Combinated colca canyon tour 3 days from Arequipa, Peru, Visit condors with trekking
3 days
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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.
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.
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
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
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