COLCA CANYON TREK 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS

6:00 AM Pick up time from your hotel
Once we take our transport, we will travel for 3 hours to get Chivay

9:00/10am We get CHIVAY, we stop here just for a few minute and after that we travel for 1 hour to arrive Cruz del Condor

We stop in Cruz del Condor for about 30 minutes and we take our transport one more time to get CABANACONDE

11:30am We get CABANACONDE where we have our Lunch, after that we take our transport to get PAMPAS SAN MIGUEL where we start our trek

12:45 We get PAMPAS SAN MIGUEL, and we start our trek

About 2.5 hours into the trek we’ll cross the bridge at the bottom of the canyon. From here it’s another half hour to the first village, San Juan de Chuccho, where we’ll have lunch and a short break. We’ll continue hiking up the canyon another hour and a half to Cosñirhua where we’ll have dinner and spend the night with a local family.

TREKKING TIME: BETWEEN 4 HOURS AND 5 HOURS

SECOND DAY

Breakfast will be around 7am. After breakfast you have the option of hiking an hour and a half to Tapay, capital of the Tapay district. We’ll return to Cosñirhua for lunch and activities such as trying on the local dress and picking fruit at the far. After lunch we’ll hike 2 hours to Oasis de Sangalle where we’ll have dinner and spend the second night. One the way we’ll pass through Malata, the last village on this side of Colca Canyon, and see some pre-Inca farming terraces.

TREKKING TIME: 2 HOURS AND HALF PLUS 2 HOURS AND HALF (OPTIONAL TREK TO TAPAY VILLAGE)

THIRD DAY

We’ll wake up at 4:50am to start our 3-3.5 hour hike out of the canyon to Cabanaconde. After breakfast is Cabanaconde we’ll have a 2-hour bus ride to get the Calera hot springs. The bus will stop at a couple viewpoints for photos along the way (CRUZ DEL CONDOR and other viewpoints. You’ll have about an hour at the thermal baths before we continue to Chivay (10-15 minutes away) for a buffet lunch.

TREKKING TIME: 3 HOURS APPROX

Note: If you do not wish you hike out of the canyon you can hire a mule for about 60 soles.

Continuing on to Arequipa, we will make several more stops -- first at the Salinas and Aguada blanca National Reserve to see llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas and second at Patapampa Pass (4910 m.s.l.), the highest point on our trip where you can see the chain of volcanoes including Hualcahualca, Sabancalla, and Ampato. and We’ll arrive in AREQUIPA Between 500-5:30 pm.