Ulta Trek: 6-day guided hike in the Cordillera Blanca

First, a transfer will take us from Huaraz, along the Callejón de Huaylas, to the Cashapampa village, where we will meet our group. After that we will start our trek along the right bank of the Santa Cruz River through a narrow valley with waterfalls, groves, bushes and trees. We then reach a wide meadow, where is located our campsite. Overnight camp at Llama corral.

This day we will walk uphill along the green lush valley of Santa Cruz until we reach Quisuar. After that we will walk on a steep hill to Alpamayo where we’ll enjoy an amazing viewpoint above the Arhueycocha gorge. Then the route takes us to the isolated Taullipampa campsite.

Optional: we can keep walking up to Alpamayo base camp and the Arhueycocha Lake. From its shores you will have a better view of Pukajirca, then we’ll go back until we are in the Taullipampa campsite, where we’ll spend the night.

This day we will walk on a gradual ascending route across the Pre-Inca trail. We then reach the Punta Union pass, with a superb view of the surrounding summits, like Pukajirca, Taulliraju, Artezonraju Andquitaraju, Taillicoca and Jatuncocha in the Santa Cruz valley. We’ll descend towards the Huaripampa valley. The camping for the night is located at the junction of Paria Valley and the Huaripampa gorge.

Today we will walk down to a wide meadow and a flat valley. It is an easy trail until we reach the Huaripampa village, which we will pass directly in direction to Molinopampa, where we’ll set up our camp for the night.

After breakfast we will start walking up gradually in the company of amazing views. The trail goes through the incredible Andean vegetation, until we’ll reach the glacier lakes. Finally, we’ll be in the Avalanche camping area, where we will see several avalanches falling down and we’ll spend the night.

Last day. We will walk in direction to the Yanayacu pass, where we can take the most amazing pictures of the giant summits of Huascaran and Chopicalqui. We will then continue walking to the Ulta valley (the bridge) where our trek ends. Here awaits our private transfer to bring us back to Huaraz.