Revash Hotel Chachapoyas

... occupied until around 1570.<br><br>Our tour guide was fantastic and showed us a miniature model of the site showing the various buildings. The size of Kuelap is impressive and it makes you think the level of effort and man power it would have taken to build the site. We have heard that there was more stone used to build Kuelap than used for the great pyramids. Inside there are 4 levels or platforms, providing cylindrical housing to the various levels of people ...

... Then, with little warning, we rounded the side of the mountain we had been slowly ascending... and were confronted with incredible rugged mountain scenery. Just as I was thinking that I had been on more scenic journeys in Colombia and Ecuador, my jaw dropped in awe of what I was seeing. Multiple high peaks and passes extending towards the horizon. And there we were on an extremely narrow dirt road winding our way down. I tried to take some photos but it ...

<br> We arrived at Chachapoyas at four in the morning. We climbed off of the bus and it was still pitch black out and everything was still closed. Man, what we would have done for a 24 hour McDonalds right then and there! But there wasn&#8217;t one and we wandered down to the Plaza de Armas in search of an open restaurant. We didn&#8217;t find anything. We sat in the empty plaza for a while, still in a sleepy stupor, and then realized that wasn&#8217;t really ...

Chachapoyas. Known locally as 'Chacha' (this makes me smile), its a small town in the mountains of northern Peru. Its simply surrounded by antiquity - there are dozens of pre-Inca sites, many of which have yet to really be uncovered. The mountains around Chacha are genuinely littered with ruins that are completely overgrown. You can walk around, randomly look up at a mountain side and see a wall peering out of the undergrowth - probably an ...

After another incredibly uncomfortable bus ride we arrived in Chachapoyas at 5am. Luckily this time we were something that slightly resembled being prepared, and managed to be in bed alseep by 6.30am. Woo hoo. So by noon we were totally ready to find ourselves a tour for the following two days to see some more awesome and exciting ruins, and of course food. <br>Day one and we show up at the hostel not really sure what the day´s itinerary included, and despite that we ...

I arrived in Chachapoyas right at the start of a week of cultural festivities. The first day, there were dancers in traditional indigenous outfits along with a marching band making there way around the Plaza de Armas. I watched from an upstairs balcony at my hostal where I had a great view of the plaza. After the first day however, the atmosphere changed quite a bit. I should mention that in the last couple weeks, there ...

Nous prenons des le matin un combi pour Chachapoyas (2335 m). Nous arrivons en pleine fete du village, repetition d'un festival proche. Nous posons nos affaire a l'Hospedaje Continental et nous renseignons sur Kuelap. Nous decidons d'y aller avec le bus qui part a 3h30 du matin. Au diner, je goute un Cecino de res, viande de boeuf fumee et salee servie avec du manioc. C'est pas trop mal. <br>

... and sound and started off on the 2 Km hike to the site. The Chachapoya people had numerous villages in this area but Kuelap was a fortified city of 3500 people constructed between 900 and 1100 A.D. The 700 meter long, oval shaped city was built on the top of a mountain at an elevation of 3200 meters. The walls range from 6 to 12 meters high and there were 5 entrances through the walls to the city inside. The entrances narrow as one enters ...

... of Karajia on my own. According to the book...when will I learn?...this site can be reached by taking a collectivo to to Luya and then changing to another collectivo to Cruz Pata. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? When we were in the collectivo to Luya we asked the driver about where to find the one to Cruz Pata. He told us that we might be able to find one but getting back would be nearly imnpossible as very few go there. Great. So we decided ...

... future these figures will fall from the ledge, as erosion takes its toll on the rock scape. The wall seems to be very fragile, largely sandstone type of material. Pieces of the wall fall regularly and were in evidence on the pathway below the relics. A number of other relics have already fallen. As with our other recent trips, the road up through the mountains to get to ...