The Quyllur Rit'i trip

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Overview
Highlights
- Experience Cultural encounter at the Quyllur Rit’i festival
- See the Mountain pilgrimage
- Explore Machu Picchu
- Opportunity to visit Historic Cusco
- Visit Sacred valley of the Incas
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Trip includes
- All accommodation (based on twin share. Single Supplement available for US$350)
- All ground transport (private vehicle and train)
- All activities specified in itinerary
- Dedicated Aspiring Adventures guide
- All meals except lunch and dinner on free day (13 breakfasts, 12 lunches, 12 dinners)
- Drinking water with meals
- Entrance to all attractions specified in itinerary
- Extra permit to climb Huayna Picchu at Machu Picchu if available at time of booking (with Option A)
Itinerary

Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Comfortable hotel in historic Cusco
Welcome to Cusco! We’ll meet you at 1pm and kick off the trip with a traditional Peruvian meal at a local favourite restaurant. In the afternoon your guide will lead a relaxed wal...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Cosy family-run hotel in Ollantaytambo
The sunny, incredibly scenic floodplain between Pisac and Ollantaytambo in the valley of the Urubamba River is known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Pisac is a tiny, cobbl...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Cosy family-run hotel, Ollantaytambo
Our first stop today is Chinchero, a quiet little town known for its outdoor weaving studios, terraced Inca ruin, and intricately-frescoed colonial church. Next is the Inca’s m...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Rustic eco-lodge near Santa Teresa
Today we undertake a fascinating journey, from the dry, Pacific side of the Andes to its lush western slope. There’s a marked difference in vegetation between the two sides, and ...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Comfortable hotel in Aguas Calientes
Coffee, grown at cottage-industry level and exported through growers co-operatives, is the backbone of this area’s economy. This morning a local coffee producer will show us ar...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Luxury camping on the Inca Trail
We’ll get up very early this morning to take the bus to Kilometre 82, the start of the Standard Inca Trail. The hike begins in the Sacred Valley as we follow the Urubamba River, cl...
Accommodation: Luxury camping on the Inca Trail
Meals: All meals included
Most of our walking time today is taken up by a stiff 1,200 metre (3,940 feet) climb up to Warmiwayñusca, or Dead Woman’s Pass, the high point of the Inca Trail. From here if it’s ...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Luxury camping on the Inca Trail
Today’s hike takes us through some of the most stunning scenery in Peru, with cloud forest, orchids, hummingbirds and mountains on all sides, and to three gorgeous little ruins – R...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Comfortable hotel in Cusco
An early start rewards us with sunrise at Machu Picchu - a peak moment for anyone. A spectacular stone city surrounded by incredibly steep, incredibly green mountains, Machu Picchu needs...
Accommodation: Cusco hotel
Meals: Breakfast included
There are things to do in Cusco to suit every mood and personality: churches, museums, and art galleries; adventure activities like rafting and horse riding, and organised tours. This is also the perfe...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Luxury camping at Quyllur Rit’i
A 2.5 hour drive brings us to Mawayani, (3,900m, 12,800ft), where our pilgrimage begins. From here it’s a walk of approximately eight kilometres (five miles) up to the Sanctuary, 48...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Luxury camping at Quyllur Rit’i
Quyllur Rit’i, the largest indigenous festival in the Americas, centres around the Sanctuary of the Lord of Quyllur Rit’i and the nearby pre-Inca holy rock which has had a chapel to...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Back at our home-base hotel in Cusco
This morning a solemn Mass brings the Qoyllur Rit’i festival to a close. Late this morning we’ll join the trail of pilgrims winding their way back down the valley and out to th...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Hotel in Cusco
There’s so much to do in Cusco it’s hard to know where to start, and by this stage of the trip, your guide will be familiar with your interests, which will help them make the difficult decision of w...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Hotel in Cusco
In a packed party calendar, Corpus Christi is Cusco’s most important religious celebration and one of its most colourful spectacles. Fourteen saints and madonnas, one from each of Cusco’s parish chu...
Meals: All meals included
Accommodation: Hotel in Cusco
The Valle Sur just outside Cusco is one of our favourite places to take our guests, because it offers a one-day snapshot of the incredible variety of this whole region. We’ll meet brujos (witches) w...
Meals: Breakfast
You can book your flight out of Cusco for any time today. If you’re staying on in Peru, we’re delighted to help out with suggestions for the rest of your time here.
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What's excluded
- Drinks apart from water with included meals
- Tips for your guide(s)
- Extra cost for Option B, Standard Inca Trail (add US$250)
- Tent, sleeping bag and sleeping mat for two nights of camping (bring your own, or hire from us –US$40 per item)
- Optional: mule to carry your gear on the Quyllur Rit’i pilgrimage (add US$40)
Accommodation
s on our Peru trips are Katy’s favourite finds from Lonely Planet research. In Cusco we stay in a clean, comfortable three-star level hotel. In Santa Teresa we stay in an eco-lodge perched like a tree house in the bush. In Ollantaytambo and Aguas Calientes, we stay in quiet, quirky, family-run hotels. At Quyllur Rit'i and on the Inca Trail we camp in tents.
13 Breakfasts, 12 Lunches and 12 Dinners
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