Huaraz Explorer
🏔️ Huaraz & the Cordillera

Huaraz Explorer

A short adventure in the heart of the Cordillera Blanca — turquoise Llanganuco lakes beneath snow-capped Huascarán, and the ancient stone temple of Chavín de Huántar.

🕒 4 days · 3 nights 🥾 Active · high altitude
The route

Your journey, stop by stop

The programme

A day to remember

Day 1

Arrival in Huaraz

Arrival & acclimatisation

Arrive in Huaraz (3,300 m) and transfer to your hotel, with a free day to rest and take the altitude gently.

🍽️ No meals included

Day 2

Callejón de Huaylas & Llanganuco

Andean villages

Set out along the Callejón de Huaylas, passing pretty villages like Carhuaz, where you can taste fresh milk-and-fruit ice creams.

Yungay memorial

Stop at the moving Campo Santo of Yungay, the old town buried by the 1970 earthquake and landslide, marked now by the white Christ.

Llanganuco lakes

Enter Huascarán National Park to reach the turquoise Chinancocha lake, ringed by queñual woods beneath the Cordillera Blanca and towering Huascarán (6,768 m).

🍽️ Breakfast

Day 3

Chavín de Huántar

Crossing to Conchucos

Drive past the 'map of Peru' rock and through the Cahuish tunnel (4,550 m) into the Conchucos valley.

Chavín temple

Explore the ancient temple of Chavín de Huántar (3,180 m) — its carved tenon heads, the Lanzón monolith, underground galleries and ceremonial plazas.

Chavín museum

Visit the modern Chavín National Museum before returning to Huaraz.

🍽️ Breakfast

Day 4

Departure

Transfer to the airport

At leisure until your transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima or onward journey.

🍽️ Breakfast

Prices

Price per person

Prices in EUR
Category Single Double Triple
Comfort 265 215 203
Tourist 335 252 219
Tourist Superior 642 381 377
Superior
First Class

Per person in euros, sharing, minimum 2 travellers. Flights not included. We’ll tailor a final quote to your dates.

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