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Huayahuash - Churin
1 Day: Huaraz - Llamac

The trail head. After the breakfast we will aboard our private bus, and leave to south side Huaraz passing for different small and typical towns of Recuay 3400, Ticapampa 3470, Catac 3640 and the small village Pachacoto 3700, from here we’ll leave the high way and continue in the east side surrounded by a lot of straw and we will start enjoying the beautiful landscape that matches the blue sky and the darkled green hills and far from here the snow peaked white mountains will match the landscape, the first touristic place that we will appreciate will be the Patococha lake, after it we’ll get in to the national park and we’ll find the gasified water from Pumapampa, a few kilometer from here we’ll make stop in a small colored lake called Pumapashimin that Changes its colors caused by solar radiation. At the same time we’ll be next to the big Bromeliads called Puyas Raymondi, here we will have lunch, and after the lunch we’ll come back to Pachacoto to continue to Chiquian 3400. Once we have gotten Conococha we will take the east high way a few kilometers, then from Mojon we start going down zigzag trail until Chiquian. Arriving aprox at 1 pm. For Lunch, then we have to go down until Timpoc 2800 masl aprox, From here we will start again going-up along the Llamac river until the peasant town Llamac which lies at 3300 masl. Here will be our first camping in the football field of Llamac. All meals provided for our mountain personals

2 Day: Llamac - Cuartelhuain

Our breakfast will be at 7am to be ready at 8am to start the trekking. We’ll continue going-up through the Pocpa valley, and there’s a peasant town typical called Pocpa 3600 the last town in this Valley where we can buy some soda drinks for the sunny way, after a few hours trekking aprox. At 1 pm we’ll have been arrived to Pallca where we’ll have lunch. From here 2 or 3 hours we’ll get our camping place Matacancha at 4100 masl. From here we’ll appreciate the Ninashanca Mountain 5607 masl, Rondoy 5870 masl. Overnight camping

3 Day: Cuartelhuain - Mitucocha

In the morning after the breakfast we’ll get ready our things and at 8 am we’ll start our trek, this time it’s going to be a bit difficult because the climbing to the pass will take us about 2 or 3 hours. From the pass we’ll go down then we’ll go-up aprox 30 minutes, we’ll have lunch after the small climb, We’ll take the alternative trail to get early the camping place and not for walking the same route the next day, in this route the passengers will appreciate the Andean rabbits called Vizcachas. Followed to catch by local citizens by its tasty meat, so once we have arrived to our camping place early we’ll have time to go fishing around the lake while our cook prepares the dinner. We will camp at 4200 masl
4 Day: Mitucocha - Carhuacocha

as always after our breakfast and packing our things, we’ll start our trekking at 8 am today it is going to be easy. After 3 hours walking we’ll reach the pass where we’ll have lunch, We’ll walk always enjoying the white peaked mountains such as Yerupaja, Jirishanca, and Siula, we’ll get our camp place aprox at 3 or 4 pm. We’ll be surprised by a beautiful lake, keeping the mountain’s silhouettes green colored, so we will have prepared our camp place in the special place facing to the lake. we will have camped at 4138 masl

5 Day: Carhuacocha - Huayhuash

At 8 am after breakfast we start our trekking, relaxed after the rest day before, after going-up aprox for one hour we’ll get easy trail even going-up but not so difficult to get the Carnicero Pass at 4600, after the pass there are scenic places to have lunch next to the Carnicero lakes, from here a few kilometers going-down we’ll arrive to our camping place, that’s just next to the Jurau Lake or Huayhuash, PERU BERGSPORT always use this place due to its scenic, beautiful place faced to the beautiful mountains. We’ll have camped here at 4350 masl

6 Day: Huayhuash Viconga

after the breakfast in Huayhuash we will start going upmoderate path up to the Portachuelo pass, after walking 2 hours and half we will get the portachuelo pass 4750masl, from here we will have wonderful views form the Mountain Leonhuacan, Quesillojanca, Cullcushjanca and others, from here we will walk down until Viconga lake 4477masl, here we will have lunch enjoying the view of the lake, then we will pass the lake by its base, then we will hike up a little bit for about half hour to our camp site, overnight in overviewing the viconga lake at 4500masl

7 Day: Viconga - Surasaca - Churin

after the breakfast in the Camp site Viconga we will sart hiking up to the Portachuelosurasaca pass 4800 masl, after hiking 2 hours we will reach the pass, then we will start hiking down along the Surasaca lake, here we will have lunch overviewing the Surasaca lake, the Mountains Cullcushjanca, Quesillojanca, Torre de Cristal and others, here next to the lake Surasaca the Bus will be waiting for Us, and aboard the Bus after lunch and start driving and passing by several villages such as Cashaucro, Oyon, all these route we wil be going down along the valley until Churin, we will arrive to Churin after 4 hours driving and here we will have hostel for acommodation, and we will enjoy the Hotsprings of Churin, there is a huge of hotsprings which is thermomedcinal, dinner we wil have at restaurant, Churin is a small town where we can find internet, shops, Turist Information office, Chicken restaurants, overninght Hostel at 2090masl.

8 Day: Churin - Lima / Huaraz
After the D¡Breakfast in the Hotel in Churin, we will take our private bus and ssatrt drinving down along the Rio Huaura, in the coast are of Peru, as we go fdriving we will fee the change of climate, we will be around 1200 masl, we will pass by huge sugar cane plantations, along the way we will obeserve fruit sellers direct form the farm, we will pass Sayan, arriving to the panamarcina highway in Huaura, at 50masl. here we wil have lunch in a recomended restaurant, then continue driving to Huaraz or Lima, if going to Lima it will be aroun 140 km, of you want to go to Huaraz it will take you around 260km... overnight in Lima or Huaraz.
   

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