Peru — Bolivia

Route:

LIMA (Peru) — PARACAS — ISLAS BALLESTAS — NAZCA — AREQUIPA — COLCA CANION — PUNO — LA PAZ (Bolivia) – ANDAHUAYLILLAS – CuzCO – PICCH MACHU – OLLANTAYMBO

1 Day
We leave Chopin Airport in Warsaw, at Terminal A (new) . A trip to South America. Come to Lima. Transfer to the hotel.

2 Day: LIMA (Peru) — PARACAS — ISLAS BALLESTAS — NAZCA
Early departure to Paracas. A boat trip to the Ballestas Islands, where there are colonies of sea lions and exotic birds, including cormorans, Humboldt penguins, pelicans. Moving to the Nazca plateau. Admiring the famous Nazca lines; from the lookout tower you can see the figures of the hand and the tree. Dinner.

3 Day: NAZCA – AREQUIPA
For volunteers an optional flight over the Nazca plateau (approx. 150 USD at a minimum of 10 people). Mysterious lines that make up animal drawings and geometric figures can be seen from above in all grandness. They are perfectly preserved, so it is hard to believe that they began to be drilled in the rocky desert surface during the fourth century B.C.E. – X century AD Dinner. Transfer to Arequipa town via the Panamanian road, a picturesque route along the Pacific coast.

Day 4: AREQUIPA
Visiting the second largest city of Peru – Arequipa, which lies in the Andes at an elevation of over 2300 m above sea level. In the centre there are beautiful churches and Catholic monasteries; several colonial buildings are also preserved. Visiting the monastery of St. Catherine. Dinner. Free time. Walk around the city, time to buy alpaca wool products; colorful blankets, scarves (pocho), clothes.

Day 5: AREQUIPA – COLCA
A journey to the Colca River valley, where there is the deepest canyon in the world (up to 3200 m deep), intersecting in Andy for nearly 100 km (gapped in 1981 by the expedition of Polish canoeists). The surrounding, ever snowed peaks are over 6,000 metres above sea level. Along the way, picturesque homesteads of Peruvian Highlanders, herds of llams and vicunia. Coming to the hotel. Dinner. For volunteers to travel to geothermal sources (bath baths with natural hot water).

6 Day: COLCA – PUNO
Early in the morning a trip to the viewing point – the Condor Cross, from where you can see Colca Canyon in all its glory. Observation of the flight of royal birds – Condors. Drive to Puno. On the way, dinner and short stops at observation points. Arrival to Puno, a city on the shore covered by legends of Lake Titicaca, located at an altitude of over 3800 m.

7 Day: PUNO – LA PAZ (Bolivia)
Drive to La Paz. On the way, a visit to the village of Chucuito, known for the phallic statues placed in the local temple. Stop in the village of Pomata, where there is a Dominican church with windows from transparent alabaster. Crossing the Peruvian-Bolivia border in Desaguadero. On the way to explore the ruins of Tiahuanaco. Dinner.

8 Day: LA PAZ – VALE DE LA LUNA
Visiting La Paz – the world's highest capital (from 3200 to 4050 m above sea level), located picturesquely in a high-mountain boiler. On the route, among others, modern center, St. Francis Church of the 17th century, Witch Market (with magic props, spelling diseases), shopping streets where you can buy fabulously colorful fabrics, scarves, scarves, wool bags. Transfer to nearby Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), in which a dense network of deep gorges forms a lunar landscape (so-called badland). Dinner. This afternoon, free time.

9th Day of JESIORO TITICACA – COPACABANA – PUNO (Peru)
Drive from La Paz to Puno. Motorboat ride through Lake Titicaca and drive to the town of Copacabana. Visiting the Marian Shrine as the main destination of pilgrimages in Bolivia. Crossing the border with Peru in Kasani. A trip to the floating islands of Uros, on which the Uru Indians have lived for four centuries in huts built of totor cane. Walk on one of the islands. The possibility of buying souvenirs made of totor cane, densely growing shores of the lake. Coming to Puno. Dinner.

SILLUSTANI 10 Day – ANDAHAYLLILLAS – CuzCO
Go to Cuzco. On the way, visit the cemetery in Sillustani. There are tombs in the shape of towers in which the original inhabitants of these areas, the Collas people, buried important dead. Dinner. Visiting the temple of the god Wiracoch. Then passing to Andahuayllas, where there is a beautiful church from colonial times. Arrival to the Cuzco plateau.

11 PICCH MACHUR Day – CuzCO
A day trip to Machu Picchu. The lost city of Inca was not discovered until 1911. The magnificent rock structures lying on hundreds of terraces have an unforgettable impression and give an idea of rich Inca culture. Dinner or dinner depending on the hours of the train ride. Back to Cuzco.

12 Ollantaytambo Day – Cuzco
A trip to the picturesque glimmering among the mountains of Valle Sagrada (Holy Valley), which flows the Urubamba River. Along the way, a stop in Pisac, a small village in the Andes, inhabited already in the Inca times. At the bustling bazaar you can meet Indians with llamas. Then explore the ruins of the Inca fortress Ollantaytambo. Back to Cuzco by Chinchero, a colonial-style village. During the trip, dinner.

13 Cuzco Day
Visiting Cuzco, capital of the Inca Empire – cathedral, temple complex Qorikancha. Moving to the site of the remains of the giant fortress of Sacsahuáman; Qenqo, Puca-Pucara, Tambomchay. Free time. Dinner combined with a folklorist band performance.

14 LIMA Day (Peru)
Transfer to the airport. A flight to Lima. A tour of the old colonial district, including Plaza Mayor (in the grand palace is the seat of the government), the monastery of St Francis, the cathedral. Dinner. Visiting the Gold Museum of Peru, where rich collections of gold objects found during archaeological excavations are stored in a large underground vault.

15 LIMA Day
A farewell dinner. A trip to Europe.

16 Day
Arrival to Warsaw.

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