Mountaineering in Southern Peru

The airport of departure and destination is Lima, now one of the largest million inhabitants, it is one of the largest cities in South America. After an extensive sightseeing tour of the city, the journey continues to Ica to Ica and the nearby oasis of Huacachina, embedded in mighty sand dunes. There we will do a desert hike as an introductory tour, exploring the desert and explore the desert and practice sandboarding under expert sandboarding. We will continue by bus to Arequipa, the second largest city in the second largest city in Peru, and one of the most climatically favorable with interesting colonial buildings. From there we will the first acclimatization tours, namely the Cerro Verde at Cerro Verde near Cayma in a very rare desert landscape and later desert landscape and later the Colca Canyon between Chivay and Cabanaconde. and Cabanaconde, the deepest canyon in the world. Beside great landscapes, condors can be observed here circling while circling. Afterwards we will go to the famous Lake Titicaca to Puno, situated at an altitude of 3,800 meters. Here is next to a 4,500 meter high Atoja and a visit to the Inca site of Sillustani. visit the Inca cult site of Sillustani, a boat trip on the highest navigable highest navigable lake in the world. Approximately 8 days these program points should take. From there we will continue to Cusco, perhaps the most most famous city in South America, but certainly one of the most most beautiful. After an intensive sightseeing tour we leave Cusco then in the direction of Ollanta, where we can already admire quite respectable Inca ruins can be admired, and we also get an impression of the Urubamba Urubamba Valley, the sacred valley of the Incas. The green landscapes are excellent for the cultivation of cultivation of cereals, potatoes and vegetables. We continue by train to Aguas Calientes, which is more of a retreat a place of retour, but at the same time the starting point starting point for a unique excursion the next day, Maccu Piccu. day, namely Maccu Piccu . By staying overnight we can we can avoid the tourist hustle and bustle and reach the monuments on stone Inca paths through the jungle. To experience the the mystical atmosphere even better, we can then climb we can then climb the Maccu Piccu mountain. Again on old we would normally go there without the company of other tourists. other tourists and then look down from above on the hustle and bustle around the old Inca city. After the visit to the monuments, we then return to Aguas Calientes and on the next day by bus and train via Ollanta back to Cusco. From there again the white city of Arequipa will be white city of Arequipa, to visit the extinct volcanic mountains of Misti (5.811 m) and Chachani (6.075 m). Both mountains can be climbed from Arequipa in two days. and, apart from the high altitude, offer hardly any technical difficulties, but the view and the natural experience are all the more overwhelming. These tours are also possible without alpine alpine knowledge, but a very good physical condition is required in any case. With the Chachani even a real 6,000 meter peak will be climbed. After these highlights then the return journey to Lima.