Galapagos Cruise Pre & Post Land Adventures
Offered before and after your Galapagos expedition cruise, these multi-day excursions invite you to discover more of South America's highlights and hidden treasures. Accommodation, porterage, transfers, sightseeing and some meals are included. Contact Silversea or your Travel Agent for further details.
Departs from: Lima, Peru
Board the 24-guest M/V Aqua for a luxurious Amazon River cruise. View wild monkeys and three-toed sloths in the jungle and pink dolphins playing in the waters.
Pygmy marmosets, howler monkeys, toucans — the lowland forests of Peru’s Amazon Basin offer some of the most exceptional wildlife viewing opportunities on the planet. Seize the opportunity to journey to a destination where few travellers have ever set foot. You’ll travel in all-suite luxury aboard m/v
Aqua, dining on perhaps the finest Amazonian-Peruvian gourmet cuisine on the river. Learn more about this amazing and fragile ecosystem from expert naturalists as you cruise through wild lands of unsurpassed beauty. This spectacular adventure also includes an overnight and tour of Lima, Peru’s colonial capital.
6 NIGHTs post-cruise
Departs from: Lima, Peru
Discover the traditional Andean town of Chinchero and the ancient Inca archaeological sites of Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu – one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Machu Picchu Explorer
Begin your Galapagos expedition with the unmatched splendour of Machu Picchu, the glorious “Lost City of the Incas” and one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World”. Set high in the Peruvian Andes amidst craggy peaks and billowing clouds, this spectacular monument of human achievement lay undiscovered for centuries until 1911. Tours, overnights and flights from Lima to beautiful Cusco and stunning Quito, plus a scenic round-trip journey in Peru’s Vistadome train is included in this unforgettable land programme.
4 NIGHTs pre-cruise
3 NIGHTs post-cruise
Machu Picchu
Grande Explorer
Similar to Machu Picchu Explorer, however this land program features a journey to Machu Picchu aboard the legendary Hiram Bingham, one of the top 10 rail journeys in the world. You’ll travel in opulent luxury in exquisite, meticulously restored Pullman cars, enjoying brunch with live music as you journey through the dramatic Andean scenery of the Urubamba Valley. And you’ll overnight at the famed Sanctuary Lodge, the only hotel adjacent to Machu Picchu, which will allow you to spend additional time to explore the ancient Inca citadel with fewer tourists.
4 NIGHTs pre-cruise
3 NIGHTs post-cruise
Departs from: Lima, Peru
High in the Andes Mountains, cruise Lake Titicaca and meet the Uros people who live on floating man-made reed islands. Visit the pre-Incan archaeological site of Sillustani.
Journey high into the Andes to Lake Titicaca, known as the “Sacred Waters of the Inca Empire” and the highest navigable lake in the world. You will cruise to the floating reed islands of the Uros people with their centuries-old way of life, and then visit Taquile Island to admire the ancient weaving traditions of the Quechua-speaking Taquileños. “Taquile and Its Textile Art” has been proclaimed a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by UNESCO”. In Puno, you’ll also visit the Sillustani tombs, ingeniously designed chulpas (burial towers) of the ancient Colla civilization, before your overnight and flight to Quito.
4 NIGHTs pre-cruise