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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. There's a 1 km walk to the site which takes about 20 mins. If it's raining the path will be very muddy, so take decent shoes. They're currently paving the track and should be finished soon (as of Dec 2010). About 2 hours drive from Chachapoyas. Tours will usually make a short stop on the way to view the ruins of Macro, a group of pre-Inca dwellings and burial chambers built on the side of a mountain - they're viewed from across the valley.
Karajia - anthropormorphic sarcophagi built on a narrow cliff ledge. Tours (~S/.60) 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. The walk here is a couple of kilometres but quite steep. If it's raining then the Pueblo is inaccessible and Quiocta Cavern is used as an alternative.
Revash - cliff tombs that look like small houses with many pictographs.
Museum of Leymebamba - houses and cares for 219 mummies and thousands of artifacts recovered from cliff tombs in 1997.
Gran Vilaya - a popular trekking route through cloud forest.
Tajopampa - cliff tomb sites.
Gocta Waterfalls - measured in 2004 with 711m as the world´s 3rd highest waterfall.
Amazon Waterfalls Association, located, ☎ 41-94196, . Yumbilla Waterfalls was discovered and measured in 2007. It is by far Peru's highest waterfall 895m, or almost 3 times as high as the Eiffel Tower. A volunteer organization built a trek on a pristine, nearly level ledge of a cliff for 10 km that passes 8 waterfalls as high as any of the continental USA. An ecological reserve was formed that contains 4 critically endangered species. We would like anyone that have tried other world class treks to compare those with this one as we are sure it will become "the world's best ecological trek". Its location is 20 minutes above Pedro Ruis on a moped taxi, and tickets gotten through the village as this is a sustainable income project to give the natives incentive to protect their ecology. The Amazon Waterfalls Association is seeking volunteers for these exciting world class projects.
Amazon Waterfalls Trek (Yumbilla), Cuispis or San Carlos (20 minutes by moto-taxi from Pedro Ruis), ☎ 41-94196, . Yumbilla is by far Peru's highest waterfall almost 3 times as high as the Eiffel Tower. Discovered and measured in 2007, at 895 meters. A 10km trek has been made that passes 8 waterfalls as high as any of the contental USA. The trek follows a nearly level cliff ledge covered in a pristine uncut Amazon forest. The Amazon Waterfall Association is volunteers working with villages to give them a sustainable income incentive to protect their ecology. A private reserve was formed to protect the 4 critically endangered species that are numerious only in this zone. Tickets can be bought from the village for an economical trek to the individual waterfalls, but reservations must be made for the trek along the ledge. AWA is seeking volunteers to continue with equally exciting projects to make this zone better and preserve their resources. �
Levanto, (The nearest ruins to Chachapoyas, 2 hours by vehicle), . Perhaps the best unrestored major Inca 3000km road passes through here and the section from Levanto to Chachapoyas is a spectacular 3 to 4 downhill walk. It starts at an restored Inca Military Garrison that guards this major intersection. A side path will take you up to Yelape, the 2nd largest fortress after Kuelap, with many more buildings. Levanto has a church started in 1558ad by the Conquestadores, with a high gold plated altar. The village has a modern lodge built to look just like an ancient Cloud Forest building, and this same team also built the restored house in Kuelap and the Military Garrison. Levanto was the last and largest Chachapoyan city conquered by the Incas, and later the Spanish capitol until it was moved to a warmer elevation of Levanto's annex of Chachapoyas. �
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