El Choro Inca Trail

The group will be meeting in the center of La Paz  at around 8:00 in the morning, and we'll depart by car en route to La Cumbre 15,420 feet above sea level, our trek's starting point an hour away in the frosty Andean highlands. We'll trek up 646ft to reach El Choro, an ancient pre-Inca trail which was incorporated into the famous and extensive Inca Trail network. Along the trail we'll descend through the splendid Andean mountain landscape, in certain areas the trail has even been paved with stones by the Incas. We'll arrive at our destination, the village of Challapampa, after a 6hr descent through this astounding landscape. Here we'll set up our camp for the night.

After a appetizing breakfast we'll embark along an 8hr up-and-down trek along a gradually shifting climate as we say goodbye to the cold Andes and enter a lushly vegetated tropical zone blessed with a great amount of hummingbirds. We'll take in breathtaking views of the inimitable Yungas Cloud Forest, a high-altitude rainforest surreally bathed in clouds, and the Inca trail itself. After entering the warm Yungas valleys, we'll set up our second night's camp in the little village of Sandillani.

On our final day this pre-Inca and Inca trail will take us along semi-tropical jungle paths whose wealth of surrounding vegetation will daze you. We'll walk for about 5-6 hours among the striking flowers and large ferns to the village of Chairo on the shores of the Huarinilla River, where our private transport will be waiting to transport us to La Paz.