DAY 1 Chachapoyas

Airport pick up service in Chiclayo, see waterfalls and spectacular panoramas like Yellowstone on trip to Chachapoyas. Night in colonial mansion, 3 star hostel. (BL, D)

DAY 2 Levanto

Visit Sonche Canon, an Inca Mitima village, (the residents were transplants from Huanuco in the Inca heartland to pacify the rebellious Cloud People.) Huancas main business is making pottery since ancient times, providing for the entire zone. A five-minute walk takes us to a canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon. After lunch we will visit Levanto (one hour from Chachapoyas). Levanto was the most significant city of the zone at the time of the Inca invasion and also in the Spanish colonial era. We will see a colonial church as old as Lima with its high-carved altar. We will go to the fortified ruins of Yalape overlooking the city, and also see the 22 km Inca Canal, which brought water to Levanto. Nearby is Colla Cruz, this was a major crossroads of the empire's roads with over 2000 miles of major roads going north to Ecuador & Colombia, south to Huanuco and Cuzco, and west to Cajamarca (where the Inca was captured), and east to the Amazon. We will see the Inca Military Garrison guarding this intersection. This is the zone's first restoration, which revealed a major defeat of the Incas by the Cloud people in the revolution against the Spanish. Night in Levanto Community Lodge high in the mountains. (B, L, D)

DAY 3 Inca Trail - Choctamal

Inca Trail to Chachapoyas (3 hours downhill), lunch in Chachapoyas and night in our Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge located in the road to Kuelap, where you can observe hummingbirds. (B, L, D)

DAY 4 Fortress Kuelap

We will spend the day at Fortress Kuelap known as "the Machu Picchu of the North". Kuelap has over 400 buildings inside 3 levels of walls, and is the largest stone structure in the Americas. Orchids and bromeliads cover the walls and trees inside this fortress. On the way to Chachapoyas we will observe the platforms of Macro located on a cliff overlooking the Utcubamba River. Overnight in restored Colonial Mansion, 3 star hostel. (B, L, D)

DAY 5 Chachapoyas/Chiclayo

Early departure to Chiclayo, see Tucume on the way to Chiclayo if time allows. Transfer to airport for your evening flight to Lima. (B, BL)

Optional: transfer to Tarapoto instead of Chiclayo. (9 hours) This adds a mountainous Amazon aspect to this trip so this cross section of Peru offers the world’s most extreme geography and life and cultures adapted to the world’s greatest rainforest, 2nd highest mountains, and driest desert with 260 pyramids like Egypt (Chiclayo). Airplane from Tarapoto leaves the next day to Lima.

Extra price: night in Puerto Palmeras Resort.

RATES:

2 – 3 pax US$ 860 p.p.
4 – or more US$ 649 p.p.

Single supplement: US$ 90

THE TOUR INCLUDES:
All entrance fees
Transfers to airport or bus station
Meals where noted in the program
Accommodations and taxes
All transportation specified in the program
Snacks, water bottles
Bilingual guide

NOT INCLUDED:
Gratuities (not expected in this zone)
Alcoholic beverages
Internal flights (we can provide upon request)
Private transportation to the zone
Airport taxes