Peru Trekking
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- Enjoy this 5 day breathtaking Peru trek is an adventure in the Cordillera Vicanota
- Explore El Camino Del Apu Ausangate (The Road of Apu Ausangate) located close to the highest sacred mountain in the Cusco region.
- Experince this new community-based tourism project is based on four specially built lodges called “Tambos” a term for “resting place” used by the Incas.
- Visit two indigenous communities organized the program, and provide llamas and horses to carry trekker’s gear. The 33 mile, five day trek in Peru varies from 14,000 to 16,900 feet!
- The lodges provide meaningful full-time employment for 24 community members and another 30 part time, creates new markets for their goods including alpaca meat, fleece products, and traditional woven textiles
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Arrive in Lima, Peru and stay overnight.
Continue by airplane to Cuzco. Arrive, acclimate. Walking tour of city. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After an early breakfast, depart from Cusco to drive along the beautiful Vicanota valley to the town of Checacupe, for a visit to the Colonial Temple of the Immaculate. We then continue for another hour’s drive anticipating th...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Our 11 mile trek begins after an early breakfast and takes us through the wide valley of the Upis, with spectacular glaciated mountains looming above the valley. We pass waterfalls and the Paloma lagoon where we will see llama...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We ascend to 16,900 feet in a demanding 18-mile day filled with one dramatic vista after another. From the glaciated south face of “apu” we travel on to the red sandstone formations of the “Nevado Del Inca” and reach our second lodge on our Peru trek.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today offers a geological kaleidoscope as we hike through mountains with red, ochre and blue strata as we trek some 25 miles over passes that vary from 15,500 to 16,200 feet. Hopefully we will see the graceful vicunas. Another lovely lodge awaits us at day’s end.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Our last pass is Anta Pass and we then start a gradual descent to 12,700 feet where we will begin to see the first signs of houses and crops, the landscape wll then change to red sandstone then limestone which provides a perfe...
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