Pick up at your arrival in airport of Lima and transfer to hotel in Miraflores.

• This ride follows the Panamerican highway north across the impressive Pacific coastal desert.
• Continuing toward higher terrain, we pass through the Cordillera Negra (Black Range) at Conococha Pass (4020 m) into the Santa Valley and Huaraz (3100 m).
• Once across the pass, you’ll see a charming view of the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca, without a doubt some of the most impressive scenery in the world.
• You can also fly via LCPERU (now suspended until further notice) – flight duration 50 minutes. Overnight Hotel

Duration: 20 min (by car) 3 – 4 hours (hiking)

• Our guide will pick up you at your hotel after breakfast with our transportation and we’ll drive about 20 minutes southeast of Huaraz to the bridge of the Santa Cruz Village where we will start ascending to the lake Willcacocha.
• The hike is a gradual ascent up on a local trail for about 2 ½ to 3 hours.
• Along the way you may expect to meet local Quechua people still wearing their traditional colorful Andean clothes.
• You’ll pass close to their traditional adobe houses and see how they have lived for countless centuries surrounded by richly green farm lands where they grow their products as: wheat, corn and potatoes.
• Upon arriving the lake, you will be amazed with the magnificent views of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range with its highest mountain Huascaran at 6768m/22,205ft.
• At such a vantage point, you will have the perfect lookout point for enjoying the surrounding breath taking views and shooting some “10 on the drool scale” photos and we have lunch enjoying the panorama view, before we begin our easy descent to the Shansha Village Bridge trailhead.
• On our way down you’ll have the great view of the valley below and of the Cordillera Blanca peaks accompanying you.
• Our private transportation will be waiting to take back to Huaraz Hotel.Total time of this acclimation journey is approximately 6 hours.

Duration: 50 min (by car) 5 – 6 hours (hiking)

• Drive up on the dirt road to the parking place at Pitec ( not a village , but a few farmhouses).
• Along drive we pass through traditional village of Unchus and Llupa with its traditional adobe houses and reach farmlands, there is opportunity to see local quechua people on their traditional clothes and working land with their hands.
• Then as we reach Pitec, after checking with the Huascaran National Park range, start ascending following the path over the long ridge.
• After about 1 ½ you reach a steep an rocky part, to the left of the water fall.
• From there, you reach lake Churup after a quite intimidating 45 minutes climb.
• This climb can be a real challenge climb , to avoid this steep part, there is an option to climb more to the left where is a a kind of metal rope that helps to climb. Then as you arrive to the lake will be impressed for the beautiful view of the lake and landscape sourrounded.
• Spend time walking around lake side , take pictures, relax and have box lunch enjoying the nature.
• Then return on the same way back to Pitec , where our transportation waits to drive you back to Huaraz. Overnight Hotel.

Duration: 3 hours (by car) 4 – 5 hours (hiking)

• Pick up at your hotel in Huaraz.
• Drive along the Callejon de Huaylas Valley to the village of Cashapampa 2900m.
• There are opportunities for photo stops along the way.
• Cashapampa village is the start point for hike to ascend steeply for about 2 hours and then the track levels out.
• Camp at Llamacorral (3750m).

Duration: 5 – 6 hours

• Today is an easier hike up the Santa Cruz valley.
• This day it is generally flat and we ascend just the last hour towards the camp.
• We will pass by the Jatuncocha lake, one of the largest lake during this trek.
• Visit the Alpamayo mountain viewpoint (if we have enough time we will go to the base camp Alpamayo and Laguna Arhuaycocha)
• Camp at Taullipampa (4250m), surrounded by many peaks such as Paria, Artseonraju, Rinrijirca, Quitaraju and Alpamayo.

Duration: 7 – 8 hours approx.

• This day will be the hardest, since we will ascend to the highest point of the route ( Punta Union pass 4750 mts).
• We ascend steadily for about 3 hours on a good trail to the Punta Union Pass 4750m.
• We can feel the effects of the altitude as we reach the pass.
• From the pass we have very close views of the big mountains of the Cordillera Blanca.
• We have a long descent passing two small lakes and then coming down into the Huaripampa Valley.
• Camp at Cachinapampa 3700m.

Duration: 3 hours (hiking) 5 hours (by car)

• After descending through the forests and whitewater rivers of the Huaripampa Valley, we pass through a typical village of the high Andes, Vaquería.
• The farmers here raise small animals and some crops.
• At this elevation there are still flowers, and their colors brighten the landscape.
• From the village we climb to Portachuelo de Llanganuco Pass, 4650 meters, where you will have fantastic views of several mountains covered in snow.
• From here we take a continue to Llanganuco valley and then to Huaraz. Overnight at the hotel.

Duration: 2 hours (transport) 5 hours (mountainneering activitie)

• Between 3:00 and 3:30 am departure from Huaraz and we will drive to the city of Carhuaz where we will take the detour to the Cordillera Blanca via the Ulta valley to the tunnel at the high point of Punta Olímpica for 2 hours.
• At 5:30 a.m. Approx. begins the ascent through the moraine (rocky and vertical path) of the south face of Nevado Contrahierbas – 2 hours approx. until we reach the glacier – and after ascending the glacier for 1.5 to 2 more hours we will reach the summit.
• After spending a few minutes at the top, the descent can take about 2.5 hours to the road where our private transport awaits us. Then the return will take us 3 hours to the city of Huaraz – end of the tour between 2:00 to 3:00 pm approx.

8 Hours by bus to Lima. 

In Lima transfer from bus station to hotel en Miraflores