Day 11. 5 Dec 2022. Birding around Nuevo Chimbote This is the last day of the scouting trip to Cordillera Blanca and the Huascarán National Park. First, we will be birding around Nuevo Chimbote, on the Pacific coast. Then we will drive north to the city of Trujillo to take our flights back home. We …
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Day 10. 4 Dec 2022. San Luis and the road to the Pacific coast This is the penultimate day of the Cordillera Blanca scouting trip. Today, we are leaving the Cordillera Blanca and taking the road back to the Pacific coast. The type of habitats will be very variated, with several new birds for the …
Day 9. 3 Dec 2022. Paron lake Yes, Paron lake was great…… and we decided to spend another day birding in the area before leaving the Cordillera Blanca. We still needed to find the Black-winged Ground-doves, so our first stop was at the agricultural fields before entering the National Park. We found several Eared and …
Day 8. 2 Dec 2022. Cañon del Pato and the road to La Pampa Today we had another bright sunny day, which is particularly rare for December. Today we drove north, towards the Cañon del Pato area. This area is at much lower elevations than the places we were before. The lowest elevation for today …
Day 7. 1 Dec 2022. Lake Llanganuco Lake Llanganuco is not only a good place for birding, but also very good for short hikes and landscape and nature photography. Today, we drove straight to the lake and stopped at a nearby Polylepis forest for birding. Unlike lake Paron, lake Llanganuco has plenty of bird activity. …
Another sunny morning in this 6th day of the trip. Today, we went birding around lake Paron, a beautiful, calm place, with very few visitors. A hidden gem of the Huascaran National Park. As usual, we started early in the morning driving up the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca. Birding the Rio Lullán As soon …
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Day 5. 29 Nov 2022. Road to lake Llanganuco This is our 5th day birding in the Huascaran National Park. We leaved our hotel in Huaraz early in the morning and drove north of the Santa valley, to get into the Caraz area. Our main goal today was to explore the lower part of the …
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Day 4. 28 Nov 2022. Road to Punta Olimpica Today, we explored the road to Punta Olimpica, that goes northeast from Huaraz and through the Huascaran National Park. We did not start early today, because at the Huaraz high elevation the early morning can be very cold. As we drove north, we had incredible views …
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Day 3. 27 Nov 2022. Road to Chavin de Huantar On our third day of our Birding Huascaran National Park scouting trip we explored the road to Chavín. It is an exciting day because it is the first day inside the National Park itself, and we expect to see a lot lot of new birds. …
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Day 2. 26 Nov 2022. Medio Mundo to Huaraz Today, we travelled from the Pacific coast to the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca. Our destination today is Huaraz, our base city for the next two days of birding, located at an elevation of around 10,000 feet. Huaraz is the entrance gate to the Huascaran National …
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