Pastoruri Glacier Day Tour from Huaraz with Puya Raimondi
From €32 per person
See availability →A Pastoruri Glacier day tour from Huaraz with hotel pickup, a one-hour walk to the ice and a visit to the Puya Raimondi plants of the Carpa valley.
The Pastoruri Glacier day tour from Huaraz begins with a pickup at your hotel or at a meeting point in the city, then two hours on the road south to the parking area inside Huascarán National Park, declared a World Natural Heritage in 1985. Pastoruri is one of the easier snow-capped peaks to reach.
From the car park a one-hour hike leads to the closest point of the glacier. The guide explains how climate change has hit the place and driven the glacier back, and mentions that skiing, once practised here, is now forbidden to protect the ice. There is time for photos of the landscape.
Afterwards the transport continues to the Carpa valley, home of the Puya Raimondi. These huge plants belong to the bromeliad family and can reach about 39 feet in height and live up to a hundred years.
- Spanish-speaking professional guide
- Transport and hotel pickup
- Return to the meeting point in Huaraz
Food and drinks, tips and park admission, paid locally, are not included, and the hotel drop-off is not part of it. The tour takes roughly eight hours and is not suitable for wheelchair users.