From the extraordinary sites along the Pacific coast to the well-known wonders of the Sacred Vally inthe Inca Highlands, every moment is full of interest:

·          The vast adobe city of Chan Chan

·          Machu Picchu at first light

·          The Inca sites in the Sacred Valley - beautiful and remote

·          The ancient Moche temples near Trujillo, more is discovered all the time

A journey from the driest places on earth along the Pacific Coast, where vast temple citadels were erected out of mud brick, to the heights of Machu Picchu in the cloud forest.

The extraordinary nature of the achievements of the Inca civilisation are well enough known - their monuments of beautifully cut stone, the incredible scale of their engineering projects, the enormous extent of their Andean Empire.

Less well-known are the remote, and far earlier sites of civilisations along the Pacific coast: the ritual enclosure surrounded by carved stelae at Sechin; the vast adobe Temples of the Moche people at Trujillo, or the biggest mudbrick city in the world, in which every new ruler had to build an entirely new palace for himself and his retinue, at Chan Chan. Many of our guests return, having found these even more awe-inspiring than the Inca sites of the Sacred Valley.