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Peru Adventure + Tourism Vallunaraju Snowy Peak © Andy Martínez Peru Adventure + Tourism Peru adventure + tourism Vallunaraju Snowy Peak © Andy Martínez Peru adventure + tourism Under a warm sun or a starry Imagine yourself surfing waves nighttime sky, beside one of the that can reach up to ten meters in 12 thousands lagoons, or before height, flying over Inca villages in mountains peaks reaching more than the Sacred Valley, or or the coast of a six thousand meters in height, facing a modern city on the edge of the Pacific. snow-capped summit, or appreciating one of the planet’s deepest canyons. Peru is not a country you imagine. It Imagine yourself in Peru, filled with is a destination that unites adventure adrenalin. + tourism. It is the sum of experiences that are incomparable for the spirit Imagine yourself reaching great and a true adventure for the senses. heights following in the footsteps of the Incas and discovering the culture Peru, adventure + tourism is just of local communities along a path a small sample of the many spaces, that has been traversed for thousands destinations, landscapes, and scenes of years. that our country offers for this imagined journey: experiences that form part of a tourism offering that is responsible and sustainable. Turn the pages and discover each one. BON VOYAGE! Purhuay Lagoon, Huari district© Juan Puelles / PROMPERÚ Index 04 06 Experience at all levels Kuélap, Gocta Altitudinal index and the lagoon of the condors 10 14 Choquequirao Inca Trail and the other Cusco Millenary trekking 16 18 Aptae Protected natural areas Association for adventure Photographic dossier 24 28 Committed to conservation An explorer in the jungle Photographic dossier Amazon Expeditions 30 36 Between the snow and the stars Dizzying heights Huayhuash and the Cordillera Colca and the valley of the Blanca volcanoes 40 45 Year-round destinations Pack your bags Surf destination Everything the traveler needs to know 4 Elevation index Experience CHOQUEQUIRAO AND THE VILCABAMBA at all levels RANGE (Cusco) THE ANDES MOUNTAIN RANGE, THE PLANET’S Trekking in the Andes. Bird and nature watching LONGEST CHAIN, CROSSES PERU VERTICALLY. ITS PRESENCE IS WHAT HAS STAMPED THE 3104 meters ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES: A PARADISE FOR ADVENTURE LOVERS. COLCA AND COTAHUASI (Arequipa) Canoing, rafting, kayaking, horseback riding, and zip lining 3000 - 5000 meters PARACAS (Ica and the coast) Diving, sport fishing, kayaking, paragliding, cycling, windsurfing and sandboarding 12 - 786 meters Elevation index 5 Peru’s eight altitude zones can help understand its eight different ecosystems: from the 3000 kilometers of coastline along the shores of the HUAYHUASH Pacific Ocean, to Huascarán, at 6769 meters, the (Áncash, Huánuco, Lima) highest snow-capped mountain in the Andes. Towards the country’s eastern flank, the highland Mountaineering, trekking, and bird and lowland jungles spread lushly out. and nature watching The country’s second highest peak Yerupajá is situated in the Huayhuash range 3300 - 6634 meters Surf Trekking Kayaking Canoeing Mountaineering KUÉLAP AMAZONAS RIVER (Loreto) and (Amazonas) Trekking, horse riding, and flora Manu (Madre de Dios) and fauna watching Hiking, kayaking, piranha fishing, paddling and zip lining, bird watching, 2300 - 3000 meters flora and fauna 70 - 220 meters © Marcela Delgado, Julio Angulo, Gihan Tubbeh, Alex Bryce / PROMPERÚ and Juan Puelles / PROMPERÚ Bryce Alex Gihan Tubbeh, Julio Angulo, Delgado, © Marcela 6 Destination Amazonas An adventure near the clouds AN ANCIENT STONE CONSTRUCTION ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, AN IMPOSING WATERFALL, AND A LAGOON THAT SEEMS LIKE A MIRROR MADE OF WATER. Amazonas KUÉLAP Location: Degree of difficulty: Luya and Bongará provinces Medium-low in the department of Amazonas Rainy season: Elevation: Lima Between 1800 and 3050 meters December to April Temperature: 15 °C (min.) to 25 °C (max.) Destination Amazonas 7 Kuélap © Daniel Silva / PROMPERÚ © Daniel Silva Kuélap 8 Destination Amazonas KUÉLAP AND GOCTA Towering stone walls that reach 20 meters in height are hidden amongst verdant mountains, as if they have been the city’s guardians since time immemorial. Built at over 3000 meters, Kuélap —the most important urban center of the Chachapoyas culture (500 – 1450 AD)— is located on top of a plateau and covers a total area of six hectares. Up to 420 circular stone houses can be distinguished in the interior with friezes in the form of zigzags and diamonds. Its construction is thought to have begun around the eleventh century. For its people, the fortified city was an administrative, religious, ceremonial, and residential center. Today it forms one of the most important archeological sites of the pre-Inca period. It is said that its name may derive from a word meaning “forest in the clouds”. There is mist and moss. There are also bromeliads, orchids, lichens, as well as constructions of limestone and clay. Reaching Kuélap from Nuevo Tingo—one hour from Chachapoyas, the capital city of Amazonas—until recently took an hour and a half. Now it can be traveled in just twenty minutes thanks to a modern cable car that passes over gorges and mountains. Following a 2006 upgrading of the highway that links Chachapoyas with the towns of San Martin that form part of the northern Amazon circuit, Cocachimba appeared on the map with almost the same spontaneity as the region’s Andean cock of the rock, its hummingbirds, and its wild orchids. It is here that circuits (hiking or on horseback) to view Gocta up close begin. This immense fall of water— known locally as La Chorrera—equivalent to double the height of the Empire State Building in New York. It actually drops a total of 771 meters over two falls: 231 meters and 540 meters respectively. A spectacle at altitude that rewards the five kilometers journey from Cocachimba, it was discovered during explorations for sarcophagi in 2002. The reward for walking five kilometers from Cocachimba is reaching Gocta, one of the world’s highest waterfalls. © Jaime Chávez / PROMPERÚ Gocta Waterfall Gocta Destination Amazonas 9 LAGOON OF THE CONDORS Although there are no condors, people who lived here decades ago Do not leave the region assure us that these majestic birds once circled above. It is also known as the Lagoon of the Mummies because close to its banks, without sighting a marvelous on an elevated escarpment, parts of an ancient Chachapoya and spatuletail hummingbird Inca mausoleum were discovered: 200 mummies sheltered in six and colorful butterflies over chullpas (tombs), quipus (a Pre-Hispanic counting system), and the cloud forest. Visit two- samples of rock art on the walls. These vestiges are currently meter high tombs nestled exhibited in the Leymebamba Museum. Trekking begins here and crosses marshes and steep mountains in a precipice in Karajía, until reaching a lagoon with green and dark reflections. An almost an hour and a half from cinematic landscape greets the visitor: a mirror of water flanked by Chachapoyas. vegetated slopes and enveloped by a curtain of mist that passes Marvel at nature and reach over a surface four kilometers long and two kilometers wide. It different waterfalls, such as presents a real challenge to trekking lovers. Chinata or Yumbilla. Location: Temperature: Chachapoyas province in the 15 °C (on average) department of Amazonas Elevation: Degree of difficulty: 2600 meters Medium Lagoon of the Condors © Arturo Bullard © Arturo of the Condors Lagoon 10 Destination Cusco Stunning hikes THE ANCIENT IMPERIAL CITY IS ALSO A LAND OF TRAILS. THIS IS A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE REGION’S TREKKING ALTERNATIVES. CHOQUEQUIRAO By now it is a maxim of contemporary tourism: walking to the dormitories and temples, all similar to those of Machupicchu, historic sanctuary of Machupicchu is something every traveler as well as a series of stone walls with rare camelid iconography should experience at least once. These trekking trails enclose a all stand out. cultural and natural adventure. Yet the charms of the region are However, the experience begins well before the traveler not restricted to its most famous Inca city. steps out along its terraces: the trekking—of four or five days, Nearby, in a hidden corner of the Vilcabamba Range, is depending on one’s physical state—normally begins at the Choquequirao. This archeological complex has begun to come town of San Pedro de Cachora (Apurímac department). It is to the notice of researchers and tourists because of its similarity here that a walk of 30 kilometers begins, crossing the Apurímac to Machupicchu— and some have even dared to call it “her River and continuing upwards, passing through the villages sacred sister”, although it is by no means a replica. of Santa Rosa and Marampata, until reaching Choquequirao. According to archeologists, it is the most authentic symbol of The scenery is powerful. There is also access from Mollepata, Inca resistance: the citadel where they took refuge in 1572 from Santa Teresa and Huancacallo of varying duration. From Inter- the advancing Conquistadors. As if it were a paradox, its history Andean valleys, canyons plunging to depths of 800 meters began at the end of age of the Tahuantinsuyo—as the territory and rural settlements, to the vitality of the jungle eyebrow and dominated by the Incas was known. It was conceived as a system subtropical Andean vegetation. Unlike other more crowded of Andean settlements and cities, coordinated by a network of trails, it is also possible to observe native animals, such as deers, roads. There are competing theories about its purpose—ranging spectacled bears, condors and medicinal plants, ferns, orchids from use as a cultural and religious center, to serving a strategic and bromeliads. transit point connecting the jungle with other centers in the empire. The effort is rewarded with a journey that blends Cusco’s Today a tour of this archeological center is organized around natural diversity with the mysteries and complexity of an nine architectonic groups.
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