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Inca World Tour - South America18 days duration (including travel days from/to Australia)
This morning you make your way to the airport for your flight to Buenos Aires, the cosmopolitan capital of Argentina.
On arrival we are met and taken to our downtown city hotel for a wonderful three night stay. (Meals in Flight)
Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and is the most fashionable city in South America, with many beautiful parks and plazas. Portenos, as the locals call themselves, are fun loving people who enjoy their city and music. This morning we are taken on a city tour taking in the Government House (Casa Rosada), City Hall, House of Congress, Metropolitan Cathedral, Colon Theatre, Avenue 9th July (the widest street in the world) and the famous and historic Italian La Boca District.
This evening we taken out to dinner to one of the best Argentine style restaurants and attend the city’s superior Tango Show. (BD)
Today you can chose from one of the Inca Choices options listed below or alternatively have a day at leisure and take advantage of the wonderful shopping available in the city. (B)
Included Inca Choices: Today you have the choice to undertake a tour out of the city to an estancia to view a Gaucho Folkloric Show and horseriding demonstration. Includes lunch OR undertake a comprehensive tour of the famous Colon Opera House.
Early this morning we are taken to the airport for our flight to Lima in Peru. After clearing customs and immigration we connect with our flight to Cuzco. On arrival in Cuzco we are met and driven to our hotel at a lower altitude in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Here we stay for two relaxing nights. The remainder of your afternoon is at leisure to enjoy this stunning destination. (Meals in Flight + D)
This morning we visit the famous Inca Fortress of Ollantaytambo. From here we are taken to the traditional Indian Market of Pisac where we have time to bargain with the local Indians for their fabulous weavings and ceramics. After lunch we are returned to your Sacred Valley hotel for the evening. (BL)
After breakfast we are taken to Ollanta Train Station for our two-day excursion to Machu Picchu. Our journey follows the Urubamba River on one of the great train journeys of the world. Machu Picchu, known as the “Lost City of the Incas”, is undoubtedly the best known and most spectacular archaeological site on the continent and is considered a must for all visitors.
Our lunch is provided at Machu Picchu and tonight we stay below the ruins in the township of Aguas Calientes—an absolute highlight in itself! (BLD)
You have the morning free to further explore the ruins of Machu Picchu without the hassle of large crowds. This afternoon you make your way back to the station for our return journey to Cuzco where on arrival we are met and taken to our hotel for two fabulous nights. Cuzco is the archaeological capital of the Americas and the continent’s oldest continuously inhabited city. Massive Inca-built stonewalls line most of Cuzco’s central streets to form the foundations of Colonial and modern buildings. The streets are often stepped and narrow and thronged with Quechua-speaking descendants of the Incas. (B)
This morning we take a very comprehensive tour of Cuzco that includes the Main Cathedral, the Plaza de Armas, the Temple of the Sun (Koricancha), as well as other city highlights. In addition we also visit three of the important Inca sites surrounding Cuzco: Sacsayhuaman, Kenko and Puca Pucara.
Your afternoon is at leisure to explore this interesting city further. (B)
Following breakfast we are taken to the airport for our flight to Lima. On arrival we are taken on a tour of Greater Lima, visiting the three distinct historical periods of this capital city: Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern. The tour visits the Franciscan Monastery and the Casa Aliaga (an Inca Tours exclusive!), one of South America’s oldest Spanish homes and still inhabited by direct descendents of the original family. After seeing the Government Palace and the Plaza de Armas (Main Square) we are taken for lunch.
Later we drive through the elegant residential tree-lined avenues of San Isidro and Miraflores to Parque Salazar to enjoy spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean. Here in Miraflores we also visit the Huaca Pucllana, a 2000 year-old oracle which has recently been painstakingly restored. (BL)
After a leisurely breakfast we are taken to the airport for our flight to Buenos Aires. On arrival we are met and taken to our hotel for the night. (B + Meals in flight)
This morning we are collected from our hotel and taken to Buenos Aires’ Domestic Airport for our flight to the Iguazu Falls, considered by many as the most impressive in the world but you decide. Some 275 separate cascades fall in a wild array of spray over a winding 3 kilometre cliff frontage into a gorge 60 metres deep. One of the most spectacular of the falls is aptly named “The Devil's Throat”.
We are met from our flight and taken on a walking tour of the Argentine side of the falls. Following the tour we are taken to the Brazil side of the falls where we have two night’s accommodation. (B)
This morning we are taken through the rain forest by 4-wheel drive jeep to the Iguassu River where we board a powerful inflated boat for an incredibly spectacular ride up the river to the base of the falls. (B)
This morning you can chose from one of the Inca Options listed below before being taken to the airport for our flight to Rio de Janeiro.
On arrival in Rio we are met and taken to our hotel located right on Copacabana for three nights. Rio de Janeiro sweeps twenty kilometres along the narrow alluvial strip between the mountains and the sea. The combination of the dark blue sea, studded with rocky islands, with the tumbling wooded mountains and expanses of bare grey rock which surround the city is very impressive. Brazilians say: “God made the world in six days, the seventh He devoted to Rio”. (B + Meals in flight) Included Inca Choices: Today you have the choice to undertake a helicopter flight over the falls OR undertake a visit to the Iguassu Bird Park with its extensive collection of colourful South American birdlife.
Later this morning we are taken on a tour to The Sugar Loaf, located uniquely above the entrance to Guanabara Bay. It is reached by a spectacular 2-stage cable car ride that offers a beautiful look at the city and its beaches from a vantage point high above Rio City.
Your afternoon is at leisure. (B)
This morning you will be taken on a tour to Corcovado and the Statue of Christ. The tour passes by Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon to Cosme Velho, where the modern funicular train is boarded for the 20 minute ride high up to the top of the 770 metre high Corcovado Mountain. The Christ the Redeemer statue is one of Rio’s most famous landmarks. It is 37 metres high, weighs 1,100 tons and has a 360 degree view of the entire Rio area below, encompassing the city, the bay, the mountains and the sea within a circle of up to 160 km. The Tijuca Rain Forest and the famous beach suburbs of Barra and Sao Conrado are visited on your way back to the hotel. Your afternoon is at leisure to further enjoy Copacabana. We have the afternoon at leisure.
Tonight we are taken to one of Rio’s most famous traditional restaurants for dinner and then on to a spectacular Samba Show. (BD)
Late this morning we are taken to Rio Airport for our flight to Santiago where on arrival, we remain in transit before joining our flight to Sydney departing later this evening. (B + Meals in Flight)
As you cross the date line you 'lose' a day, so today is spent in flight. (Meals in Flight)
Early this morning you arrive back in Australia where your South America Tour ends. (Meals in Flight)
Welcome home!
All prices are subject to currency fluctuations, additional airline charges and changes in costs from ground suppliers. We reserve the right to vary any part of the tour at our sole discretion as circumstances may require.
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