Desert to Jungle - 23 days

NOT SCHEDULED !

Peru has the adventurous motorist a lot to offer. Eventually too much for one tour. The diversity of roads, nature and culture is enormous. That's why we start our standard-tours in the desert and then over the high Andes to the amazonian rainforest. So you can experience the many climate-zones of Peru. And off course we won't forget the cultural history of this beautiful country. During our tours you will meet the local population, see the Inca-culture, but also other old civilizations who lived in South-America and the Spanish colonial heritage.
You will visit the Nasca-lines, Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca.

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Departure-date(s):
Not Scheduled !
Price Rider:
Price Passenger:
Extra for a single-room: (1 or 2 nights is this may NOT be possible!)
Kilometers:
± 3250
Road-surface:
Asphalt and Gravel
Minimum Number of Participants:
6
Maximum Number of Participants: 12

Included:
Not Included :
Flight Lima-Arequipa vv Intercontinental flight to Lima vv
Fine middle-class hotels with private shower and toilet, continental breakfast included Fuel and tolls
Motor-rent, with unlimited mileage All entrance-fees for museums and parks
All transfers Motor-clothing
Multi-lingual guide on a motor Additional insurance
Train- and bus-tickets to Machu Picchu All lunches and dinners
  Airport-taxes
  Personal expenses

Full tour-description:

Day 1, 2 and 3 --- Arrival in Lima and Arequipa
The first day you will arrive in Lima, the sizzling capital of Peru. The next day you take your flight to Arequipa, our hometown. Here we will brief you about your tour.
The rest of the day and the next day you can stroll the streets of Arequipa and visit the famous Plaza de Armas and museums in the white city.

Day 4 --- Arequipa - Camana
We start our "Dirt Bikes" and our tour. Up ahead to Camana on the Pacific coast. The first riding-day on our tours is always a quiet day to get used to your motorbike.

Day 5 --- Camana - Nasca
We follow the PanAmerican Highway northbound, leaving the mountains behind us. The next 500 kilometers like 'Dakar' through the desert to Nasca, a little village worldfamous for her Nasca-lines. These lines are drawn by the Nasca-people from B.C. until 1150 A.C. These mysterious drawings on the ground can only be seen from a Cessna-plane.
Also in Nasca are the Inca-aquaducts and the pre-Inca burielgrounds of Chauchilla.

Day 6 --- Nasca
Day at leisure in Nasca to make your flight over the lines and to explore the city or the other interesting sites around Nasca.

Day 7 --- Nasca - Pisco
In the morning time to enjoy Nasca and maybe we need the extra posibility to fly over the Nasca-lines. Late in the morning we leave to Pisco. On our way to Pisco we will visit Paracas National Park.

Day 8 --- Pisco - Huacachina
An early 'rise and shine', because we have to take the early speedboat to the Ballestas Islands. These islands are called "the Poor-man's Galapagos-islands". Lots of marine-life to see here. Millions of sea-birds, sea-lions and sometimes even whales!
Next on our bikes through the desert to Paracas National Reserve. This is heaven for every motorist, because this desert has a rockbottom surface. Over the PanAmerican Highway to the most beautiful oasis of both Americas: Huacachina! A real movie-like oasis. here you can go sandboarding and/or rent a buggy. It's better than ... a real rollercoaster!

Day 9 and 10 --- Huacachina - Puquio - Abancay
From Huacachina it is just a small distance back to Nasca. Behind Nasca the mighty Andes brings us to more than 4.200 meters, where we will meet the lama's and vicuñas. Here starts the best road for motorbikes in South-America. If you have ever ridden the "Dragon's Tale", well this the same... but for hundreds of miles!!!
We stay the night in touristless Puquio, a beautifull little village in the high Andes with a very attractive Plaza de Armas (main-square).
The next day over the Andes and descend to a warm and green climate: Abancay.

Day 11 --- Abancay - Cusco
After breakfast and enough of ascending and descending we will arrive in one of the most beautiful cities of South-America: Cusco. The ancient capital of the Inca's. We enter Cusco on the Avenida del Sol (Avenue of the Sun), the most important god of the Inca's. The afternoon and the next day is to discover Cusco with all its little streets, Plaza de Armas, cathedral, local markets, ruins of Sacsayhuaman, etc., etc. And in the evening you can explore the vibrant nightlife in Cusco.

Day 12 --- Cusco
Day at leisure in Cusco.

Day 13 --- Machu Picchu
An early 'rise and shine', because we will leave with the train to Aguas Calientes.
This train-ride of almost 4 hours will take you through the high Andes along the Amazone-river to The Lost City of the Inca´s, Machu Picchu.
In the middle of the jungle you will visit one of the most significant ruins of the Inca's. Late in the afternoon you will return to Ollantaytambo by train.

Day 14, 15 and 16 --- Cusco - The Jungle - Sicuani
Three wonderful days off-road with first a high mountainpass of 4.750 meters high and then down to the jungle.
We sleep in the hot and humid environment of Quillabamba, and the next day to Lares, a chilly village on 3.000 meters. Here we will visit the hotsprings.
From Lares once more over the mighty Andes, through the Sacred Valley to Siciuani.

Day 17 --- Sicuani - Puno
A long but easy trip today to the city on the shoreline of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on earth. Over 3.800 meters high in the Andes.
Along the way you can visit ancient burielgrounds of the Inca's and Pre-Inca's in Sillustani, with fantastic views.

Day 18 --- Lake Titicaca
We will visit the floating islands of the Uros indians. This people lives for hundreds of years on the reet-islands. The build everything out of reet, houses, boats and schools. After the Uros-islands you go further to Taquile-island. Here you will meet with the locals.

Day 19 --- Puno - Chivay
Tarmac and dirt-roads will be be our part this day. We have to cross several mountain-peaks in the Andes. Over mountain-passes of 4.910 meters high with beautiful views on the great eight volcanoes of Arequipa. Accompanied by thousands lama's, alpaca's and vicuña's. In the evening we can relax in the hotsprings of Chivay, a little village in the Colca Canyon.

Day 20 --- Chivay - Arequipa
Again an early 'rise & shine', because this time we will visit 'Cruz del Condor' in the middle of the Colca Canyon. This is the best place to see the Andean Condor in the wild. From there we return to Chivay for lunch. The last kilometers we pass the El Misti and Chanchani volcanoes, before we arrive in Arequipa, our hometown. In the evening we'll enjoy a cold beer and a alpaca-steak in one of the many restaurants and bars in the centre of Arequipa.

Day 21 --- Arequipa
A day at leisure in Arequipa to relax or to enjoy this beautiful "White City" in the south of Peru.

Day 22 --- Transfer to the airport
In the afternoon we will bring you to the airport in Arequipa for your flight to Lima. In Lima you take your connecting flight home.

Day 23 --- Arrival
Arrival 'back home'.