If you're thinking about travel to Peru this summer 2022 ✅ and you still cannot decide, 25 pictures are worth more than a thousand words!!!
One of our favourite trips, with an excellent team of guides and unforgettable landscapes: crossing the Andes on roads and mountain tracks between Arequipa and Cuzco.
On Lake Titicaca, a boat takes us to the Capachica Peninsula, where we will stay in local homes.
Everything in Peru – its valleys, people, history and the profound awareness of its ancient inhabitants – inspires the traveller’s heart.
Although the itinerary gains altitude gradually to allow acclimatisation, ‘soroche’, or altitude sickness, can occur during the first few days above 3,000 metres. Local remedies include coca-leaf tea and drinking plenty of fluids.
In Peru thousands of festivals are celebrated, dating back to colonial times and maintaining the Peruvian cultural heritage.
The locals call it Cerro Colorado, but due to its peculiar natural coloration, it is also known as Seven Colors Mountain and Rainbow Mountain. The National Geographic magazine includes it among the 100 essential places to visit.
Surrounded by volcanoes reaching 6,000 m, Arequipa is known as “the white city” because of the colour of the stone used in its buildings. It lies at 2,360 m at the foot of Misti and enjoys a pleasant climate year-round.
Inca archaeological sites, towns, and indigenous markets, culminate with the ascent to Machu Picchu
The Huayhuash trek eis considered by many climbers to be one of the most beautiful routes in the Andes
Paracas, gateway to the Ballestas Islands, home to sea lions, pelicans and Humboldt penguins.
Our trips to Peru this summer
✔️ 17-day trip
✔️ Departures from May to November
✔️ From €2,950
This Peru trip explores the south, home to the country’s main archaeological sites and some of the Andes’ most spectacular scenery. From Arequipa we head towards Colca Canyon, visiting the sources of the Amazon, then continue to Lake Titicaca to spend the night on the Capachica Peninsula. The route continues through the Andes to Cuzco and the Sacred Valley, before climbing to Machu Picchu.
