Parque Nacional Huascaran Huaraz

Entry containing 73 photos titled: Huaraz

While the rest of the volunteer group went on a weekend camping trip with the kids, I stayed behind to catch up on errands and other much needed 'to do' things. Having some spare on Sunday, I found a last minute 'discounted' (you never really know if you are getting a deal or not here) day tour out to the Pastoruri Glacier. The tour happened to be …

A new record for physically difficult thing that I have done in my life, but that means it also nears the top of most awesome things I have done.

Wednesday morning at 7 our group met up at the Montrek office in Huaraz. The trekkers included myself; Oliver, a 20-something Frenchy with tons of energy; Phil, a 33 year-old African by way of …

We had planned to head straight up the coast towards Peru's beaches to finish our time in the country. However we then read about trekking in the Cordillera Blanca (part of the Andes range) and decided it would be worth the detour and so headed for the town of Huaraz which is a starting point for many of the treks.
Unfortunately on arriving in …

... up Huaraz. Spoke to the tour agency in the hostel and decided to do the 4 day santa cruz trek in nearby Parque Nacional Huascaran. Thus the day was spent kitting ourselves up to do this. Managed to buy a much mroe reasonable food selection than for ...

... up to the Alpamayo (5947m) lookout.  From here we walked through the valley before reaching our campsite in Parque Nacional Huascaran, exhausted, but happy. The final day was spent trekking through the valley, along the river and down to Vaqueria, ...

... access and generally excellent climate with such an alpine wonderland of towering, ice-covered peaks. The Cordillera Blanca, the Parque Nacional Huascarán, is truly a treasure of the natural heritage of Peru and the entire world, a great living outdoor ...

... ;our way, then we saw the Orconcocha and Chinancocha lakes of Llanganuco. We get  to the control  parque nacional Huascaran, the register be there. After to be in this office we goes to Yungay,  then  we back ...

Vee and I have just finished a 2 day and 1 night dream hike in Parque Nacional Huascaran just outside the town of Huaraz Peru. Throughout the hike we were treated to magnificent views of snow crested mountain peaks, glistening glaciers and emerald green ...

... around at a few of the many local trekking agencies we decided on the 4 day / 3 night "Santa Cruz" trek in the Parque Nacional Huascaran which promised stunning views of the Cordillera Blanca. Our US$80 per person bought us a guide for the four days, all ...

... . After almost an hour along a bumpy road, the driver let us out on a gravel path leading into Parque Nacional Huascaran. We stepped into the Quilahayonac River Valley and hiked upvalley, passing waterfalls cascading down the valley walls and herds of ...

... in and splurging the 1 sole for a Styrofoam cup of coca tea.  Pastoruri Glacier is on the other end of Parque Nacional Huascaran from Laguna 69 and I was looking forward to seeing more of the Cordillera Blanca.  Side note #1: this is the ...

The Cordillera Blanca Approximately 100km inland from the Pacific and within the Parque Nacional Huascaran, the `White Range´, a particularly impressive range of mountains in the north central Peruvian Andes, is about 180km long and ...

... Glaciers. The bus took us out of Huaraz for about three hours along the Cordillera Blanca range until we reached the Parque Nacional Huascaran National Park. We were dropped off near the gates at an altitude of 4,900 metres and had to walk the final 3km ...