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Peru: Huaraz Day Tours
Add some of these Day Tours, during your free day or extra day, to your treks in the Cordillera Blanca, or to your trek or tour to Machu Picchu. Do not miss these once-in-a-life-time experiences!
Note that Huaraz is a 7-hour bus ride from Lima....or a 1 hour flight. From Cusco, you would need to return to Lima, in order to get to Huaraz. Allow an extra day to get there and return!
On this page:
- Huaraz City Tour (half day)
- Chavin de Huantar (full day)
- Hike in the Cordillera Blanca (full day)
- Hike Marian to Willcawain (full day)
Huaraz City Tour (half day)
This city tour includes the major sites of Huaraz and allows time for a visit to the Regional Museum, the temple of Señor de la Soledad (Lord of the Loneliness) patron of Huaraz and the thermal-medical baths of Monterrey (3 hours). You will be picked up and dropped off at your hotel.
| # Group | 2 | 3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | Join Group |
| Price per person | $85 | $85 | $70 | $65 | n/a |
Included: Bi-lingual guide, transportation and driver, entrance fees and lunch.
Not included: Tips for your guide and driver, personal expenses.
Chavin de huantar (full day)
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We depart due south along the Callejon de Huaylas until we reach Ccatac. We take the road east and drive through the Cordillera Blanca, passing the Querococha Lake and through the Kawish tunnel at 4,550 meters (14,924 ft). Once on the other side, the Callejon de Conchucos comes into view, with many of its Andean villages such as Tambillos and Machaq. Lunch will be at Konchukos Tambo Lodge, a couple hours drive from Huaraz and near Chavin.
We arrive at the village of Huantar and Chavin where we find the temple of the same name. This place holds many mysteries in its interesting carvings and architecture. Recent archeological work has uncovered a labyrinth of tunnels and caves inside the main mound that overlooks the ceremonial plaza. After visiting this site, including the underground passages and a small museum, we will return to Huaraz.
Included: Bi-lingual guide, transportation and driver, entrance fees and lunch.
Not included: Tips for your guide and driver, personal expenses.
[NOTE: There is an option to stay overnight at Konchukos Tambo Lodge, a new hotel in the Chavin vicinity, where you can take side trips to a local farm and local weavers. Please let us know if you would like to adjust your itinerary to make this a 2-day/1 night side trip.]
| # Group | 2 | 3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | Join Group |
| Price per person | $170 | $150 | 100 | 95 | $80 |
Hike in the cordillera blanca (full day)
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In the heart of the Huascaran National Park lies the Llanganuco valley, at the foot of Peru’s highest peak, Mt. Huascaran (6,768 m / 22,204 ft). Our day begins with the drive from Huaraz to the starting point of our hike at Quebrada Demanda, where we will have amazing views of the icy peaks of Huandoy, Chacraraju and Pisco. After a picnic lunch we will take a leisurely walk around the edge of one of two big glacial lakes on the valley floor and descend the María José path down to the roadhead, among a beautiful queñua forest, an Andean old-growth tree. Enroute back to Huaraz, we will stop at an ice cream parlor in Charaz.
Included: Bi-lingual guide, transportation and driver, entrance fees and lunch.
Not included: Tips for your guide and driver, personal expenses.
| # Group | 2 | 3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | Join Group |
| Price per person | $145 | $105 | $85 | $75 | $70 |
Hike Marian to Willcawain (full day)
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Leaving from Huaraz by vehicle, we take a 20-minute ride to the village of Marian. From here, a two hour hike past fields and farms will bring us to Willcawain--an archaeological site of the Recuay-Wari culture (dating to the 800-400 B.C.). We will visit the complex and have lunch in the vicinity. On the trail, we will observe the snow-capped peaks of Vallunaraju, Ranrapalca, Churup and San Juan that surround Huaraz. We pass fields tended by campesinos with their adobe houses clustered in this patchwork of land. This is a unique day in the outskirts of Huaraz and a good warm-up for trekking in the Cordillera Blanca or Cordillera Huayhuash!
Includes: Bi-lingual guide, transportation and driver, entrance fees and lunch.
Not included: Tips for your guide and driver, personal expenses.
| # Group | 2 | 3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | Join Group |
| Price per person (in private) | $95 | $70 | $65 | $45 | n/a |