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Chachapoyas

Chachapoyas is a city in Amazonas.

Travel to Chachapoyas & Visa Requirements

  • Movil_Tours[1] has buses from Lima that pass through & leave Trujillo (4pm), Chiclayo (8pm) & arrive in Chachapoyas around 5am. Transcarh arrives from Lima, while Civa & Transervis Kuelap both come from Chiclayo. All travel from Chiclayo overnight.

A spectacular route takes 2 days from Vilcabamba & Zumba in Ecuador [2] crosses the frontier at Balsas & goes via San Ignacio to Chachapoyas, or Tarapoto, Yurimaguas & Iquitos.

Tours & Getting around Chachapoyas

There are kombis daily & taxis from Chachapoyas to Kuelap.

Chachapoyas attractions and sightseeing

  • Kuelap & many other sites of the Chachapoyas culture.

Precolombianworld[3]has interesting links.

  • Zumbilla & Gocta the world´s 3rd & 4th tallest waterfalls.

Chachapoyas city tours

There are many agencies and guides available, and trekking offers from the 1 day trip to Gocta (a 6h walk) to a 4-5 days trip visiting the local ruins).

Before and up to 15th of august the locals celebrate the Mamasu fiestas. Worth seeing!

You can also do a tour to see the shaman sarcophogi in the Valley of the Dead mountains. You can arrange a tour and it's about an 1 hour hike. Really worth the trek, but make sure you are not afraid of heights!

Chachapoyas souvenirs & shopping

Chachapoyas Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

Chachapoyas nightlife, bars, clubs & pubs

Chachapoyas cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels & lodging

Get out

There are kombis to Kuelap & Leimebamba daily. There are buses twice weekly from Leimebamba to Celendín, & several daily from there to Cajamarca & from there back to the coast. This means that it may take more than three days to get from Chachapoyas to Cajamarca. A kicker way is to go from Chachapoyas to Chiclayo (arriving at about 4 am) and then getting a Bus at 6am to Cajamarca (6h). Beware of robbers at Chiclayo Bus station!

This page was last edited at 12:52, on 15 July 2008 by Nick Roux. Based on work by David, Stacy Hall and Colin Jensen, Wikitravel user(s) TrujilloPeru and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.

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