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Liz Karen was fantastic and thorough in planning out my itinerary, and all the guides and drivers were wonderful! They were reliable and helped me with every stage of my trip. Peru is truly beautiful and I loved my time in Cusco and Machu Picchu! I enjoyed seeing Pisac and Ollantaytambo -- the views and the history! I felt the altitude and breathlessness, so I highly recommend hiking preparation for all the steps, drinking lots of filtered water and coca tea, and taking altitude meds. I didn't have much time to acclimate so those helped. Javier was my guide for my circuit at Machu Picchu and provided a lot of interesting info about Incan culture. If you plan to hike Huayna Picchu, I suggest taking the 8 am slot because I took the 10 am slot and it was hotter and I got dehydrated from the intense climb. The guards also close the HP trail at 1 pm so you'll have more time to summit and not feel rushed if you take the first entrance. Pablo was our terrific guide at Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain and helped us with nose spray and trekking poles to adjust to the altitude. It was worth the views! I would've needed more time to acclimate so I'm glad I chose Palccoyo and not Vinicunca (but I'd love to visit there as well). Lastly, driver Dionicio was fantastic and took me around Cusco to the Inca Museum, Cristo Blanco, and an alpaca textile shop, as well as a restaurant where they served cuy and had a great view of the city. The hotel staff at Tika Wasi were very helpful and friendly and assisted me with ordering food delivery when I was tired after my day tours. Watch out for unauthorized taxi drivers at Lima Airport and only use the free shuttle to the hotel! From start to finish, Peru was magnificent and I'd love to return! Thank you to kimkim and Andean Travel for a great experience!

Everything was amazing! We loved the trip

Hotel Reviews

Pullman Lima Miraflores

Miraflores, Lima

Nice hotel, breakfast was perfect

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Sonesta Posadas del Inca Yucay

Urubamba

I love this hotel, beautiful en everything was good

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Beautiful

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Inkaterra Hacienda Concepción

Puerto Maldonado

Perfect hotel

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Lima: History, Culture & Local Gastronomy

Lima

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Perfect

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Transfer to Lima Airport

Lima

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Inca Megalithic stonework in Cusco and surroundings

Cusco

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Transfer to Cusco Airport

Cusco

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Morning Visit to Ollantaytambo

Peru

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Misminay Community, lunch and hike to Moray

Sacred Valley

Very nice

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Second day at Hacienda Concepción: Sandoval Lake & Canopy Walkway

Tambopata

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Third day at Hacienda Concepcion: Botanical Garden & Inland Collpa

Tambopata

Amazing

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Time to depart from Hacienda Concepcion

Tambopata

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Welcome to Cusco & The Sacred Valley!

Peru

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Maras Salt Ponds

Peru

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Machu Picchu Exploration

Aguas Calientes/ Machu Picchu

Amazing so beautiful

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First afternoon at Hacienda Concepcion

Peru

Everything was perfect

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A Final Evening with Peru’s History and Flavors

Peru

We had a lunch/ no dine! We are at 19:30 on the airport, but the flight was 00:55 yet. We have to wait very long

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Pisac Archaeological Site & Village Tour

Peru

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Lunch at a local restaurant

Sacred Valley

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Cusco Walking City Tour

Cusco

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I appreciated the very personalized trip planned by Io. She is exceptionally responsive and understood the kind of trip we wanted....deeper immersion, fewer hotel stays and long car rides, some independent time to explore, great food and stellar accomodations. We absolutely loved every hotel: gorgeous Sol Y Luna, Belmond Sanctuary where we had the best food of our lives, and the warmth and location of Antigua Casona. Highly recommend all three. We loved the cultural immersion trips: Llama trekking and the Potato experience were standouts. Machu Picchu was of course stunning. I appreciated the recommendations for our free days and restaurants. Jimy, our guide was fantastic,knowledgeable, fun and flexible. I also appreciated Lisbeth's efforts to retrieve and return a hat I left in MP.

Overall it was a great trip, however, we had some really basic logistical missteps that caused hassles that should have been avoided on a high end trip such as this. I shared that feedback and frustration directly and felt that they did their best to address it, and treated us to a dinner to offset some of the hassle. This is the second time we've booked with kimkim and the first time we have encountered logistical difficulty on the ground.

Hotel Reviews

Sol y Luna Hotel (Relais & Chateaux)

Urubamba

Exceptional, gorgeous and wonderful food.

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Belmond Sanctuary Lodge

Machu Picchu

Absolutely beautiful, loved the ease of going the MP, exceptional service and among the best food we have every had, anywhere.

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Antigua Casona San Blas

Cusco

Beautiful, well located, exceptional service and food.

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Private tour to The Salt Flats of Maras, Llama Trek, Shared Pachamanca Lunch & Self guided tour to Ollantaytambo town

Sacred Valley

Loved this, especially the Llama Trek. We learned so much and our guide Jimy was fabulous. It is a very, very long day and the road to Ollantaytambo was really rough. The Pachamance lunch was delicious, but it was a long drive and we ended up there very late due to the road so we missed some of it. The food was excellent, though.

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Potato Experience in the Sacred Valley

Sacred Valley

This was one of our top experiences. We learned so much and the warmth of the family and stunning scenery on the drive made it so memorable.

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Explore Machu Picchu & Return to Cusco (Private Guided tour in Machu Picchu) SV

Peru

The Belmond Sanctuary is well worth the price. We had two circuits on one day. Worth it, but it is alot so rest up!

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Best food of our lives.

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Extremely bad transport experience. We were booked for a private driver up to MP. Turns out that is not even possible, and we missed the last bus up trying to scramble to get bus tickets. Eventually made it. Big hassle. The next day it then took us 6 hours to get to Cusco: bus ride down, late train and an absolutely harrowing drive from the train to Cusco via extremely deserted roads, many with previous rock slides causing the road to become one lane and very, very rough dirt roads. I know there must have been a different route through the mountains. It was a terrible drive. I don't know why we couldn't have gone directly from MP to Cusco and had our luggage delivered. A six hour, extremely uncomfortable journey was competely unacceptable on a trip like this. We loved MP, but the travel hassle in both directions really impacted our impression of what was to be a highlight.

Flight to Cusco & Direct private transfer to the Sacred Valley w/assistance

Peru

Flight from CUSCO to LIMA I had to ask repeatedly for the boarding passes. We never received them until around 6 pm before our departure at 4 am. As a result of the late check in, we were in a very late boarding group requiring us to check luggage (we always do carry on and always plan for that) and weren't seated together. I shouldn't have had to ask repeatedly for the boarding passes. It would have been easier to handle this myself.

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The drivers were fine on both airport transfers. The driver on the transfer from Ollantaytambo to CUsco never said a single word to us, even through a terrible drive over roads that made us nearly sick to our stomachs.

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The route taken between Ollayntambo to CUsco after our MP visit should not be allowed by your company. It was deeply unsettling and extremely uncomfortable.

My small group thoroughly enjoyed Alfredo’s deep knowledge of the history of Lima and Peru, and learned so much from him. We also really loved our time with Alvaro exploring Paracas Natural Reserve. His passion and knowledge of the park was incredible. Both these guides were personable, easy to chat with and made our full days with them very memorable!

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Innside Lima Miraflores by Melia Hotels International

Miraflores

Excellent. Great location and spacious rooms.

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Must Sees Lima: Casa Aliaga & Larco Museum with Lunch

Lima

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Our guide Alfredo was excellent. He was incredibly knowledgeable and very easy to spend the day with. We learned a lot and had a great time.

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Lunch was great at the Museum

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Art and Local Cuisine in Bohemian Barranco

Lima

The bartending and cooking class at Hotel B were both fun and it’s a great venue! We went right from this to lunch - at a wonderful restaurant (owned by husband-wife team in their former house!) and it would have been much better if there was a bit of time between the cooking class and lunch…

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Drive to Paracas

Lima

This day trip was incredible. Exploring so many parts of Paracas Natural Reserve was beautiful and awe-inspiring. Our guide Alvaro was knowledgeable and passionate, which added to our enjoyment. He also instilled confidence that he knew the park so well, that you’d be safe and comfortable.

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Our guide Alvaro was incredible!

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Lunch at Inti Mar was breathtakingly beautiful and delicious and so fresh!

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Alvaro was passionate about Paracas and also very easy to spend the whole day with - funny, interesting and very knowledgeable. He was also an excellent and confident driver.

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Alvaro is an excellent and confident driver, with a vehicle that is in tip top shape.

Alfredo and Alverdo were amazing. So knowledgeable and passionate about their country. Alverdo went above and beyond !

Hotel Review

Innside Lima Miraflores by Melia Hotels International

Miraflores

Great hotel, centrally located

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Must Sees Lima: Casa Aliaga & Larco Museum with Lunch

Lima

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Art and Local Cuisine in Bohemian Barranco

Lima

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Lunch was right after the ceviche making class.

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Drive to Paracas

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