Peru slow travel tour

This Peru slow tour takes 22 days, and you’ll visit Lima, Machu Picchu, Cuzco and Lake Titicaca. But this trip also includes plenty of time with indigenous cultures thanks to community immersion days – which directly help fund the areas’ local education and health facilities.

Lima Arequipa Colca Valley Lake Titicaca by kayak “Sun Route” Inca Trail Sacred Valley kayak or paddleboard Piuray Lagoon Short Inca Trail Machu Picchu Cuzco cycling and walking tours kayaking adventures community immersion days cooking class

Price

£4550 excluding flights

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Duration

21 Days

Type

Tailor made

More info

Prices are per person, based on two adults sharing.
As this is a tailor-made itinerary, we can change it to suit your own needs, wants, time and budget. Enquire now to start planning your own adventure with one of our Peru experts.

Description of Peru slow travel tour

Travel slow and you will see the true Peru. Whilst this trip takes in Peru’s highlights – Cusco and Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and Lima, you’ll also spend a full week in the Sacred Valley, and time in the Colca Canyon, too.

This tour gives you two full days in Lima, Peru’s capital. Here you have plenty of time to get to know the neighbourhoods on a walking tour of boho Barranco, and a private walking tour to take in the gastronomy scene of Peru. You’ll also have time to visit Arequipa, a regional capital in the south of the country, which sits on a high plateau between three towering volcanoes.

After visiting the cities, it’s time to see some of Peru’s famous natural landscapes – starting with nearby Colca Canyon. This is the second deepest valley in the world, watched over by Andean condors with three-metre wingspans. You’ll spend a couple of days in this ‘kingdom of the condor’ before Lake Titicaca, where you’ll swap your walking shoes for a kayak; you’ve got a lunch date on a man-made floating island with the members of the Uros community.

This trip gives you a lot of time to appreciate the Sacred Valley – not just for its historic landscape, but for its people too. You can spend a day with the Andean Misminay community and take part in a number of activities such as cooking, local adobe brick making or hiking.

Your Peru trip would be incomplete without experiencing the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu. On your holiday you can walk the one-day Inca Trail, where you'll do the final 12km of the Inca Trail to the Sun Gate, where you’ll get a great view of the site.

You’ll have time to explore Machu Picchu itself – before returning to the Sacred Valley for some free time to wind down after a thoroughly in depth and fascinating trip. This three week private tour can be adapted to suit you and your interests.

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£4550 excluding flights

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01273 823 700

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Departure information

This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements

Contact Us

If you'd like to chat about this holiday or need help finding one, we're very happy to help

01273 823 700

Call us until 4pm

Calling from outside the UK rosy@responsibletravel.com

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Responsible Travel

As the pioneers of responsible tourism, we've screened this (and every) holiday so that you can travel knowing we've worked to maximise the benefits of your holiday to local people and places, and minimise any negative impacts.

Planet

Planet

We've built this trip around slow travel: fewer moves, more time in each place, and a fully immersive trip to Peru. As well as the community visits described in the People section, you'll visit a reforestation project in the Sacred Valley, explore Lima on walking and cycling tours, and kayak out to the islands on Lake Titicaca instead of taking the busy tourist boats.

There is just one domestic flight across the full three weeks, and it's only included because the drive would take too long. The rest of the journey is by road. We also encourage our guests to fly abroad on holiday less often and, when they do, to stay for longer.

On walks and hikes, that means taking all rubbish out with you, sticking to marked paths and keeping a respectful distance from wildlife.

People

This in-depth itinerary includes a full week in the Sacred Valley, so you have time to take part in community-based tourism. A day with the Misminay community, for example, helps fund local education and health facilities and provides direct income, so community members don't have to leave the area for work elsewhere. This also makes it easier for them to keep their culture and traditions alive. You'll also spend a day with an agricultural community, where the money goes directly to the small farmers and villagers who host you.

We choose Peruvian-owned hotels (small independent ones where possible) so more money stays locally rather than going to international chains. We work with a single ground agent known for its "community first" approach: they work directly with local people on how they want tourism to run in their own region. The result is a fairer, warmer and more authentic experience.

Peru slow travel tour