History & Culture: Peru
Overview
Inca Empires & Ancient Traditions
Explore one of the richest and most diverse cultures in South America with a trip to Cusco and Peru’s spellbinding Sacred Valley. Students immerse into the Quechua culture with a homestay that includes traditional cooking, house building, weaving and traditional farming. Students visit impactful reforestation and community composting projects before visiting the iconic Machu Picchu.
Details
- Location: The Sacred Valley, Cusco, Peru
- Duration: 4 days +
- Number of participants: Flexible
- Date: Flexible
- Cost: From $599 p/p*
- Language: Spanish or English
- Subjects: Anthropology, Archaeology, Social Studies, Humanities, Sustainable Tourism, Spanish, History.
- Carbon emissions: 87kg of CO2e p/p – we offset 100% of these emissions plus your journey here! See below for more details.
Sustainable Development Goals Impacted


Available Activities
- Tour of UNESO-listed historical centre of Cusco
- Cooking class in Cusco
- Tour of the Temple of the Moon
- Homestay with Quechua community – traditional farming, cooking, weaving
- Visit to women’s weaving corporation.
- Visit to a reforestation project
- Visit to Machu Picchu
- Multi-day Lares or Salkantay trek
- Visit to local recycling initiative
- Lectures and talks from expert anthropologists, archaeologists, historians.
- Market visit and student challenge
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrivals & introduction to the program
Day 2: Market visit and cooking class
Day 3: Visit Temple of the Moon
Day 4: Community homestay experience
Day 5: Pachamanca - underground cooking
Day 6: Trip to Aguas Calientes
Day 7: Machu Picchu trek
Day 8: Visit to a Quechua women's weaving corp
Day 9: Departures
More Information
Flexible bookings
Book now, pay later. Due to changing circumstances we make it easy for you to reserve your educational trip without paying a deposit upfront!.