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Summer Session Home | Curriculum | Costs
Summer Session Optional Excursions to Cusco, and either Madre de Dios or Puno and Arequipa
This optional
excursion
will take place at the end of the Summer Session and will last four
days and
three nights. Students will fly from Lima to Cusco and back. In Cusco
students
will visit historical Inca and colonial sites, including the fortress
and ceremonial
site of Sacsayhuaman and the nearby the royal Inca baths, and the main
churches
and museums. They will also spend a day in Machu Picchu. Students will
be lodged in
double or, in some cases, triple rooms at three- or four-star hotels in
Cusco. This
excursion provides a unique opportunity to travel safely in
Perú, accompanied
by several faculty members, including the Program Directors. The
cost
of the excursion is announced separately. It includes air fares, all
accommodations and breakfasts and some other meals, all tours and
transportation. (Please note that prices may change due to a change in
airfare
prices and in other variable costs.) This excursion provides an
opportunity to
travel in Perú in trips specially designed to complement the
Program’s courses.
It is good value for money, comparing favourably in this respect with
any
commercially available excursions, none with the added enhancement of
UVa
faculty available as guides. The UVa Program does not add any costs to
the
amounts negotiated with our travel agents. In the past the UVa Program,
with
the help of our local travel agents, Carrusel S.A., has fully assumed
responsibility for the successful completion of the excursion,
including
covering costs of replacement airfares when an airline went bankrupt
and
cancelled all its services in mid-trip.
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