PERU – WALK THE INCA TRAIL

Peru – Walk the Inca Trail

Peru offers so many attractions to a traveller that it proves difficult to choose. There are interesting museums to visit, lakes to ogle at, waves to surf, labyrinthine cities to explore. Start your journey in Lima, the City of Kings, the most important American city during colonial times. Take a walk around the Main Square, where you can find Presidential Palace, the Cathedral, the Archbishops Palace , Metropolitan City Hall and many other beautiful buildings, all full of history and tradition. Then go all over the San Francisco Monastery, probably the most spectacular church of colonial Lima, housing catacombs and a very fine museum of religious art from the XVII century. Journey up the mighty Amazon river by boat and experience the most spectacular rainforest in the World. See all the different flora and fauna that is indigenous to the region. Spot pink river dolphins and even a piranha fish or two. If you are lucky enough you may even see giant anaconda snakes, jaguar and tapir ! Meet the local tribes that live off the forest and get aquatinted with their way of life. Fly into the Cusco high into the Andeas to see one of the most amazing sight on the planet, Macchu Picchu, the ancient city of the Incas. Spend a day rafting down the Sacred river of the Incas, Urubamba for thrills unlimited. Visit the floating islands of Uros and Taquile on Lake Titicaca, the largest high altitude lake in the world that straddles Peru and neighboring Boliva. Soar over the Nazca lines a series a geoglyphs craved into the Peruvian desert, so large that they are only visible clearly from the air. Till date their existence is an unsolved mystery, with theories ranging to them being carved by a superior civilization to any known to man or even the possibility of them being a UFO landing site! Watch the largest birds on Earth, the Condors take flight in the Colca Conyon or simply enjoy the quaint colonial town of Arequipa.