PERU TRAVEL ROYAL TOUR FIVE...
Will take us to where
the Andean condor flies

In Peru Travel Royal Tour Five we are wrapping up the Royal Tour Video Serie, in which former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) takes Travel Channel's Chief Correspondent Peter Greenberg to an amazing discovery journey throughout some of Peru's most spectacular tourist destinations.

We have seen Huanchaco fishermen riding waves on straw boats - caballitos de totora - today, as their ancestors did three thousand years ago.

We have visited the Peruvian Amazon jungle: Iquitos and Natal and interacted with the Yahua indian community, experts in blowgun hunting.

We've flown to the highlands of southern Peru, to the heart of the Inca Civilizationin the Sacred Valley, in the cloud forest high above of Urubamba river, where Machu Picchu lies.
In day four we've seen the mysterious Nazca lines, Paracas Nature Reserve and Ballestas islands, home of the Paracas culture.

In Peru Travel Royal Tour five we'll fly to the towns of Anta and Calena and see the Cordillera Blanca (White Mountain Range), where Huascaran National Park is located.

Huascaran National Park is the world's highest tropical mountain range, located in the Department of Ancash. It's home of the spectacled bear and the Andean condor, and also home of Huascaran peak.

It rises to 6,768 meters above sea level.
Huascaran National Park covers an area of around 340,000 ha. and has over 27 snow-capped peaks over 6,000 m.a.s.l.

Among others...

• Chipicalqui (6,400 m.a.s.l.)
• Huautsan (6,395 m.a.s.l.)
• Tunsho (6,369 m.a.s.l.)
• Huandoy (6,356 m.a.s.l.)
• Rutichinchay (6,309 m.a.s.l.)
• Taulliraju (6,300 m.a.s.l.)
• Copa (6,270 m.a.s.l.)
• Alpamayo (6,120 m.a.s.l.)
• Pastoruri (6,000 m.a.s.l.)

It also has some 663 glaciers, 296 lakes and 41 rivers..

Majestic!...

If you love trekking and mountaineering, this is definitely your destination while in Peru...

Huascaran National Park it's been declared World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1985.

We hope you've enjoyed Peru Travel Royal Tour serie as much as we did!...

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