COD: PUB-1103 TOUR TO GOCTA WATERFALL AND KUELAP
This tour starts in Tarapoto and ends in Chiclayo
3d/2n
All year
On March 22, 2006 German explorer Stefan Ziemendorff reports he has found the third highest waterfall in the world located in the isolated northern jungle near Chachapoyas.
In a two hours trek you can see a pristine cloud forest jungle. Passion fruit vines in the canopy have year around fruit that sustains a colony of monkeys and varieties of birds feeding on this fruit. You can see a variety of medical plants, hummingbirds, toucans, monkeys, and butterflies.
The height of 771 meters is thought to be relatively accurate, though Ziemendorff suspects the true figure could be within 13 meters in either direction. The falls has a regular to high volume of flow becoming an immensely powerful waterfall during the rainy season. However unlike other world class waterfalls, it doesn’t dry up in the dry season.
Day 1 Tarapoto-Cocachimba Public bus transfer from Tarapoto to Pedro Ruiz bus station (approx. 6 hours), private transfer to the town of Cocachimba at 1,736 mts. over sea level approximately. Transfer to Cocachimba town. We will spend the night in Gocta Lodge with relaxing views of Gocta waterfall.
Day 2 Cocachimba – Gocta – Choctamal. Three hours hike or horseback (one way) to Gocta waterfall. The measured height of 771 meters. As a result of an expedition lead by Stefan Ziemendorff and Telesforo Santillan (local guide) in March 2006, Gocta waterfall made the international news testifying the remoteness and unfolding discoveries of America’s newly accessible and most pristine ecological and archeological destination. During the hike you will be able to observe variety of hummingbirds, birds, flowers, maybe toucans, monkeys and other species from the region. Night in Choctamal MS Lodge where you can observe hummingbirds including the famous Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird. (B, L, D)
Day 3 Choctamal – Kuelap – Chachapoyas After breakfast we will travel by car for 35 minutes from Choctamal MS Lodge to Kuelap. The fortress of Kuelap was re-discovery in 1843 by Juan Crisostomo Nieto, and is precariously perched on a mountain ridge (about 3000m) overlooking the Utcubamba Valley. Kuelap has over four hundred buildings inside 3 levels of walls, it is roughly 20 m hight, 600 meters in length and 110 meters in width and is known as the largest stone structure in the Americas. Orchids and bromeliads cover the walls and trees inside this fortress. Inside there are remains of many small round houses, some of them with a zigzag or diamond pattern in their terraces. Archaeological evidence shows that the structure was started before 800 AD. Transfer to Chachapoyas bus station for your night bus to Chiclayo. (B, L)
RATES: 2 paxes USD p.p. 503
4 paxes or more USD p.p. 458
Single Supplement: USD 136
THE TOUR INCLUDES: All entrance fees
Meals where noted in the program
All transportation specified in the program
Transfer between cities (public bus)
Hotels specified in the program
Bilingual guide
Bus Tickets
NOT INCLUDED: Alcoholic beverages
Horses
Airport taxes
Internal flights (we can provide upon request)
Gratuities
PS. IF YOU WANT PRIVATE TRANSFERS BETWEEN CITIES LET US KNOW
