Stops: Lima: Historic Center - China Town - Local Market

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Street Food including: Tamales, Pan con Chicharrón, Anticuchos, Picarones, Chifa-style bites. Nikkei Food including: Acevichado Maki and Tiradito Matsue

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: : Manto Hotel Lima – MGallery Collection (or similar)

• Breakfast: Served at your hotel.

• Hit the streets for a full-on Limeño street food tour through the historic center, Chinatown, and the city’s biggest local market. Snack your way through stalls serving a variety of bites, and stories as your guide weaves in Lima’s colonial past, modern hustle, and the delicious chaos that makes this city tick.

• Lunch: You’ll be riding the Street Food high.

• Enjoy a free afternoon to relax and recover from all that walking (and eating, of course!)

• Dinner: an exclusive multi-course experience at Matsuei, one of the original Nikkei restaurants in Lima blending Japanese precision with Peruvian passion - served with family history and serious flavor in a private dining room.

Stops: Lima — El Cacaotal - Barranco

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine: Single-origin coffee, Chuncho cacao, & Coastal Criollo food

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: :  Manto Hotel Lima – MGallery Collection (or similar)

Breakfast: at your hotel.

• This morning, dive into the world of Peruvian cacao with a private visit to El Cacaotal, Lima’s artisan chocolate project. Taste single-origin cacao and coffee, learn the process behind the bar, and meet the people giving chocolate its soul.

• Burn off your sweet morning snacks with a wander through Barranco, Lima’s bohemian heart. Think colonial mansions, art galleries, bold murals, and ocean views.

• Lunch: taste the sea at Sonia, a hidden huarique run by a local fishing family. Expect ceviche, tiraditos, conchas a la chalaca, and whole fish prepared al ajo or a la chorrillanas, and more coastal flavors.

• Your time, your pace. Explore more of Lima’s backstreets or grab a drink with a view of the Pacific.

• Dinner: Tonight, dinner’s on you. Follow your cravings…

Stops: Puerto Maldonado — Southern Amazon

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Amazonian: River fish wrapped in bijao leaves , juane, cocona sauces, and heart of palm salads.

Transport: Domestic flight, Private van, Motorboat

Accommodation: Amazon Planet EcoLodge (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Morning check-out and fly from Lima to Puerto Maldonado, the doorway to Peru’s southern Amazon.

• Meet a member of the Brazil nut harvester community, then board a boat and glide along the Amazon River to Fundo Lazo.

• Lunch: Share a traditional Amazonian meal with a local family, listening to stories of life deep in the rainforest.

• Continue upriver to your jungle home for the night - an EcoLodge tucked right into the heart of the Amazon.

• Leave your bags behind, it’s time to venture into the Taricaya Ecoreserve and experience the thrills of walking high among the treetops on a canopy walkway.

• Feeling bold? Join a guided stroll to experience the sounds and shadows of the jungle after dark, or simply kick-back and relax at your lodge.

• Dinner: preparations from the fruits (and fish) of the Amazon at your lodge.

Stops: Puerto Maldonado — Southern Amazon - Tambopata Reserve

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Amazonian

Transport: Motorboat, Rowing boat, Hike

Accommodation: Amazon Planet EcoLodge (or similar)

• Breakfast: early start this morning, so it’s breakfast to go!

• Begin your breakfast while watching the sunrise over the Madre de Dios River, feel the jungle slowly waking up all around you.

• Next, time for a gentle 1.8-mi/3-km hike into the densely forested Tambopata Reserve to reach Sandoval Lake, a mirror of calm surrounded by dense rainforest. Keep your eyes peeled for giant river otters and flashes of exotic birdlife from your rowboat.

• Lunch: Head back to your lodge for a well-earned lunch made with local Amazonian flavors and ingredients.

• Still looking for wildlife? You’re in luck. Visit the Taricaya Wildlife Rescue Center, one of the region’s leading conservation projects, to meet the Amazon’s more elusive ‘residents’ up close.

• End the day where you started… on the river. Cruise into a golden sunset, watching the rainforest slip into twilight as the first stars appear overhead.

• Dinner: Back at the lodge, enjoy a relaxed dinner surrounded by the sounds of the jungle night.

Stops: Puerto Maldonado — Southern Amazon - Palma Real - Warayo Lodge

Included Meals: Breakfast, Packed Lunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Brazil Nuts, Amazonian

Transport: Motorboat

Accommodation: Amazon Planet EcoLodge (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your lodge.

• Cruise along the river to the Palma Real community, home of the Ese-Eja people.

• Visit the Shi’oi Handcraft House, where local artisans create beautiful royal palm accessories honoring generations of tradition.

• Head into a Brazil nut forest and learn how local harvesters collect, dry, and process the nuts, keeping sustainability at the heart of everything they do.

• Lunch: Munch on some freshly prepared dishes served right on the boat as you drift along the calm waters of the Amazon.

• Still peckish? Pull up a seat at Warayo Lodge’s “Biodiversity Table,” a feast of local and sustainably sourced Amazonian ingredients: exotic fruits, herbs, and stories from the forest itself.

• Dinner: back at your lodge.

Stops: Puerto Maldonado — Southern Amazon - Tambopata National Reserve - Bahuaja Sonene National Park - Cusco - Ollantaytambo

Included Meals: Breakfast, Packed Lunch

Cuisine: Amazonian

Transport: Motorboat, Domestic Flight, Private van

Accommodation: Las Qolqas Eco-Resort (or similar)

• Your last sunrise in the Amazon. If you’re craving one more taste of the wild, join your guide for an optional early walk through the rainforest before breakfast.

• Breakfast: at your lodge.

• Check out, then onto Niño Herrera’s chocolate farm and the Amazon Nut Processing Plant, two local projects blending sustainability, conservation, and community tradition.

• Lunch: Grab a casual bite.

• Transfer back to Puerto Maldonado airport for your flight to Cusco, trading the Amazon for the Andes!

• Short drive to Ollantaytambo, your entrance to the Sacred Valley, and settle in for the night to acclimatize to the altitude, perhaps after a sip of ‘mate de coca’.

• Dinner: Tonight, dinner’s on you - find a cozy spot in town and enjoy your first meal in the Andes.

Stops: Ollantaytambo - Maras and Moray

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine: Pachamanca, Andean Grains, Andean Botanical Liquor

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: Las Qolqas Eco-Resort (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Wander through the salt terraces of Maras and circular terraces of Moray; remnants of Incan ingenuity where agriculture meets artistry.

• Stop at a local Andean distillery and learn the age-old craft of transforming roots, herbs, and spices into aromatic herbal liquors.

• Lunch: Gather for a traditional Pachamanca feast, slow-cooked beneath the earth with hot stones and served with Andean grains such as chia, quinoa and kiwicha, all under the open sky.

• Roll up your sleeves for a hands-on liquor workshop - blend your own personalized spirit to take home (or enjoy right there — no judgment).

• In the afternoon, return to Ollantaytambo for a guided walk of the city’s dramatic Inca archaeological complex.

• Dinner: Take your pick, tonight dinner is on you.

Stops: Ollantaytambo - Lamay

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine: Andean dishes (choose between: Pollo Novoandino, Lomo Saltado, Ají de Gallina, Picante de Queso) and Pisco

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: Las Qolqas Eco-Resort (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Travel to meet the Huayllafara community.

• Visit local farms with traditional crops (such as corn, potatoes, oca, añu, tarwi, quinoa, and beans), get introduced to their agricultural techniques, processing and preparation methods, with a chance to get involved and do some tasting, of course!

• Time for some activity in Lamay… it’s on to a cooking class. Cook alongside locals using fresh ingredients from the valley and sample a few types of Pisco while you’re at it.

• Lunch: Enjoy the best kind of reward - the meal you’ve just created. Eat your own dish or share with your fellow Taste Buds over good food and better company.

• Head back to your hotel for a slow, easy evening. Maybe a stroll, maybe just a nap.

• Dinner: Tonight, dinner’s on you. Follow your cravings…

Stops: Ollantaytambo - Huayopata - Huacayupana

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Chocolate and home cooked farm food

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: Alejandro's Farm (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Pack your small bag of necessities for 2 nights and travel to a local cacao and coffee farm via Abra Malaga, 14,100 ft/4,300 m above sea level, where the air is thin and the views are epic!

• Descend into warmer air and lush green valleys to reach Julia’s farm (4,900 ft/1,500 m). Wander through her fruit, coffee, and cacao plantations.

• Get your hands dirty and your taste buds watering, with a single origin chocolate making (and tasting!) workshop from the farm-grown cacao.

• Lunch: A simple, convenient stop along the way to refuel before continuing your journey.

• Get your hiking boots on again… it’s time to walk a couple of hours to reach your next stop while soaking up the mountain views and burning off some of that chocolate!

• Arrive at Alejandro’s farm, your rustic home for the night. Settle in, relax, and let the mountain calm take over.

• Dinner: A homemade farm dinner shared with Alejandro and his family - hearty, fresh, and straight from the land around you.

Stops: Huacayupana - Aguas Calientes

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine: Coffee

Transport: Private van, Train

Accommodation: Tierra Viva Machu Picchu (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Follow the ‘bean to cup’ story at Alejandro’s coffee farm - harvesting, roasting, and tasting right where it all begins.

• Stretch your legs on a 40-minute walk through the valley to meet your driver, then travel to Santa Teresa, a laid-back mountain town that sits between the jungle and the Andes.

• Slip into the Cocalmayo hot springs and let the mineral waters work their magic on those post-hike muscles.

• Lunch: Refuel at a local restaurant in Santa Teresa.

• Board the train to Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu.

• Dinner: Follow your own appetite through the town’s multitude of restaurants.

Stops: Aguas Calientes - Machu Picchu (7,972 ft/2,430m) - Ollantaytambo - Cusco

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cuisine: Andean

Transport: Bus, Train, Private van,

Accommodation: Antigua Casona San Blas (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Rise before the sun and ride the winding road up to one of the New Seven Wonders of the World: Machu Picchu (7,972 ft/2,430 m).

• Optional* Want to avoid the crowds AND get an awesome view from high up? Climb the Machu Picchu mountain (1.5hr hike) first thing, to see Machu Picchu, Huayna Picchu mountain and the Urubamba river from way up high, enjoying the landscape en route too (we'll let you know when and how to confirm if you’re up for this).

• Explore this ‘Lost City of the Incas’ with a guide revealing it’s history and mystery.

• Lunch: A casual lunch, when the timing’s right.

• Take the train back to the Sacred Valley, and then a private transfer to Cusco - the historic capital of the Inca Empire.

• Dinner: You’ll likely be craving a little rest, more than a feast, after the early start. But if your appetite says otherwise, go ahead and find a bite to eat on your own nearby.

Stops: Cusco

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: Antigua Casona San Blas (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• This morning, head out to explore a local market with perhaps the smiliest woman in Cusco — Chef Seledonia. Together, you’ll shop for delicious local produce and fragrant herbs.

• Bring your basket back to her family restaurant, Seledonia’s Mesa, for a hands-on cooking class filled with homegrown know-how.

• Lunch: Taste the literal fruits of your labor - your own Peruvian dishes - with a perfectly mixed Pisco Sour on the side.

• Join a guided city walk of Cusco, from the hilltop fortress of Sacsayhuamán to the Q’enqo archaeological complex and the bohemian neighborhood of San Blas.

• Dinner: Dinner's on you. Feeling brave? This might be your moment to try a little cuy - Peru’s most famous (and fearless) dish.

Stops: Cusco

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Transport: Private van

Accommodation: Antigua Casona San Blas (or similar)

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• Your final day in Cusco is yours to wander. Rest at the hotel, stroll the plazas, pick up souvenirs, or snag a bottle of your favorite pisco to bring a little Peru home with you.

• Lunch: ….maybe one last ceviche?

• Keep exploring - revisit your favorite corners or find new ones.

• Dinner: a 7-course tasting menu celebrating the best of Peruvian cuisine - each dish paired with wine, each bite a reminder of how far you’ve come (and tasted).

Stops: Cusco - Lima

Included Meals: Breakfast

Transport: Private van, Domestic Flight

• Breakfast: at your hotel.

• A chance to grab any last minute souvenirs then we’ll zip you off to the airport to return to Lima and catch your flight back home (or onward, if adventure’s still calling).