ITINERARIES IN PERU - PROGRAMS OF OUR PARTNERSPeru has all kinds of natural landscapes that contrast greatly across this diverse country: rainforest, desert, highland valleys, white and sandy beaches and snow covered mountains. All these natural resources you can find in Peru. Our recommended agencies offer you this variety to experience it by yourself.
Arequipa:
Puno:
Availability: daily At the end of your sightseeing tour, you enter the monastery Santa Catalina from the 16th century. Behind the walls of the still active used monastery expects you a small world of its own, a city inside the city. You marvel at coloured houses and demonstrated original rooms of the last centuries. A lot of alleyways and in detail prepared circumstances of the life of the nuns can be admired. The open air museum documents all day life of the monastery and also shows a collection of sacred paintings in a high quality.
Availability: daily After the presented spectacle you drive upside the river through the canyon to Chivay, one of the 13 typical Andean style villages of the canyon. The population of the Colca Valley cultivates terraces from pre Inca time which you can even find on the cliffs close up to the river. Here, cultivated products serve for self sufficiency. Based on agricultural diversity, the villages are able to live independent and just change their goods or sell some souvenirs or handmade works to tourists. In any of these villages that transport you back to a almost forgotten age, you have some time to admire churches and places. Arriving in Chivay, you have the opportunity to try regional viands at lunch, before the bus brings you back to Arequipa.
Availability: daily In Chivay, one of the 13 typical Andean style villages of the canyon, the possibility to have lunch before you are brought to your hotel is offered. After a midday break, you visit the hot springs of "La Calera" in the afternoon and allow yourself relaxation after a spectacular trip. At night an optional programme is offered, including dinner and a presentation of typical dances of the region, in combination with Andean music. Early in the next morning, you are picked up at your hotel and drive to the Cross of the Condor. You reach the viewpoint where you observe the sky, looking for a circling condor. This viewpoint inside the canyon is famous for its reliably view of condors. The birds have a wing spread of up to three meters and slide above you in a majestic way as giants of the sky. If the weather is fine, you can take part in a short but guided walk around the viewing rock to get more information about the local fauna and flora. After the presented spectacle, you drive upside the river through the canyon back to Chivay. On your way back, you stop in two villages to visit the very distinctive equipped and designed churches, located right beside the typical places of the villages. The population of the Colca Valley cultivates terraces from pre Inca time which you can even find on the cliffs close up to the river. Here, cultivated products serve for self sufficiency. Based on agricultural diversity, the villages are able to live independent and just change their goods or sell some souvenirs or handmade works to tourists. Arriving in Chivay, you have the opportunity to try regional viands at lunch before the bus brings you back to the meeting point at the entrance of the canyon. The groups separate and start their trips back to Arequipa or Puno.
Availability: daily You will be picked up at an early hour in your hotel and brought to the port of Puno. Here, you change your mean of transportation to a boat which carries you on your full day trip on lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake of the world. At the beginning of your trip, you get competent information about the basics of lake Titicaca - its location, importance, history and uniqueness. Your first stop are the floating islands of the Uros. These artificial islands are handmade from reed by the members of the Uro tribe. Every island is occupied by a small community of two or three families with up to three generations. The headman, normally the male head of the families, welcomes you and explains the phenomenon of the islands and their construction. The Uros just speak a little Spanish, they communicate in Aymara, one of the official indigene languages of Peru. Of course, your guide translates for you and offers you in this way the opportunity to ask more questions about traditions and normal day life of the Uros. Finally, the women of the island invite you to their houses, also made of reed. After a longer boat trip you reach your second stop, the island of Taquile. Your boat lands in one of the small ports around the island and you begin a soft hiking through the picturesque landscape in form of terraces. Arrived at the highest point, the main-square, you find out very quickly why Taquile is called "island of knitting men". What it is and to which past-time this custom goes back, you will find out during your stay. It is possible to lunch here and get more interesting background information about the traditional life- and work-communities of the inhabitants of Taquile. Later, after a walk to the main port on the other side of the island, you board again. After an exciting day and a lot of interesting views into culture and traditions of communities living on lake Titicaca, you start your way home to Puno. You are expected at the port and brought back to your hotel.
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Here we would like to present you some of the tour programmes available
in Peru's south around the cities Arequipa and Puno: 
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