• Iquitos: Amazon river trip (meet with Jafari)
• Pacaya–Samiria National Reserve or Manu National Park
• Machu Picchu (stay in Aguas Calientes)
• Cusco
• Sacred Valley - from Cusco (horses)
• Pisac Market

TRIP:

• BALTRA (galapagos) > Lima (2 days) > Puerto Maldonado (Amazon Tambopata Reserve) > 50 min Cusco

NOTES:

• direct to Baltra Island Airport
• stay in Santa Cruz, rest - puerto ayora 1 hour from airport
• fly to Lima
• fly to Cusco RT
• return from Lima
• AMAZON STUFF
  • two main gateways for the Peruvian Amazon, which are Iquitos as a port of the Amazon River in Peru’s north and Puerto Maldonado in the south. Puerto Maldonado provides access to the incredible Tambopata National Reserve and Manu lowlands.
  • SOUTH: (40 min flight from cusco or do Lima)
    • Tambopata Reserve Puerto Maldonado
  • NORTH: IQUITOS (2hrs flight from Lima)
    • Pink River dolphins in the Iquitos area
• do amazon before high altitude
• QUESTION: Ollantaytambo FOR MACHU instead of Cusco?? (50m flight)

GALAPAGOS

• fly Guayaquil (best) or capital city of Quito
• fly into Baltra Island before taking a bus and ferry ride to Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island
• most Galapagos tours begin and end in Santa Cruz
  • Hotel: Quito, check out Mansion Del Angel
  • Hotel: Guayaquil, Hotel Oro Verde Guayaquil

PERU

• Lima
• Cusco
  • Open market and the adjacent witches' market
  • Center for Traditional Textiles in Cusco
  • Plaza de Armas
• Sacred Valley
• Machu Picchu (Board the train and follow the Urubamba River)
  • Aguas Calientes (located at the base of Machu Picchu w hot springs)

OTHER NOTES:

• Easiest way to get to from Cusco to Machu Picchu is to take the train to Aguas Calientes (the town located a few miles from the site). It’s a scenic 3.5-hour trip each way along tracks that run right along the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley, with dramatic canyon walls on either side.
• Which train station should you depart from to Machu Picchu? Which station you leave from should depend on where you stayed the night before. Most people depart for Machu Picchu from either Poroy Station near Cusco or Ollantaytambo Station in the Sacred Valley. The train ride from Poroy to Machu Picchu is a little over three hours. The journey from Ollantaytambo Station to Machu Picchu is roughly half that time.
• You can still experience the Inca Trail by reverse hiking from Machu Picchu back up to the Sun Gate. It is a two-hour round trip hike that is not quite as dramatic as the traditional entrance through the Sun Gate, but it is still a reasonable alternative that almost anyone can do.
• ALTITUDE: There’s one magic pill that will save you many of these troubles. It is called Sorojchi Pill and it contains acetylsalicylic acid, salophen and caffeine. This over-the-counter drug will help with your blood circulation and headache. If you’re feeling dizzy and nauseous, try Gravol, an over-the-counter pill to stop motion sickness. Take both pills an hour before landing in Cusco.