Huaraz, Peru Travel Blogs

A quick update
Aug 3, 2006

... flat valleys, and a bull attacking a guide going in the other direction. I´ll post a more detailed account of the last week or so tomorrow from Lima. I´m taking an 8-hour night bus from Huaraz to Lima, then I´m going to Cuzco on Saturday. More tomorrow.

The hiking Mecca of Cordillera Blanca
Jul 18, 2005 (35 photos)

... over 20 snow-capped peaks over 5000 meters, of which the most notable is Huascaran (6,768m), the highest mountain in Peru." And its true :) We spent a few days in Huaraz just chilling (yes we do seem to do rather alot of that)but it was hard to do ...

Acclimatising again
Sep 28, 2006 (1 photos)

Arrived here about 6am this morning ready to embark on reacclimatise again having sacrificed our height going to Lima. Town is pretty small and not a lot to see but the views are stupendous of the mountains around covered in snow. We eventually found ...

Cloud touching: a lesson in high altitude living
Aug 3, 2005 (21 photos)

... mud?? It was Peru´s Independence Day which meant it took us two extra days to reach our destination of Huaraz as all the buses were full, but this is Peru and whilst waiting for a bus we wandered around the vast ruins of an ancient mud brick city, "Chan ...

Travel plans made, kind of...
Sep 20, 2005 (1 photos)

So I have kind of been thinking a bit the last few months. Should I just stay down here in South America until Christmas, or should I try to make my way to New Zealand and/or South-East Asia? It's the one positive (or negative, depending on how you look ...

Happy to Find a Little Bit of Home
Mar 16, 2005 (3 photos)

... a bus to the town of Chavin, located adjacent to the ruins of Chavin de Huantar. The bus ride between Chavin and Huaraz is pretty spectacular, even though the clouds prevented us from seeing the whole white-capped landscape. The road between the two towns ...

Back to the City of the Snowcapped Peaks
Dec 4, 2005 (32 photos)

... that came to Lima for a day and ended up staying for 10 ... thanks to me and my co-worker Boris showing them such a good time. Huaraz is also the city that I lost all my photos of thanks to a clever pickpocket in Lima. So I am here to retake some of ...

The City of the Snowcapped Peaks
Oct 15, 2005 (5 photos)

... 10. Fortunately, the buses here are the big luxury coaches and nothing like the "chicken bus" experience through Central America. Huaraz is situated in the 2nd highest mountain range in the world and is surrounded by 22,000 foot snow-capped peaks ...

Mancora, Huanchaco, Huaraz
Oct 11, 2006 (26 photos)

... to us apologizing for the uncomfortable conditions on the bus and their fellow countryman's dishonest behaviour. A visit to the Andes Huaraz is a town in a stunning location amongst the snow capped peaks of the Andes. This part of the Andes is known ...

Now we´re movin´
Oct 23, 2005 (10 photos)

... bloody dog, vicious combo of the very suspect burger I ate before getting on the bus, no sleep, and the 3000+ metre altitude of Huaraz, our current location. Ah hah, so its not all fun and games they think! Well, I slept for 23 hours straight, literally, ...

Huaraz - Day 98
Apr 14, 2009 (11 photos)

Arrived in Huaraz at 6am and was approached by several guys offering hostels and treks. At this point I just wanted to get my head down for a proper sleep after being completely frozen on the bus for most of the 9 hour journey. Must be close to freezing ...

Trekking in the Corillera Blanca
May 5, 2006 (16 photos)

... be good enough for basic communication. With his wide smile and chiselled features, Juan looks a bit like a Peruvian William Defoe. Day 1: Huaraz to Cashapampa to Llamacoral We get up at 6am and eat breakfast in the hostel. By 6.30am we are in a taxi ...

Hiking in the Cordillera Blanca
Aug 22, 2004 (20 photos)

... it is almost impossible to capture in words the awesome magnificence of the snow-capped peaks along the Callejón de Huaylas in the Huaraz area of central Perú. As we made our way through the valleys and passes, every turn in the road, or twist on the hiking ...

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Sep 9, 2008 (32 photos)

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Huaraz
Oct 17, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Huaraz in our entry from Lima, Peru entitled 'Darkest Peru'. Cheers, K & S

Second highest mountain range in the world!
Oct 3, 2007 (105 photos)

... The butchers overcooked the meat so bad that it was pretty much impossible to chew.  After paying $5 (which is a fortune in Peru) and waiting 5 hours I only had one bite of meat.   Everyone ended up giving their meat to the dogs that lucked ...

smashing times at chav ruins and hot brown pools
Dec 16, 2006 (6 photos)

... later. All the tunnels were designed with natural air conditioning which means no musty smell. .   We left Huaraz the next evening, on an 8 hour overnight bus to the capital city, Lima. The most entertaining part of the ...

Men in Tights
Jun 18, 2004 (5 photos)

... out to be great and so comfy for sleeping so we took it in turns to sleep the night away to Lima. What I Learned * I can handle altitude * It is funny (and possible) to kiss a man wearing tights * Huaraz might be dirty, but it has beautiful vistas

Snow-capped peaks and glaciar lakes!
Jun 26, 2005 (7 photos)

... , the scenery changed again and we came across lush green valleys, snow-capped peaks and very bumpy roads! We arrived in Huaraz late afternoon, found a cheap & cheerful hostel and decided to frequent a pizza place named after Pep...Pep's Pizza place! You ...

happy new year
Sep 21, 2006 (2 photos)

happy new year

sunny huaraz
Sep 25, 2005 (4 photos)

... get on and off in a attempt to sell me and ad anything from corn on the cob to newspapers to sunglasses. once we arrived in huaraz we suddenly felt the altitude abit as walking up the hill gave us a good headache, the town is at over 10,000 ft. the ...

Aufwaerts
Jul 7, 2009 (2 photos)

... hingehen koennen. Unterschiedliche Aussagen. Wir kaufen Futter und gehen los zu einigen Ruinen mit einer fadenscheinigen Karte. Es geht aus Huaraz raus an einem Fluss entlang, der fast komplett zu ist mit Muell. Weiter oben waschen sie Waesche. Dann eine ...

huayhuash
Sep 21, 2006 (5 photos)

i did a trak of 8 days. in huaraz area. it´s call huyahush.it´s a name of couple of mountenes

Chavin de Huantar
Jul 5, 2009 (5 photos)

Travel through the Cordillera Blanca, pass the Cahuish Tunnel, arriving in Chavin de Huantar, South America’s oldest and most advanced cult ure in the past, and one of the six independent centers of civilization in world prehistory. In Chavin we ...

Huaraz: Hiking the Poop Trail
Mar 21, 2008 (20 photos)

... yes i am backdating this entry (i am actually in in chiclayo now) check this page in a week or two for fotos of huaraz so yes huaraz was lovely it is a city wedged between the cordilletra blanca and the cordillera negro o f the andes (sorry for the ...

Another 10!
Jun 3, 2007 (5 photos)

The sun had just barely inched up over the horizon as we pulled into Huaraz, Peru.  Huaraz is a mountain town north of Lima situated between the more famous Cordillera Blanca and her less famous sister the Cordillera Negra, 2 mountain ranges that ...

back in civilisation
Jul 9, 2005

Hi guys,.... Well, I am back in civilisation after 10 days... And I am sooooo shocked.. nope, I hadn´t heard of the terrorist attacks in London till just now... we didn´t even come past a village for 10 days and were totally remote. We were even " ...

Huaraz - Sta Cruz Trek Day 2
Nov 9, 2006 (5 photos)

Up at 6, on the trail at 7. The sun tries to come out but it remains overcast. We are supposed to have views of the snow capped mountains but still have one of the valley. Rick pace is very fast as we hit the steep climb to the summit. Samir and I keep a ...

Hiking the Cordillera Blanca
Aug 7, 2007 (5 photos)

Taking a well-deserved break from crumbling rocks, I boarded another night bus for Huaraz (this time pressing my finger print onto a sheet of paper before boarding... you have to wonder what it could be used for, except maybe to identify a body ...

Over the mountains and through.. more mountains
Sep 29, 2009

... Warning: this entry will contain a fair amount of whining     This evening finds me having finally reached Huaraz, a trek-heavy town nestled in the midst of the Cordillera Blanca (big, snowy peaks - the mountain in the Paramount logo, ...