Karajia and Quiocta Cave

Description Karajia and Chachapoyas Cavern Tour

With the Karajia and Chachapoyas Cavern Tour or “Karajia Sarcophagus and Quiocta Cavern Tours”, you will be able to combine history and adventure, in this tour to Chachapoyas we will spend half the day in the bowels of the earth exploring the fascinating Quiocta Cavern. We will have the opportunity to observe interesting rock formations, archaeological remains, stalactites and stalagmites that are observed while hiking through the gloom of the cave.

A professional guide will lead us through the six rooms of the Quiocta cave. In the afternoon, after lunch we will tour the Purunmachus of Karajía. These funerary structures are considered unique in the world for their style of construction, content and location. During all this touristic circuit of Chachapoyas we will also appreciate the surrounding landscape with amazing views, after these excursions to Karajia and Quiocta we head back to Chachapoyas. The ancient Chachapoyas will impress us with their burial customs and the location of their monuments in front of landscapes of incomparable beauty. This is one of the trips that one remembers for a lifetime!

Chachapoyas Full Day is undoubtedly one of the best tourist destinations in Peru, however, there is a tour in Peru that every traveler dreams of reaching at least once in his life and this is the tour to Machu Picchu, combining these two tourist destinations Cusco and Chachapoyas will make your trip to Peru the best adventure of your life, what are you waiting for to know these places?

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT

• Province of Luya
• Utcubamba Valley
• Town of Cruzpata

Karajia and Quiocta Cave

• 07.15 am We will start the tour from the city of Chachapoyas towards the province of Luya, we will descend first to the Utcubamba valley, emblematic place of this pre-Columbian civilization. When passing to the left margin of the Utcubamba, in the high part of the valley, the city of Lámud is located.
• We will organize our lunch by placing an order in advance at a local restaurant. Immediately after, we will take the bus that will take us to the Quiocta Caves (2,700 meters above sea level) and start our tour package in Chachapoyas. Once we arrive at the cave of about 550 meters deep, we will take time to appreciate the rock formations that the earth and water have left us through millions of years.
• This tourist place in Chachapoyas called Quiocta gives us the source of water and remains of the ancient inhabitants of Utcubamba, who found in the caves, as well as the way to communicate with their universal Mother, the Earth. At the end of the tour in the cavern, we return to Lámud for a traditional lunch.
• Then we will continue our journey to the town of Cruzpata and begin our tour to Karajia starting with a 2 km walk to the sarcophagi of Karajia (mules and muleteers are available and it is an optional service). Upon arrival at Karajia, our guide will show us around the site.
• We will learn about the religious beliefs of the Chachapoyas and other cultural factors that archaeologists have discovered in recent years. We will conclude the tour with a viewing of the most popular sarcophagi and also discover others that intrigue visitors from all over.
• At the end of our tours to Karajia and Quiocta, we will return to Chachapoyas. Arrival time will be approximately 6.30 pm.

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH – AGENCY / DINNER – PASSENGER