Peru's assorted bounded mural of mountains, rivers, forests, and chastening creates some accomplished opportunities to commence on chance tours in the country. Of course, treks are the a lot of acute experience, but day-long biking, horseback riding, and baptize rafting tours are aswell a part of the options.
A actual accepted advantage is the expedition to Machu Picchu. This includes the archetypal Inca Trail, which can be done in 1 to 4 days, or alternating routes such as Salkantay or Lares, and the beneath acclaimed Vilcabamba and Choquequirao. The Inca Trail requires a admittance and travelers have to plan able-bodied in beforehand as these are bound to 500 a day and advertise out quickly. In addition, there are treks in the Andes that don't go to Machu Picchu, including Ausangate, Vilcabamba, and others. Finally, there is an more accepted multisport bout of the Sacred Valley that includes Machu Picchu. This 4 day and 3 night bout involves abundance biking from Cusco to Santa Maria of the aboriginal day; hiking on the additional and third day, aboriginal from Santa Maria to Santa Teresa, and again from Patallacta to Aguas Calientes; and a bout of Machu Picchu on the final day.
If biking or camping is not your thing, abounding added chance tours abide for travelers searching for something that can be done in a day. In the Sacred Valley, there is a abounding day biking bout to Maras and Moray. The bout begins in Chincheros (1.5 hours by car from Cusco), continues forth a abundance clue accomplished the Huaypo Lagoon to the Moray, area travelers can see the agronomical terraces. From here, the bout continues to Maras, area of the Inca alkali mines. Closer to Cusco, there is a half-day bout of Sacsayhuaman and the surrounding ruins.
Horseback benumbed is addition advantage for chance tours. In the Sacred Valley, tours go forth the Urubamba River, arise to the altiplano, and accolade equestrians with vistas of the always snow-capped Chicon, Veronica, and Salkantay. This boondocks aswell passes through the boondocks of Maras and Moray. Back in Cusco, a horseback benumbed bout takes riders through Andean landscapes that cover farms, Andean villages, and Inca ruins.
River rafting is a achievability in the Sacred Valley and in Arequipa. On the Urubamba River, chic II and III avalanche action a affable addition to the action acceptable for all levels of ability. Tours usually end at "El Resbaladero," a able chic III accelerated with whirlpools. On the Chili River 40 account from Arequipa, rafters will acquisition chic III and IV avalanche forth a 5 mile (8 km) amplitude that goes from Charcani to Carmen Alto amidst admirable scenery.