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Extensions: Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Amazon, Titicaca & Lima

Add a private trek or tour to your Cordillera Blanca or Huayhuash adventure. The Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, the highest navigable lake on Earth, the Amazon rainforest and the kitchens of Lima — all on your own schedule, with guides who take the time to show you properly.

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Extensions: Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Amazon, Titicaca & Lima
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Private

Just you and your guide

5 Zones

Cusco to the Amazon

Local

Guides we trust

Flexible

Your pace, your plan

How it works

One trip, north to south, with people who care

Once you have walked the Cordillera Blanca or the Huayhuash with us, it would be a shame to fly home without seeing the rest of Peru. So we add a private trek or tour to your trip — Cusco and Machu Picchu, the Amazon, Lake Titicaca, Lima — built around the days you have left and the things you most want to see.

These extensions are private service only, for guests who come to Huaraz first. On the ground they are run by guides and partner agencies we know well in Cusco, Lima and Puerto Maldonado — colleagues who share our standard of personal, unhurried service. Private means flexible and relaxed: your guide has the time to answer your questions and share what they know about the culture, history, flora and fauna, so the trip feels yours and not a fixed package.

Treks to Machu Picchu

Lares Weavers Trek to Machu Picchu
4 Days
Moderate • Mountains and weaving villages

Lares Weavers Trek to Machu Picchu

A moderate trek that pairs big mountain views with time among the weaving communities of the Lares valley, where families still work the craft by hand. You finish in Aguas Calientes, the small town at the foot of Machu Picchu, before the early-morning climb to the citadel.

[ Operational Route Sequence ]
  1. Cusco Base
  2. Lares Trailhead
  3. High Pass Crossing
  4. Ollantaytambo Staging
  5. Aguas Calientes Recovery
  6. Machu Picchu Dawn Push
Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu
5 Days
Challenging • High altitude

Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu

A challenging high-altitude trek around the majestic Nevado Salkantay, the twelfth highest mountain in Peru. You cross a high pass before dropping into subtropical cloud forest on the way down to Machu Picchu — a real range of scenery in a single trek.

[ Operational Route Sequence ]
  1. Cusco
  2. Mollepata Staging
  3. Salkantay Pass (4,600m)
  4. Chaullay Cloud Forest
  5. Lucmabamba
  6. Hidroeléctrica
  7. Machu Picchu
Choquequirao Trek to Machu Picchu
8-9 Days
Demanding • Two Inca citadels

Choquequirao Trek to Machu Picchu

A demanding combination of trekking and two great Inca sites. First the remote, far less visited Choquequirao — often called the sister city of Machu Picchu — reached down the Apurímac canyon, then hidden mountain paths that lead on to Machu Picchu itself.

[ Operational Route Sequence ]
  1. Cusco
  2. Cachora
  3. Apurímac Canyon
  4. Choquequirao Exploration
  5. Maizal Alpine Pass
  6. Yanama
  7. Lucmabamba Route
  8. Machu Picchu
Classic Private Inca Trail
4 Days
Iconic • Book months ahead

Classic Private Inca Trail

The legendary Inca Trail: cloud forest and subtropical jungle full of flowers and birds, a high pass, intriguing ruins, and finally the old stone road that brings you through the Sun Gate to Machu Picchu, perched high on its ridge. Private service must be booked early — Inca Trail permits are strictly limited and sell out months in advance.

[ Operational Route Sequence ]
  1. Sacred Valley Staging
  2. Km 82 Gate
  3. Dead Woman’s Pass (4,215m)
  4. Sayacmarca ruins
  5. Wiñay Wayna Sanctuary
  6. Inti Punku Arrival
  7. Machu Picchu Citadel
Cusco & the Sacred Valley

Cusco, Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu tours

Personalised private tours over two to five days or more, on a flexible programme. With your own guide and transport you take in Cusco itself and the great Inca sites, with plenty of time to ask questions and linger where you want to.

Cusco city

Cusco centre, Sacsayhuamán and Coricancha

Sacred Valley

Ollantaytambo fortress and the colourful Pisac markets

Moray & Salineras

The concentric terraces of Moray and the Salineras salt pans

Cusco, Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu tours
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Lake Titicaca

The highest navigable lake in the world

Visit the highest and largest navigable lake on Earth and the floating reed islands of the Uros, still home to families who have lived on the water for centuries. A two-day tour includes an overnight homestay with a welcoming local family on Amantaní island. A one-day visit to Titicaca and the Uros islands is also available.

On the water

The floating reed islands of the Uros

Staying over

A homestay with a local family on Amantaní island

Shorter option

A one-day Titicaca and Uros islands tour

The highest navigable lake in the world
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Amazon rainforest

Into the Amazon rainforest

Trade the glaciers for the rainforest: giant trees, flowers, colourful birdlife and intriguing animals. From Puerto Maldonado we offer a three or four-day tour taking in Tres Chimbadas lake, rainforest walks and wildlife. There are daily flights from Cusco, so it slots neatly onto the end of your southern trip.

Where you stay

Comfortable thatched cabins in the heart of the rainforest

What you see

Tres Chimbadas lake, rainforest walks and wildlife

Meals

All meals included throughout the tour

Into the Amazon rainforest
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Lima

Lima city tour & a good meal

A half or full-day tour of the Peruvian capital with your own English-speaking guide and private transport. Tailor-made and evening tours are also available — just tell us what you would like to do. Our Lima guide is good company for anyone travelling alone, perhaps an evening out and dinner.

Your guide

A private English-speaking guide and transport

Museums

The Gold Museum and other museum tours

Travelling solo

Good company for an evening tour and dinner

Lima city tour & a good meal
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Round out your Peru trip
Let us plan it with you

Round out your Peru trip

Tell us how many days you have after the Cordillera and which of these you would love to see. We will work with you to put together a trek or tour extension that fits — and send you ideas, the details and a fair price.

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