Full Day COLCA CANYON &
CONDOR CROSS look out point

Overview

It is Peru's third most-visited tourist destination.
The Colca Canyon is located about 160 km (99 mi) northwest of Arequipa. With a depth of about (4160 meters 13728feet) it is one of the deepest canyons in the world. Its length is about 70 km (43 mi) before the Canyon there is a colorful Andean valley with pre-Inca rooted inhabitants, and towns founded in Spanish colonial times, still inhabited by descendants of Collagua and Cabana cultures. The local people maintain their ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces, called andenes.

“COME WITH US AND BE PART OF THIS UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE”.

USEFUL INFORMATION
Duration: full day
Starting Point: Hotel Arequipa
Final point: Arequipa – Puno or Cusco
Destination: Colca Canyon - Colca Valley – Geopark
 Vicuña National Reserve
Theme: Hiking & Cultural
Difficulty: easy
Group size: Minimum 2 participants
Abra Patapampa: 4910 meters /16203 feet
Chivay town height: 3650 meters /12045 feet
Vicuña National Reserve height: 4000 meters / 13200 feet
Availability: All year Long
Recommended: May to November sunny

 Itinerary

(shared Service) pick you up from your hotel between 2:30am and 3:00am and (private Service) 4:00am then it begins our journey towards the Colca Valley, we travel for 3hrs following a totally paved road, observing the amazing landscapes towards Chivay (3600m). Main town of the province of Caylloma and place where we will take a local andean breakfast, then we continue our journey following the left bank of the Colca river where the countless fields full of crops, such as corn, amaranth, kiwicha, potato, quinoa and abundant vegetation make this landscape incredibly beautiful, 1 hour later we arrive to the Condor cross viewpoint, to observe the largest flying bird in the world, whose scientific name is (Vulture Gryphus) or simply Andean condor and also you will get the best pictures of the impressive mountains as well as the walls and depth of this canyon, take a look at the remote villages located in its interior. later on at the indicated time we must return doing stops in places of great tourist interest, like the viewpoint of Choquetico and its carved rock a petroglyph with many details reservoirs of water, channels and platforms, a model that these experts in hydraulic engineering (former settlers Collagua) used as a model to build the terraces that we have today, also stop to observe the famous hanging tombs, which jealously house the ancestors of these settlers. On the way we visit the colonial church at Maca village and its handicraft market, to buy clothes made with alpaca fiber or some other souvenir made by the local people, then we go to the thermo medicinal baths with temperatures between 39ºC to 41ºC and enjoy the outdoor pools in this unique landscape, which only the Colca Canyon can offer, then we have a buffet lunch with a wide variety of traditional dishes at a local restaurant 1 hour later it is time to continue with our program we stop at the look out point of the volcanoes to observe part of the Andean volcanic range as well as at Salinas and Aguada Blanca national reserve to see the vicuñas grazing in the mountains above 4000m after that we go bak to the city arriving approximately 5:00 pm.

COLCA CANYON TOUR
INCLUSIONS | EXCLUSIONS | RATES

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

SHARED SERVICE INCLUDES

- Pick up from your hotel
- Bilingual Tourism Guide English |Spanish
- Shared tourist transportation
- 1 Breakfast
- First aid kit
- Oxygen

 PRIVATE SERVICE INCLUDES

- Pick up from your hotel
- Bilingual tourism guide, English |Spanish
- Private transportation
- Entrance fees to all sites are included
- Breakfast is included
- Lunch is included
- 2 hours hike (at the condor area)
- 24 hours assistance
- First aid kit
- Oxygen

It Does Not Include

X Travel insurance
X Water or alcoholic beverages
X Snacks
X Entrance to the hot springs
   (standard service)
X Lunch (standard service)
X Tips for the Guide

What do you need to bring?

·        Jacket for rain or poncho

·        (December to April)

·        Hat or cap
(to protect from the sun)

·        Small backpack

·        Sweater and jacket

·        Water bottle

·        Sunscreen cream

·        Sunglasses

·        Bathing suit

·        Extra money

NOTE

· SUPERIOR SERVICE
· Everything is private ALL INCLUSIVE
· STANDARD SERVICE
   Shares a group with other participants
· We offer a Discount of $15.00 per person for foreign students under 25 years of age who have a student card with a valid expiration date at the time of their excursion and also for regular students between 8 and 17 years old
· This discount will also apply to people from countries belonging to the Andean Community (CAN) Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador
· Special discounts for Peruvians $20.00 per adult and $25.00 per student
· NO discounts will be applied in the high season months (June, July and August)
· To receive the discount benefit, we need you to send us the photo or high quality scan of the card. We also need to view the high quality image or passport scan of the student under 17 and children under 8 years old
· Departure time could be More flexible for SUPERIOR SERVICE
· We have a price for SOLO traveler
· Our price does not include the transfer fee if you pay through Paypal
· STANDARD SERVICE DOES NOT INCLUDED TRANSFER TO PUNO OR CUSCO
   (you should add $ 65.00 to go on a shared transportation)

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