Kuelap Fortress Tour from Chachapoyas with Cable Car
From €62 per person
See availability →A Kuelap fortress tour from Chachapoyas by road and cable car, with a live guide on the ruins of the Chachapoya citadel, lunch in Tingo and a viewpoint over Macro.
This Kuelap fortress tour from Chachapoyas starts in the main square of town, where the transport heads down the Utcubamba valley toward Nuevo Tingo. The drive takes about an hour, and from the cable car station the ride up to La Malca lasts around 20 minutes, with the Andean landscape opening out below you.
From La Malca a 25-minute walk leads to the citadel itself. A certified guide spends about three hours with you among the walls, explaining who the Chachapoyas people were and other known facts about the area, within the largest pre-Inca archaeological site in South America.
- Kuelap, the mountaintop fortress often called the Machu Picchu of the North
- Nuevo Tingo and the cable car back down to Tingo
- A viewpoint on the way home with a view of the Macro archaeological site
Lunch is at a local restaurant in Tingo before the road back to Chachapoyas. Pick-up and drop-off, tourist transport, the entrance ticket and the cable car tickets are all part of the tour, so there is nothing to arrange on the day. Tours run in English or Spanish.