TOUR COLCA 2 DAYS PRIVATE OR SIC SERVICE

T0UR COLCA 2 DAYS PRIVATE OR SIC SERVICE

Departure 8 a.m

Pick up from hotel

Back 5 p.m.

Included: guide, entrance and transport

WHAT TO BRING?

-sun block, sunglasses, repellent, tennis shoes, swimming suit, summer and winter clothes

IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE MOUNTAIN BIKE AND RIDE HORSE ACTIVITIES

Day 1: A private bus picks you up from your hotel arround 8 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( if you go to colca lodge hotel after lunch you go to the hotel and enjoy its hot pool, coordinate with the local guide for the time to pick you up the second day for the rest of the tour)

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 TO 6:30 am you leave to the Condor Cross, 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 1 hour. Taking the same road back to Chivay, 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 – .

Finally you arrive in Chivay, where you’ll have lunch and after that you return to Arequipa, approximately at 17.00 pm.