Bought whole
Peru Highlands, Ten Nights, Small Group
Ten nights in the Andes with a guide who stays with the group the whole way, every internal flight and drive paid for, dinners included, and two days of doing very little built into the route because altitude decides that and nobody else does.
- the first nights and the ride inbought
- every night of the tripbought
- the movement between placesbought
- meals beyond breakfastbought
- the days themselvesbought
Why this band exists at all
Some trips are worth handing over completely. This is one, and the reason is not comfort: it is that the pieces are hard to join from here. Internal flights that change schedule, a road that closes, a site that caps entries months ahead, and an altitude that punishes an optimistic first day.
from$2,940per person, based on two sharing, land only
This figure buys 10 nights out of 10, and the days as well.
Flights are quoted separately, because an airfare folded into a package makes the word from untrue by the following week. How a figure is built.
The five questions
What is bought before you leave, item by item
- Ten nights in small hotels, each one named in your itinerary before you agree to it
- Every internal flight and every road transfer between the bases
- A guide traveling with the group for the full ten nights, plus local guides at the sites that require one
- Breakfast every day, and dinner on eight of the ten
- Entry to every site the day plan names, bought in advance because several of them cap numbers
- The land arrangements are held by one operating company in Peru; we name it in your proposal, and it is not us
What is open, and who arranges it
- Two dinners, deliberately, so the group can eat apart if it wants to
- Anything you buy on the ground
- Whether you take the optional early start on the two mornings that offer one. The office will not book that for you because the guide decides it on the night, on the weather
What the open part asks of you
- A day and a half of the itinerary is spent getting used to the altitude, and that is the part people try to cut. It cannot be cut
- You will walk on uneven stone for several hours on at least four days
- Nights are cold at these heights from May to September even when the days are not
- A group of this size moves at the pace of its slowest morning, which is the trade you are making for not having to think
What it costs to change it or drop it, and whose rule that is
- The operating company sets the schedule and we do not. Its deposit stops being refundable well before departure, and after the balance date the returnable share falls fast
- A named traveler can usually be swapped for another up to a set date, for a fee, which is often cheaper than cancelling
- This is the band where change costs the most. The more of a trip that is bought before you leave, the less of it can be moved afterwards, and this trip is bought whole
What is not final until we confirm
- The departure date and the operating company
- The hotels by name and location, not by star rating
- Which meals fall on which day
- The group size limit, in writing rather than as an average
- The total for your party, the deposit, the balance date, and the full cancellation schedule