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Northern Route Peru. 15-Day Trip
Caral, Huaraz, Trujillo, Chiclayo and Chachapoyas
”Welcome to Peru, an adventure trip with the best places of interest in the north of Peru. Northern Region ancient, culture and alive traditions that will change the way you see Peru.” Day 1: Airport Pick up and transfer Lima Airport to Hotel in Miraflores. Welcome to Peru. Our staff will pick you up in a private Transport and take you to your hotel in Miraflores. You are our special guest, and it is an honor to be able to show you the wonders of the North of Peru.
Day 2: Caral City & 1 Night in Town. The UNESCO World Heritage listed site covers an area of around 60 hectares in the arid Supe Valley and was first inhabited between 2600 BCE and 2000 BCE. Although initially discovered back in 1948, recent excavations of Caral revealed an elaborate complex of temples, sunken plazas and some of the largest terraced pyramids in the world, leading archeologists to ponder the chance Caral being the fabled “Mother City” of ancient civilizations. Now open to the public, the site has garnered acclaim for its beautifully preserved ruins and intriguing collection of artefacts, which include a quipu (a unique knot system used by ancient Andean civilizations) and a number of musical instruments fashioned from animal bones, but definitely, no trace of warfare or weaponry. Lunch is not included but we will help you to organize a meal in one of the typical, after this, we will take you to your hotel in Caral, dinner, free time at your leisure and overnight in Caral Hotel. Day 3: Transfer to Huaraz driving up to the Mountains After a good buffet breakfast, we are ready to travel 8 hours to the city of Huaraz, going from the coast to the highest mountains of Peru. Arrival to Huaraz and transfer to your hotel, we will do a few stops for lunch and take photos on the way to Huaraz. Overnight in Huaraz City hotel.
Day 4: LLanganuco Lagoon Breakfast at the hotel, pick up and you will have a full day tour to see the most beautiful landscapes from the Region of Ancash Peru. At the foot of the snowy Huascarán, in the Llanganuco lake nature offers us one of the best shows. Like two mirrors of the sky, the Chinancocha and Orconcocha Lagoons have created a new color in nature: neither green nor blue, perhaps turquoise, the truth is that their beauty leaves visitors fallen in love of nature. free time to take photos and walk around, at the right time transfer to Huaraz City, Dinner, free time at your leisure and overnight in Huaraz.
Day 5: 69 Lagoon Breakfast at the hotel, pick up and full day to visit the 69 Lagoon, considered one of the most beautiful lagoon in Peru and South America, we will follow the route to the Llanganuco Lagoons, we will ascend towards “portachuelo”, enjoying an impressive 360º panorama and observing the snow-capped peaks of the Cordillera Blanca: Huascarán (6,768 meters), Huandoy (6,395 meters), Chacraraju (6,112 meters), Chopicalqui (6,354 meters), Pisco (5,752 meters), etc. After two hours by bus you reach Cebollapampa at 3900 meters above sea level, here the walk begins, after approximately 8 km and three hours of walking you will reach the 69 lagoon at 4620 meters above sea level, under the gaze of the impressive Chacraraju, the Pisco, Huascarán, Chopicalqui, Huandoy and Yanapaccha Snow Mountains. After staying 40 minutes in the lagoon, we return back to Huaraz City, Dinner, free time at your leisure and overnight in Huaraz City Hotel.
Day 6: Trip to Trujillo.
Breakfast at the hotel, pick up and trip to Trujillo, Arrival, Transfer to the hotel, Check in and free time at your leisure. overnight in Trujillo City Hotel.
Day 7: City Tour & Marinera Dances With Peruvian Paso Horses & Full Day We will take you on a tour through Trujillo. An important city in Spanish times, Trujillo has beautiful colonial buildings and mansions. We visit Plaza de Armas with its cathedral, built between 1647 and 1666. We also visit the Archbishop’s Palace and Calonge House, where Simón Bolívar, the Liberator of South America lived. Then we visit the Emancipation House, now home to Banco Continental, and then the Iturregui Palace, built in 1842, which is currently home to the Central Club. Then we will visit the Archeological & History Museum, where objects from the different pre-Columbian cultures will be on display. After lunch we have a nice show of marinera and Peruvian paso horses.
Day 8: Trujillo Full Day The temples of the Sun and the Moon, a religious center for the Moche culture, which developed between 100 and 900 AD. The archaeological complex shows the two large pyramids with flat tops, known as huacas.Then we drive north of Trujillo to visit the Huaca Dragon, also known as Huaca Arco Iris (Rainbow Pyramid), which belonged to the Chimu culture. We continue up, to the ancient fishing village of Huanchaco for a good lunch based in sea food. Huanchaco is of the most famous beaches of Peru, where you can see the traditional fishing boats (caballitos de totora) which are still in use Today. After lunch we continue to Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in America, built by the Chimu and covering an area of about 20 square kilometers.
Day 9: La Señora De Cao on the Way to Chiclayo We drive to Chicama Valley, about 60 km north of Trujillo, to visit El Brujo, another complex of the Moche civilization. Archaeological excavations started here in 1990, where they found the Woman of Cao, a 1,500-year-old, tattooed female mummy, we will also visit: The Village of Magdalena de Cao (to taste a traditional drink fermented underground for 1 to 2 years called “Añejo de Cao.”), The Huaca cao viejo and the Cao Museum, After the tour, we will drive through up north to the commercial Chiclayo city. On way we pass around the sugar and rice fields, and we will make a stop to have Lunch.
Day 10 : Chiclayo-Tucume &Tumbas Reales Museum. We will head to Lambayeque city to take the route to Tucume town where we will visit the Ceremonial Center of Tucume, archaeological complex composed by 26 pyramids. This site was the second Capital of the Lambayeque or Sican culture. We will also visit the Site Museum. We will end our excursion in the Royal Tombs Museum of Sipan, the most modern in Peru. The journey allows to know all the objects found in 1987 in the place of Huaca Rajada, well-known as Sipan. Here we will find the ornaments of the Lord of Sipan, the Priest and the Old Lord of Sipan. Lunch in a local restaurant. Transfer to the Hotel, free evening at your leisure and overnight. Day 11: Private Transfer To Chachapoyas After a good buffet breakfast, we are ready to travel 10 hours to the city of Chachapoyas, going from the coast to the Green Amazon of Peru. we will make a stop for lunch arrival 6 pm, check in, free evening at your leisure, dinner and overnight in Chachapoyas city hotel.
Day 12: Kuelap & Cable Car Breakfast at the hotel, pick up from your hotel, then we will head to the archaeological Macro zone to see a short remains about a traditional domestic architecture and take a quickly explanation about this complex built on the slope of a hill, so then we drive to Nuevo Tingo town, and then it’s ready to board the first electromechanical system of cable car build in Peru (cable car) this will take us on a 20-minute trip over 4 kilometers. Kuelap is a magical place where we visit different sectors such as ceremonial enclosures, the main temple, circular rooms, etc. The tour lasts approximately 3 hours. Trip back to Chachapoyas city, Transfer to your hotel, free evening at your leisure, dinner and overnight.
Day 13: Gocta Waterfall Breakfast at your hotel, pick up and we will head to Cocachimba town about 1 hour away, from there we start walking for two hours to Gocta Waterfall (771 meters high considered the third highest in the world) On the way, you will see sugar cane fields with a typical trapiche, and as well as variety the flora and fauna on the trail, at the right time, trip back to Chachapoyas, Transfer to the hotel, free evening at your leisure, dinner and overnight.
Day 14: Leymebamba – Revash Breakfast at the hotel, pick up and then we will head to Leymebamba and revash to have a full day tour, where you will observe, Chachapoyas mummies, constructed of rock and adobe, plastered and painted pink and cream, they look like little houses, but are in fact tombs. Most were ransacked long ago; a few yielded some bones and funerary offerings for archaeologists to examine. From these bones, it was possible to deduce that Revash’s mausoleums were not used individually: it is thought that they were collective residences, destined to bury the prestigious and powerful people from Chachapoyas culture After this wonderful tour, we will have a short ride to Leymebamba museum where the most preserved 200 mummies from chachapoyas were found, then we will head back to Chachapoyas City, transfer to your hotel, free evening at your leisure, dinner and overnight. Day 15: Transfer To Jaen Airport to flight back to Lima City. Breakfast at the hotel, at the right time you will be picked up from your hotel in Chachapoyas and will be taken to Jaen airport to get your flight to Lima City, arrival in Lima City and end of our services.
