8 Day Andean Guided Motorcycle Tour from Lima to Arequipa, Peru with Machu Picchu Visit

Day 1: Lima - Nazca (around 480 kilometers / 298 miles)

You leave at 8 a.m. from Lima directly to Nazca on a trip of around seven hours. You will have lunch in Ica and overnight in Nazca.

Day 2: Nazca - Chalhuanca (around 375 kilometers / 233 miles)

After you wake up, you will take a flight over the Nazca lines. Then you will have brunch and head to Chalhuanca, to your hotel Tampumayo. You pass by Pampa Galeras where you can see beautiful vicuñas and Puquio with its stone forest. You reach your hotel Tampumayo around 4 p.m. and you stay overnight there.

Day 3: Chalhuanca - Cusco (around 300 kilometers / 186 miles)

From Chalhuanca to Cusco is around six hours. You leave at 8 a.m. and arrive at Cusco for lunch.

Day 4: Sacred Valley (around 120 kilometers / 75 miles)

This day after breakfast, you leave at 8 a.m. in the direction of Pisaq. After visiting the Pisaq ruins, you head to Maras salt mines and the Moray archaeological complex where you have lunch. Then you go to the Ollantaytambo train station through an off-road route where you will finish the guided tour for the day and then take the train to Aguas Calientes where you will overnight.

Day 5: Machupicchu

Early in the morning at 6, you go to Machupicchu where you will have a guided tour of three hours. Then you go back to Aguas Calientes to take the train at 1 p.m. After arrival in Ollantaytambo at 3 p.m., you take your motorcycles to ride to Cusco. You arrive in Cusco at 6:30 p.m. (around 80 kilometers).

Day 6: Cusco - Chivay (around 375 kilometers / 233 miles)

Today you leave Cusco at 8 a.m. to the town of Chivay in the Colca Canyon as your destination, enjoying beautiful nature and scenery on the trip. Here you can enjoy the hot springs of Chivay.

Optionally, this day you can go to Chivay via Espinar. The scenery is more beautiful but it is an off-road trail.

Day 7: Chivay - Arequipa (around 180 kilometers / 112 miles)

You leave your hotel in Chivay early at 6:30 a.m. and head to Cruz del Condor where you enjoy the flight of the condors and then you ride to Arequipa where you should arrive around lunchtime. You will have the whole afternoon to visit this beautiful city.

Day 8: Departure

Transfer to the airport of Arequipa. End of services.

Note

If you have the Peruvian nationality, you will need a motorcycle driving license. If you are a foreigner, you need a motor driving license from your home country. Next to that, Cusco Moto Tour Peru strongly recommends that you bring an international driving license.

The road conditions, traffic conditions and weather conditions in Peru are likely to be different than in your home country. Therefore, good motorcycle driving skills are recommended.

Optional

• 4x4 Truck for mechanical support and/or transport of luggage, driver/mechanic is included, this service does not include fuel and it costs 140 USD per day
• Full risk insurance 250 USD
• GPS rental (20 USD per day)
• Photo and video cam “GoPro” (20 USD per day)
• Rain suit (10 USD per day)
• Dry bag (5 USD per day)
• Tank bag (10 USD per day)
• Metal sidebox (20 USD per day)
• Additional motorbike equipment

Skill level required for this tour: Intermediate with experience

Intermediate:

• can ride for 3-4 hours
• average riding experience
• little assistance required
• comfortable with extreme curves and leans
• average experience with unsurfaced roads
• steep ascents and descents

This sightseeing and historical tour on a motorbike takes place in Peru. Starting from Lima the route will look like this:

• Nazca
• Chalhuanca
• Cusco
• Sacred Valley
• Machu Picchu (by train)
• Colca Canyon
• Arequipa

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• Rental of motorcycle Honda XR150 / XRE 300cc / Suzuki DR650, the client can choose
• Basic safety equipment (helmet, gloves and jacket)
• Spare parts when needed
• Professional adventure guide and cultural guide for some archeological sites
• 7 nights accommodations, first- and middle-class hotels with private shower and toilet, standard breakfast included
• Entrance fees Colca Canyon and the Sacred Valley (Pisaq, Maras salt mines, and Moray)
• Entrance tickets to Machupicchu, busses, trains, and transfers at Machupicchu, a cultural guide at Machupicchu
• Flight over Nazca lines
• Transfers between hotels
• Physical insurance obliged by Peruvian law (SOAT)
• First aid kit and oxygen bottle if needed
• Transportation of the motorcycles from Arequipa to Cusco (return to base)
• Photos of the tour

• Fuel (for none of the bikes passenger or guide)
• Personal expenses
• Meals, except breakfast at the hotels
• 500 USD or 1500 USD deposit for the bike, depending on the model chosen for the tour, this amount is settled on the day of the tour via VISA credit card or cash (dollar or soles)

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.