Colca Tour 2 days
Day 1
We start from Arequipa at 08:00, we pick you up at your hotel, in our
private transport, after 2 hours we visit the Vicugna National
Reservation (Salinas y Aguada Blanca), Then we stop in Patahuasi were
we can appreciate interesting geological formations, here we have to
drink a mate the coca to avoid altitude sickness, them we arrive at
4,900m from where we can appreciate the view of all the volcanoes from
the area like Misti, Chachani and Ampato (the mountain were they found
the Inca mummy), also we can see mountains like Sabancaya, Walka Walka
and Mismi (in this mountain is located the source of the Amazon
river). We continue in our transport and we arrive at 13:30 to Chivay
the capital of Colca / Caylloma region, here we have lunch in a
traditional restaurant, then we have a little nice Colca trek of 30
minutes and after that, we visit the Calera hot springs, very hot and
clean swimming pools (the best hot springs in Peru), them we go to our
hotel in Chivay.
Day 2
We have breakfast at 6:00 hours and then we go to Cruz del Condor in
our transport, in the way we stop to take pictures of the villages at
the other side of the canyon like Coporaque, Ichupampa and Lari, then
we arrive to Cruz del Condor view point, here we can appreciate the
canyon and the impressive condors flying after this we return to
Chivay to have lunch visiting interesting villages like Pinchollo and
Maca and other places, and after lunch in Chivay, we return to
Arequipa (la Blanca ciudad) arriving at 17:00 hours.
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