Day 1

We start our Colca tour Colca 2 days 1 night from Arequipa at 8:00 am.; we pick you up from your hotel with our private transport. After 2 hours driving we cross by the National Reservation of Vicuñas (Salinas and Aguada Blanca). Then we stop at Patahuasi, where we can appreciate the Misti Volcano. Here we have to drink a “Coca Tea” (Mate de coca) to avoid altitude sickness, in this stop there is a market of local handicrafts, then we continue in our minibus. We arrive at 4,900 mts., of altitude, and from there we can appreciate the view of all the volcanoes of the area, like Misti, Chachani, and Ampato (the mountain where Mummy Juanita was found), and also we can see mountains like Sabancaya, Walka Walka, Chucrura and more. We continue in our transport and we arrive to Chivay at 13.30 (the capital of Colca/Caylloma region). Here we have lunch in a traditional restaurant, then we have 30 minutes free time in town (please remember that this is not a Colca Trekking trip is just a tour to Colca by car) after that we visit the Calera Hot Springs, very hot and clean swimming pools, then we go to our hotel in Chivay.

Day 2

We have breakfast at 6:00 am., we take the way to the Cruz Del Condor with our transport; this will take us about 2 hours driving. During the way we stop to take pictures of the villages of the other side of the canyon, like Coporaque, Ichupampa and Lari, finally we arrive to Cruz del Condor view point. From here we can appreciate the Colca canyon and the impressive condors fly, after this we return to Chivay to have lunch, visiting interesting villages like Pinchollo, Maca and other places. After having lunch in Chivay, we return to Arequipa (La Ciudad Blanca) arriving at 17:00 hours.

This tour Colca canyon includes:

• Tourist transport
• Professional English speaking official Colca guide.
• 01 night hotel
• 01 day of breakfast
• Entrance to Cruz del Condor Viewpoint

This tour doesn’t include:

• Lunch
• Dinner
• Thermal baths (La Calera) hot springs
• This is not a TREK to Colca is a just a TOUR to Colca

Services:

• Pool: Everything outlined in our programme from 5 to 25 pax.
• Private: Private 4x4 transport for the whole trip. Everything and more outline in   our programme from 2 to 4 pax.

TAYLOR MADE TRIPS

COLCA TREK PERU has not only these basic choices, if you like to be out of the normal trail, just let us know, we can send you to our best trails, or we are ready to make with you the trip in the way you order be done. If it’s any special activity you would like to do, just let us know, so we can send you immediately more details, maybe you need information about rafting, mountain biking or city biking, that we can combine to make the best Colca tour for you, please just ask to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  for a immediately answer of our guide Vlado Soto.