A full route through the Callejón de Huaylas: the town of Carhuaz, the Yungay Campo Santo — a memorial to the 1970 earthquake — Huascarán National Park, and Llanganuco Lake, its two turquoise lakes framed by snow peaks.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

We cross the Cordillera Blanca through the Cahuish tunnel to Chavín de Huántar, one of South America's most important archaeological sites: underground galleries, the Cabeza Clava and the Lanzón, symbols of a civilization that predates the Inca.

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• – Does not include lodging or flights.

The archaeological remains of Honcopampa, a hike to the Yuracyacu waterfalls, and a close at the Chancos thermo-medicinal baths.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A short tour through Huaraz and its surroundings: the Temple of the Lord of Solitude, the old José Olaya street, a trout hatchery and a viewpoint over the city, closing at the Monterrey hot springs.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A two-lake route in a single day: first Rajupaquinán, then Laguna 513, beside the Hualcán mountain — the same peak behind the 2010 landslide that reached all the way to Carhuaz.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

The most iconic trek in the Cordillera Blanca: a six-hour hike from Cebollapampa up to Laguna 69, a turquoise mirror at the foot of Chacraraju, with the Pisco, Chopicalqui and Huascarán peaks in the background.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A five-hour hike from Pitec up to Churup Lake, the final stretch climbing through rock with fixed ropes, the Churup peak as the backdrop.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A hike through the Ulta gorge, past forests of quenual trees, up to Hualcacocha Lake, at the foot of the Hualcán and Ulta peaks.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A short, accessible hike up to Llaca Lake, at 4,450 meters, the Ocshapalca, Ranrapalca, Vallunaraju and Rima Rima peaks ringing the glacial cirque.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

The largest lake in the entire Cordillera Blanca, ringed by the Huandoy, Pisco, Pirámide de Garcilaso and Artesonraju peaks — the mountain that inspired the Paramount Pictures logo.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A hike through the Paqcharuri gorge to Rocutuyocq Lake, at 4,550 meters, with views of the Paccharaju, Bayoraju, Copa and Akilpo peaks, plus a stop at the Paqchruri waterfall.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

The longest of Huaraz's lake hikes: seven hours up to Shallap Lake, with views of the San Juan, Tumarinaraju and Huantsán peaks.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

Huaraz's most accessible viewpoint: a two-hour climb up the Cordillera Negra to Wilcacocha Lake, with the entire Cordillera Blanca laid out in front of you.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

The climate-change route up to the Pastoruri glacier: Puya Raymondi forests, ancient rock paintings, and a spring of naturally carbonated water, before the final walk up to the glacier itself.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

A three-to-four-hour horseback ride along mule trails through the Cordillera Negra, with views of the main Cordillera Blanca peaks from the village of Yungar.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.

We cross Punta Olímpica, the highest and longest trans-Andean tunnel in the Americas (4,735 masl), on to Chacas, a colonial town known for its woodcarving.

• ✓ Includes: transport + local guide.
• – Does not include lodging or flights.