INKA TRAIL - DAY 1

45 km of a lifetime experience!

One of the most famous treks in Peru and probably in the worlds is the Inca Trail. The classical 4days and 3 nights is a great opportunity for a lifetime experience.


It doesn’t matter where you’re staying the night before your trek is going to start on the KM. 82 known as PISCACUCHO Checking Point. There is a big parking lot (remember 500 people is starting that day) with restrooms available for PEN.1.00 and your last chance to buy water (03 liters recommended for the first day). After the picture with the big sign that welcomes you to this adventure is time to go thru the Control Point. Don’t forget your passport since it’s the only valid document to get in the trail and get stamped it!


Crossing the bridge over URUBAMABA River is like crossing the gate to a parallel dimension where the adventure is. It’s time to start walking, depending of your campsites you will have different walking sessions, here my recommended trek.

CHAPARRI, A DRY FOREST?

CHICLAYO AND THE ADVENTURE - DAY TWO

Gosh! No matter how old you’re waking up at 5.00 am is always hard. Ceci and I arranged a tour to visit a reserve 60km east Chiclayo, and the night before starting at 6.00 am haven’t sound that bad. After “fighting” my bed and finally getting off for packing a small day pack for our adventure I was ready to leave. We made a bad decision of asking to be pick up at the Cathedral entrance , DON’T do it, Chiclayo down town very early in the morning can be very unsafe since there isn’t public lights after 5 am when is still very dark.

The original tour is explained as a half day tour and we were planning be back in town for lunch time (that’s one of the reasons why we started so early); basically this Natural Reserve is located around 60 km east from Chiclayo, so we calculated 2 hours to go, then 02 more to visit and another 02 to return, but that’s not the reality, and it’s better not tight so much your schedule.

Fernando, our driver, explained that we were going to a Privet Ecological Reserve and told us as well that we contacted the Reserve’s Responsible to organize our tour (I don’t have 100% clear how we managed to get that number) and of course that’s why the price was considerably lower than the one we were told in the travel agencies,’Good on us’ we congratulated ourselves. Fernando gave us lots of information about the region we were going thru, making several stops on our way to Chongoyape ( the last town before Chaparri) and obviously we spend more than the original 02 hours planed.

CHICLAYO AND THE ADVENTURE- ONE DAY

MUSEUMS AND PYRAMIDES

 

Cecila and I decided to make a trip up to northern Peru to the famous Kuelap, unfortunately the awful weather forced us to change our plans and stay in our official “departure city”; Chiclayo.

After 13 hours in a night bus from Lima and the sad decision of no going to our original destination we start doing a quick research about our new “quick break” destination, luckily Chiclayo has a lot to offer.

How we pretty much wasted our first morning in Chiclayo (making decision and finding a hostel) we tried to take advantage of the day going to the closest place, LAMBAYEQUE TOWN located only 12km away from the city. There’s public transportation to go there from ELIAS AGUIRRE SQUARE. You either can take a colectivo (a regular car for 4 people / Cost: PEN 2.00 p.p) or a combi (a minivan for 12 people/ Cost: PEN 1.50 p.p). We decided to take the car and asked to be drop off close to the museums, that stop is right in the main avenue at INKA FARMA drugstore, which is a middle point; to the left for BRUNING MUSEUM or the right to TUMBAS REALES DE SIPAN MUSEUM, which is the most interesting and interactive.

Carnival Cajamarca 2012

Street Party in Cajamarca. Opening celebrations for Carnival 2012, all is joy and happiness in one of the most traditional peruvian people's party. I'm back after 20 years and it gets better and better