10 Days Trekking Cordillera Real, This trek begins in Chojña Kota (4755 m. / 15,600 ft.) located approximately four hours and a half ride car from La Paz City – Bolivia.
On this trek we will cross several passes that reach nearly 5,000 meters in altitude, from where we’ll enjoy breathtaking panoramas of vast valleys, glaciers, and mountains. Each day offers direct contact with nature in its purest and most vibrant form.
The most epic part of the route is that our campsites are located above 4,600 meters, allowing us to experience the magic of the mountains up close and admire completely clear, star-filled night skies depending on the season.
This trek is physically demanding due to the altitude and the long ascent stages, but it does not require technical experience. Even so, it’s important to be well acclimatized before starting, as this improves performance and reduces the risk of altitude sickness.
ITINERARY:
This trek begins in Chojña Kota (4755 m. / 15,600 ft.) located approximately four hours and a half ride car from La Paz City passing by across different small towns. Once we arrived at Chojña Kota we are going to unload our trekking gear (tents, back packs, kitchen equipment…) and set up the tents because we are going to stay at this place.
On this day after breakfast we are going to ascend to a pass called Paso Calsada (5075 m) walking through the andean highlands until Jisthaña lagoon(4,595 m). This day is relatively easy, we will walk between 5 to 6 hours.
The trail goes on ascending the first pass above (4950 m. / 16240 ft..) the path continues down toward Chiar Orko valley located in a huge wetland that we are going to cross, once we get the other side we walk up again to the second pass (5000 m./ 16,404 ft.) from the second pass we continue walking through a short slope downhill to finally arrive at Jiska Kellhuani (4795 m. / 15,731 ft.), this place has a nice camp site perfect to spend a nigth. The third day of the walk is approximately 6 hours.
This morning our trekking continues descending in the direction of Chachacomani that is another wetland valley to cross, from the other side of this valley we ascend towards the hill named by local people as Condor Jipiña (meaning, where the condor takes a break), from the top of this hill we are going to walk through a long flat trail until Jallahuaya pass (4615 m. / 15,141 ft.) then we decent to another valley that we have to cross and go up some more distance to finally arrive to Jallahuaya camp site. This is the longest and demanding day because we walk approximately 9 hours.
This day we begin the hike towards Laguna Wara Warani (4930 m. / 16,174 ft.) where we make a stop to enjoy this beautiful place, after that we go up to the first pass of this day (5045 m. / 16,551 ft.) next we are going to descend to Kjunu Pampa valley, once we get down we have to cross this valley and walk up to the second pass (4895 m. / 16,059 ft.) then we descend across a slope toward Laguna Kotia. This day we walk approximately 7 hours.
From Khotia lagoon we will start the trek. We start ascending to the Contador passage (4750 m. / 15583 ft.). Later we sescend to the valley near Surakhota lagoon and we continue through the hillside to get to AJWANI LAGOON 4610m. /15124 ft. Where we will pass the night.
This day hiking time will be 4 – 5 hours (8 km.)
We will have breakfast at 8:00am
On this day from AJWANI LAGOON 4610m. /15124ft. – . we do hiking to Sistana Lagoon in the morning and later we cross Janchallani passage, located at 4900 m. / 16076 ft. And from there. we enjoy a breath taking view to peaks of cordillera real. After it we descend to the Jurikhota lagoon 4700 m. / 15419ft. we will set up our camp, at the lagoon shore, have the night there.
This day hiking time will be 4 – 5 hours (7 km.)
8:00 am we will have breakfast
On this day from Jurikhota Lagoon 4700 m. / 15419ft. . We begin hiking by lagoon shore, enjoying the reflection of the mountain in the lagoon. Later we go upward to the turquoise waters of the frozen lagoon 4880 m. / 16010 ft. From there we admire the left wing and the condor shaped head of Condoriri. Then we got to Austria peak 5350 meters / 17552ft . the highest of the trek, and from Autria peak, we can see the entire shape of the Mountain Condoriri,(shape of a Condor with its wings spread wide), Lake Titicaca, the west face of Huayna Potosi, and numerous other peaks of the Cordillera Real. Later we descend to Chiakhota lagoon 4700 m. / 15419ft. . we will set up our camp, at the lagoon shore.
This day hiking time will be 5 – 6 hours (9 km.)
On this day from Chiar Khota Lagoon 4700 m. / 15419ft. . After the breakfast we go direction to Maria Lloco Camp (4700 m. / 15419ft. )
During our trek, we will cross over two passes, the first with an elevation of (5000 m. / 16404 ft) and the second with an elevation of 4900 m. / 16076ft Along the way we will observe the typical fauna and vegetation of the high altiplano.
After around 8 – 9 hours of trekking, we will arrive at our second camp, Maria Llocko (4700 m. / 15419ft. ). Maria Llocko is a scenic spot at the base of the mighty west face of Huayna Potosi and is where we will make our camp .
This day hiking time will be 8 – 9 hours (12 km.)
Today our 3 hours trek will take us from the west side of Huayna Potosi and over a pass of (5100 m. / 16732ft ) After crossing over into the next valley we end the trekking at 10:30 am. then the car will take us to the La Paz City…. 12:30 pm aproximatly en of the tour
This day hiking time will be 3 hours (4 km.)
