Important :
In the colca canyon hiking we have 3 kinds of services:
*Service in a local bus, private transport and by tourist bus
Positive Aspect in local bus service:
-Is a good choice to do economic and cheap trek
-You get to know Perú in a different way, there’s more contact with local people and tourist as well.
-With the local bus we can observe the condor cross (the last day of trek).
Negatives aspects in a local bus:
-Local bus transport is different in Perú, it is a basic service. Inside the local bus there’s no heating nor air conditioning. Some Windows are sealed and are not able to open, and others can’t close.
-Normally in a local bus everyone sits but there are people who are stand.
-In the local bus there’s no toilet, the bus just stop to pick passengers up in different towns and stop in chivay village( toilet).
-With the local bus you can’t visit turistic places in the Colca Valley just in Condor’s Cross and in Chivay (hot springs).
Transport private service
-Private transport service is opposite to the local bus service that stops in the toilets and in places to take pictures and it’s more confortable.
The service in private transports is more expensive.
- It's a service to people who are interested in visiting the colca valley, remember that the trekking is into the Colca Canyon.
- It’s a service to people who likes the confort into the transport and to know the Colca valley.
-In the thirth day when we get back to Arequipa city in a private service, we visit the colca valley doing stops like to do sightseeing terraces, pre-inca tombs, sightseeing volcanoes, the national reserve of Salinas and Aguada Blanca: Llamas, vicuñas, alpacas and colonial towns etc.
In tourist bus service
It is a service where there are only tourists, in the tourist bus there are usually between 25 and 30 passengers.
The bus passes by each hotel to pick up passengers. Imagine if the day of departure there are 25 people, then this bus pick up the passenger from 13 different hotels.
That's why it always prevents the client must be between 3:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. waiting the tourist Bus, you should wait without knowing the exact time of pickup.
In conclusion, the bus leaves from Arequipa to 5:30 am, and continues to the condor cross without stops along the way. The bus arrive at the condor cross at 10:30 am, the bus wait 30 min. In the condor cross. Remember that the local bus arrive at 12:00 . Another negative aspect is that this tourist bus arrive very late to the Condor Cross. We can see the condors?
Return (third day) the bus leaves at 10:00 am. From Cabanaconde to the village of Chivay, without any stop or visit Colca Valley.
A positive aspect of this tourist bus service, is usually in the big buses there is toilet, but remember in the local bus service we can go to the toilet in Chivay village.
For all the reasons explained above we do not recommend the trek in tourist bus service. |
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