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The Coffee & Chocolate Experience

The perfect combination: Coffee & Chocolate

A route that combines learning with adventure, remote villages with Highlight Machu Picchu, Andean altitudes with jungle environment.

The Perfect Combination

The Coffee & Chocolate route: hike a spectacular Inka Trail to reach coffee & cacao plantations in the Machu Picchu jungle. Walks are short and beautiful:

The key is experience. Harvesting coffee and cacao and participating in the whole process will give a new dimension to your visit to Machu Picchu.

4d/3n Program

 Day 1 Cuzco (or Ollantaytambo) - Huayopata

AM Transfer Cuzco - Huayopata (5 hours from Cuzco), passing the Malaga Pass (4.300 masl) and from there down into the upper jungle (1.500 masl).

PM  Share the daily life of the host family, get to know their plantation with fruits, vegetables, cacao and coffee. Depending on the season we’ll participate in an agricultural activity, like harvesting fruits or coffee beans!

Night  Dinner with a local family in Huayopata, overnight stay in their private lodge with hot water (two triple rooms with shared bathroom)

Day 2 Huayopata - Huacayupana

AM  In the morning, we will go to a cacao farm to learn to make our own chocolate! The whole process from the fruit to the chocolate will be explained to us, and we will fully participate in it.

Afterwards, a ride of about one hour will take us to the beginning of a hike (beautiful 2,5-hour Inka trail option, or shorter and easier one-hour option), with beautiful flora, impressive views and quite astonishing depths. Finally, we’ll arrive in Huacayupana for a refreshing lemonade and lunch, offered by the host.

PM  In the afternoon, proud “cafetalero” will explain us all about the organic coffee process from the bean to the cup, and his life on this mountain ridge. In order to provide shadow to the coffee plantations, the coffee farmers grow other crops like bananas, citrus fruits, avocado and mango, aside from corn and beans.

Night  Share experiences host family, dinner and rest in their traditional lodge constructed with adobe but with private hot shower. (Two triple rooms with private bathrooms.)

  

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Day 3 Huacayupana -Cuzco / Aguas Calientes

For today, there are two options:

Option 1 (included):

AM  After a revitalizing breakfast, we’ll return to the road to go to Santa Maria, where we’ll have lunch before we go back to Cuzco.

Option 2 (additional cost):

AM  After a revitalizing breakfast, we’ll continue our trekking to Santa Teresa (three- four hours walking, part can be done in car), enjoying a multitude of flowers on the way.

PM  Upon arrival, we can visit the hot springs of Coclamayo and the Coffee Cooperative, before transfer to the Hydroelectric Station, to take the train to Aguas Calientes.

16:30 Walk or train to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Pueblo) (2,5 - 3 hours hike or 40min by train)

Night  Overnight in basic hostel in Aguas Calientes.

Day 4 Machu Picchu - Cuzco

AM  Guided visit to Machu Picchu

PM  Back to Cuzco by train and bus

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Included:

-  Transfer from your hotel.

-  All transports from and to Cusco.

-  Professional guide throughout the program.

-  All food and accommodations as mentioned.

In the Machu Picchu option:

-  Machu Picchu entrance fee.

-  Bus tickets Aguas Calientes - Machu Picchu.

-  Train tickets from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo.

Not included:

-  Meals not specified.

-  Hot springs entrance fee.

-  Huayna Picchu entrance.

-  Tips for the guide and families.

-  Alcoholic drinks, souvenirs, other personal costs.

-  Travel insurance