Olleros Llama Trek

Chavin de Huantar
Service Class: Private Service
Group Size: 2-10
Distance: 37km+
High spot: Llamas, hills, local people, landscape, Culture
Duration: 3 days - 2 nights
Rating: Hard
Starting point: Canrey Chico 3360m
Max. Altitude: Yanashallash 4700m

Finishing point: Chavin de Huantar 3137m

This Trek takes three days and two nights overnight in a tent at 4000m, It starts Canrey Chico, Olleros. We hike through a Pre Inca trail with beautiful Andean landscapes and llamas that carry our luggage. The route is about 37 km, the third day we get Chavin de Huantar a Peruvian Archaeological site of great cultural importance in Peruvian history. We take llamas as a pack animal, with the interest of evoking our ancestral traditions and strengthening our cultural identity, remembering the "Pilgrimages" that the ancient Peruvians made to the Temple of Andean Knowledge.

Itinerary:
Day 01: Drive from Huaraz (3100m) to Canrey Chico (3360m) hike to Tsacracancha (3900m)

We drive from Huaraz to Canrey Chico and begin hiking at 3400m with trek-team (tour guide, llameros who leads the llamas and cook) when we arrive in Azulwanka, we offer an Andean ritual to "Pachamama"; with coca leaves and chicha de jora to the Kintus to the "Wanka". This activity is organized by the Tour guide, llameros and with the participation of the customers after that, we continue to the first campsite Tsacracancha at (4100m) Where you can taste the Andean dinner, tinged of Andean stories.

Day 02: Tsacracancha Hike up to Yanashallash pass (4700m) and hike down to Shogopampa (4150m)

We hike along the Pre-Inca Trail, from "PampaWayi" it is a rocky path of the millenary road, which was built from the time of the development of the ChavĂ­n Culture; and we hike up to the Yanashallash pass (4700m.), the highest point of the trek. In this high point, we will share the offerings like sweets, coca leaves in the "apachetas" after that we hike down to the next campsite which is Shongopampa at (4150m)

Day 03: Shogopampa(4150m) - Chavin de Huantar (3137m) - Huaraz (3100m)

We hike down and we arrive at Chichucancha village, one of the Andean communities that maintain its ancestral traditions in their Inka style houses, it is interesting to stop to see the peak of Huantsan mountain. The Hirka of the Andean cosmovision, that gives rise to the Huacheksa gully, where we descend to the archeological site of Chavin de Huantar. We visit Chavin and the museum, this is one of the Pre-Inca cultures where galleries and temples predominate. We return to Huaraz.