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Itinerary:
Day 01: Arrival in Lima
Arrival in Lima, the capital of Peru. You are picked up at the airport and accompanied to your hotel. In the afternoon you do a City Tour to the in 1535 by Francisco Pizarro created city with its many colonial buildings, the Plazas and magnificent Avenidas and visit the famous gold museum (Museo de Oro del Peru) with thousand exhibits of gold, silver and jewels. You stay overnight in the Hotel Jose Antonio Miraflores.
Day 02: Lima - Huaraz
You travel from Lima towards the east Andes to Huaraz, the capital of the province Ancash and the best starting point for trekking and climbing activities in the Cordillera Blanca. On the trip you will already have a great view of the Huascarán, which at 6.768m is the highest mountain in Peru and name giver of the national park there. You will stay overnight in Huaraz at the Hotel Andino.
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Day 03: Huaraz - Cashapamba
From Huaraz you begin the day tour, first with a ride to the village Cashapamba at 2.900 m height where the Santa Cruz trekking begins. Passing through different vegetation zones you mount the Quebrada Santa Cruz and you can thereby enjoy the view of the surrounding beautiful landscapes of the Páramos. In the afternoon you reach your camp site Llama Corral at 3.800 m height.
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Day 04: Cashapamba - Taullipampa
Today's trekking leads you past the lagoons Hatun Cocha and Ichic Cocha inhabited by different kinds of ducks to the lagoon Arhuaycocha at 4.450 m altitude. On your this trekking tour you go past some of the impressive summits of the Cordilleras. Under you the Alpamayo, Quitaraju, Artesonraju, Piramide de Garcilazo and Paria. At the end of this tour, you reach your camping site in Taullipampa at 4.150 m.
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Day 05: Taullipampa - Quebrada Paria
Taking an old route of Pre-Inca times, our tour takes us to ascend the Punta union at 4.780 m. From here you have a view of the surrounding snow summits Chacraraju, Paria, Taulliraju, Piramide de Garcilazo, Artesonraju, Pucahirca and Quitaraju. In the evening you set up your camp at 3.800 m on the Quebrada Paria. From here you can admire the colour play of the evening sun on the snow summits of the Paria and Piramide de Garcilazo.
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Day 06: Quebrada Paria - Huaraz
From the Quebrada Paria the trekleads through beautiful high andean forests to the Quebrada Huaripampa. Past the landschule Yanachaca, and with the snow mountains Chacraraju and Taulliraju in the background, you reach the village de Collo. Finally you take the car again and travel passing Portachuelo de Llanganuco and the lakes with the same name again back to Huaraz to the Hotel Andino.
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Day 07: Relaxing day in Huaraz
This day you can spend however you desire in order to recover and prepare for the route to the Huascarán climb. Those interested can visit the small archaeological exhibition in the Museo regional on the Plaza de Armas and the ruins from the Wari time or the Ruinas Wilcahuain something outside of the city. You will stay overnight in the Hotel Andino.
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Day 08: Huaraz - Huascarán base camp
You drive from Huaraz to the village Musho at 3.100 m to the western foothills of the Huascarán. Here your trek begins to the Huascarán until you reach in the afternoon your base camp at 4.700 m.
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Day 09: Huascarán southern summit - Camp I
From the base camp you climb the southern summit of the Huascarán, the highest snow-covered summit of the Tropics, on the usual route. Mounting begins at the west slopes of the Rajupampa glacier. This glacier is an ice tongue, which has its origin in the snow saddle La Garganta (the throat) between the north and the south summit. You set up camp 1 at 5.400 m.
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Day 10: Camp I - Camp II
You climb the western glacier towards the southern side of the saddle to some big ice terraces. From your campsite on the saddle la Garganta at 6.000 m (camp 2) you have a great view of the valley, which lies below.
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Day 11: Camp II - South summit -Camp II
You continue the climb over the snow-covered northwest slopes of the south summit of the Huascarán. Over the south summit you finally reach the main summit, 6.768 m, the highest summit of Peru. From here you have a spectacular view of the highest summits of the Tropics and over the landscape of the Cordillera Blanca. Subsequently, you descend again to camp 2 on the saddle La Garganta.
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Day 12: Camp II - Base camp
With your descent from camp 2 to the base camp you have again the opportunity to photograph this unique landscape and to enjoy the fantastic tour over the Cordillera Blanca. You stay overnight at the base camp.
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Day 13: Basis camp - Musho - Huaraz
From the base camp you descend to Musho, where the car will pick you up again to bring you to Huaraz. In Huaraz you will stay overnight in the Hotel Andino.
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Day 14: Travel Huaraz - Lima
From Huaraz you leave the Cordillera Blanca down the western foothills downhill to Lima. In Lima you will stay overnight in the Hotel Jose Antonio Miraflores.
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Day 15: Travel Lima - Cusco
You are brought to the airport and fly to Cusco. Here you are picked up at the airport and accompanied to your hotel. In the afternoon you take a city tour in the former capital of the Inca Empire and afterwards you will travel to the nearby ruins Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Puca Pucara and Tambomachay. You stay overnight in the Hotel Jose Antonio Cusco.
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Day 16: Cusco - Pisac - Ollantaytambo - Cusco
A day tour leads today to Pisac in the valley of the Rio Urubamba. Here you visit the ruins of the religious centre of Pisac above the impressive terrace structures, which are still used for agricultural purposes today. In the afternoon you visit the temple district of Ollantaytambo. Next, you travel back to Cusco. You stay overnight in the Hotel Jose Antonio Cusco.
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Day 17: Travel Cusco - Machu Picchu
Today you visit Machu Picchu, the most well-known and probably greatest archaeological site of South America. The historian Hiram Bingham re-discovered the "lost city of the Incas" on July 24th 1911. You will stay overnight in the nearby village Aguas Calientes in the Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel.
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Day 18: Travel from Machu Picchu - Urubamba valley - Cusco
The morning is at your disposal to discover the extensive ruins on your own. Entrance and bus round trip are included. In the afternoon you travel by train through the Urubamba valley back to Cusco. Transfer from the station to the Hotel Jose Antonio Cusco, in which you will stay overnight.
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Day 19: Travel by Train to Puno
You are brought to the station from where you take the train to Puno at the Titicaca Lake. Here you are brought from the station to your Hotel Posada del Inca Puno.
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Important: The train from Cusco to Puno goes only on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
Day 20: Travel Puno - Uro tribes - Sillustani - Puno
This morning you visit the floating islands of the Uro tribe. The Uro people manufacture the islands from numerous layers of reed plant which are constantly renewed. In the afternoon you visit the Chullpas, the grave towers of Sillustani, in which the nobility of the Colla tribe were burried. In the evening you return to Puno to your Hotel Posada del Inca Puno.
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Day 21: Puno - Copacabana - Sun islands
A tour along the Titicaca lakes brings you to Copacabana, visiting along the road the churches of Juli and Pomata, a pretty city on the Bolivian banks of the lake. Here you visit the cathedral, in which the famous statue of the virgin Maria of Copacabana is located. It is said that a lot of miracles have happened at the statue, which is why she is now the patron saint of Bolivia. After a small walk through the city you undertake a Hydrofoil tour to the sun island and an easy trek to the Pilkokaina ruins on the sun island. You visit the ruins and walk afterwards to the Posada del Inca Lodge, in which you will spend the night.
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Day 22: Travel from Sun Island - Chicana -Yumani - La Paz
Descend to the Yumani Hydro Harbour to visit the Sacred Fountain, this water is the source of eternal youth and in which the Incas were "baptized" and the Inca steps. Lunch at Uma Kollo Restaurant. Hydrofoil cruise to Huatajata, visiting on route the Iñak Uyu Sun Virgins temple on Moon Island. Visit the Andean Roots Eco Village culture program in Huatajata. You drive further to La Paz, the capital of Bolivia at 3.636 m it is the highest capital of the world. You will stay overnight in the Hotel Presidente.
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Day 23: City tour - Valley of the moon - La Paz
In the morning you take an excursion of this very indigenous city and visit the valley of the moon, a bizarre eroded labyrinth situated on a hill outside of the city. The afternoon is at your disposal. You stay overnight in the Hotel Presidente. B/-/-
Day 24: Return flight home
Transfer to the airport and return flight home.
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Prices 2008:
USD 4.440. - per person
Single Supplement: USD 830. - per person
Plane ticket Lima-Cusco: USD 95.- per person
Minimum 2 People.
The price includes:
Private transportation, Meals according to program (B: Breakfast; L: Lunch or box Lunch; D: Dinner), all transfers according to program, flight Lima - Cusco, English-speaking mountain guide, escort crew (carrier, cook etc.), donkeys up to the base camp, complete camping equipment (two-person tents, cook tent, dining tent, etc.), first aid equipment, national park fees, admission fees, train trip Cusco - Machu Picchu - Cusco, bus trip Aguas Calientes - Machu Picchu - Aguas Calientes, train trip Cusco - Puno, accommodation in double rooms in the mentioned hotels and hostals of elevated middle class, everything in the program specified.
Not included in the price:
International flight, International flight airport tax (USD 41.- per person), travel insurance package, personal equipment and expenditures, trips 7th day, everything not in the program specified.
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