Peru and and south Equador!
With extencion Galapagos
Groups with Tour leader!
Tour is leaving from Group of 8 persons or in private
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How Do we work ?
Our tours are with an English /Dutch speaking tour leader, he travel all the time with you and the group, he is no guide but after many years working in Peru/Bolivia he knows what a tourist need !
Or you do in private without tourleader.
He’s support and translate in any problem. He gives you general info in every place, enough info, so you can discover the beauty of this country by yourself, or with members of the group. We promote a lot of freedom and flexibility in our tours, we call it alone in group, you do your thing with the comfort of a group while de tour leader arrange your excursion or bus ticket. Freedom is one of the big points in this tour!
Kind Of Tour
This is an easy but adventure tour for all ages. Open - young minded persons is what we are looking for. Leave your western look home and just enjoy the beauty of this Andean country. Accept that its different, we come to admire the country, not to change it!
We use good 3 *** hostels / hotels central located. We’re going slowly to high altitude so you get easily get used to it, together with a coca thee !
With this tour you have a good idea from North Peru and South Equador with Pissible extencion to Galapagos !
What is Included
* All bus transport, and 1 national flights, Lima / Chiclao
* All hotels in good 3*** hotels/ Hostals with private bathroom all very clean and centrallocated,
* All hotels are based on double room ,if you are single and don’t mind to share the room with a man or women from an other sexes, there is no surcharge, if you like a single rooms there’s an extra cost and you have to tell us in advance !
* All buses are based on good local buses, sometimes private if written in the program , because we go on not touristic northern part, the roads can be sometimes difficult and bustransport not always comfortable
* All breakfast included !
Not Included
* Your food, in the hotels is breakfast included
* The entry fees
* The excursions, everything with the blue excursion in front, below there is a list of all the estimated prices.
* Insurance, everybody is obligated to have there own travel insurance from home, before starting this trip .
Highlights
* Chan chan in trujillo
* huaca sol y luna
* Lod of sipan
* Cajamarca ( the cusco of the north )
* Leymabamba Mummies
* Kuelap Fort
* Chachapoyas and surroundings
* Frontier with Equador
* South Equador
* Guayaquil
* extencion Galapagos
Day 1 Departure
Departure from Brussels direction Peru
Day 2 + 3 Lima - Trujillo - Huanchaco
Day 2 you arrive in Lima, stay 1 night in Lima and day 3 you fly early to Trujillo
Arrive in Lima. Someone of Peru planet is at the airport to meet you.
Day 3 you wil take the national flight to Trujillo. From Trujillo there is transfer to Huanchacho where we have a hotel close to the beach to recover of the long flight. Here you can make some nice beach walks . This day you also have to visit Chan chan because the ruins are closed on Monday
We visit yesterday Chan Chan, the capital of the Chimú Empire, It extended over more than 18 km2.The Tschudi Palace, placed in the southwest of Chan Chan, is one of the most well-preserved and well-decorated palaces. It is decorated with geometric shapes and low-relieves animal draws. You’ll also visit the ceremonial places, the grain stores and the cemetery. It’s a huge urban complex made of a kind of mud called adobe. The greatness and perfection of this city is expressed in its high decorated walls, long passages, ceremonial squares, palaces, workshops and warehouses. There was room for 100,000 people, virtually a city-state.After this we drive to the pyramids of “Arco iris” ,also known as “Huaca El Dragon”,built by the Chimu culture between the 11th and the 15th century and surrounded by a 6 meters high wall. and “Huaca de la luna and sol “, here the archaeologists still do every day new discoveries.
Today we have time to discover this area. In the morning we take as excursion , taxi’s to “ventanillas de Otusco “. This is a Pre Inca rock with many holes .After this visit we start a walk in this area for about 2 h to the “Banos de los Incas “ Inca bath hot spring. In these clean bath we can enjoy the hot water.
Hostal in Cajamarca
Day 7 Cajamarca - Leymabamba
Day 8 Leymabamba - Laguna de condores
Day 9 Leymabamba - Kuelap - Chachapoyas
Day 10 Chachapoyas
Day 11 Chachapoyas - Chiclao
Day 12 Chiclao
Transfer in taxis to the hotel, This day its possible to go in an excursion to one of the most important and beautiful museums of Peru. We charter as excursion, a mini bus to go to Lambayeque. Here is the highly recommended Bruning Archaeological museum and the New Museo de las Tumbas Reales de Sipan, where is the magnificent treasure from the tomb of a Moche warrior/ priest, discovered in 1987. This museum has more than two thousand pieces made of gold. The access to the museum is through a ramp, similar just as it was the access to the ancients Moche Temples. In the second floor you could appreciate a replica of the funeral chamber for a Moche noble warrior called The Lord of Sipan. Also you can appreciate the ornaments how they were recovered in the tomb. If you have time left you also can visit the museum of Sican or 35 km further the ruins of the 26 pyramids of TUCUME as excursion.
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