This
Inca road to the Machu Picchu of Northern Peru is rated better than the Inca
Trail in the south by all of our guests that tried both. You follow major Inca
roads by horseback, cross the Cordillera Central and descend to a level of
coffee farms. This birthplace of the Amazon River valley was first explored 20
years ago by Gene Savoy who claimed discovery of over twenty thousand stone
structures of the Cloud People. The conclusion is Fortress Kuelap, the largest
building structure of the Americas containing 400 buildings. Kuelap is a larger
scale of the many lost stone citadels in Gran Vilaya. These feature stone walls
with 15 to 200 buildings, -- covered with bromeliads and orchids and hidden in
the cloud forest.
Day 1 Chiclayo - Chachapoyas
Airport pick-up service from Chiclayo and transfer to Chachapoyas. Night in 3
star Colonial Mansion hostel.
DAY 2 Karajia - Belen
Private transportation to Karajia to see the sarcophagus, then to Cohechan, and
trek down to Belen. This is an ancient glacial tarn above the nightly freeze
line with a meandering river panorama extending for miles. Dinner and camping.
DAY 3 Congon– Vilaya Valley
Descend to Congon on a mile long Inca staircase past the ruins of La Pirquilla
to a level of bananas and coffee in the Congon Valley. Dinner and camp.
DAY 4 Cacahuasha – Gran Vilaya
Hike to Cacahuasha, the mountain top ruins hidden by the cloud forest and
covered with orchids and bromeliads in Gran Vilaya, found by our guide Damian on
the original Gene Savoy expedition. They claimed discovery of thousands of
ancient round stone structures all in fortified citadels hidden in this cloud
forest. Return to camp.
DAY 5 Abra Yumal - Choctamal
Cross the spine of the Cordillera Central on horseback through the cloud forest
and the ancient Lanche citadel, looking down at the clouds. Despite missing
pavement, all of these ancient roads were incredible engineered to follow the
most efficient grade, and often with a buffer shoulder on the steep side. The
Abra Yumal pass has views with clouds below where the main trunk Amazon River
violently carved out a valley deeper than the Grand Canyon to enter the Amazon
Basin. Supper, Jacuzzi and night at our Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge
located on the road to Kuelap.
DAY 6 Kuelap (Cuelap) - Chachapoyas
We will spend the day at Fortress Kuelap known also as “The Northern Peru
Engineering Masterpiece”. Kuelap has over 400 buildings inside 3 levels of walls
and is the largest stone structure of both Americas. Orchids and bromeliads
cover the walls and trees inside this undiscovered gigantic fortress that equals
Machu Picchu. On the way to Chachapoyas we will check out the decorated
Platforms of Macro located on a cliff overlooking the Utcubamba River. Overnight
in a restored Colonial Mansion.
Day 7 Chachapoyas - Chiclayo
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