Brand g Amazon Cruise & Machu Picchu Discovery I 2028

Itinerary

9 stops · 12 nights

1. 1
   Lima (Peru) Start

   Embarkation

   Peru's capital connects the colonial buildings around the Plaza Mayor and the San Francisco Monastery with its catacombs with the Miraflores district on the cliffs above the Pacific. In the artists' quarter of Barranco and at the food stalls, you can try ceviche and pisco sour.

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   Iquitos (Peru)

   Iquitos is considered the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road: you can get there by plane or boat. On the banks of the Amazon there are rubber-era houses with azulejo facades and the iron Casa de Fierro, and in the Belén district, the houses float at high tide.

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   Nauta (Peru)

   Nauta is located near the confluence of the Marañón and Ucayali rivers, which from here on are collectively called Amazonas. The small town is the starting point for river trips towards Pacaya-Samiria, and at its harbour you can watch traders and fishermen moor their boats.

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   Pacaya-Samiria Reserve (Peru)

   The Pacaya Samiria Reserve is one of Peru's largest protected areas, a flood forest between Marañón and Ucayali. In the dinghy, you'll spot pink river dolphins, sloths, monkeys, and hundreds of species of birds, and at night, the caimans' eyes glow in the cone of light.

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   Yarapa (Peru)

   On the Río Yarapa, a tributary of the Ucayali, you will glide in a dinghy through black water and flooded forests. Here you will meet river dolphins, hoatzins and kingfishers and visit villages whose inhabitants live from fishing and small fields on the shore.

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   Sacred Valley / Urubamba (Peru)

   The Sacred Valley of the Incas stretches along the Urubamba River between Cusco and Machu Picchu. See the ruins and market of Pisac, the salt terraces of Maras, where salt has been extracted since Inca times, and the circular agricultural terraces of Moray.

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   Ollantaytambo (Peru)

   In Ollantaytambo, you walk through a town whose street grids and walls date back to the Inca period. Above the village, the terraces of the temple fortress rise, and from the train station, the train travels through the narrow Urubamba Valley to Aguas Calientes at the foot of Machu Picchu.

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   Machu Picchu (Peru)

   The Inca city of Machu Picchu is located on a mountain saddle high above the Urubamba Valley, overlooked by Huayna Picchu and surrounded by cloud forest. Between the Temple of the Sun, Intihuatana stone and terraces, you can see how precisely the Incas set their stone walls without mortar.

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   Cusco (Peru) Finish

   Disembarkation

   The former capital of the Inca Empire is located at an altitude of around 3,400 meters. The cathedral at the Plaza de Armas and the monastery of Santo Domingo stand on Inca foundations, the latter on the sun temple Qorikancha, and above the city you can see the mighty walls of Sacsayhuamán.

The ship · Delfin III

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