TREKKING COLCA CANYON 2 DAYS 1 NIGHT

FIRST DAY

We’ll pick you up at 3:00am from your hotel in Arequipa and drive 3 hours to Chivay, the capital of the Colca Canyon region. We’ll have breakfast in Chivay before continuing on to Cruz del Condor, one of the best places to view the vast expanse of Colca Canyon and a prime location for condor viewing. After about 40 minutes at Cruz Del Condor, we’ll continue driving for another half hour to Pampas Cabanaconde Village where we’ll start our hike.

About 2.5 hours into the trek we’ll arrive Oasis de sangalle where we have the chance to stay for about 1.5 hours (Swimming pool time and lunch time) After that We will cross the bridge at the bottom of the canyon. From here it’s one hour and a half to the next village, Malata, and finally 20 minutes more to arrive the place where we stay the night in Cosñirhua. Once We arrive the village, we do the activities with the local family, Dinner time and go bed
TREKKING TIME: 4 HOURS AND A HALF (Mediun level)

SECOND DAY

We’ll wake up at 3:45am to start the trek 1 hour before the get the other side of the canyon through San Juan de Chuccho and 3-3.5 hour hike out of the canyon to Cabanaconde. After breakfast in Cabanaconde we’ll have a 2-hour minivan ride to the Calera hot springs. The bus will stop at a couple viewpoints for photos along the way. You’ll have about an hour at the thermal baths before we continue to Chivay (10-15 minutes away) for a buffet lunch.
Note: If you do not wish to hike out of the canyon you can hire a mule.
TREKKING TIME: 4 HOURS AND HALF (Mediun-Dificult level)
Continuing on to Arequipa, we will make several stops -- first at the Salinas and Aguaga 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. Patahuasi, National reserve, We’ll arrive in Arequipa between 5:00-5:30pm.

If you are an inexperienced trekker you have the option to take the direct route to Oasis De Sangalle on the first day instead of hiking through the canyon. This is the same trail we use to hike out of the canyon on day 2. This would amount to 3 hours of hiking down on the first day (instead of 6 hours through the canyon) and 3.5 hours hiking up via the same trail on the second day.