Miraflores Park Hotel is a city center luxury hotel in Lima located close to many of Lima’s definitive cultural and historic attractions including Parque Kennedy, Huaca Pucllana Museo de la Nacion and Parque de la Reserva. Situated in Miraflores district, only 100 metres from Beach Circuit Avenue, the hotel offers an attentive service and impressive views of the ocean. With only 82 guestrooms, Miraflores Park Hotel combines the service of a boutique hotel with the amenities of a much larger property.

Miraflores Park Hotel offers some of the largest and most attractive rooms in the city. Designed with rich textured fabrics and carved hardwood furnishings, rooms offer either panoramic ocean or city views. Room amenities include direct-dial telephone service, air-conditioning, seating area with cable TV, granite bathrooms, free Wi-Fi and minibars. Some rooms come with a private sauna and even a Roman bathtub. Room rates: $350 to $2,680.

This 5.0-star Lima hotel an outdoor pool, a spa and three restaurants serving high-end cuisine prepared with Peruvian products. Stylish restaurants are part of the mix of old colonial treasures and cool, contemporary living that make modern Lima one of South America’s liveliest places to be. No matter how busy you are, take some time out to de-stress as you will find massage/treatment rooms and a fitness facility on site. Guests can enjoy the sun at the terrace by the heated pool, or work out in Hotel Miraflores’s gym.

Perfectly set in the Sacred Valley of the Incas among green fields, mountains and lush stretch of the Urubamba River, Hotel Rio Sagrado is an excellent starting point to discover all that Cusco has to offer. Surrounded by ancient remains, it is a tranquil, rural retreat situated only five minutes drive from Urubamba town and an hour from Macchu Picchu. Bought and refurbished by Orient-Express in 2010, Hotel Rio Sagrado boasts a convenient location with modern amenities in every guestroom and superb service.

Built in natural materials, resembling an Aldean village, this five-star property features 21 luxurious suites with a view over the Urubamba River. Stylish designed combining regional and European influences, each room has a private exterior terrace, heated wooden floors and a Swiss shower. Besides the 21 rooms Rio Sagrado also has 2 villa’s with riverfront access. Both villas are equipped with luxury and stylish home amenities offering the all comfort you can imagine for up to six guests.

Along with its convenient location in Cusco, the hotel also offers a wide range of services and facilities to the guests. There is a full-equipped spa center which is the perfect place to start your holiday. The Spa Mayu Willka features an indoor pool with Jacuzzi, plus sauna, steam room and Spanish showers. Here guests can treat themselves to massages with local herbs. Other on-site temptations include the riverside restaurant uses locally grown organic fruits and vegetables from the on-site garden, guaranteeing fresh dishes and offering a fusion of Peruvian, International and Urubamba’s finest kitchen cuisine. Activities organized by the hotel range from horse riding and cycling to rafting and fishing.  

The colonial-style building has been converted into the 83-room hotel filled with more than 300 pieces of original artwork from Lima’s Museo Pedro de Osma. The elegant suites at Country Club Lima Hotel have colonial furniture including brocade-covered chairs, gilt mirrors, mahogany armoires, antique beds, chandeliers, and lush cream carpeting. Elegantly decorated with a stylish mixture of classical and Peruvian colonial artwork, the suites feature air conditioning, free Wi-Fi and balconies with city, courtyard or garden views. The hotel overlooks urban golf course, while towering trees on the grounds preserve a tranquil air of days gone by. Relax with a cocktail in the patio bar. The Perroquet Restaurant serves Peruvian delicacies and a daily breakfast buffet. Los Vitrales Lobby Bar offers a speciality afternoon tea with scones, and guests can enjoy a fine scotch at the English Bar. In addition to a restaurant, Country Club Lima Hotel features an outdoor pool surrounded by shady palm trees. Room rates: $179 to $790

Set in the serenity of the Colca Canyon, Las Casitas del Colca is a luxurious eco-lodge considered as one of the most exotic vacation destinations in Peru. Placed amidst the beauty and magic of the Andes Mountains, at the bottom of one of the deepest canyons in the world, Las Casitas is ideal for excursions around the marvellous volcanic scenery of the Colca Valley.  The location makes the resort a perfect choice for the guest who prefers privacy in addition to luxury accommodations set in natural beauty.

Las Casitas del Colca offers a collection of exquisite cottage-style villas decorated with indigenous tiles, artwork, and other textiles that are local to the region. All villas at Las Casitas del Colca are designed with care; the interior includes a foyer, lounge area, working fireplaces, dressing room and bedrooms. This is the most luxurious accommodation in the region. Casitas are equipped with private fire place, free Wi-Fi, a minibar, an Ipod Docking Station, outdoor showers, in-room safe and more. Each feature spacious living space with radiant heated floors, a private terrace, and a heated plunge pool – ideal for rest, relaxation and retreat and perfect for couples or families alike.

Guests looking for activities outside of La Casitas del Colca have access to a variety of activities including cooking classes, art classes, cultural programs, fly fixing, horseback riding, stargazing, wildlife viewing, the giant condors spotting, hiking or visits to the local alpaca farm and more. Wellness facilities include a sauna and several massage and body treatments. Guests can enjoy magnificent views at Las Casitas’s restaurant. Dishes are prepared with tasty regional ingredients.

Based in Lima, Peru, this restaurant was designed by Oz Arq and Maru Alvarez-Calderon. Built in 2009-2010 in an open large garden, El Mercado Restaurant offers its guests a great atmosphere.

A wood facade, masonry walls, an open kitchen and the wood covered pastry room El Mercado Restaurant covers an area for about 550 sq. m. Located at a triangular site in the middle of garage shops, the place provides two separate tracks – public and private area. With the interior dining table made from wood, the restaurant features a truly natural atmosphere.

This is a contemporary luxury hotel located on a private peninsula on the shores of the Lake Titicaca, Peru. It is one of the best hotels around the world. The Titilaka hotel offers a modern luxurious design and stunning views the Andean scenery.

There are eighteen suites all overlooking the lake. They are elegant furnished and equipped with individually controlled heated floors, mini bar, I-Pod dock, spa bathrooms, with large oversized tubs and massage showers. Here you will find a numerous opportunities of activities including mountain bike, kayaking, horse riding and a choice of excursions by boat, car, bike or trekking. You have a chance to visit the archeological sites of Chullpas de Sillustani, Juli, Pomata and Lampa. The choice is yours.

The nearest airport is Juliaca Airport : 74 km / 46 miles.

Located at the heart of the historical city, La Casona is Cusco’s first boutique hotel that reflects the cities mélange of cultures and traditions. Surrounded by astounding Andean sceneries, the colonial manor house is an exclusive hotel located in the beautiful Plaza de Las Nazarenas. Cusco‘s architectural heritage of Incan stone walls topped with colonial white stucco is echoed in this sixteenth-century building on a square steps from the main plaza.

Inkaterra has 11 suites maintaining the original Spanish architecture. The suites nod to both Incan and colonial influences with antiques and traditional thickly plastered beams crossing the high ceilings. Beautifully restored with colonial furnishings and original murals, but they also offer modern comforts and contemporary amenities such as iPod speakers. A grassy courtyard is surrounded by rooms on two levels create the exclusivity enjoyed by residents in centuries past.

The hotel‘ amenities of the manor include sitting and dining rooms, a private spa, reading lounge and outdoor terraces for enjoying Cuscos timeless vibrancy. In addition, the hotel offers trips to ruins, churches, markets, and a coca-leaf tea reading. There is an excellent restaurant – don’t leave without trying the quinoa pancakes.

With its magnificent temples, Cusco offers beautiful landscapes and an approach to the old Inca culture. Ruins, museums, churches, mansions and a wide variety of architecture. Often referred to as the “Archaeological Capital of the Americas” Cusco (Peru) is a beautiful city riddled with contrasts between the indigenous styles and the modern western world.

Though small, Cusco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has a many things to do and holds numerous places of interest. These days nearly every building surrounding the historic Plaza de Armas seems to be a tourist hotel, restaurant, shop, travel agency or internet cafe. A memorable destination, full of history and culture. Cusco offers a thriving Andean culture, monolithic Inca architecture and treasures from the colonial era and attracts visitors from every corner of the world.

The visitors can explore the religious art museum of Santa Catalina, Qorikancha, an archaeological museum, the Museo Historico Regional, the Museo de Arte Popular, Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo and the Pachacutec Monument.

The Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge is the only hotel to abut the 15th-century ancient Incan site. Located within the Sanctuary of the Inca citadel, Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas, the hotel is sets at 8,100 feet above sea level. Its location gives you easy access to the ruins as well as breathtaking scenery.

You enter into a simple check–in area and leather sitting area, with photos from a 1912 National Geographic expedition lining the walls of this and the neighboring bar and restaurant. The Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge has 2 suites and 29 rooms, 12 of them, with an amazing view of the mountains.   The Lodge interior garden, apart from the beautiful panoramic view, has 300-odd species of orchids and local flowers.

Rates: $715 to $1265

The private island of Isla Suasi, in the north of Lake Titicaca, is as high as the Andes, and the views are literally breathtaking. You can see the vast blue lake from everyone of the twenty-four rooms in this small rustic hotel, not to mention alpaca and vicuna grazing on the hotel’s garden out front. Stripy hammocks swing outside in the breeze as multitudes of birds catch fish in this, the deepest part of the lake. It is hard to believe there that stress exists. Photo by: sling2008

The downside of this Peruvian paradise id how long it takes to get there; this also means that the place is not going to be swarming with tourists. The island is about five hours from Puno, and you can access it by speedboat, stopping off at the Uros islands, where traditional communities live on artificial islands made of floating reeds. Photo by: mkrossbach

Staying on Suasi Island feels like a real retreat. The Casa Andina Private Collection hotel might be built from traditional adobe and totora reed, but the wine cellar is well-stocked with Chilean and Argentine wine lying next to the Moet. If you desire more privacy, Andean Cottage has two private rooms, a lakeside terrace, and private butler service. It is decked out with a sober cream and dark-wood interior and is designed with honeymooners in mind. Photo by: mkrossbach

If you are looking for genuine South American sanctuary, there is a traditional Andean sauna there, and you can also arrange sessions with a shaman, to make offerings to the Earth. Or you can take in the serenity of the lake with a canoe or wooden boat tour hike up the flower-strewn hillsides, or watch the stars by a telescope at night. The air is so clear and unpolluted there, that you can see for miles. Photo by: jonathan_simon

Gisele Bundchen and Leonardo DiCaprio have laid their heads on the soft linen pillows in Cusco’s Hotel Monasterio, one of the luxury properties at the vanguard of South America‘s style revolution. Converted from a sixteenth-century monastery and build around a cloistered courtyard, the Monasterio has an ambience of calm efficiency. Gregorian chants accompany the serene breakfast buffet, a private chapel is at your disposal, and the bath butler service offers a soak fit for an Andean princess. Photo by: thejennyallen

The heart of the hotel is a central courtyard with soft fountain and 300-year-old cedar tree surrounded by gardens. The hotel take a very modern approach to the issue of altitude sickness (the thin air at high altitude deprives the body of up to 30 percent of usual oxygen levels). Fifty bedrooms here are enriched with oxygen gently pumped through filters to reduce atmospheric pressure. It is all part of life enjoying Cusco‘s finer side. Photo by: PierreG_09

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The Pygmy marmosets are the smallest living monkeys in the world. They inhabit the rainforests in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. This species live in the upper canopy of the forest and survive on an omnivorous diet of fruit, leaves, insects, small reptiles. Image from: Frösö Zoo via DRB

Adults are about 13 cm long with a 20 cm tail and weigh is in the range 85-140 grams. They are small, squirrel-like, and monogamous. Its tawny coat is sprinkled with gray and its tail is ringed. Long hairs on its head and cheeks form a mane which hides its ears. Its eyes are almond-shaped.

Gazing down on the Peruvian Amazon region with the aid of satellite image, the town of Puerto Maldonado appears as a series of rough gray smudges in unending green, and a tawny river winds away through thick rain forest. Unlikely as it seems, an hour down a river and a short scramble up a rough clay riverbank is one of Peru‘s most enchanting and exciting hotels.

Inkaterra’s Reserva Amazonica Lodge is part of a private 12,140 ha nature reserve. It is a heaven of peace and quiet luxury in a wild natural setting: from screeching macaws in vivid primary colors to delicate pygmy marmosets; from single-minded columns of leafcutter ants to spectacular in crimson. All of this is before you have even made it to your room.

Traditional constructions updated by the addition of tight-fitting mesh screens, the thirty chic cabanas are open to the elements so that on the hottest of nights, a faint breeze might float up from the river. A heavenly lack of phones , Internet and even electricity is complemented by thoughtful, luxurious touches and by discreet staff who know when to offer a cocktail, hand you and ice-cold washcloth, or light you to bed with glowing kerosene lamps.

If you are lucky enough to be in one of the two ‘suites Tambopata‘, their private plunge pools and terraces are the ideal spot relax and cool down after an excursion into the jungle. Activities include trekking through the trees in thrall to one of the Reserva’s knowledgeable guides; spotting the sentinel, flash-lit eyes of caimans on the riverbanks on a nighttime boat trip; or an electrifying canopy walk 30 m above the ground through whispering treetops.

Huacachina is a village in the Ica Region, in southwestern Peru. The oasis attracts many tourists as well as Peru’s rich families. The area around the lake is known for dune buggy trips and sandboarding. It is a tiny location, although it does have a few restaurants, bars and clubs.

In this quiet place, at a height of over 600 meters above sea level, ancient whales’ skeleton fossils were exposed by a slow process of wind and rain.  Huacachina is a very special place as.  In the middle of a massive sandy desert, surrounded by huge sand dunes was a gorgeous oasis with palm trees and a lagoon which is said to contain therapeutic properties. Particularly effective for the cure of skin and rheumatic illnesses.

Legend holds that the lagoon was created when a beautiful native princess was apprehended at her bath by a young hunter. She fled, leaving the pool of water she had been bathing in to become the lagoon.

This tiny little oasis in the desert is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world.

Alpamayo is one of the most conspicuous peaks in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Peruvian Andes in the Ancash region, Peru, South America. Elevation 19,511 ft (5,947 meters). Has a 60 degree almost symmetrical pyramid shape.It is the most beautiful and conspicuous peak ever and has two sharp summits South and North.

Alpamayo mountain peak was climbed for the first time by a German expedition through the N ridge. It was voted “the most beautiful mountain in the world” in a worldwide survey of scenic beauty at Munich in 1966.

The most common climbing route, known as the Ferrari route, is situated on the southwest face of the mountain. It is considered a difficult climb, demanding good crampon and ice-climbing technique. ( Best months are the May to September dry season).

Alpamayo should not be underestimated!

It is a trail full of turquoise lagoons, mountains of more than 6000 masl, beautiful valleys and many high passes with magnificent views. The campsites are expansive and tranquill.

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