Day 1: USA - QUITO
Depart USA to Quito. Meeting and assistance upon arrival and transfer to your hotel for overnight. Balance of the day at leisure.

Day 2: QUITO - GALAPAGOS (Baltra, Santa Cruz - B,L,D)
After an early morning breakfast, you will be transferred from your hotel to the airport to board your flight to Baltra. Upon arrival, transfer to the dock to board the M/V Galagapos Legend. In the afternoon visit Santa Cruz Island. Upon landing, a walk takes you to a hypersalinic lagoon behind the beach often frequented by flamingos. The trail then leads up a winding hill to Dragon Hill, offering a great view of the bay. This area is a nesting site for land iguanas re-introduced by the Charles Darwin Research Station. Dinner and overnight on board your ship.

Day 3: GALAPAGOS (Genovesa Island - B,L,D)
This morning disembark at El Barranco in Genovesa Island. Here you will observe red-footed boobies and frigates. Following lunch visit Darwin Bay where you will also observe sea lions, lava gulls and night herons. Opportunity for snorkeling in the bay to observe sharks and rays. Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 4: GALAPAGOS (Española, San Cristobal, Darwin Center - B,L,D)
This morning visit Punta Suarez in Española Island. Aside from the sea lion colonies this is one of the most important sites for bird watching. After crossing the nesting grounds of masked and blue footed boobies you will reach the colony of waved albatross. Finally you will visit the blowhole where water shoots 75ft into the air. Following lunch, land at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno and visit the Darwin Interpretation Center. Dinner and overnight aboard your ship.

Day 5: GALAPAGOS - QUITO (B)
After breakfast you will disembark at Baltra Beach for your final opportunity to swim, snorkel, and observe the sea lions. Later you will be transferred to the Baltra airport for your flight to Quito. Upon arrival in Quito you will be transferred to your hotel.

Day 6: QUITO (B)
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, has a setting that few cities can match. It was founded in 1534 and was the former capital of the northern Inca Empire. It is called the city of eternal spring and displays some of the finest architecture. A tour of the city takes you through the northern residential section to see the impressive Parliament building, whose stone mural records Ecuador's history. Visit St. Augustine Monastery, Independence Plaza, La Compania Church, and the Cathedral of San Francisco. Continue to the Equatorial Monument and it's museum located at latitude 0, where you can stand with one foot on each of the hemispheres. Return to your hotel. Remainder of the day at leisure.

Day 7: QUITO - LIMA (B)
Early morning breakfast and transfer from hotel to airport to board your flight to Lima. You will be met and assisted upon arrival in Lima and transferred to your hotel. Remainder of the day is at leisure.

Day 8: LIMA (B)
Today enjoy a city tour of Lima. Your tour visits landmarks of the city such as the magnificent 17th century San Francisco monastery & its unique cloisters, Plaza de Armas & Government Palace, the court of the Inquisition & the Cathedral. Continue to the Gold & Arms Museum which houses and impressive collection of Peruvian artifacts

Day 9: LIMA - CUZCO (B)
Early morning breakfast and transfer from hotel to airport to board your short flight to Cuzco. You will be met and assisted upon arrival in Cuzco and transferred to your hotel. You have free time to adjust to the high altitude of 11,000 feet. In the afternoon, enjoy a city tour of Cuzco, the archaeological capital of the Americas, former capital of the Inca Empire, and the oldest continuously inhabited city on the continent. Highlights include a tour of the Colonial City and visits to the ruins of Tambomachay and Sacsayhuaman Fortress. Afternoon at leisure.

Day 10: MACHU PICCHU (B,L)
Today you will start the day with a 3-hour train ride through the sacred valley of Urubamba to the "Lost City of the Incas". Discovered only in 1911, this city consists of over 200 buildings that were hidden by mountains and semi-tropical jungles for over 400 years. A guided tour will take you through temples, houses and sacred altars of this once lost city. Overnight near the ruins.

Day 11: MACHU PICCHU - CUZCO (B)
This morning is free to continue exploration of the ruins on your own. In the afternoon, you will return to Cuzco for your overnight.

Day 12: CUZCO - PISAC & OLLANTAYTAMBO (B,L)
Following breakfast you will embark upon a full day excursion to the famous Pisac Indian Market in the Urumbamba valley where you will have the opportunity to bargain with the natives for many different types of Peruvian handicrafts and jewelry. After lunch the tour continues to the village of Ollantaytambo - an ancient fortress made up of temples and terraces that towers the valley majestically.

Day 13: CUZCO - PUNO (B,L)
Today you will be transferred from your hotel to the train station to embark on a 12-hour ride to the city of Juliaca. Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel in Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

Day 14: PUNO - SUN ISLAND (LAKE TITICACA CROSSING) (B,L,D)
Today you will travel by bus from your hotel to Copacabana (Bolivia) stopping along the way to visit the floating islands of the Uros Indians in the Lake Titicaca. After lunch in Copacabana you will visit the famous Cathedral of the "Virgin Morena", Bolivia's most important religious shrine. Then you will cross Lake Titicaca by hydrofoil to Sun Island where you will visit Pilcocaina Sun Temple. After a short llama trek (25min) to the Posada del Inca you will enjoy lunch and have the remainder of the afternoon to relax and enjoy a breathtaking view of the lake and the royal range of the Andes. Dinner and overnight at the Posada del Inca.

Day 15: SUN ISLAND - HUATAJATA (LAKE TITICACA CROSSING) (B,L,D)
Today you will visit the Inca Staircase and the Inca Sacred Spring, said to be a source of eternal youth and happiness. After lunch you will travel via hydrofoil to Moon Island and visit the Sun Virgin's Temple, where the most beautiful women of the Inca Empire were trained in domestic affairs and kept a sacred fire burning for the Inca. Upon arrival in Huatajata, enjoy an audiovisual presentation of the Kallawayas and an evening visit to their mystic world. Candlelight dinner with a folkloric "Peoa" show and overnight at the Inca Utama Hotel & Spa.

Day 16: HUATAJATA - LA PAZ (B)
Today you will drive to La Paz and your hotel. Afternoon at leisure.

Day 17: LA PAZ (B)
The city of La Paz was founded in 1548 and boasts a unique blend of cultures located within a magnificent mountain panorama. This morning's tour of the city visits a typical Indian market, the famous Witch Doctor's Market and the San Francisco Colonial Church built in 1744. You pass the Plaza Murillo where the Cathedral, the Government Palace and the National Congress buildings are located. From here you will visit the famous colonial "Calle Jaen" street and the archaeological Temple of the Tiwanacu period. Continue through the areas of Obrajes, Calasoto and La Florida to the Moon Valley. Remainder of the day at leisure.

Day 18: LA PAZ - USA (B)
After an early morning breakfast you will be transferred from your hotel to the airport for your departing flight home.