Peru: Machu Picchu Extension
Ruins and Endemics
August 10-15, 2023
Your place on this Venture is reserved when your completed registration form and deposit of $300/person has been received. Deposit may be made via the ‘book now’ button above, or by contacting the Ventures office. We accept credit cards for an additional fee (2.9% for MC, Visa, Discover; 3.9% for AmEx), but you may also pay by bank transfer, cash, check, or money order (payable to ‘VENTURES BIRDING’) sent to PO Box 1095, Skyland, NC 28776. This Venture is limited to 8 participants.
Cost of Machu Picchu Tour: $3,550 per person from Cusco, based on double occupancy. Single supplement: $330. Price includes: All transportation throughout, including local internal return flights from Lima/Puerto Maldonado to Cusco, all accommodation, all meals, entrance fees and permits, drinking water, trip information packet & bird checklist, and service of 3 guides (two Ventures; one local). Not included: Round-trip airfare to Lima, Peru, excess baggage fees, visas for Peru, optional Cusco city tour, beverages, gratuities, laundry, medical and travel insurance, Covid tests where required, and other items of a personal nature.
On this optional leg of our Peruvian venture, we will explore a variety of habitats on offer in the high Andes of Peru. Of note will be visits to high-altitude cloud forest, high-altitude grasslands and wetlands, dry scrubland, and a patch of Polylepis Forest, one of the Andes’ most endangered ecosystems. This extension gives us the best chance to see Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Andean Condor, Masked Fruiteater, Royal Cinclodes, Puna Thisletail, Sword-billed Hummingbird, White-tufted Sunbeam, and Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch. A full day will be spent in and around Machu Picchu to explore this architectural and archeological wonder.
Some of the Birds We Hope to See
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Andean Condor, Masked Fruiteater, Bearded Mountaineer, Inca Wren, Green-and-White Hummingbird, Torrent Duck, Masked Fruiteater, Parodi's Hemispingus, Cuzco Brushfinch, Marcapata Spinetail, Diademed Tapaculo, Puna Thistletail, White-browed Tit-Spinetail, White-tufted Sunbeam, Royal Cinclodes, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch, Undulated Antpitta, Rusty-fronted Canastero, Giant Hummingbird, and many more.