LANDSCAPES FULL OF PEAKS AND LAGOONS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAIN RANGE IN HUARAZ – PERU
Day 1: LLANGANUCO LAGOON– POINT OF VIEW PORTACHUELO – FULL DAY
Reception at the bus station and trasnport to the Hotel. Breakfast
Following the course of the stream of “Santa River” we will pass through the Valley -Callejón de Huaylas- between the Cordilera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra, visiting their typical Andean towns, enjoying the charm of its people, observing their ancestral customs , tasting their millennial culture and live an unforgettable experience with the nature of the National Park Huascarán “Natural Heritage of humanity” and “World Biosphere Reserve”.
Following the north of The Callejón de Huaylas we will visit the Towns of Carhuas and Yungay, where we will head to the highway to ascend until the Cordillera Blanca; we will arrive in the National Park Huascaran, admiring its fabulousLlanganuco lagoons and their forests of Queñuales- andean trees that grows from 4,000m to 4,700m- then we will ascend to Portachuelo of
Llanganuco in the heart of the Cordillera Blanca, from wich point we can have an amazing panoramic view of the most important peaks of the “highest tropical mountain” Huascaran, Huandoy, Chopicalqui, Chacraraju, Pisco, Yanapaccha and their multicolor lagoons of Chinancocha and Orconcocha. We will return to Llanganuco lagoons and since Chinancocha lagoon we will start a trek for one hour on the path Maria Josefa in the purest natural environment of flora and fauna of the National Park Huascaran; finally we will share in the rural community of Huamachuco one of the most exquisite ancestral expressions “ La Pachamanca”,in the same way Andean people ate like thousand of years before and we can share that in this Andean community . In the afternoon we will return to Huaraz visiting the Campo Santo de Yungayand their Cristo Redentor, a place that was fataly buried by an avalanche on May 31, 1970.
We will Overnight in Huaraz .
Day 2: SNOWY PASTORURI “THE ROUTE OF CLIMATE CHANGE” FULL DAY
The Cordillera Blanca is considered the highest tropical mountain chain in the world and therefore is the most susceptible mountain chain of the planet to global warming and the greenhouse phenomenon.
It estimates that glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca will become extinct in the next 50 years and the snowed glacier Pastoruri clearly shows the effects of climate change produced by this phenomena.We drive to the south of the Callejon de Huaylas until Pachacoto, where we will head to the East to get to the Cordillera Blanca road; we start our visit in the National Park Huascaran, where we will find Patococha lagoon, the water source called Pumashimi , carbonated water Puma pampa, and also we can find the most beautiful exponent of the Andean flora “Puya Raimondi” known to be the largest inflorescence in the world, cave paintings; where we begin our ascent to Pastoruri. The bus reaches the parking (4,900m) where we start the trek to the glacier (5,000m) 45 minutes (optionally You can rent horses); This glacier is in an accelerated process of regression from the effects ofthe climate change and that for this purpose the edge of a glacier formed a lagoon where you can see floating ice blocks and into the bottom ice caves. The unit of glaciology makes studies about global warming and keeps records for more than 60 years of glacier retreat in Pastoruri and will be much interest to share with our specially trained guides, these experiences about the global warming in the same scene where happened this natural phenomena . Then we will return to Huaraz.
We will overnight in Huaraz.
Day 3: HUARAZ- LIMA
Transfer to the airport or bus station for your next connection.
INCLUDES: Tour guide, two nights accommodation, breakfasts, entrances fee, all transfers.
