Suykutambo to Colca horseback riding 7 Days

• Description

 

Ride horseback across the high, rugged tablelands between Cusco and Arequipa. We'll see mountains, canyons, caverns, hot springs, and get to know the country folk, native animals and ecology of the high plateau. We ride up the geologically disturbed Apurimac River and down the Colca Canyon where we will look for condors. Note: this tour can go to Arequipa or to Cusco at the end. Use it as a pleasant way to travel from Cusco to Arequipa.

 

• Itinerary

 

Note: this tour can go to Arequipa or to Cusco at the end. Use it as a pleasant way to travel from Cusco to Arequipa.

 

Day 1

We go from Cusco to Espinar (Yauri) and then by horseback to the Hacienda Puente Central.

 

Day 2

We follow the Apurimac River upstream into the department of Arequipa. At Angostura, we camp and eat alongside hot springs. The altitude is 4800 meters.

 

Day 3

We ride in the surrounding area to get to know the highlands, where the vegetation is different from in the valleys closer to Cusco. We fish in one of the high lakes.

 

Day 4

We ride to Caylloma, a village on the Apurimac River.

 

Day 5

We leave the Apurimac River at its headwaters, the twin lakes of Vilafro and Huarhuarco and pass south, around Mts. Culluncuya and Choquecarao, whose north faces drain into a tributary of the Apurimac. But between Choquecarao and the highlands of Mts. Sabancaya and Huaroncate cuts the Colca Canyon. Here we pause for the night.

 

Day 6

We descend into the Colca Canyon. At midday we arrive to Chivay, a small town at the bottom of the one worlds higgest canyon. Here there are hot springs and a three-stasr hotel to welcome us after the rough descent.

 

Day 7

We go to Cruz del Condor, to see the flight of the ccondors close us. They have as much as a 10-foot wide wingspan. After lunch we go to Arequipa, arriving at 7:00 in the morning.

 

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