Overview
Peru trekking with ROW Adventures is a local community project Peru adventure which completely immerses the traveler in the culture, magic and way of life of the indigenous people of the mountanous regions of Peru. Trekking 33 miles over 5 days you will have every opportunity to savor the Peruvian specialities and crafts of an area of this spectacular and less visited part of the incredible country Peru. This offers a really great alternative to the Inca Trail.
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At A Glance
- Trip Duration: 8 days
- Trip Length: 8 days
- Intensity: Intermediate
- Season: January - December
- Begins in: Lima
- Ends in: Cusco
- Closest Airport: Lima
Details
Peru Trekking | Peru Adventure
This 5 day breathtaking Peru trek is an adventure in the Cordillera Vicanota will take you on the El Camino Del Apu Ausangate (The Road of Apu Ausangate) located close to the highest sacred mountain in the Cusco region. This new community based tourism project is based on four specially built lodges called “Tambos” a term for “resting place” used by the Incas. Two indigenous communities organized the program, and provide llamas and horses to carry trekker’s gear. The 33 mile, five day trek in Peru varies from 14,000 to 16,900 feet! The lodges provide meaningful full-time employment for 24 community members and another 30 part time, creates new markets for their goods including alpaca meat, fleece products and traditional woven textiles
Itinerary
Peru Trekking Itinerary
Day 1) Arrive Lima, Peru and overnight.
Day 2) Continue by airplane to Cuzco. Arrive, acclimate. Walking tour of city. Overnight.
Day 3) After an early breakfast depart from Cusco to drive along the beautiful Vicanota valley to the town of Checacupe, for a visit to the Colonial Temple of the Immaculate. We then continue for another hour’s drive anticipating the beginning of our Peru Trekking adventure and we arrive at the starting point of our trek at 14,077’. A short two mile Peru trek that gains just 200’ is a good warm up. We meet our hosts and overnight in the first of four community-built lodges.
Day 4) Our 11 mile trek begins after an early breakfast and takes us through the wide valley of the Upis, with spectacular glaciated mountains looming above the valley. We pass waterfalls and the Paloma lagoon where we will see llamas and alpacas dotted across the landscape, to reach Machuracay Tambo at the base of Apul Ausangate mountain, the highest in the Cusco region.
Day 5) We ascend to 16,900 feet in a demanding 18-mile day filled with one dramatic vista after another. From the glaciated south face of “apu” we travel on to the red sandstone formations of the “Nevado Del Inca” and reach our second lodge on our Peru trek.
Day 6) Today offers a geological kaleidoscope as we hike through mountains with red, ochre and blue strata as we trek some 25 miles over passes that vary from 15,500 to 16,200 feet. Hopefully we will see the graceful vicunas. Another lovely lodge awaits us at day’s end.
Day 7) Our last pass is Anta Pass and we then start a gradual descent to 12,700 feet where we will begin to see the first signs of houses and crops, the landscape wll then change to red sandstone then limestone which provides a perfect stone forest habitat for the vizcacha (a member of the chinchilla family). By the time we reach the valley our van will be waiting to take us to Cusco to overnight and celebrate and reminice.
Day 8) Travel home or continue to Machu Picchu for more Peru trekking tours.
We offer 3 day extensions to Machu Picchu either before or after the trip - Call our offices for details, 800-451-6034.
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