COD: PUB-1107 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHACHAPOYAN CULTURE
This tour starts and ends in Chiclayo
2d/1n
All year
Everyone doing both this and the Cusco zone much prefers the Chachapoyas segment for its pristine cloud forest & ruins, perfect year around temperatures and lack of mosquitoes & snakes. This (tour) segment offers “The Machu Picchu of Northern Peru” (KUELAP) located where the main trunk Amazon River leaves the Andes to enter the basin. This pristine unspoiled zone was only recently accessible and has no tourist crowds. It has the best combination Ecological AND Archaeological zone of the Americas.
Day 1 Chachapoyas - Karajia–Choctamal
Bus station pick up service in Chachapoyas and transfer to hotel to rest. We will pick you up at 8:30 a.m. and transfer to Lamud (2.5 hours approx). We will go to the 8-feet high funeral sarcophagus of Karajia (also called Purunmachus, quechua word that means: purun= wild and machu=old) located on a mountain cliff at about 2,600m (20 minutes downhill hike) and continue with the route of the condors where you can observe from the road more than 20 newly discovered sarcophagi. Afternoon transfer to Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge where you can observe hummingbirds, the lodge is located on the road to Kuelap at only 35 minutes from the fortress, excellent panoramic views of Kuelap and the Abra Yumal Pass. (L, D)
Day 2 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 ride to Chiclayo. (B, L)
RATES:
2 paxes USD p.p. 402
4 paxes or more USD p.p. 348
Single Supplement: USD 40
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
