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PERU : Cusco 

Our school, in a very trading street of the city, is not far (8 minutes on foot) from the central place of Cusco, Plaza del Armas. Everything is near, small businesses, banks, post. 7 classrooms are small, averagely equipped but very openwork. The access to Internet and Email is possible in all the city ( Internet cafes) for very low prices.

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 55 minutes
• Minimum age: 17
• Schedule from 08:00 AM
• All levels available
• Maximum 5 students per class.
• Teaching material 6 $US to be paid on the spot
• Transfers Cusco airport - family round trip.
• Test and certificate of linguistic training.
• Excursions include in this program 

For one or two weeks stay: excursion to Machu Pichu (1 full day) including train ticket (first class), the bus and one meal (midday).
For 3 weeks minimum stay, 1 full day excursion to Machu Pichu, one half-day visit of Cusco + either one day with a guide in the countryside around Cusco or one day rafting.

 Our school with its nice inner courtyard and students during the breaks

Starting Dates

Each Monday of the year.

Closing Dates

 Available options

• Additional day
        in the family: 19$US.
        in hotel: 41$US
• If your connecting flight from Lima to Cusco is impossible for the same day, transfer service* from Lima airport to downtown (round trip), including 1 night in hotel (B&B, downtown Lima, simple but very secure):
         55 $US (single) and 48 $US (double per person).
  * This service is offered in case you miss your flight from Lima to Cusco (only early in the morning).
• PRIVATE COURSES: 20 private lessons instead of 20 group lessons: Add 81$US per week to the prices below.
  
  Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31, 2004.These prices never include the Air Fare.

Possible excursion: Puno and Titicaca lake
3 days / 2 nights: 
   Bus from Cusco round trip, 2 nights in a 3 * hotel in Puno, breakfast included, visits of the Uros and Taquile Islands on the lake
PRICE: 150$US

Costs

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Accommodation: Family or hotel

• In family, single occupancy, 3 meals per day.
• In hotel, single occupancy, private bathroom, meals not included.
• Arrival on Saturday or Sunday .
• Departure on Saturday.

Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise schedule of conditions: excellent morality, desire to communicate with their host, satisfactory social standing. We should specify that the families will only speak with you the language of the country where you will be. It is the principle of the immersion courses !

City information

Chief town of department of the Southernmost Andes, the town of Cuzco to 3500 m of altitude, was the administrative and religious center vast INCA empire of the XI to the XVI century. In the center of the city where, on the principal place, were held many ceremonies, the splendid cathedral baroque and the church of Compania, built into 1668, rise on the old site of the Temple of Viracocha and an INCA palate. Faithful to its double heritage (INCA and colonial), Cuzco jointly celebrates the festival catholic God and the INCA festival of the sun. The area carries the traces of its last rich person INCA, ruins of Sacsahuamam and of Salamancu, celebrates INCA track which leads of Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu.

 In language quechua, Cuzco means " navel ". Indeed, Incas regarded Cuzco as the navel of the world and had made their capital of it. The modern city is built on the old INCA city. In certain streets of the city, the ground floors of the dwellings are in enormous jointed stones characterizing INCA architecture.
To survey the narrow lanes of Cuzco is a real pleasure. The mixture of INCA architectures and colonial gives a kind particular to the city. You will be able to appreciate the Indian market close to the station. The peasants sleep on the spot not to lose their site. One can find there all food necessary to prepare the trek " Path of the INCA ". The fortress of Sacsahuaman, which formerly protected the town of Cuzco, is impressive. Built with enormous blocks of stone (some weigh several tens of tons), it overhangs the city (to 45 mn of functioning of Plaza de Armas).

  
                   Cusco central place                                               Incas ceremony

 
           Traditional suits and llamas                                               Machu Pichu

 
 Train winding between Cusco and Machu Pichu           I'm waiting for you........to me, in Peru        

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