Sajama & Parinacota

We’ll meet you at the airport and take you to your hotel where you’ll have a talk with our guide in order to crystal clear any doubt clouding your mind and to check your equipment is proper and fitted for the purposes.

• Max altitude: 0 m / 0 ft
• Lodging: Hotel
• Meals: No
• Transport: Yes
• Scheme: Reception at the airport, head to the hotel, equipment checking, itinerary checking, and then you’re all free to do as you see fitted.

After checking out we will depart from Arica driving approximately 3 hours towards Putre.

• Max altitude: 3600 m / 11800ft
• Lodging: Hotel or Cabin
• Meals: Breakfast Hotel
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme:  Drive to Putre, acclimatization.

We will hike part of the inca trail in order to start our expedition because it has the ideal altitude for starting the acclimatization process.

• Max altitude: 3600 m / 11800ft
• Lodging: Hotel or Cabin
• Meals: Breakfast Hotel, box-lunch
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme:  Acclimatization.

On this day we’ll drive to the east in direction to Bolivia. Before to cross the border its posible to see tha Chungara lake in the Chilean Lauca national park , after the border control go will go directly to Sajama town for our base camp in the local hostel.

• Max altitude: 4240 m / 13910 ft
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Drive to boilivia, acclimatization.

On this day we will perform our first ascension to the Wisalla hill. Altitude: 5031 masl. and back to Sajama town

• Max altitude: 5031 m / 16505 ft and back
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Cooking, acclimatization climb.

In order to go forward into our expedition, we will ascend a 6000 and so check how our body reacts when facing that kind of altitude. Back to Sajama

• Max altitude: 6052 m / 19855 ft
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: acclimatization climb

This is the day to recover energies for the next climbs. We have the possibility to visit hotspring  areas.

• Max altitude: 4500 m / 14760 ft
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Rest and acclimatization.

This day we will climb Parinatoca volcano in the Chile/Bolivia border. this is a long day between the drive and climb.

• Max altitude: 6380m / 20930 ft
• Lodging: Refuge or mot
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: acclimatization climb.

This is the day to recover energies for the next climbs. We have the possibility to visit gaysers areas.

• Max altitude: 4500 m / 14760 ft
• Lodging: Refuge
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Rest and acclimatization.

Each one of us has to carry his/her personal equipment plus a piece of the common equipment towards base camp. 3 hours aprox

• Max altitude: 4900m / 16076 ft
• Lodging:  mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Carry the equipment, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll carry the remaining equipment towards high camp and we’ll spend the night there. After dinner we will need to prepare all the equipmet to start early morning

• Max altitude: 5600 m / 21330 ft
• Lodging:  Mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Carry the equipment, cooking, acclimatization.

We’ll set out early morning to reach the Sajama summit (6,452masl). On this day we’ll see how all of our hard work flourishes. All the previous acclimatization process is to endure this SO challenging summit. No doubts about it, this is the hardest day in our expedition. We’ll be ascending 1,000 meters, crossing a glacier, rock climbing, reaching the summit, descending, and carrying the equipment back to basecamp

• Max altitude: 6542 m / 21463 ft
• Lodging: Refuge or mountain tent
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch, dinner.
• Transport: No
• Scheme: Climb

This is the last day we’ll spend in the Parque Sajama. Calmly we’ll take-down our camp and head back to the town and then back to Arica in Chile, leaving behind us this giant, the highest summit in Bolivia.

• Max altitude: 0 m / 0 ft
• Lodging: Hotel
• Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch
• Transport: 4WD
• Scheme: Camp take – down, transfer

The whole group will be driven to the airport.

• Max altitude: 0 m / 0 ft
• Lodging: No
• Meals: Breakfast
• Transport: 4WD or minivan
• Scheme: Airport transfer (optional)