As youngsters we enjoyed multi-day treks on long routes that had us staying intents night upon night, with no hygiene facilities and little
As we get older and wiser we feel less inclined to travel in large groups or to camp for many a night with all of the resulting discomforts. This can be very limiting to our trekking outings, but there have to be other options to camping, right? Right!
OPTION 1.Ultra-trail. Ultra trail is the practice of RUNNING many of these treks and instead of in 4 days in just 7 hours, avoiding the camping issue and therefore
OPTION 2
OPTION 3.My favourites by far: the Day Trek Lodge that puts you in the midst of all the action whilst giving you as much/little aid/intervention as you need to enjoy the area.
There are several day trek lodges in an area lesser known than Cusco, in the most spectacular area of the Andes, the Cordillera Blanca. Now the Cordillera Blanca is something else, and pretty much no-one knows about it apart from a hardcore of mountaineers and serious trekkers. In
A crazy Englishman, Charlie Good one of these Ultra-Humans, and his dogShackleton chose this to be their place of rest and endeavour meanwhile. They offer you probably the most ideally located day trek lodge in the Americas; Llanganuco Mountain Lodge. Giving you more than a dozen day trek options, some on rediscovered ancient Inca trail, some past
This is how adventure travel was always meant to be, not churned out by corporations, but crafted by hand by our intrepid adventurers who have chosen to make an adventure out of their lives and to make their life mission to give to you what they want from our world.
Whether you choose to do the lodge to lodge treks and/or stay in a day trek lodge, these are becoming such strong offerings that many people in their twenties are choosing to forego the camping “experience” for a much more civilised experience…. and wouldn´t we have? if they had been available.