🔵 🚌 Approach: 4-hour bus ride.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 5- to 6-hour hike.

   🔵 ⏰ Pick up from your hotel at 6:00 a.m. Today, we head north of Huaraz, passing through the Callejón de Huaylas to Caraz. We'll have a break for breakfast and learn about the local customs. After our time together, we head to the town of Hualcáyan (3,150 m), where the muleteers and donkeys will be in charge of transporting our luggage.

   🔵 🚜 At the beginning of our hike, we'll meet local farmers and ranchers. We then begin a gradual ascent along a zigzag path to our camp, which boasts a spectacular sunset and extraordinary views of the Cordillera Negra.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 8.7 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 7-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 After breakfast, we begin our uphill hike, where we'll have views of the Yanacocha and Azulcocha lagoons. Continuing our hike, we reach the Cullicocha Lagoon, which awaits us in all its splendor, characterized by its blue color. We'll admire the famous Santa Cruz Grande mountain. We then continue ascending to the Osoruri Pass, the highest pass on the circuit, where our campsite is very close by.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 11.7 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 8-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 "It's the day I've dreamed of." We begin the ascent toward the pass along a very easy and short path, then descend along a zigzag path to Ruinapampa, where we'll see terraces that were once used for agriculture. We then head towards the Valle de Cedros, which will bring us closer to the summit, allowing us to admire the pyramid-shaped Alpamayo snow-capped mountain (5,947 m) on its northeast face. It's considered the most beautiful mountain in the world, a dreamlike and incomparable moment.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 12 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 8-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 After breakfast, we'll begin the hike. As we ascend, we'll enjoy breathtaking views of the snow-capped mountains of Alpamayo, Quitaraju, Jancarurish, and Santa Cruz. As we approach the pass, we'll be surprised by the wind, which increases. After reaching the pass, the wind lessens, but the view is magnificent. From here, we descend to the second pass, which is very gentle, from where we'll observe the Pucajircas and Laguna Safuna. After taking photos, we'll descend and find alpaca-raising families near our camp.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 12.5 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 7-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 We begin our hike through the Yanaquenua Valley until we reach the pass where we will see the Pucahirca and Sactaycocha snow-capped mountains. We then descend through a valley of quenuales and lush vegetation to our camp, located below the Chacraraju snow-capped mountain. Local women in traditional attire await us, offering us beer and hand-woven textiles. Here we observe people wearing their traditional colorful ponchos.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 13 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 7-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 This day, we begin the hike with a stunning view of the northwest face of Taulliraju. We then ascend through the Tingopampa Valley, where we will meet local people herding animals. After the pass, we will descend through the Tuctubamba Valley to the Quisuar junction and then take a short climb to our camp next to the Huecrococha lagoon.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 13.5 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️Approach: 6-hour hike.

   🔵☀️ After breakfast, we begin our hike along a fairly flat, lush trail. We then take a zigzag path, where we'll encounter lupines along the way, up to the Alto Pucajirca pass (4,650 m). From here, we'll see mountains such as Taulliraju, Pucajirca, Artesonraju, the peaks of Huascarán, and others. We then descend along a zigzag path to our camp.

   🔵📏 Distance: 9 km.

   🔵🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵🚶‍♂️ Approach: 6-hour hike.

   🔵🌄 We begin ascending through the Santa Cruz Valley toward the pass, where we'll have spectacular views of the Taullicocha and Hatuncocha lagoons, surrounded by the snow-capped mountains of Artesonraju, Quitaraju, Rinrijirca, and Pucajirca. We then descend to our camp at Taullipampa (4,250 m).

   🔵📏 Distance: 10.5 km.

   🔵🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approach: 8-hour hike.

   🔵 🌄 This day we head through the Arhuaycocha Valley to the Alpamayo base camp to observe the east face of Alpamayo, Quitaraju, and Artesonraju, considered the "Paramount Picture" mountain. We then descend through the Santa Cruz ravine and pass the Hatuncocha and Ichiccocha lagoons along a largely flat path to our camp at Llama Corral.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 15.5 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snack, lunch, tea time, and dinner.

   🔵 🚌 Approximation: 3 hours by bus.

   🔵 🚶‍♂️ Approximation: 4 hours by walk.

   🔵 🌄 This day we begin our hike through a beautiful valley covered in vegetation. Along the river, we'll pass a waterfall covered in quenuales and quisuar trees. We then descend, accompanied by the sound of the river, to Cashapampa, where our private vehicle will be waiting to take us to the city of Huaraz and then to our respective hotels.

   🔵 📏 Distance: 9.5 km.

   🔵 🍽️ Meals included: Breakfast, snacks, and lunch.