COLCA CANYON ADVENTURE BIKING AND TREKKING TOUR $475 USD PerPerson

At 8AM we pick you up from your hotel and 4 hours by our own 4WD, this travel is between the Misti and Chachani volcanoes up to 4850m where will see Llamas, Alpacas, Andean birds also will appreciate the Vicuñas, this animals living are protected by the national reserve of Aguada Blanca and Salinas. We'd have a nice blue sky while doing our downhill MT. bike trip, beginning at the highest pass on this trip, named Patapampa (4850M) from here is possible to observe the volcanoes chain and mountain range in the South of Peru, to rice our bicycles on a nice asphalt or taking single track on the ancestral Inca trail, descending 1200M to Chivay town (3600M).

In Chivay we will have lunch and at 1PM continue biking on dirt road on the left bank of the Colca River, crossing between old pre Inca terraces and small villages and visiting colony churches. Finally we will arrive at Maca village (3350M); after 4-5 hours here we will spend the night camping around the Colca River or in a nice family accommodation (L - D).

At 6AM after packing everything, have our energetic breakfast and continue traveling 2 hours and 40 minutes on our own private 4x4 vehicle, continue on the left bank we will arrive at 8AM to the popular Mirador Cruz Condor, and stop for about 2 hours to be able to see the condors flights, getting pictures of the small villages in the deepest part of the deepest second canyon in the world. At 10AM we will ride down until Cabanaconde (3280M) this short trip biking take one hour and half, short recognition of this Andean town surrounded by green terraces. Full downhill on serpentine dirt road to the Colca River, where is nice abandon valley named Soro (1800M), this is one hour of the most adventurous downhill in the canyon. For experience bikers this downhill offer great opportunities for single tracks until the suspension bridge.

After full adrenaline downhill we let our bikes on the supporting vehicle and short trekking along the canyon to Llahuar lodge (1950M), located on the left bank between the Colca and Llatica River. Accommodation in bamboo rooms running by local family, late afternoon you can enjoy the thermal baths next of the river (B - L - D).

At 5AM short trek by the same way of the last day to meet our four wheel drive vehicle, from Soro we drive up to the pass between Cabanaconde and Huambo, this pass have 4100M and from here one hour downhill to Huambo (3000M) and we will see some quiet and nice farmers living from the agriculture, spectacular views of this dry and deepest area of this canyon - Continue travel in our 4x4 we will reach the highest point (4300M) of this day where is a perfect lookout of Ampato Volcano, driving around this volcano we will in the middle of two small Volcanos of Qerqe plain, where we stop for lunch on the middle of the mountains. From here is the last downhill on dirt road from the highlands to the coast, descending 2800M at 40KM. After 3 hours on our bikes we will be in EL PEDREGAL, from here we will take our 4DW and drive into the Pan-American Highway to Arequipa. At 7-8PM enter to Arequipa, directly to your hotel and end service (B - L).