Machu Picchu Homestay 3D/2N

USEFUL INFORMATION

Locations Visited: Cusco, Machu Picchu Homestay
Trip Style: Tours, Culture, Adventure
Trip Length: Two Days
Departures: Every day
Group: 2 pax min
Difficulty: 1/5

Know the meaning of life of the Andes families

Machu Picchu Homestay’s experience was created by Peru Cultural Connection for people who want to know deeply about the Andean culture in addition, to share mutual experiences like helping in the kitchen, eating with them, playing with the children, harvesting the farm, and many other activities according to the season.

The most important thing is that you are contributing directly to the economy of the community

DAY 1: MACHU PICCHU HOMESTAY EXPERIENCE:

To start our Machu Picchu Homestay tour, a professional tour guide that speaks fluent Quechua (Inkas language) from Peru Cultural Connection will pick you up from your hotel in a private van. Along the way we will pass charming towns, we will stop in one of them to get an explanation about weaving techniques, then continue to the homestay community, when you get there the local family will give you the welcoming whit local songs playing ancient instruments.

According to the season there will different activities to share whit the family, children, and other people from the community for example:

Visit to traditional family / Group activity / short trek / football with village kids / weaving demonstration / campfire and tales / harvest potatoes…..
All meals are made whit locals products ¡ very fresh! (Vegetable soup, corn, herbal tea, very traditional dishes)

Meals: lunch- dinner included.
Accommodation: homestay whit Andean family.

DAY 2: ON THE WAY TO ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD:

After a delicious Andean breakfast whit the local family we will help whit the activities of the season, we also have the option for a short hike.

After a busy morning, the mother of the family will be waiting for us whit a deserved lunch.

Finishing our activities we continue in our private transport to Ollantaytambo to take a train to Aguas Calientes

Meals: breakfast – lunch- dinner included
Accommodation: Comfortable hotel in Aguas Calientes

DAY 3: ANCIENT CITY OF MACHU PICCHU:

After breakfast at the hotel, the specialist tour leader from Peru Cultural connection will pick you up from your hotel and take you to the first bus to the Inca city of Machu Picchu, after we present our tickets in Machupicchu checkpoint; we’ll visit the archaeological Inca site of Machu Picchu around 2 hours, Those who have tickets to Huayna Picchu will have time to climb the mountain, which takes approximately 2 hours, round-trip then you will have some time to explore and enjoy by yourself. After a nice experience in Machu Picchu, we’ll have to return to “Aguas Calientes“, to take our train back to Ollantaytambo, where the transfer waiting for you to continue to Cusco.

Meals: Breakfast included.
Accommodation: Not included.

INCLUDED

✔ Professional tour guide (English/Spanish/qechua )
✔ Private transportation whit a professional driver
✔ 01 night at the homestay whit a local family
✔ 01night at 3 start hotel in aguas calientes
✔ Meals (2 lunches, 1 dinner,1 breakfast) whit hot drinks
✔ Train round trip ollanta – aguas Calientes – ollanta
✔ Bus round trip to Machupicchu
✔ Entrance ticket for Machupicchu

NOT INCLUDED

✘ Huaynapicchu or machupicchu mountain tickets $ 35 usd (ask at the booking time)
✘ Meals not mentioned and Personal expenses
✘ Travel insurance, we strongly recommend you to bring copies with you of travel and health insurance
✘ Gratuities for the crow or family.

NEED TO BRING

❗Passports, warm clothing, flashlight, toilet paper, snacks and water. You can also bring fruit for your host family or share whit the children (they will love it)

PRICE

PERU CULTURAL CONNECTION requires at least 2 people for this tour, but you can leave any day you would like. The departure is 100% guaranteed once booked.

The price is based on group size. If you are with a larger group, please contact us for a discounted rate.

NOTE: PERU CULTURAL CONNECTION will never pass you onto another operator or share service with other companies as most agencies do here.

Weather in Cusco

Cusco is under the macro-climatic influence of large air masses coming from the southeastern jungle, as well as the winds of the Peruvian-Bolivian Altiplano that are rather cold and dry, just like those coming from Patagonia, entering from the southeastern zone and that usually imply climatic events of a larger scale. On the other hand, the local winds that are generated in its valleys and plains have the function of distributing heat and humidity throughout the day. The average annual temperature fluctuates between 10.3°C and 13°C (between 50.54° and 52.34° Fahrenheit); but these temperatures vary according to the area.

The roads in Cusco

Cuzco has a very rugged relief. The mountain ranges that start from the central and eastern Andean chain have worn out materials that have been eroded by the rivers of the Atlantic slope and by the action of the pp. This is the case of vilcabamba, ausangate and vilcanota. To the east, the central area, the vilcanota mountain range separates the waters that flow into the Amazon from those that flow into the titicaca. Only to the north of the region does the relief become soft and hilly.

Festivities in Cusco

Peru is a festive town par excellence that has turned religious celebrations into real popular festivities where ceremonies and cults are so important as: dances, food, and drinks. For example there are traditional foods that are prepared only for certain parties and the same happens with the dances. The most important festivity in Cuzco is the Holy Week, with its processions on Easter Monday and Good Friday. In addition to these festivities there are two that take place in places somewhat far from Cusco, La Virgen del Carmen in Paucartambo and Qoylloritti, near the town of Ocongate. Both equal in originality and beauty the festivities of the city.

Inty Raymi on June 24th of each year

The Inti Raymi is a tradition that comes to our days from the time of the Inca Empire. It has been recovered with all its splendor for more than 50 years and each time with more strength and attractiveness. The great city of Cusco is home to the most striking party and brings together a large number of foreign visitors. It is also held in almost all the towns that formed the Old Empire, as in the case of northern Argentina. The Inti Raymi is the homage that the Peruvian man pays to the Sun and to all the nature. This is one of the many religious manifestations of Peru. An excellent representation of the Inti Raymi is the one made in the Saqsayhuaman, with the participation of hundreds of people in the ceremony. It is the richest festival of the Inka empire, which is offered to the world.