Peru North Expedition

DAY 1: TRUJILLO
-Transfer from the Airport or bus station to your Hotel.

City Tour
– Visit of Trujillo city. The tour begins in the Main Square, Cathedral, Urquiaga House, the Emancipation House, Iturregui Palace and finally we visit the Archaeological Museum of the National University of Trujillo.

– Overnight in Trujillo.

DAY 2: FULL DAY – HUACAS DEL SOL AND LA LUNA – CHAN CHAN
Huacas del Sol and La Luna – Huacas de Moche Site Museum 
– Visit of Huacas del Sol y La Luna, capital of the Moche culture. At the moment it is in excavation Huaca de La Luna. It is possible to see the beautiful murals with the representation of the God Ai-Paec, also known as the “Decapitator.” After this visit we go to the Huacas de Moche Museum.

Chan Chan – Site Museum and Huanchaco
– The tour begings in the Site Museum where there is a scale model of Chan Chan city, and then we enter to the Nik An Palace that is the only one open to the tourism.
Finally, we depart to the fishing village of Huanchaco, famous for the “Caballitos de Totora”, boats made in reed.

– Overnight in Trujillo.

DAY 3: TRUJILLO – EL BRUJO COMPLEX IN THE CHICAMA VALLEY 
The Brujo Complex – The Lady of Cao Museum
– Departure to the Chicama valley to visit the Archaeological Complex “El Brujo”, administrative center of the Moche culture. The temple Cao Viejo is the visited place. On the walls of the temple there are designs of prisoners, warriors and other important ceremonial designs. In 2006 was discovered a royal tomb of a principal woman, called “The Lady of Cao”. All the objects and as well the mummy are in exhibition in the Cao Museum.

– After this visit we continue in route to Cajamarca city.( 6 hours of distance from El Brujo).

– Overnight in Cajamarca.

DAY 4:  CITY TOUR – VENTANILLAS DE OTUZCO – BAÑOS DEL INCA
City Tour
– We begin visiting the historical Main Square, the Cathedral, the San Francisco church and the chapel of the Dolores’s Virgin, patroness of the city. We walk to the Belen Complex to visit the Belen church, the old Hospital of Men and the Hospital of Women where now the Archaeological Museum is. Then we enter to the “Ransom Room”, site where was prisoner the Inca Atahualpa. We finish the City Tour with the ascension to the Santa Apolonia hill, to see “the seat of the Inca” and to have a panoramic view of the whole city of Cajamarca.

– Time for Lunch (Not included)

Ventanillas de Otusco – Baños del Inca 
– Visit to the necropolis of Otusco, well-known as “small windows”, later we go to  Baños del Inca, tourist site with thermal water, historical site because of was a place of recreation of the Inca Atahualpa. Of this time is conserved the bathtub where the Inca took a bath.

– Overnight in Cajamarca.

DAY 5: CUMBEMAYO AQUEDUCT
The Route of the Cumbe
– In the route to Cumbemayo we will stop in the Mirador of Bella Vista, to have a panoramic view of Cajamarca, and then we will observe the remains of the archaeological place of Layzon.
After 20 km. we will arrive to Cumbemayo , we will visit the small Site Museum and we will walk to the visit the Sanctuary, the  Forest in Stones, the Cumbemayo Channel, stopping to see some petroglyphs worked along the aqueduct. In the route we will know the techniques used to allow the control of the water speed.

– Free afternoon.
– Overnight in Cajamarca.

DAY 6: TRANSFER FROM CAJAMARCA TO LEYMEBAMBA
– Breakfast
– Transfer from Cajamarca to Leymebamba. You will have a beautiful route, we stop in Celendín and Balsas located in from to the Marañon river. We will have time for lunch in Calla Calla pass. We will visit the Leymebamba museum.

– Overnight in Leymebamba town.

DAY 7: REVASH MAUSOLEUMS – MACRO HOUSES
Mausoleums of Revash
– Departure to Revash, mausoleums located in the high of a mountain. From the distance they seem houses in red and yellow, but at the time of the Chachapoyas they were used as funeral places.

On route to Chachapoyas we will stop in front to Macro, important Chachapoyas round houses built in stone with diamond designs.

– Overnight in Chachapoyas.

DAY 8: KARAJIA SARCOFAGUS – QUIOCTA
Depart to the town of Cruzpata to begin a 30 min walk to visit the burial site Chachapoyas sarcophagi Karajía, considered the most spectacular and unique in all of Peru and the world. Its funerary statues are located in inaccessible cliffs and have been kept there for centuries. Here lie the mummified bodies of the most important rulers of the Chachapoyas.

Guided tour, lunch and explore the cave of Quiocta with thousands of stalactites and stalagmites

– Overnight in Chachapoyas.

DAY 9: KUELAP
Kuelap, Clouds and Mountains
– Departure to the citadel of Kuelap, Capital of the Chachapoyas Kingdom. After to cross the town of Nuevo Tingo where the aerial experience begins with the modern Kuelap cable car —a 20-minute journey over valleys and mountains. Kuelap in the highest summit, located 3.000 m.a.s.l. The tour in the interior is fascinating, we will walk on dry grasses, finding to each step vestiges of stone constructions. The are about four hundred circular houses, some of them with enigmatic reliefs.

– Overnight in Chachapoyas.

DAY 10: TRANSFER CHACHAPOYAS – CHICLAYO
– Transfer from Chachapoyas to Chiclayo (about 10 hours). Before arriving to Bagua Grande we cross the Marañon River, then we find the Utcubamba River.In the route we will cross the Andes by the lowest pass in Peru, Porculla (2145 m.a.s.l.).

– Lunch on route.
– Overnight in Chiclayo.

DAY 11: TUCUME – ROYAL TOMBS MUSEUM – SIPAN
Pyramids of Tucume

– Visit of the Ceremonial Center of Tucume, archaeological complex composed by 26 pyramids. This site was the second Capital of the Lambayeque or Sican culture.

The important site museum offer details about the Lambayeques and the city.

The Royal Tombs Museum
– Visit to the Royal Tombs Museum of Sipan, the most modern in Peru. The journey allows to know all the objects found in 1987 in the place of Huaca Rajada, well-known as Sipán.

Sipan – Huaca Rajada
– In the afternoon we will visit Sipan or Huaca Rajada, place where was made the most important archaeological discovery of Peru. In the place there is a replica of the tomb of the Lord of Sipan and other tombs discovered until now.We also visit the Site Museum where you will see the ornaments of the last 3 tombs discovered in Sipan.

– Overnight in Chiclayo.

DAY 12: BRUJOS MARKET – MUSEUM OF SICAN
Mercado de Brujos – National Museum of Sicán
– Visit of Mercado de Brujos, where we will be able to find the different objects, plants and ornaments used in the rituals by the Shamans or brujos.

– Departure to Ferreñafe, to visit the National Museum of Sican where are exhibited the objects of gold found in Batan Grande, old capital of the Lambayeque or Sican culture.
– Free afternoon.
Transfer to the airport or bus station.

What is Included:
– Private transportation: minivan with air-conditioning.
– Professional Tour Guide.
– Entrance fees.