Lake 69 hiking

Tour summary

Tour type: hiking
Hiking Grade: Moderate
Duration:  1 days
Best time to go: April - November
Maximum Altitude: 4650m
Average walking per day: 6 hours.

Itinerary

At 5:30 AM pick up in the hotel and transfer in a van to Cebollapampa 3900m, on the way we see the peaks of the Cordillera Blanca, like Huascaran mountain 6768m, the highest peak in Peru; we visit towns of the Callejon de Huaylas located in the North, also we go by on the shores of Llanganuco lakes, where we make an stop to take some photos, we get to Cebollapampa after of 3 hours, from this point we start the hiking, we will go up to 69 lake 4650m, we take a path between trees and we walk for a small valley near to the rill, we get to the lake after of 5 hours, this lake is really impressive, a turquoise color lake located below the steep peak of Chacraraju, getting to the lake we walk around, take some pictures and make a short rest. Then we walk down for around 3 hours for the same path where we started the hiking (Cebollapampa), there a van will wait for us, to take us back to Huaraz, we arrive in Huaraz around 6:30 PM. Lunch on the way. Getting in Huaraz, transfer to the hotel.