BUS PUNO – COLCA CANYON – AREQUIPA 2D/1N

Day 1: PUNO – CHIVAY – LAS CALERAS.

At 6:00 to 6:15 a.m. pick up from downtown hotels Puno to board the bus and departure to Chivay, (6 hours of travel approximately) along the way to Chivay, we visit 3 places:

LAGUNILLAS: This beautiful lake is surrounded by wetlands and puna, there are registered more than 25 species of birds, as flamingos, Andean gulls, a variety of fish and flora.

• PAMPA CAÑAHUAS: The landscape in general is bleak, but impresses with its grandeur of its highly spectacular rock formations; where you can see many camelids such as vicuñas, llamas and alpacas.

VIEWPOINT VOLCANOES OF PATAPAMPA: Located at 4,950 meters above sea level, from where you can appreciate the Misti, Chachani, Ampato volcanoes.

About 12:00 p.m. The bus arrival to Chivay and transfers to the hotels in Chivay. Then lunch, by the afternoon visit to the Calera hot springs, at 05.00 p.m. return to your hotel in Chivay and dinner. (Not included Lunch and dinner).

Day 2: CHIVAY – CRUZ DEL CONDOR – AREQUIPA.  

After breakfast at your hotel, between 6:10 to 6.30 a.m. Our local guide pick passenger up from their hotels in Chivay, to begin the tour on the Colca Canyon.

At 8:30 a.m. Arrival at Mirador Cruz del Condor to admire the natural beauty which the canyon offers and also to observe the majestic flight of the Condors and make small walks around, where your guide will explain aspects of the different indigenous groups that inhabited and still inhabit the Colca Valley. 

Then, return to Chivay, along the way, we will visit to the small traditional villages, as Pinchollo, Maca and Yanque which harbor beautiful colonial churches, arriving to Chivay, you have the lunch (not included), then, depart to Arequipa, reaching approx. at 5:00 p.m. Transfer to their downtown hotels in Arequipa.

 Schedule: bus Puno - Chivay or Chivay - Puno with stops (the Misti´s route):