Drive Huaraz - Chavin de Huantar

After 40 kilometers of driving on the main road from Huaraz in the south direction the road turns and rises more than 500 vertical meters to a large upland pampa. The mountains are far on the horizon.

Horizon is clearly dominated by amazingly pointy mountain of Huantsan – not only because of this top belong Cordillera Blanca to the most beautiful mountains in the world.

Pampa stretches for kilometers away. It would have been very impractical to walk here on foot.

After another ten kilometers you come to a beautiful lake Querococha ( 4002 m asl ), where you can just enjoy the views of the surrounding mountains or take a ride on a boat. Sometimes you can see here also llamas. Two valleys connect at the lake – through one of them leads a road to the pass and further to Chavin and the other leads up to the mountain ridges and other small lagoons in a completely deserted landscape.

The path culminates with a half kilometer long tunnel Kahuish ( 4,516 m n m ). The pass itself is even a hundred meters higher. From there it falls around a big Jesus through meanders down.

After a narrow valley opens a beautiful view of the southern slopes of the mountains dotted with thousands of fields.
 

The remnants of woods in between agricultural used land give impression as an oasis.

The fields here have been built over the centuries on sunny places. After several hours of driving you finally arrive to Chavin de Hunatar ( 3157 m asl) famous for Inca pyramid.