Chaskis Hop Travel Pass Details
8 Destinations - 8 Sectores - 4 Included Activities - Recommended 12 Days Minimum
The Chaski's were the Inca runners whom delivered messages throughout the Inca Empire. They formed a network of routes which involved running a relay system to deliver their messages and goods in short amounts of time considering the distances. It is said they could deliver a message from La Paz to Lima in less than a week. Now you can follow in the Chaski's footsteps using the Green Toad Bus network which provides a whole of a lot easier way to get there than running in altitude!
Sector 1 La Paz
Recommended Minimum Nights: 3
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus (pick-up central La Paz hotels/hostels)
Recommended Activities: Bike the Death Road, Tiwanaku Tour
La Paz is the highest capital city in the world and features a unique urban landscape which trickles into an impossible valley. Spend a couple of days or weeks even, to soak in the energy of this enchanting city. Visit the witches market, the valley of the moon, and dare to take on the worlds most dangerous road. No trip to South America is complete without a visit to the La Paz!
Sector 2 Copacabana
Recommended Minimum Nights: 2
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
Recommended Add-on: Sun Island Overnight Trip
Located on the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, the amazing fishing village of Copacabana will offer you great opportunities to witness breath taking views of the lake and share it's unique cultural events with you all year round. Take a boat trip to the Sun Island or just soak up the Andean culture around the village.
Sector 3 Puno
Recommended Minimum Nights: 1
Included Activities: Uros Islands Trip, Cusco Hopper (Between Puno & Cusco)
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Tourist Bus
Recommended Add-on: Taquile Island Day Trip, Amantani Home Stay & Taquile Island Overnight Tour
Puno is the gateway to the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. Here you have an included trip to see the Uros Islands, made from reeds and which float to support a people who have made, maintained and inhabited them for centuries.
You will also board the Cusco Hopper headed to Cuzco. In this included trip you will stop at 4 sites of interest with explanations by a local guide.
Sector 4 Cusco
Recommended Minimum Nights: 4
Included Activities: Sacred Valley Tour
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Sleeper Bus
Recommended Add-on: Inca Trail, Salkantay Trek, Inca Jungle, Lares Trek, Machu Picchu Tour
The Inca Capital of Cusco, the navel of the earth as its name suggests in local Quechua. Cuzco is a city where history abounds in Inca foundations built upon by the Spanish conquistadors. You will need at least 2 whole days to see Cusco and its nearby surrounds, but be warned, it is hard to leave, and why should you leave so soon when one of the worlds truly marvelous sites, Machu Picchu, is only a train ride away, or even take a 4 day hike on the famous Inca trail or Inca Jungle (Bike & Hike).
Sector 5 Nazca
Recommended Minimum Nights: 0
Recommended Add-on: Nazca lines Over-flight
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus to Ica + Transfer to Huacachina
Your next bus trip takes you to Nazca, the once centre of a pre-Inca civilization which left remarkable and mysterious images on the desert floor, best seen from the air (optional Nazca Lines flight). Take a trip out to see the preserved Nazca mummies out in the desert. You then board your bus to Ica (Huacachina).
Sector 6 Huacachina
Recommended Minimum Nights: 2
Included Activity: Dune Buggy (with Sandboarding Included)
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Van Transfer
After your Ballestas Island tour you will hop onto another bus to the city of Ica, only a short distance from Huacachina by taxi. Huacachina is a real oasis town set around a fresh spring lake amongst towering sand dunes. The afternoon you arrive you will head out on dune buggies and then take to the sandy slopes for some sand boarding.
Sector 7 Paracas
Recommended Minimum Nights: 0
Included Activity: Ballestas Island Boat Tour
Transport Mode to Next Sector: Semi-bed Bus
You will leave Lima very early so as to take advantage of a full day. The bus will stop on the Paracas peninsular for your included boat tour of the Ballestas islands, which boasts an abundance of visible sea creatures. It is nicknamed 'Little Galapagos' because of all the creatures that live here. You will also see a massive etching in the sand left by the ancient indigenous.
Sector 8 Lima
Recommended Nights: 3
Recommended Add-on: City Tour
Arrive to Lima and discover a modern city full of lovely parks, plazas, and even beaches. In times past Lima was thought as just the entry point to Peru where people would spend a night before exploring other parts of the country. Now travellers are staying a few nights to take advantage of the cities nightlife, museums, and fun activities.
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