Amazon River Cruise & Rain Forest (2012)

Lima • Iquitos • Amazon River Cruise on Río Marañon and Río Amazonas
  • 10 days
  • from only:
  • $1995
  • $200 per day
    Small Ship Adventure Only
  • 11 days
  • from only:
  • $2695
  • $245 per dayIncludes international airfare and government taxes
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Before The Incas: Peru's Pyramids & The Lord of Sipan
Machu Picchu & Cuzco, Peru
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Learn how to customize your adventure, or view standard air routing and travel times. The choice is yours with our True Choice program.

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Customize your trip

With our True Choice Program, you can choose to stay longer before or after your trip on your own, or combine two adventures to maximize your value. Here are more ways to create the OAT adventure that’s right for you:

  • Choose our standard air routing, or work with us to select the airline and routing you prefer
  • Make your own international flight arrangements directly with the airline, applying frequent flyer miles if available
  • Stay overnight in a connecting city before or after your trip
  • Request to arrive a few days early to get a fresh start on your adventure
  • Choose to “break away” before or after your trip, spending additional days or weeks on your own
  • Extend your adventure with our optional pre- and post-trip extensions
  • Combine your choice of OAT adventures to maximize your value
  • Upgrade to business or premium economy class

The air options listed above will involve an additional fee of $100 per person for confirmed requests (as well as incremental airfare costs based on your specific choice). This service fee will be waived for Inner Circle/Sir Edmund Hillary Club members.

Or, when you make your reservation, you can choose our standard air routing, for which approximate travel times are shown below.

GATEWAY

TRAVEL TIME*

Atlanta, Houston, Chicago

11hrs

Baltimore, San Francisco

14hrs

Boston, Philadelphia

12hrs

Denver, Los Angeles

15hrs

Newark

13hrs

Washington, DC (Dulles), Portland, OR

18hrs

New York (JFK)

8hrs

Miami

6hrs

Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle

16hrs

* Estimated total time, including connection and layover. Actual travel time may vary.

The information above reflects approximate flight times from the gateway cities listed to Lima, Peru. Routing is based on availability and subject to change. You will receive your final air itinerary approximately 14 days prior to departure.

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And you are also passing along savings to your new traveler: We'll instantly deduct $100 off the cost of their reservation when they mention your name and Customer Number while reserving.

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Pre-Trip: Before The Incas: Peru's Pyramids & The Lord of Sipan

4 nights from only $1195

Expand your discoveries of Peru’s ancient heritage in the pre-Incan kingdoms of Chimú and Moche in northern Peru. Among the Moche treasures we’ll see are those found in the tomb of warrior-king Lord Sipan, comparable in their glory to the trove of King Tut. Our discoveries are based in two culturally rich cities, Trujillo and Chiclayo, for an experience that perfectly complements our adventure in the Amazon.

Single Supplement: FREE.

Please note: This extension only available on select departures. Some dates may require the purchase of a pre- or post-trip extension. Ask your Adventure Specialist for details.

It's Included

  • Airfare from Lima to Trujillo and from Chiclayo to Lima
  • Accommodations for 2 nights in Trujillo and 2 nights in Chiclayo
  • 11 meals—4 breakfasts, 4 lunches, and 3 dinners
  • 9 small group activities
  • All land transportation
  • Services of our own resident OAT Trip Leader, who speaks English and the native language
  • All transfers
Day 1
Depart U.S.

Today you depart on a flight from the U.S. to Lima, Peru.
Day 2
Arrive in Lima/Fly to Trujillo

This morning you’ll arrive in Lima, where your Trip Leader will meet you. You’ll transfer to a hotel in Lima, where you’ll have the use of a day room for the morning. After lunch at a local restaurant, we’ll depart for our flight to Trujillo, the capital of Peru’s La Libertad Region. We arrive in late afternoon and check into our hotel in Trujillo, where we’ll enjoy dinner together this evening.
Day 3
Trujillo/Huaca de la Luna/Huanchaco/Chan Chan

Today we tour Huaca de la Luna (Pyramid of the Moon), where we’ll delve into the history of the Moche, a pre-Incan Peruvian warrior society. We’ll also visit Huanchaco Beach to see surfers and caballitos (fishing boats made of reeds) before enjoying lunch at a local restaurant. Then we discover Chan Chan, ancient capital of the Chimú Empire that followed the Moche. This 500-acre UNESCO World Heritage Site is the largest adobe complex in the world. After our tour, we’ll see Peru’s Los Caballos de Paso Fino (the horses with the fine walk) at an exciting demonstration. We return to our hotel in the evening and enjoy dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 4
Trujillo/El Brujo/Guadalupe/Chiclayo

After breakfast, we depart overland for Chiclayo. We stop along the way at El Brujo (The Wizard), a massive Moche pyramid complex. Here we’ll see the tomb of La Dama de Cao, the mummy of a tattooed woman thought to be a Moche priestess, whose discovery in 2006 is regarded as one of the world’s great archaeological finds. We explore a market in the village of Guadalupe, then arrive in Chiclayo in the early afternoon and enjoy a late lunch at our hotel. Afterwards, your afternoon and evening are at leisure and dinner is on your own.
Day 5
Túcume/Sipán Museum/Market of Wizards

After breakfast, we travel to Túcume, the capital of the pre-Incan Lambayeque Kingdom. Here 26 large adobe pyramids designed for a variety of ritual and other functions still stand—dramatic evidence of a sophisticated society that inhabited Peru long before the Incas. We enjoy lunch at a local restaurant, then tour a museum featuring the treasures of Lord Sipán, a high-ranking Moche leader whose tomb has been compared to King Tut’s. Afterwards, we tour the Market of Wizards, where we’ll learn about the culture of Peru’s curanderos (healers). Tonight we enjoy a Farewell Dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 6
Chiclayo/Lima

Today, you'll fly from Chiclayo to Lima to begin our Amazon River Cruise & Rain Forest adventure.