llahuar (colca canyon 2 days 1 night)

"LLAHUAR"

COLCA CANYON 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT

Day 1: A private bus picks you up from your hotel arround 6:30 a.m. The bus takes you on the road north of panamerican to Yura heading towards the Valley of the Colca sgts villages: chivay yanque , achoma , maca, pinchollo, cabanaconde and paclla (LLAHUAR). This road, a trip of 7 to 8 hours towards the first part is asphalted until yanque village and half the rest of sand road.

The 7 or 8 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 at 4,150 meters about sea level , 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, andean birt in the heights. The fifth stop is on the highest point called Patapampa 4,910 meters above sea level. Here is where you can observe 8 volcanoes forming a circle of fire. After there you descent until the main town Chivay to have lunch.

After lunch you will continue enjoying the nice view along the road to visit the sgts. villages .,yanque ,achoma ,maca ,pinchollo you will stop in the cross of the condor you will appreciate the narrow part of colca canyon you have 20 minute free.

Then you continue and you arrive to cabanaconde villagewhich is 3,360 meters above sea level, There you stop for 10 minute to buy something to drink in the shop. After you will continue one hour driving to descend into colca canyon to appreciate the view of colca canyon when you arrive to the bridge (paclla).


Then we can see the geyser for 10 minutes then we continue driving until we reach the last bus stop then we pack and start the hiking for 20 minutes descending to cross the bridge to llahuar lodge. It is located at 2,080 meters above sea level rest.

It has rustic cabins and Free afternoon to enjoy the hot springs, where you can bathe in the pools with a water temperature of 35 to 36 degrees Celsius . You return to your cabins to spend the night .

Day 2: At 6:00am we have breakfast to leave around 6:30am to start the walk uphill. The walk will take about 20 or 30 minutes to the place where our transport left us the day before in direction to Cabanaconde-Condor Cross there we will be able to watch the flight of the condors. This is optional because if we see condors on the first day we might continue with the following visits.

On this day we do something different to the other tourist companies. Our return trip will not be by the same road we came but we will continue driving until we take the "Panamerica Sur " highway and in our way we will see the town of Huambo where we will observe to twin dwarf volcanoes (those are prolongations of the Valley of the Volcanoes)

Then we will raise up to 4 200 meters over the sea and then descend until the desert of Atacama (just a few meters over the sea level) in the Peruvian south where we would be able to appreciate how man could have made this desert (one of the driest in the world)fertile since we find agricultural products like chili papas and cattles with milk-product cows turning that place in along the road we passed Pedregal and la Joya we arrive to arequipa at 3:00 3:30 p.m

Included:
English-Speaking Tourist Guide
Private Transportation
Entrance to colca canyon:
Full Meals
accommodation in (LLAHUAR LODGE):
Fishing Entrance free to hot springs

Not included:
Cold drinks
Tips
Important This tour can be applied only to particular services.

PRICES:
2 persons: US$ 290.00 P.P
3-4 persons: US$ 250.00 P.P
5-6 persons: US$ 170.00 P.Pis a private transport ( 4 x 4 )

07-10-13 persons U$$ 120.00 P.P is the small bus or mini buss


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