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My GF has been working in Peru on and off for the past 5 or 6 years, and over that time I've never had an opportunity to visit her and she's never really had an opportunity to explore.
This summer I'm going to join her for a couple of weeks and we'd like to do some travelling.
We have a rough itinerary planned that involves spending a couple of days in Lima, flying to Cusco to visit Machu Picchu, getting a night bus down to Arequipa to visit the Colca Valley and Lake Titicaca and then flying back to Lima.
Does anyone have any other recommendations for places we should try to squeeze in? Nothing is set in stone yet so plenty of opportunity for jiggling the itinerary around.
Also, while we are in Cusco/Machu Picchu, we were hoping to do some kind of trek/tour. My GF has found a 4 day tour organised by STA Travel that involves a bit of mountain biking, a bit of hiking and some site seeing etc. It look like it could be quite fun but my worry is that it'll all be a bit touristy and pedestrian. I'm marginally more keen to just do a nice multi day hike, but my understanding is that treks in this area are pretty highly regulated and that you need to go with a guide/group which presumably means we'll be stuck with a load of snotty gap yar students, and that we'll always be caring to the needs of the slowest/whiniest etc. Does anyone have any experience/advice about trips and tours in this area?
Cheers!