exploreThe AGENCY · Cusco 3,399 m
A Cusco travel agency for singular Peruvian journeys.
Auqui Travel is a travel design house rooted in Cusco’s high stone ramparts—crafting private, deeply researched passages across the Andes, Amazon, and Pacific coast.
01 / The House
Why Auqui exists
Standard travel rushes through sacred geographies. We design temporal sanctuary—allowing high-altitude ecosystems and ancestral lineages to reveal their true weight.
“Peru is not a checklist of stone monuments, but a living dialogue between ancient granite, living communities, and untamed altitude. Our mission is to restore silence, grace, and authentic reverence to every single passage.”
Alberto Valencia
Principal Travel Designer · Founder
02 / The Story
“We began with a simple conviction: that Peru rewards those who arrive slowly, listen carefully, and stay a little longer.”
An atelier, not an agency
Auqui Travel was founded in Cusco on a refusal: the refusal to sell Peru as a catalogue of photo stops. Every journey we design is drafted from a blank slate by designers who live in the territories they draw.
Our designers, guides and operations team live where our travellers go—Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Lima and the Amazon basin. We hold direct relationships with the families, estates, artisans, weavers and researchers who make each passage singular, and we return tangible value to the communities who host them.
That is why we accept a strictly limited registry of travellers each season: to keep every itinerary private, every guide hand-matched, and every promise personal.
1:1
Bespoke Design
100%
Native Guides
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Private Sanctuaries
03 / The Values
What we refuse to compromise
01 / Planet
Your trip helps protect the planet
Through the purchase of carbon credits, all our trips are CO2 emissions-free. We also channel funds into high-Andean seed banks and ancestral water-terrace restoration.
TourCert certified sustainability
02 / People
Tourism, a source of inclusion
We integrate highland communities into our staff and services—preserving traditional culture and generating fair, sovereign opportunities across the Andes.
Direct community stewardship
03 / Craft
Design without templates
We never adapt pre-packaged itineraries. Every passage is drafted from a blank slate, calibrated to your rhythm, curiosity and physical comfort threshold.
Private registry, limited seasons
04 / The Founder
Alberto Valencia
Principal Travel Designer & founder of Auqui. A Cusco native, Alberto has spent two decades walking the high routes, learning from weavers, archaeologists and mountain communities.
He personally reviews every travel Auqui produces—pace, altitude curves, private access and the tone of each day—so that what arrives in your hands carries his signature: unhurried, precise, reverent.
Principal Travel Designer · Founder · Cusco
05 / Licences & Custody
Registered, certified, accountable
MINCETUR
Licensed luxury operator
Fully licensed by MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru). Qualified Luxury Inbound Operator Certificate N° 4028-DIRCETUR-CUSCO.
Fair trade
Andean porter & weaver alliance
Members of the fair-trade Andean Porter & Weaver Alliance, with sovereign remuneration and direct heritage preservation grants.
Global standing
Virtuoso · ATTA · TourCert
Virtuoso member, ATTA (Adventure Travel Trade Association) member and TourCert certified for sustainable operations.
Begin the Dialogue
Ready to discover Peru with unhurried reverence?
Let us shape an itinerary as singular as your curiosity. Direct communication with our founders and senior travel designers based in Cusco and Lima.
