Family trips are the most carefully calibrated journeys we run. The pacing has to work for an 80-year-old grandmother and a 12-year-old simultaneously. Sites have to engage children without exhausting adults. Lodges have to balance kid-friendly with adults still feeling like they are on holiday. And altitude has to be managed conservatively for grandparents and for younger children.

Our family journeys lean on a small group of guides — three in particular — who are themselves parents and who have been doing this with us for over a decade. They know when to lecture, when to gamify, when to send the children off to chase llamas while the adults sit for ten minutes.

Day 01Cusco arrival
Sacred Valley

Met at Cusco airport. Direct descent to the Sacred Valley — gentlest for everyone's first day at altitude. Check into Tambo del Inka. Afternoon at the lodge pool. Welcome dinner.

Day 02Lake Piuray
kayaking + chocolate

Morning kayaking on Lake Piuray, the freshwater lake that is Cusco's main reservoir. Kayaks suitable for ages 8+. Picnic lunch on the lake shore. Afternoon: chocolate workshop at the ChocoMuseo with a master chocolatier — children grind cacao the traditional way and adults sample chocolate from across Peru's regions.

Day 03Moray & Maras
with the right guide

Our family-specialist archaeologist makes Moray genuinely fun: the agricultural laboratory becomes a treasure hunt of climate zones. Lunch at a working chacra in Maras village, meeting the family that runs it. Afternoon at the salineras with hands-on salt harvesting permitted by our cooperative friends.

Day 04Ollantaytambo
train to Machu Picchu

Morning walking tour of Ollantaytambo — the last battle the Spanish lost, brought alive for children. Lunch in town. Mid-afternoon Vistadome 360 panoramic train to Aguas Calientes (children love this train). Check in at Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel — set in cloud forest, with a hummingbird garden, spectacled bear sanctuary tour, and a kids-and-adults nature walk on the property.

Day 05Machu Picchu
at first light

Pre-dawn breakfast, first bus up. Circuit 2 entry — the most complete tour, paced for the family. Our guide adjusts continuously to engagement level: more storytelling for the children, more astronomy for the teenagers, more historical context for the grandparents. About 2 hours 30 minutes inside. Brunch on return at Inkaterra. Vistadome 360 train back to Ollantaytambo, transfer to Cusco — Palacio del Inka, family suite category.

Day 06Cusco
departure

Morning at the San Pedro market with our chef-friend, breakfast among the produce stalls (genuinely the most fun breakfast in town). Brief walking tour of San Blas. Afternoon departure transfer to Cusco airport.

What is included

  • 5 nights at family-suite rooms across the listed properties
  • All private transfers in suitably sized luxury vehicles
  • Vistadome 360 round-trip train (children love this train)
  • Private family-specialist archaeologist guide for all touring days
  • Machu Picchu Circuit 2 entrance for whole party (2026)
  • Kayaking equipment, life jackets, child sizes
  • Chocolate-making workshop at ChocoMuseo Maras
  • Inkaterra spectacled-bear sanctuary visit
  • San Pedro market breakfast experience
  • Children'\''s welcome packs (Andean toys, journals, friendship bracelets from Patacancha)

What is not included

  • International flights to Lima, and the Lima–Cusco domestic flight
  • Gratuities, personal expenses, travel insurance (mandatory)

Customisation

We adjust this trip heavily by family composition. With teenagers, we add the Salkantay short hike (Day 2) and substitute the Inca Bridge route on Day 5. With younger children (under 8), we shorten the Machu Picchu visit and add a llama farm visit. For families with mobility-limited grandparents, we book the wheelchair-accessible Vistadome and Sanctuary Lodge transfer, and design the Machu Picchu visit on the lower terraces only.

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