Tarapoto to Chachapoyas
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We invite you to visit important archeological ruins and stunning natural attractions on this tour. Tarapoto, known as the "City of Palm Trees" is in an area that features dense tropical rainforests, orchids, ferns, and giant ceiba trees in the high jungle zone that transitions into the Amazon basin. There is a high diversity of colorful butterflies, poison dart frogs, and monkeys.
Cocachimba is in an area of thick, mossy cloud forests where trees are often shorter (dwarf forests) and are covered in bromeliads and lichens. It is a prime habitat for the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Peru's national bird). The Gocta waterfall there is one of the highest waterfalls in the world at 771 meters (2,530 ft) and is considered one of the most beautiful and the Karajia sarcophagi are truly unique. The Kuelap fortress is one of the most important and largest pre-Inca ruins in South America (called "The Machu Picchu of the North"). The outer walls were up to about 60 feet high, almost 2000 feet long and 360 feet wide and inside are the remains of over 400 circular dwellings. |
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DAY ONE: TRANSFER FROM TARAPOTO TO CHACHAPOYAS BY PRIVATE CAR
Arrive to the Tarapoto airport by about 9am. We will depart from here to arrive to the city of Moyobamba where we will visit the private conservation area of Wakanqui, where we will appreciate more than 40 varieties of orchids, bromeliads and more than 15 species of hummingbirds. Then we will have lunch to continue our journey in the middle of the typical cloud forest of the Alto Mayo conservation area, until we reach the community of Pomacochas where we will make a technical stop to take pictures with a view of the lagoon that bears the same name. Then we will go down to the village of Pedro Ruiz to continue our trip in the middle of the Utcubamba canyon, finally arriving to the community of Cocachimba, where we will spend the night at the Gocta Andes Lodge with the best view of the waterfall. 
DAY TWO: VISIT GOCTA WATERFALL FROM GOCTA LODGE
After breakfast at the Gocta Lodge we start our hike at 8:00 am, appreciating the two waterfalls and the fields of sugar cane and other typical products of the place and then go into the typical cloud forest, habitat of the Cock of the Rock (national bird of Peru) the yellow-tailed monkey, hummingbirds and other birds. Arrival at the base of the waterfall, visit, take pictures and learn about the waterfall, then return to the community of Cocachimba for lunch. Then rest and relax at the Gocta Lodge and its swimming pool with the best view of the waterfall. 
Walking to Gocta Waterfall
DAY THREE: VISIT KUELA FORTRESS FROM GOCTA LODGE ENDING IN CHACHAPOYAS
After breakfast, depart from Cocachimba at 8:30 a.m. to visit the archaeological monument of Kuelap. Enroute we will stop to view the ruins of Macro and explain the history and function in relationship with Kuelap. Then you will take the cable car to get to the La Malca parking lot. Continuing on we will tour Kuelap, which dates back to the sixth century AD. Our tour will take approximately three hours, and after meeting back at the parking lot we will take the cable car to the village of Tingo and stop for lunch. In the afternoon we will continue our journey to the valley of Utcubamba and then to Chachapoyas where you will spend the night in the Hotel Xalxa*** 
Mountain-top ruins of Kuelap
DAY FIVE: TRANSFER FROM CHACHAPOYAS HOTEL TO CHACHAPOYAS AIRPORT
After breakfast at the hotel, we will pick up you from your hotel to transfer you to the airport of Chachapoyas to take the airplane to Lima. Also see our other 2 |
DAY FOUR: FULL DAY VISIT PUEBLO DE LOS MUERTOS AND KARAJIA SARCOPHAGI
After breakfast at the hotel at 7:30 am, depart from Chachapoyas to the community of Lamud, then you will continue to the parking lot of the Pueblo de los muertos archaeological complex, where you will start to hike appreciating the flora and fauna of the place. Then we will visit the archaeological complex with the best view to Gocta waterfall and the two canyons of Sonche and Utcubamba. After visiting these places, we will continue our hike back to the parking lot to get back to the Lamud community to have our lunch. After lunch you will continue to the Cruzpata community, where you will have a thirty-five-minute walk in order to visit the sarcophagi of Karajía. Here you will see the very distinctive way that they buried dead people in the Chachapoyan culture (they were built on a high and inaccessible platform protruding out from a mountain). Return to Chachapoyas for overnight at the hotel La Xalxa***. 
Karajia Sarcophagi
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