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Prices From $2088 / £1697.544 per person
Dates: March 2025
Duration: 8
Capacity: 5 per person
More on our Peru cultural family holiday.
This Peru cultural holiday will give you the chance to try new things whether they be food or experiences.
Chances to learn from others through interactions and seeing how other cultures live. Marvel at the wonders of the past and give yourselves the experience of a lifetime in Peru.
This is a private tour so it can be modified to suit your needs whether that be the duration, the accommodation or the activities and excursions included.
This way we can get the right family holiday to Peru for you and your friends, partner or family.
Duration: 3
Situated within a private reserve, the El Monte lodge offers unparalleled access to the biodiverse Andean cloud forest. You’re surrounded by lush greenery, wonderful wildlife, and beautiful scenery.
The lodge owners decided, when they opened in 1998, to stay small, and keep a healthy balance between guests and the area of land to minimize the ecological impact.
Food is mostly vegetarian with lots of colour, but chicken and fish are also sometimes served (veggies are catered for too). The cooks are creative so there’s no fixed menu, just a guarantee that it will be tasty. Almost all dietary requests can be catered to.
Arrival at El Monte is via a 20-metre ride on a tarabita—a hand-pulled cable car—over the Rio Mindo which gives a sense of seclusion from the outside world, but you are only a couple of miles from the small town of Mindo.
From El Monte venture out to enjoy a range of activities. There are options catering to all visitors: go bird watching, join a nature walk, swim in a waterfall, visit a butterfly farm, visit an orchid garden, take a chocolate or coffee tour, feed hummingbirds, or simply relax in a hammock!
For the adventurous and for families, there’s zip-lining, horseback riding a cable car over the canopy, and tubing.
What's a group trip?
Join a small group of like-minded travellers on a guided trip.
Prices From $2920 / £2373.96 per person
Dates: From October 2024 to April 2025
Duration: 4
Start your journey in Punta Arenas or El Calafate from where you will be picked up and transferred to the hotel in the Torres del Paine.
All your meals, open bar and daily excursions, walking, horse-riding, wildlife watching, boat trips, are included.
There is also a special ‘Puma spotting tour’ or you can choose to relax in the hotel’s lovely surroundings. Read more about Hotel las Torres’ environmental work, too.
More about Paine
Paine features 180,000 hectares of diverse scenery and wild landscape on the edge of the southern ice fields of Patagonia.
Declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1978, Paine is one of the largest sources of temperate-zone glaciers in the world and lies 120kms / 75 miles north of Puerto Natales, the gateway town for the park.
The name ‘Paine’ (pronounced ‘pie-nee’) comes from a Tehuelche Indian word meaning blue.
The ‘Torres’ – or Towers – are named after three spectacular granite peaks, the highest reaching 2,900m/9,514ft, that form the centrepiece of Torres del Paine.
These dramatic peaks are part of the Cordillera del Paine, the youngest mountain range on earth.
Other notable peaks include Paine Grande at 3,050m and Los Cuernos (the Horns) that range from 2,200-2,600m / 7,218-8,530ft.
Forests, steppe lands, lakes and valleys surround them.
You fly in to historic Manta and then explore – see what the local fisherman have caught at sea, head to South America’s only dry tropical forest and investigate the pre-Spanish cultures.
Then travel south to the coastal area of Machalilla, a dry tropical forest with bizarre shaped kapok trees.
Puerto López is a small, charming and somewhat ramshackle fishing town of around 10,000 people which quickly grows on you.
Or try Agua Blanca further inland and hike through the dry forest you reach the humid tropical forest of San Sebastián, great for seeing orchids, birds and monkeys.
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The port of Salango has lazy beach walks, and let’s not forget the humpback whale, a regular visitor to the Ecuadorian coast.
The waters off the province of Manabí, now protected by the national Park of Machalilla, are breeding grounds for this magnificent whale with frequent sightings from June to September.
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There were so many highlights! Climbing Pasachoa was certainly one. Seeing the wild horses on a hike from Tambopaxi was another. Descending on the bikes from above Quito to the cloud forest and seeing the change along the way was another. There were no real low points to the trip. The only challenge we faced was finding restaurants in Quito over Christmas and New Year. We ended up at a wings and beer place for Christmas Day dinner. Accommodation was really good. The views from the first lodge were great and the rooms excellent. The rooms at the second hacienda were really nice and the food excellent. The cabins in our Mindo hotel, as well as the common area with fire pit and restaurant, were really wonderful. The guides were all good. Andres, our guide in the highlands, was particularly great. Overall organization was excellent. Everything worked well, and the places we visited were excellent. Overall the food was excellent. Kathy was able to find vegetarian options and the lodges tried to accommodate our non-dairy request. We have recommended the trip to others, and would look at returning to Ecuador in the future.
Knight/Lamb family (Canada), Tailor-made Active Family Holiday, Ecuador, Dec 2022
