DAYS ONE TO FOUR: MACHU PICCHU, PERU

On yOur marks, get set, and you’re off — first to Peru. Most people would go to this bewitching country for two weeks, but you’re here for just two full days.

It means a six-hour flight from Orlando to Lima, followed by a private charter to Cusco, which takes one hour and 20 minutes. Then hop on board the Hiram Bingham train (so named after the American explorer who brought the site to world attention in 1911) through the Sacred Valley of the Incas to Machu Picchu (left).

Cusco, where your hotel is located, is nearly 12,000ft above sea level, but you’ll be comfortable at the Belmond Palacio nazarenas hotel, where the 55 suites have oxygen piped into them. Some 2,500 people visit Machu Picchu every day, but worry not — you will get VIP entry before dividing into small groups of six to ten per guide.