Full-Day Tour to Lake Paron from Huaraz, Peru

Breakfast in the Hotel around 6am and depart with our minivan around 7am. We are directed to the North side along the Callejon de Huaylas valley. Our tour will start in Huaraz 3100masl. then we pass the typical small villages of Paltay, Tarica, cross the Rio Santa to the left side and pass more typical villages like Jangas, Yungar and Anta. From here we can appreciate the beautiful white mountains Huandoy, Huascaran, Hualcan, Copa and others. You may take a photo-stop point!

Then we continue passing the Marcara district and go to Carhuaz. We can walk around the Plaza de Armas! After we proceeed to the Historical province of Yungay the ancient buried city at 2500masl. A piece of the Huascaran mountain north peak broke and made a huge avalanche mud and ice blocks and in 6 seconds destroyed Yungay province. A guided visit will take you around 45 minutes.

Start now the unpaved trail going up along the Paron River full of eucalyptus trees and typical houses of peasants. After a few minutes we will start driving up by a wonderful valley full of polylepis trees called quenuales. Then we finally arrive to Paron lake and enjoy walking around the lake and do a short hike to the top of the lake. Enjoy time taking pictures and then it's time to return to Caraz by the same route for lunch in a typical restaurant.

Around 3pm after lunch we drive back to Huaraz arriving at around 6pm.