4-Day Pre-Inca Trail Trek to Chavín de Huántar from Huaraz

• Arrive in Huaraz and meet your official trekking guide. Dedicate the day fully to acclimatization.

Stay overnight.

• Have a refreshing breakfast in Huaraz, get picked up from your hotel, and transfer to the trailhead of Canrey Chico (3350 masl), about 30 km south of Huaraz.

• Meet the donkey drivers and pack horses, load the trekking equipment, and start hiking along the Rio Negro Valley toward the eastern side and the white mountains.

• Ascend to the Sacracancha campsite (5-6 hrs) as you go up the valley through some of the nicest landscapes.

• Set up the tents.

Overnight at around 4090 masl.

• Enjoy an Andean breakfast at the campsite and start hiking through a pasture area in the highlands.

• Hike up to the highest point of the trail at Punta Yanashallash, 4800 m (5-6 hrs).

• Walk down along the zig-zag, stone-paved Pre-Inca Trail, preserved in its natural position as the Pre-Incas built it with stones. This is the entrance to the sacred capital of Chavín.

• Arrive at the campsite at Shongo, 4088 m.

Dinner and overnight.

• Enjoy a wonderful sunrise at the campsite. The trek starts after an energetic breakfast and passes through several small Quechua villages before arriving at Chavín de Huántar, 3090 m.

• Arrive around midday in Chavín and immediately visit the huge Chavín Pre-Inca ruins complex with your Peru tour guide.

• Visit the museum located a little outside Chavín on the north side.

• Have lunch in Chavín.

• Spend the night in a basic hotel in Chavín or return to Huaraz late in the afternoon.