Peru holiday, culture of the Northern Andes
Includes: • Tour leader • Internal flights • Transfers in Latin America on tour dates • Transport and accommodation • Meals and excursions as per tour profile
Description of Peru holiday, culture of the Northern Andes
The north of the country is much less visited than the south, and travellers with a sense of adventure and a love of discovery will relish this 15-day northern Peru holiday, exploring Andean culture, archaeological treasures and spectacular landscapes. Meet friendly, welcoming people as you travel and with each day you’ll learn more about the traditions and ways of life of this remote region, which has changed little in decades.
Things are a little rougher around the edges in the north of Peru, so travelling around the area involves some long road journeys, but this is a chance to really explore authentic South America. Your journey takes you all the way from the capital, Lima, to the vibrant and extremely friendly city of Chiclayo on the north Peruvian coast, and finally east, into the Amazon Basin. Explore the abundance of ancient sites and mystical ruins in northern Peru, built by the Incas and earlier cultures, shop in local markets and hike through wild landscapes as you go.
Among the many highlights of this trip are the walled, mountaintop city of Kuelap, the amazing ruins of Chan Chan, whose adobe complexes blend into the sands, and the fascinating cliff tombs of Revash. Towards the end of the tour, you will also visit the Santa Elena Reserve in the Amazon Basin. Taking a canoe tour through the flooded forest in search of monkeys and other tree-dwelling wildlife, you can learn about the efforts three local families have made to conserve it.
This is a fully escorted small group tour (maximum 20 people) with an experienced and immensely knowledgeable tour leader with you throughout. As well as handling all of the logistics so you can relax and enjoy your holiday, they will bring the sites and landscapes of northern Peru to life with informative and entertaining commentary.
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Includes: • Tour leader • Internal flights • Transfers in Latin America on tour dates • Transport and accommodation • Meals and excursions as per tour profile
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Planet
On this tour we visit the far more off the beaten track area of Northern Peru, where tourism is still in its infancy compared with the south and offers a valuable asset to communities in this traditionally poorer region. We use public transport on one of the longer journeys from Trujillo to Cajamarca and take walking tours of the town centres at each spot.We have had extremely complimentary reports on the drivers we use for the transport in the Amazonas region of this tour. They are very cautious drivers, take care not to erode the mountain roads and are very safe. They are all local and know the routes and road extremely well and communicate through our Tour Leaders to the group about their upbringings and knowledge of the area.
People
We use small locally run hotels in almost all the locations. We also make sure we make use of the places offering food to travellers who come through the more remote towns such as Chillo, Leimebamba and Chachapoyas as they do not have such an influx of visitors as other parts of the country.Local guides are used at all the sites. We actually include them on nearly all our excursions. We didn’t used to but we asked to in order to provide more work for the local guides. We encourage shopping of local fruits or food or drinks on the side of the road on the route into the Amazonas region as there is little tourist traffic that comes that way.
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