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Tour #1 Amazon Riverboat
14 days
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - Fly to Lima, Peru
Monday, November 28, 2011 - Return from Peru
$2,495 five or less participants
$2,295 six or more participants
This tour is limited to about 10 participants
Sign up with a $500 deposit by July 15th to received an embroidered PAC Tour travel shirt.
Pay $500 more or sign up with $1,000 by August 15th to receive a PAC Tour gear bag with the Peru logo.
Final group size payments are calculated September 1st.
Final payments are due September 15th
$1,000 cancellation fee after October 1st
No refunds after October 15th
What is Included
Hotels, boats, taxies, flights in Peru, tour guides, route cards, commemorative T-shirt, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Many more updates will be provided each month to prepare you for the tour.
What is Not Included
Flights to and from Lima, Peru. You are responsible for your additional snacks during the day or alcoholic drinks with your meals.
Lon's Photos from Peru 2010
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During the past twelve years we have traveled to a variety of Peruvian destinations. We have combined many of our favorite adventures from past tours. We will participate in a wide variety of experiences not usually seen by tourists. This tour will offer plenty of opportunities for cyclists and non riders to see Peru as the local people really live.
This tour is appropriate for cyclists and non cyclists. We will travel to all the same locations with Peruvian guides in rented vehicles. We will ride about 250 miles during five cycling days of 35 to 65 miles. All of the days are on paved roads.
This year will include:
- Clothes shopping visit with the Chosica Girl's Home
- Tours to several jungle villages
- Riverboat tour down the Amazon
- Delivering school books to Amazon schools
- Visiting schools we have built in Peru
- Dinner party for homeless kids
- Bicycle race in the city of Iquitos
- Delivering supplies to the jungle orphanage (Tour #2)
Day 1
Tuesday, November 15- Fly to Peru.
Airline flights from the United States typically take most of the day with connections to Lima, Peru. Most flights arrive in Lima about midnight. If your flight arrives after 2:00 AM Wednesday morning it would be better for you to travel to Lima the previous evening. When you arrive we will meet you at the airport and take you to our hotel in the nicer section of Lima. You will have time to sleep in the next morning before we start our adventures across Peru.
Day 2
Wednesday, November 16- Chosica Girl's Home
If you have not been to Peru before we recommend taking the 9:00 AM Lima City Tour by bus. This tour visits the old colonial areas of the city and is a good introduction to the history of Peru. The morning tour is three hours and costs about $30 (additional). At noon we will have lunch with a typical family who live in the back street neighborhoods of Lima. (At our friend Sara's house). In the late afternoon we will travel 50 miles to the Chosica Girl's Home and take 15 girls on their annual shopping trip to buy new clothes. We will share an evening dinner together. That evening we will return to Lima and we will be joined by little Aracely (age 12) and her mother Nayda who will travel with us across Peru.
Day 3
Thursday, November 17- Book Shopping
This morning we will go shopping for school books in the Lima market. These are the books we will deliver to rural jungle schools during our boat tour on the Amazon River in a few days. In the afternoon we begin our travel into the jungle. We will go to the airport to fly over the Andes mountains to the remote jungle city of Tarapoto. This city of 50,000 people is located on the eastern foothills of the mountains and has a good variety of terrain with a moderate climate. We will assemble bikes for the next day. There are several nice restaurants within walking distance of our hotel. Our base hotel for three days is modern with a nice swimming pool.
Day 4
Friday, November 18- Travel Over the Mountains
We depart Tarapoto and begin traveling over the mountains toward the Amazon River. The new highway is paved and we will travel 40 miles to the village of Caymarachi. The bicycle and taxi tours will all rejoin in the afternoon. This is where the low jungle begins. Our hotel is simple but clean without hot water. The jungle will be warm and a cool shower is refreshing.
Day 5
Saturday, November 19- Jungle Travel
The cyclists will depart early to beat the heat during the remaining 50 miles to Yurimaguas. The highway is paved so we should all arrive in Yurimaguas by noon. We will then evaluate if we should take an afternoon boat down the Amazon. If a boat is not available we will allow time in our schedule to sleep in Yurimaguas until the tomorrow when a boat is ready to go to Iquitos.
Day 6
Sunday, November 20- Boat Boarding
The boat is 100 feet long with three decks and carries 80% freight. The passenger schedule is not always predictable until the freight loading is done. The Yurimaguas fish market is also a fun place to see many unique items for sale. There is an extra "flex day" allowed in this schedule if the boat is delayed. If we stay in Yurimaguas an extra day we will go hiking in the jungle forest preserve.
Day 7-8
Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22- Boat Trip
This boat trip down the Amazon is a unique experience. You will be traveling along one of the most peaceful and enchanting areas of the world. We will have some cabins to store our gear but most of us will prefer to sleep in hammocks or on foam mats on the deck. "It is like camping on a boat." We will bring our own food and cooks to prepare the meals we prefer (like spaghetti and French Toast). We will be on the boat during two nights for about 40 hours on the river. One of our main goals of this boat ride is to deliver school books to remote Amazon Schools. During our tour we will stop at six remote schools to deliver books. Most of these villages are rarely visited by tourists. Receiving new books at their school is very exciting for them. Our travel on the riverboat will be interesting with spectacular sunrises and sunsets. The boat typically stops at twenty villages to load banana and off load bags of rice. The activity on the river bank is always entertaining. Even with all the people on the boat you will have time to relax on hammocks and deck chairs for most of the trip. Most travelers like to bring a good book or sit and talk while watching the scenery pass by.
Day 9
Wednesday, November 23- Travel to Iquitos
After two nights on the boat we will be near our first opportunity to depart on a paved road again. The highway begins in the town of Nauta located 60 miles from Iquitos. Depending on the time of day or night our boat arrives in town we may ride or drive this remaining 60 miles to Iquitos. We have several options for going overland or staying on the boat to Iquitos. We might sleep in Nauta and continue on the road in the morning. We will need to finalizes these plans during our final night hours on the boat. If we arrive in the morning we may visit one of the rural schools we build 30 miles from Iquitos.
Day 10
Thursday, November 24- Day in Iquitos
This is our day to be tourists in Iquitos or just sleep and relax in a real hotel room with a hot shower. We will have time to visit several traditional jungle villages and go shopping for jungle handicrafts. In the evening we will have a birthday party for 30 homeless kids who live on the streets of Iquitos. This is always a memorable night for our group.
Day 11
Friday, November 25- School Visits
Today we will visit the schools we built in past years. This will be a busy day of ceremonies with the teachers and students. We will also evaluate future projects that the schools will need. Cyclists will have the opportunity to ride their bikes to the schools if they choose.
Day 12
Saturday, November 26- Bike Race
(option: non cyclists may want to return home today to arrive in the United States on Sunday) Today is the Bike Race from Iquitos to Nauta. This 60 mile race has become a popular event for riders from Lima, Columbia and Brazil. Cyclists in our group can join the race or ride a leisurely shorter route. Non cyclists can view the race from the support motorcycles or from our support van. In the evening we will have dinner with many of the racers at a local restaurant.
Day 13
Sunday, November 27- Fly back to Lima
Most flights back to the United States depart in the evening. You will have time to go shopping for Peru blankets and woolen sweaters in the Inca Markets.
Day 14
Monday, November 28- Most flights arrive back in the United States by noon
This concludes your busy tour across Peru.
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Tour #2- Delivering Supplies to the Puerto Occopa Orphanage
8 days
Sunday, November 27 - Arrive in Lima
Saturday, December 3 - Return from Peru
$895
(if you are staying from Tour #1 deduct $200 from your total cost)
| WARNING: This is not a typical scenic tour. We will be going to areas with a high risk of hijackings and robberies but the landscape is spectacular. |
Sunday, November 27- Arrive in Lima from the United States or after returning from Tour #1. We will stay in Lima tonight and prepare for our departure in the morning.
Monday, November 28- We begin our travel by taxi from the coastal city of Lima cross the spectacular and rugged landscape of Peru. Our first day covers about 170 miles through canyons between the towering peaks. We will cross 16,000 foot Ticlio Pass and sleep in the charming mountain town of Tarma located at 10,000 foot elevation.
Tuesday, November 29- Today we travel 150 miles and drop into the jungle region where the landscape continues to change in the lower elevations. Our jungle destination is the city of Satipo which is the last chance to buy supplies for our deliveries to the orphanage. In Satipo we will meet the directors of the Orphanage who came out of the jungle to meet us. Tonight in Satipo is where we will buy our truckload of food, clothing and supplies.
Wednesday, November 30- We begin our final fifty mile expedition on the mud road to the Puerto Occopa Orphanage. This section of road is famous for hijackings and smugglers. We will be escorted by the nuns from the orphanage to assure our safe passage. When we arrive at the Orphanage we will deliver our truckload of supplies and stay in their guest house. Meeting the 80 kids and seeing the conditions at the orphanage is a memorable experience.
Thursday, December 1- Our return trip to Lima will be divided into two days. We will be able to stop and see some new areas along the way. We may sleep in the towns of La Merced, Tarma or La Oroya tonight.
Friday, December 2- We arrive back in Lima in late afternoon (5:00 PM). We will have time for a nice dinner together in Lima.
Saturday, December 3- You will have a free day in Lima on your own. There are several interesting museums and guided tour you can join during the day. You will have time to clean up and relax at a hotel before we go to the airport in the evening.
Sunday, December 4- Most flights will arrive back in the United States about noon. This will be a busy tour and a very memorable eight days of adventure across Peru.
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