10 DAYS | 7-16 Aug 2024 + 7-16 Sept 2024
ONLY 18 SPOTS AVAILABLE
(Trip level: 1 – easy, 2 – moderate, 3 – challenging)
THE TOUR
Since 2023, Outdoor Adventure Girls has been offering bespoke travel tours for their 40,000 members. The international trips will focus on outdoor adventure, pushing guests out of their comfort zone and creating incredible connections with other women in the most sought-after bucket list destinations on Earth.
For this OAG Overseas tour, we are heading to the amazing country of Peru. This magical country is home to the iconic Machu Picchu, and the Inca Trail, as well as Rainbow Mountain and the stunning high-altitude city of Cusco. The trip includes a jam-packed 10 days of adventure with stops at all of the most amazing places to see in this magical country. All of this and more is why we are so excited to take you here in 2024.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
✓ 9 nights accommodation included as part of the itinerary
✓ 9 x breakfasts, 7 x lunches, and 4 x dinners
✓ Intrepid local guide and OAG host
✓ Welcome and introduction with your OAG host
✓ Arrive in Lima and join the group for a Miraflores orientation walk and welcome dinner
✓ Four day/three night Inca Trail hike, ending at the incredible Machu Picchu
✓ Enjoy a Cusco city tour, and enjoy Pisco Making experience.
✓ Transfer to the Sacred Valley, for workshop and lunch at Awamaki Community.
✓ Guided tour of the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu
✓ Visit the famous Rainbow Mountain of Vinicuna
✓ Flights from Lima to Cusco
✓ Welcome gift bag from OAG
✓ All transport within the country is included as part of the itinerary
✓ Group transfers to and from the airport (please see note below about exclusions)
✓ OAG host available throughout the trip
✓ WhatsApp group to connect with other guest
ITINERARY
*Please note this itinerary is subject to change.
Day 1 – Lima
Welcome to Lima, the “City of Kings”. Upon arrival at the airport, you will be transferred to your hotel. Your local guide will meet you at 1pm for a welcome briefing, before heading on an orientation walking tour around the modern district of Miraflores.
Included activities
- Group transfer from Lima airport to the hotel, in private service with Tour Leader.
- Welcome meeting at the hotel with the Tour Leader
- Miraflores Orientation Walk with the Tour Leader
- Dinner at Huaca Pucllana restaurant (set menu)
- Transport to and from any included activities
Accommodation: El Tambo II Hotel 3* or similar
Day 2 – Lima to Cusco
In the morning, get picked up from your hotel and transferred to Lima airport for your domestic flight to Cusco. Cusco is a favourite destination of many visitors to Peru. As you wander the streets and side alleys of the city you will witness the perfect tapering Inca stonework that provided the foundations for many of Cusco’s colonial and modern buildings. Take the time to acclimatize to the city’s 3450-metre high (11,150 ft) altitude.
You’ll enjoy a walking tour and then head for lunch at Mama Seledonia, a restaurant that helps and supports young single mothers and teenagers in rural areas with talent and passion for cooking. In the evening you will learn about Pisco drink.
Included activities
- Transfer from Lima hotel to the airport, in private service with Tour Leader
- Transfer from Cusco airport to the hotel, in private service with Tour Leader
- Cusco Orientation Walk, with Tour Leader
- Lunch at Mama Seledonia restaurant (set menu)
- Pisco Making Activity by Urban Adventures
- Transport to and from any included activities
Accommodation: Ruinas Hotel 3* or similar
Day 3 – Cusco / Sacred Valley / Ollantaytambo
At around 08:00AM, you will be picked up from your hotel to start with visit of the Sacred Valley. On the way you will stop at a point known as El Mirador, from where you will be able to see the whole Sacred Valley and receive a good insight of the Inca history. Later, you will drive towards a community in Ollantaytambo where the group will have lunch.
Included activities
- Transfer from Cusco hotel to Sacred Valley, in private service with Tour Leader.
- Awamaki Community Visit: Lunch and workshop at the community
- Transport to and from any included activities
Accommodation: Tunupa Lodge 3* or similar
Day 4 – Begin the Inca Trail
During the next four days, you’ll be hiking the Classic Inca Trail. While away from Cusco, the bulk of your luggage will be stored at your hotel. The evening before you leave Cusco, you’ll receive a small duffle bag to carry your clothes in during the trek (6 kg maximum). This morning you will set off on a journey on the Inca Trail by travelling to where your trek begins.
Today you will hike past the ancient hilltop fort of Huillca Raccay and the beautiful
archaeological site of Llactapata. It is a fairly leisurely hike and along the way there are stunning views of snow-capped Veronica Peak (5860m).
Note: The Inca Trail is within the abilities of most reasonably fit people, but please come prepared, as the trail is 45 kilometers long and often steep. Each day’s journey generally consists of seven hours of walking (uphill and downhill), with stops for snacks and lunch. Accommodation on the trek is camping (three nights). Double tents (twin-share) and foam camping mats will be provided. The porters will set up the tents while the cook prepares meals. Sleeping bags during the Inca trek and Walking poles are not included (the cost to hire these are sleeping bags (USD 25.00 per person), and walking poles (USD 16.00 per person).
Included activities
- Inca Trail Trek 4 days / 3 nights (private service)
- Porters for the duration of the 4 days
- All meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Camping – with basic facilities
Day 5 – Inca Trail
Today is the most difficult part of the trek as you climb to Warminwanusca, or Dead Woman’s Pass (4200m). Along the way you will trek through some of the most spectacular mountain scenery to be seen anywhere in the Andes.
Included activities
- Inca Trail Trek 4 days / 3 nights (private service)
- Porters for the duration of the 4 days
- All meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Camping – with basic facilities
Day 6 – Inca Trail
You will climb up to the oval-shaped ruin of Runkurakay, which is believed to have once been an Inca tambo or post house. Pushing on up the Inca staircase and beside two tiny and fast diminishing mountain lakes, you will be rewarded at the summit of your second pass (3900m) with spectacular views of Pumasillo (6245m) and the entire snow-capped Vilcabamba range. Butterflies flutter across the trail and the air is pure and clean as you head to breathtaking Winaywayna (2650m).
Included activities
- Inca Trail Trek 4 days / 3 nights (private service)
- Porters for the duration of the 4 days
- All meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Camping – with basic facilities
Day 7 – Inca Trail / Machu Picchu / Cusco
The day starts before dawn with breakfast served nice and early at approximately 4.30 am. We start hiking by 6 am through to the Inti-Punku (sun gate) and it is here you will enjoy your first views of Machu Picchu, often referred to as the Lost City of the Incas.
Built around 1450, the city was deserted less than a century later following the Spanish invasion and ‘lost’ for hundreds of years before it was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
You will have a guided tour of this great archaeological site you’ll take the bus down to the small town of Aguas Calientes where you’ll have a couple of free hours to wander around or have lunch on your own. Afterward, you’ll board the tourist train back to Ollantaytambo town, followed by a transfer to Cusco city.
Note: According to Machu Picchu visiting regulations, all visitors must follow a pre-determined route within the site. This route must be followed in one direction only and once the guided visit commences, exiting and reentering the site is not permitted. Once the guided visit concludes, visitors must exit the site and personal exploration of Machu Picchu is not permitted.
Included activities
- Inca Trail Trek 4 days / 3 nights (private service)
- Porters for the duration of the 4 days
- All meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Machu Picchu Ruins Visit
- Transport to and from any included activities
Accommodation: Ruinas Hotel 3* or similar
Day 8 – Cusco
This day will be free for you to explore Cusco on your own, and or recover from your 4 days of hiking. Grab a coffee and people watch in the square, get a massage or fuel up on good food.
Accommodation: Ruinas Hotel 3* or similar
Day 9 – Rainbow Mountain
We’ll leave from Cusco city early (approx 6am) to go to Rainbow Mountain. The journey begins with two hours by bus is in order to get to the community of Cusipata (3450 meter-high) where we can stop and use toilet. After breakfast (7:30 am), we continue for one more hour by vehicle to get to the start of the trek, where we walk for 1.5 hour uphill in order to get to Vinicunca Mountain (5000 meter-high), as well as views of snowcapped mountain Ausangante (6384 meter-high).
Included activities
- Rainbow Mountain of Vinicuna full-day group tour (private service with a tour guide) including lunch
- Transport to and from any included activities
Accommodation: Ruinas Hotel 3* or similar
Day 10 – Cusco to Lima
Today is the last day of your tour. Your departure is included back to Cusco Airport but your flight back to Lima is not included, as many flights do transfers through Lima from here. It also means you can leave Cusco when you need, rather than arriivng in Lima hours before schedule.
ACCOMMODATION
Our accommodation for the trip will be an array of 3* and 4* hotels. We have carefully chosen the accommodation to maximise your experience on this bucket list trip.
*You will be sharing a room with another guest, in a room with twin beds, with an ensuite. Rooms will be allocated randomly, unless specified otherwise.
PRICE
£2,199 per person including all as stated above and must be booked via Intrepid Travel.
To secure your place on this tour, the deposit is £200 per person. The remaining balance can be paid in full or can be paid in installments – you can speak to Intrepid about a payment plan.
- All accommodation for the duration of the trip.
- All activities that are included on the itinerary.
- 9 x breakfasts, 7 x lunches, and 4 x dinners (when meals are not included we will find spots on route or recommend a place for the group)
- All transport within the country is included as part of the itinerary.
- Group transfers to and from the airport (please see note below about exclusions).
- Intrepid local guide and OAG host.
- Welcome gift bag from OAG.
*There will be one transfer per trip for arrival and one for departure. Attendees will be recommended a flight, but if you book alternative flights, transfers will not be provided and will be at the cost of the guest.
INSURANCE
It is the attendee’s responsibility to have the appropriate travel insurance for this trip. It is compulsory for all guests to have travel insurance. Please let us know if you have appropriate travel insurance before the trip.
FLIGHTS
Flights are not included as we wanted to give you the option of where to fly when and where you want. As a guide, there are flights to Peru from London from around £900 for direct flights.
However, if you want help booking flights, Intrepid Travel is on hand to help you throughout the booking process and can book flights for you if required.
BOOKING
To book your spot, get in touch with Intrepid Travel and use the reference ‘OAG Peru’ and please tell the team which departure/trip you want to join.
To secure your place on this tour, the deposit is £200 per person. To book please email [email protected]m or contact the Intrepid Team on 0808 274 5111.
Do you want to pay in installments? Once you’ve reserved your space you can arrange this with Intrepid – no extra fees.
You can read the terms and conditions via the trip itinerary PDF.
ABOUT INTREPID TRAVEL
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