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Combinated tour in the colca canyon 3 days with visit and trekking |
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Day 1 A tourist bus picks you up from your hotel from 8 to 9 a.m. The bus takes you on the road to Yura heading towards the Valley of the Colca. This road, a trip of 4 hours towards your first night destiny, is half asphalted and half of sand. The 4 hours trip is not direct, but highlighted with stops at the most important places. The first stop will be at the National Reserve of Aguada Blanca and Salinas, a place where you can observe the famous vicuñas and the other side of the volcanoes of Arequipa. The second stop will be at the Police station where a passengers list will be given to them and after that you continue until the third stop, the restaurant El Chino, where you can use the bathrooms, drink a coca tea – good for stomach and altitude – and a place where you can appreciate the stone wood formations. The fourth part is a place where you can see llamas and alpacas, domesticated by the man in the heights. The fifth stop is on the highest point called Patapampa 4800 meters above sea level. Here is where you can observe 8 volcanoes forming a circle of fire. From there, you descent until the main town Chivay to have lunch and to rest in your hotel. You have time off after lunch, visit the market of Chivay, rest or stay in the hotel. In the afternoon you visit the hot springs of LA CALERA, where you can bathe in one of the pools with water temperature of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius and in the source 80 degrees Celsius. You return to your hotel at night and optional you visit some folkloric peñas in the town of Chivay. |
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Day 2 After breakfast at 6.00 am you leave to the Condor Cross at 6.30 am, where you can observe the Canyon of the Colca and the flight of the Condor. From Chivay it is approximately one hour and a half driving. You’ll stay there about 2 hour, you visit the Colca towns Yanque, with its beautiful church and Maca with its interesting geological problem, the lookout points Huayrapunko – a complete view of the terraces and the mysterious lagoons of the valley – Quehuisha – ice melts originated from the Amazons, when you arrive to the condor cross, your trekking guide will be waitting for you, to begging the trek from here to Cabanaconde the main base, after lunch in Cabanaconde you will start to walk, for 3.5 hours you will walk down into the canyon, the fisrt place into the canyon is San Juan de Chuccho, were you will stop just for few minutes, the secound places is Cosñirhua with a nice landscape, the third place is Malata a little town in the Colca canyon and you will finish the walk in the Oasis, where you have dinner and sleep in the rustic but comfortable accommodation. |
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Day 3 after a coca tea we will have a walk (approx 3 hours) uphill to the town of Cabanaconde , where we will have breakfast and after you will take the local transport to come back to Arequipa. arrive around 3 p.m. Or we go to chivay where we change bus and take the 4 MM bus at 1 Pm to Puno |
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Included: transport – transfers - guide –all meals in the trekking part - accommodation. No Included: colca canyon entrance 70 sol, hot springs entrance 15 sol, meals in the tour part |