Peru

Peru rewards slow travel, and this ten-day small-group itinerary is built around exactly that. Rather than rushing past the highlights, your group moves deliberately from the colonial boulevards of Lima to the high-altitude shores of Lake Titicaca, spending real time in each place — two nights in the Sacred Valley before climbing to Cuzco, two nights in Cuzco before descending to Puno. The through-line is altitude and civilization: every day you're tracing the layers of Andean history, from pre-Inca cultures to the Inca Empire to Spanish colonial rule, all of it still visible in the streets, plazas, and ruins your group walks through together.