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FLY & DRIVE NOR YAUYOS IN 4X4
7 days/ 6 nights program Lima to Lima Approximate distance to drive: 750 km.
The Scenic Nor-Yauyos Reserve, 221,268 hectares large, is one of the most beautiful areas in Peru. Highlighting the reserve are an impressive and unique series of waterfalls, turquoise, crystal clear lagoons, deep canyons with creeks running through, and queñual forests, all surrounded by the snow-capped Raimondi and Pariacacca mountains. The small, traditional Andean villages along the Cañete River deserve a visit, with their antique churches, colonial homes and bridges that give you the sensation that time has stopped. Furthermore, this area is filled with terraces and archeaological complexes, as well as many diverse species of birds.
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SUGGESTED ITINERARY
Dia 1. Arrive in Lima, be met and transferred to a hotel in Miraflores. Here your 4x4 will be waiting for you.
Dia 2. Free day in Lima to visit the various musums around the city and enjoy the world-class gourmet food for which this capital city is so well known.
Dia 3. Leave Lima in the morning and head south on the Panamerican Highway until you arrive at the Pachacamac Ruins, an important Pre-Inca worship site. After the visit you will continue to San Vincente de Cañete where you will head east through the valley of the same name, passing by the Imperial city and through the villages of Lunahuaná and arriving at the Rio Alto Hotel.
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Dia 4. After an early breakfast you will continue our journey through the valley, passing the towns of Pacarán, Zúñiga, Catahuasi and Magdalena. Arriving at Llapay after traveling 115km you will take the shortcut and continue another 12km to Laraos, a small village that is hundreds of years old. You will stop here for lunch and to wander through the picturesque streets, located 3,310 meters above sea level. You can also visit the beautiful colonial temple, the Yuncalara waterfall and the Cochapampa Lagoon, surrounded by some of the best conserved prehispanic terraces in Peru.
After a brief visit in the town you will once again go down to the valley and the Cañete river and continue our journey past the Piquecocha Lagoon and the colonial town of Vitis until you finally arrive to the town of Huancaya, located 138km from Lunahuaná, and whose name means town of large rocks in Quechua. Tonight you will stay in the Hostería Municipal in Vilca after traveling 179km., or about 9 hours including stops and visits.
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Dia 5. After breakfast you will visit the most important colonial construction in Vilca, the double-arched foot bridge the crosses the Cañete River, a work of colonial art and engineering. From here you can backtrack using the same route to Huancaya to experience the outstanding scenery in the morning light, or you can travel from Vilca to the Papacocha lake, where the water is so clear you can see the trout swimming. After an hour and a half of riding past waterfalls and small lagoons you will arrive at Papacocha lake, located at almost 4,000 meters above sea level. You will return to Vilca and again stay in the Hostería Municipal.
Dia 6. You will leave early and head toward the Mantaro River and climbing a 4,500 meter mountain pass passing the towns of Cochas and Pachacayllo where the paved road to the Central Highway begins. You will arrive at Jauja which was the first colonial capital in Peru and where you can choose to have lunch. After a short rest you will continue following the Mantaro River until you reach the important mining town of La Oroya. Here you will begin our ascent to Ticlio, located at about 4,800 meters above sea level. From Ticlio you will descend through the Rimac River Valley until you reach Lima. Today you will travel a total of 285km, an estimated 9 hours including rests. In Lima you will arrive at your hotel and return the vehicle. Your 6-day total is 830km!
Dia 7. Transfer to Lima airport.
Lunahuana
Here in Cañete and Lunahuaná you can find many restaurants serving local favorites. Try a delicious seafood plate and sample the local pisco – you´ve earned it! Today you traveled 192km, or about 6 hours including stops.
Huancaya and Vilca
The scenery along the Cañete river here is some of the most magnificent in all of Peru, and you can see where the river splits and goes uphill towards the village of Vilca (3.770 meters above sea level), considered by many to be the touristic jewel of the province of Yauyos. In all 17km. that separate Huancaya and Vilca you can see an infinite amount of lagoons, waterfalls and tributaries of the Cañete river.