Pricing 1680 USD per person.
Moderate-Rugged Challenge
10-days. Transport Chiclayo - Chachapoyas - Tarapoto included.
International and domestic airfare not included.

OR, ask for your own adventure to Chachapoyas based on your dates of travel.

Starting in Chachapoyas visit the local ruins sites in Chachapoyas: Kuelap, the mountaintop fortress of the Land of the Cloud People, the Sarcofagos of Karajia, the tombs of Revash, and the Inca Trail to Kuelap.

This trek then continues to the waterfall named Gocta, one of the world's tallest waterfalls.

The waterfall has rarely been seen by anyone, due to its remote location and legends that it is haunted by a mystical siren have kept the native population at bay for hundreds of years.

This waterfall has been known by locals for decades, but only recently has its existence emerged as common knowledge. Local people feared the curse of a beautiful blond mermaid who lived in its waters if they revealed its whereabouts. An ancient myth says that the mermaid keeps a golden bowl which in turn is guarded by a giant serpent.

10-day ITINERARY
Join us in October 2009 or ask for your own adventure to Chachapoyas based on your dates of travel.

DAY01: CHICLAYO - CHACHAPOYAS
In the morning you will depart from Chiclayo by car, van or minibus. You will cross 4 different Peruvian departments: Lambayeque, south Piura, the North of Cajamarca and end in Amazonas, starting in the coast and arriving in the late afternoon in the cloud forest of Chachapoyas.
Overnight Chillo lodge.

DAY02: REVASH - LEIMEBAMBA
After breakfast you will enjoy an excursion to visit the colorful funeral buildings of Revash perched on a ledge up high on a cliff. They overlook a valley and tributary of the Utcubamba, near the town of Santo Tomas. The Cliff walls at Revash are decorated with geometric designs and figures of camelids. Some of the tombs are decorated with T and cross-shaped niches. Then you will continue to town of Leimebamba to visit an amazing collection of well preserved pre-Inca mummies discovered in the Laguna de los Condores.
Overnight Chillo lodge.

DAY03: KUELAP - CHACHAPOYAS
After breakfast you will visit Kuelap, a spectacular pre-Inca walled city hidden atop a precipitous mountain. Although Kuelap was discovered 60 years before Machu Picchu, it is not as well-known to the outside world. Nevertheless recent amazing discoveries in nearby areas that relate to Kuelap and to its history have captured the attention of archaeologists, international magazines and film companies. Following your visit to Kuelap we drive to Chachapoyas city where we will spend a night at local hotel.

DAY04: MACRO – KARAJIA
Morning trek to Chachapoyas burial towers of Macro, an outpost of the Chachapoyas culture built into cliffs overlooking the Utcubamba river. It's unique location allowed for contact via signal fires with the fortress high above in the mountains and visible through a cleft in the valley hills.
We then continue to Karajia, a spectacular funerary site. Here we will find 3-meter anthropomorphic wooden coffins located under a cliff. Mummies were placed inside each coffin.
Return to Chachapoyas, overnight hotel.

DAY05: CHACHAPOYAS – GOCTA
Morning trip to Cocachimba town.
Hike to Gocta Waterfall. (upper level of the falls and view point).
Overnight Camping.

DAY06: GOCTA
Hike to the lower level of Gocta waterfall.
Overnight camp in Cocachimba

DAY07: Moyobamba
Road trip to Moyobamba.
Overnight Puerto Mirador.

DAY08: Moyobamba
Abisado Reserve – light jungle trip in canoes full day.
Or, visit Vivero Nuevo Destino orchid greenhouse.
Overnight Puerto Mirador.

DAY09: Tarapoto
Road trip to Tarapoto.
Afternoon visit to Lamas Indians.
Overnight Rio Shilcayo
DAY10: flight to Lima or to Iquitos for extension to the Tahuayo Lodge.