PERU
July 11-16, 2027
Six days. One valley. A lifetime of stories.
A journey through Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu, told exactly the way you’ll live it — day by day. Scroll to walk through your week.
From the moment you land in Cusco to the moment you fly home, every transfer, guide, lunch table, train seat — and dinner, every single night — is already arranged. All you carry is a camera. This is your itinerary. Come see where it goes.
Day 1 — Sunday, July 11, 2027
Arrival. Cusco opens its doors.
Land in the old Inca capital, settle into a 16th-century palace, and let the altitude — and the history — sink in slowly. Dinner tonight, like every night, is arranged.
Cusco, at 11,000 feet
After you collect your luggage in Cusco, your private host meets you in arrivals and escorts you to Palacio del Inka, your palace home in the heart of the old city for the next three nights.
The rest of the day is deliberately unhurried — a coca tea in the lantern-lit courtyard, a first slow stroll to the Plaza de Armas if you feel like it, and time for your body to make friends with the altitude.
Tonight: your first dinner in the oldest streets of the Americas.
Day 2 — Monday, July 12, 2027
The full Sacred Valley day.
Weavers and camelids, fortress terraces, a lunch with dancing horses, salt gardens, and circles carved into the earth. Lunch and dinner included.
MORNING – THE LIVING VALLEY
Weavers, dyes & camelids
The day opens at a textile center where weavers from more than twelve communities of Southern Peru demonstrate the spinning, dyeing, and weaving techniques behind traditional Andean costume.
You’ll also meet the four South American camelids — llama, alpaca, vicuña, and guanaco — whose fleece becomes those stunning handcrafted pieces.
THE LIVING INCA TOWN
Ollantaytambo
A scenic drive through a patchwork of fields that blend into the snow-capped peaks of the Urubamba and Vilcabamba ranges brings you to Ollantaytambo, one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in the Americas.
Sixteen massive terraces spread before you, a testament to the precision and longevity of Inca masonry. Climb the steep stone steps — around 260 of them — to the fortress at the top. From there, the view down the valley is unparalleled, as is the sight of the soaring Sun Temple.
LUNCH INCLUDED – WAYRA AT SOL Y LUNA
A Feast, with Paso horses
Lunch is at the celebrated Sol y Luna, a spread of grilled meats, a parade of Peruvian potatoes, sauces, salads, homemade empanadas, and traditional desserts.
As you dine, Peruvian Paso horses — the smoothest-gaited horses in the riding world — perform their famous exhibition with their chalanes. It’s lunch and a show no theater could stage.
Day 2 — Monday, July 12, 2027
Day 3 — Tuesday, July 13, 2027
Markets, terraces, and giant corn.
Pisac’s ruins and famous market, then a four-course hacienda lunch among the fields. Lunch and dinner included.
9:00 AM – TERRACES AND TEXTILES
Pisac
Pisac gives you two towns in one. In the valley, one of the great markets of the Andes — ceramic-beaded necklaces and earrings, ponchos, hats, and weavings dyed with cochineal and lupine. Come hungry, leave heavier.
LUNCH INCLUDED – HACIENDA SARAPAMPA
House of the giant corn
Lunch is at Hacienda Sarapampa, a family estate devoted to Cusco’s Giant White Corn — kernels the size of coins that grow nowhere else on Earth. You’re welcomed in the courtyard with the house’s signature drink, then guided through the Corn Origins Experience and Interpretation Center.
Afterward, a four-course tasting menu of seasonal ingredients, served in the garden with the fields that grew your lunch in view.
AFTERNOON – SALT AND CIRCLES
Maras & Moray
In the afternoon, Moray drops the valley floor into perfect concentric rings — believed to be an Inca agricultural laboratory, each terrace level holding its own microclimate, a few degrees apart. Stand at the rim and the scale rearranges you.
Then Maras: roughly three thousand salt ponds spilling down a mountainside, harvested since pre-Columbian times. You’ll watch locals collecting salt much the way their ancestors did four hundred years ago, the terraces reading white, pink, and rust in the afternoon sun. Dinner afterwards closes the day.
Day 4 — Wednesday, July 14, 2027
Machu Picchu. The whole day.
Two private hours inside the citadel between two unforgettable train rides. Brunch aboard, lunch included, dinner in the valley tonight.
THE ONE YOU CAME FOR
The Lost City of the Incas
No photograph prepares you. The mist lifts and there it is — a stone city balanced on a ridge nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, in the middle of tropical mountain forest, with a river wrapped around it half a mile below.
From Aguas Calientes, a bus carries you up the mountain for a private two-hour guided tour of the citadel. Your guide reads the site like a book: temples aligned to solstices, the quarry left mid-cut, terraces that still hold after five hundred years of rain. Entrance included.
TRAVEL BY RAIL – TWO INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCES
The Hiram Bingham, A Belmond Train. The Vistadome Observatory.
The Hiram Bingham is a 1920s Pullman dream, with two dining cars, a bar car, open-deck observation car. Gourmet brunch and pisco sours served as the Urubamba Valley sweeps past your window. The Vistadome Observatory has panoramic glass carriages with overhead skylights.
Tonight you sleep beside the river at Tambo del Inka in the Sacred Valley — dinner is waiting.
Day 4 — Wednesday, July 14, 2027
Day 5 — Thursday, July 15, 2027
Cusco, then and now.
A morning walking the old Inca capital, lunch in the city, and an afternoon at the mightiest walls in the Americas. Lunch and dinner included.
MORNING – THE CAPITAL OF AN EMPIRE
Cathedral & Koricancha
The morning belongs to Cusco itself: the Spanish-colonial cathedral on the Plaza de Armas, its interior heavy with gold leaf and Cusqueñan painting, and the Santo Domingo temple — a Dominican church and monastery built directly on the curved, perfect foundations of Koricancha, the Incas’ golden Temple of the Sun.
Two empires, one building. Nowhere tells the story of Peru faster. Lunch follows at one of the city’s celebrated tables.
AFTERNOON – ABOVE THE CITY
Saqsaywaman
In the afternoon you climb to the magnificent fortress of Saqsaywaman, overlooking all of Cusco. Three massive parallel walls zigzag together for 1,300 feet — built from stones the size of trucks, some over a hundred tons, moved without wheels or iron, fitted so tightly you can’t slide a card between the blocks.
From the ramparts, the whole red-roofed city spreads below you — the perfect close to your Cusco chapter before tomorrow’s early start for the mountain everyone crosses the world to see.
Day 6 — Friday, July 16, 2027
One last morning in the valley.
A slow breakfast beside the Urubamba, then your private transfer to the airport. The Andes keep the rest on file.
HASTA PRONTO, PERU
The journey home
Your private host meets you in the hotel lobby for a comfortable transfer to Cusco Airport and your flight out — the same seamless hand-off that opened the trip, closing it.
You’ll leave with salt from Maras still on your boots, giant corn stories nobody at home will believe, and a camera roll that starts arguments about which day was best.
Day 6 — Friday, July 16, 2027
Where you’ll stay.
CUSCO
Palacio del Inka
A Luxury Collection Hotel occupying a near five-century-old palace directly across from Koricancha, the Temple of the Sun. Conquistadors, viceroys, and now you — the guest list runs long.
Behind the carved stone portal of the Casa de los Cuatro Bustos, a lantern-lit colonial courtyard opens onto rooms layered with Cusqueñan art and hand-carved furniture.
Five centuries, beautifully kept
Under a glass-roofed gallery, Inca stonework meets deep Andean blue walls, gilt-framed colonial paintings, and collections of ceramics and silver gathered over generations.
Sip a coca-leaf pisco sour at Rumi Bar, breakfast beneath the skylight, and step out the front door into the oldest streets of the Americas.
SACRED VALLEY
Tambo del Inka
A Luxury Collection Resort & Spa set in private gardens on the banks of the Urubamba river, Tambo del Inka is the Sacred Valley’s grand lodge — eucalyptus-scented air, totora-wood architecture, and mountains filling every window.
It’s also the only hotel in the valley with its own private train station to Machu Picchu. Days end at Hawa restaurant with valley-grown ingredients, or under the stars on the riverside terrace.
Water, wood & Andes light
Tambo del Inka’s signature indoor-outdoor heated pool glides from a soaring timber-and-glass pavilion straight into the open valley air — you swim from inside to outside without leaving the water.
The spa around it draws on Andean botanicals and river stones; after a day of fortress stairs and salt terraces, it is exactly where you want to be.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE
