Chachapoyas

如何抵達

It is possible to fly from Lima directly to Chachapoyas, or to Jaén or Tarapoto. Flights to Tarapoto can be as cheap as $30, but it is eight hours away from Chachapoyas. Jaen is slightly more expensive ($50) to fly to, but is just four hours from Chachapoyas and has 2 daily flights with Latam. The bus is not cheaper if you book flights in advance. As of 2022, ATSA has direct flights to Chachapoyas once daily from Lima that cost $70 each way if booked in advance. Movil Tours has direct buses Lima/Chachapoyas that pass through & leave Chiclayo. Civa has daily bed buses from Lima taking about 22 hours with movies and meals furnished on board like Movil Tours. Cost is about US$45 one way from Lima. Zelada offers daily service at a bit of a discount, and Paredes Estrella has a bed bus, but you must get off at Pedro Ruis and take a combi leaving about every hour for a 2-hour trip for about $2. Most of the bus stations are in La Victoria a walk apart, but to get downstairs for a "full bed" you may need to buy your ticket in the day on the double deck bus to reserve. These leave in the evening, so with a sleeping pill, the long trip isn't bad at all. Take a throw or blanket for the night. There are nightly service from Trujillo (4PM) and Chiclayo (7PM and 8PM) & arrive in Chachapoyas around 5AM. Civa three times a week from Lima and nightly from Chiclayo. Transervis Kuelap and Transportes Zelada have nightly buses from Chiclayo. A more arduous route takes 2 days from Vilcabamba & Zumba in Ecuador crosses the frontier at Balsas & goes via San Ignacio to Chachapoyas. You can also arrive from Tarapoto to the east. Getting down from the buses in Pedro Ruiz and catching local transport for the final leg up to Chachapoyas. There's only one daily service from Cajamarca leaving at 4:30AM with Virgen del Carmen (S/50 one way, May 2014), Movil tours has discontinued its more comfortable service. This is a spectacular road to travel and in a big bus definitely not for the faint-

當地交通

There are daily vans & taxis from Chachapoyas to Kuelap, Leymebamba and Luya. Most leave from their respective stations 2 to 3 blocks from the main square.

必看景點

Kuelap - an ancient stone city with walls up to 12 m high - the largest pre-Inca ruins in South America. Some older information you may find says that you need to walk for several hours to get there but there is now better access by car, and even better, a newly finished (2017) cable car. Cable car ticket (S/26 as of May 2024) sales is slightly above Nuevo Tingo (walkable but a bit up hill for 300m), where you board a frequent bus that goes to Platform 1, and a thrilling 20 minute ride across the large valley that offers spectacular view over the entire landscape, with the highest distance from the ground sitting at a whopping 220 meters, saving you a 2 hour journey around this deep gorge. Once on Platform 2, it is a newly constructed visitor center with bathrooms, souvenir stands, interpretation center, and a restaurant. Here you can also hire a horse (S/25 each way) up to Kuelap entrance. Recent collapse on the south wall in 2020 resulted in a different approach to the city, which involves a 1.5km walk, mostly uphill that takes around 30 minutes. A guide hire is recommended as there is no information board anywhere inside the ruins, and each group is limited to 12 and the entire circuit is roped to restrict movement and damage. Day tours are available from Chachapoyas on a daily basis (S/100). Karajia - anthropomorphic sarcophagi built on a narrow cliff ledge. Tours (~S/90 as of May 2024, infrequent tours offered by Turismo Explorer, said to be 2-3 times a week) combine this with a trip to Pueblo de los Muertos (Town of the Dead), another site with several different types of sarcophagi built on cliff sides, along with houses. (As of 2024 the tour no longer offers the walk to see the sarcophagi in this site, only taking you to the viewing platform perched on top of the cliffs around 200 meters away. Then lunch in Lamud, and then continue to Karajia for the famous sarcophagi.) The walk to Karajia proper is 1.5 kilometres but quite steep. Horses can be hired for S/20

體驗活動

There are many agencies and guides available, and trekking offers from the 1-day trip to Gocta (a 6-hr walk there and back) to a 4-5-days trip visiting other archaeological sites. Turismo Explorer does day trips and a trek to Gran Vilaya. Vilaya Tours higher end tours and treks all around the Chachapoyas area. Tourist Week is the first week in June, with a large parade from many villages of all the provinces of Amazonas participating on the Sunday. Lots of traditional clothes and customs to be seen. The Patron Saint of Chachapoyas is the Virgin of Asunta and they celebrate the festival in Her honor during the first two weeks of August.

Chachapoyas Tours (Los Tambos Chachapoyanos), 452 Santo Domingo. Chachapoyas Tours is the original land provider and built 2 lodges for the villages to give them the incentive to protect their archaeological ruins. One is near Kuelap in Choctamal and the other in Levanto, with perhaps the best unrestored Inca roads in Peru. From Levanto it goes downhill for 3 to 4 hours with spectacular panoramas and Inca engineering. An Inca Military garrison guards over 3000 km of major Inca roads and a side branch takes you to Yelape, the 2nd largest fortress after Kuelap.

美食

El Eden, Jr Grau 448. Vegetarian restaurant with daily menu's of about 4 soles. Also open for breakfast and lunch El Tejado, Santo Domingo (a couple blocks from the plaza). This is the best restaurant in Chachapoyas. La Tushpa, Jr. Ortiz Arrierta N. 753 (1 1/2 blocks from the corner of the big Church on the placa the armas), ☏ +51 41-777471. 1-11PM. simple local restaurant with a friendly owner and really good steaks and other meat dishes. S/12 soles for a steak with rice and alittle salad.

住宿

There are many hotels and hostels in the budget and mid-range categories within two blocks of the main plaza.

Casa Monsante, Jr. Amazonas 746 (From the church, uphill 2 blocks). Casa Monsante is a restored ancient mansion in the historical section of town with extensive orchids.

順遊推薦

Kuelap on your own account. There is no public transport (combis) from Chachapoyas to Kuelap. You can take a public combi to nearby Pueblo Maria (about 2 hours travel)and from there follow the road to Kuelap, an easy 2 hours walk. You may find a taxi in Pueblo Maria but do not count on that. Combis and colectivos to Pueblo Maria leave Chachapoyas early in the morning (around 5AM), look for the office of Roller´s two blocks down from the plaza, passing the market. At Pueblo Maria you can stay the night in one of the several rooms made for visitors by villagers. There are several restaurants as well at Pueblo Maria (good trout). You can go back to Chachapoyas by public combi or walk down to the village of Tingo which lies halfway on the road between Chachapoyas and Leymebamba. The walk from Kuelap is interesting but quite long, going down abo