AREQUIPA PROGRAM 01: LIMA - AREQUIPA - COLCA - AREQUIPA
- LIMA
4 Days/3 Nights

DAY 01: Lima/Arequipa (CITY TOUR) Travel to Arequipa city. Reception and transfer to your hotel. City Tour to visit Yanahuara, the Cathedral and Santa Catalina convent.

DAY 02: Arequipa/Colca Departure to Colca canyon, during the trip you can visit Yura spa and then Cañahuas´s National Reserve. After a few hours you arrive to Chivay. Transfer to your hotel.

DAY 03: Colca/Arequipa Departure to Cruz del Cóndor, here you can appreciate condors flying, then you can visit Colca canyon. Finally you go back to Arequipa city. Overnight stay.

DAY 04: Arequipa/Lima Transfer to the bus station or to the airport.

* Each tour can be taken in individually, for further information click here info@perunlimite.com.

ADVENTURE:

COLCA PROGRAM 01: FULL TREKKING DOWN THE COLCA CANYON
2 Days/1 Night

DAY 01: 01:00 am Transfer of passengers from their hotels.  Trip to the Colca Canyon, walk up to Cabanaconde, after breakfast we will begin the descent to the base of the Colca Canyon, after7-8 hours of walking to arrive to Sangalle (Oasis), where we will spend the night in basic cabins.

DAY 02: The second day we will trek to Cabanaconde, starting walking around 04:00 a.m. and arriving approx. at 07:30 a.m., then we take the bus towards the viewpoint of Cruz del Condor, from here we have another stunning view of the famous Colca Canyon and from where you normally can see the amazing flight of the condors. Return to Chivay and then we go to La Calera, where you can enjoy the medicinal baths. Lunch and return to Arequipa.

COTAHUASI PROGRAM 02: COTAHUASI CANYON
4 Days/3 Nights

DAY 01: Arequipa/Cotahuasi 06:00 a.m. Start on our journey, taking the Panamerican west-northwest main road, passing through the villages of Vitor and Siguas, then take the turning leading to the valley Majes on the way we stop to see the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, where we can appreciate 5000 blocks of trachytes rock product of volcanic eruptions Coropuna) of 700 years old, where there are petrograbados zoomorphic, fitomorfos, anthropomorphic, geometrics, etc.. Along the route we can visit the small towns of the Majes valley (Corire, Aplao, and others), while we are ascending to arrive the town of Chuquibamba, where you can have lunch (Box lunch).  We continue our journey through the stunning slopes of the Coropuna volcano (at approx.4500 m.a.s.l.) from where we can appreciate the Solimana volcano. Here we can see the flora and fauna of the area (vicuna, guanacos, vizcacha, foxes, taruca, cóndores, eagles, etc.). Move to Cotahuasi in the afternoon. Accommodation in basic hostel. Dinner (not included).

DAY 02: Cotahuasi/Sipia Breakfast. Start walking for 1 hour, into the depths of the canyon, crossing bridges and roads by the riverside until reaching Sipia water Falls; this has a depth of approx. 150 meters. After a break, we come back to Pampamarca (03 hours trip by bus).  Lunch in Pampamarca, later we trek to the village of Huito (1 ½ hours of walking), and then walk to the thermal baths (1 ½ hours), where we will camp and have dinner.

 DAY 03: Tomepampa/Luicho Typical breakfast in Cotahuasi, afterwards we will walk from the Huito’s thermal baths to the Luicho’s thermal baths, enjoying the landscape of the Cotahuasi valley, with its impressive terraces (andenerías), customs, tradition and clothing, as well as its archeology and architecture, we will visit this place for approx. 5 hours. And then go towards the village of Alca. Accommodation in basic hostel.

 DAY 04: Cotahuasi/Arequipa Early we start the trip back to Arequipa, on the way we stop for lunch, arriving at about 5 pm to Arequipa. Transfer to the airport or bus station.

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES:

• Private Transportation
• Ofital guide
• Camping equipment
• 2 night accoMmodation (basic hostel) and 1 camping night
• Meals described in the itinerary