Peru Photography Workshop: from the Andes to the Amazon
____Peru Photography Expedition with Gordon Wiltsie____

Kuelap Fort & Gocta Waterfall

Kuelap Fortress of the Chachapoyas
Kuelap Fortress: The largest stone ruin site in the New World considered one of the greatest pre-Hispanic engineering achievements by an ancient Peruvian culture.   Kuelap's size and grandeur easily eclipse Machu Picchu; almost 600 m in length and walls rising to more than 19 m in height surrounding a 15-acre enclosure.

  Peru Photography
  Expedition
Join Us with the guidance of National Geographic and award-winning adventure photographer Gordon Wiltsie.
chachapoyas ancient ruins

Kuelap Tower
Kuelap Tower 

Kuelap shunderhuasi stone round house
Kuelap shunderhuasi 
(stone round house) © G. Wiltsie 

Kuelap walls
Kuelap walls © G. Wiltsie 

Gocta Waterfall

Gocta waterfall Chachapoyas Peru
Gocta Waterfall 

horse
Cloud Forest trek © G. Wiltsie 

Chachapoyas

market
Chachapoyas market © G. Wiltsie 

PHOTOGRAPHY ORGANIZATIONS
For your photo club or organization we can arrange your photography adventure to fit your dates of travel, with or without a professional host photographer.

Special Group Rates.

Don't want to join a group for your photography? We are specialists to arrange your private travel logistics.

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PERU PHOTOGRAPHY EXPEDITION
____Andes Mountains & Cloud Forest ____

Photo Adventures & Expedition
with National Geographic Photographer
Gordon Wiltsie

Peruvian Andes
November 2010

Join Us: From the Andes to the Amazon

Gordon Wiltsie
Gordon Wiltsie

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SERVICES & PRICING

Open to photographers and those interested in Adventure Expeditions.

the Andes: November 28 to December 03, 2010.

ARCHAEOLOGY OF CHACHAPOYAS

CHACHAPOYAS: the ancient ruins of Kuelap Fortress & the spectacular Gocta Waterfall.
Pricing: 2250 USD per person based on double occupancy.
Maximum 12-participants.
Availability: Open

Optional adventure to the Amazon Rainforest or to Machu Picchu following the Chachapoyas Andes trek.


SERVICES
Includes:
Hotel and lodge accommodations (double occupancy).
All land transport (vehicle, boat).
All meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner each day).
English-speaking naturalist guides.

Not included:
International roundtrip flight to Lima and domestic within Peru.
Flights can be quoted upon request.
Airport and departure taxes.
Alcoholic beverages.
Tips.


Gordon Wiltsie

Gordon Wiltsie is a photographer, writer and mountaineering guide whose work has taken him to some of the world's wildest and remotest regions, including journeys to Peru's Cloud Forest and Amazonia, to the Himalayas, Canadian Arctic, Antarctica, and both geographic Poles. More than 150 of his articles and several thousand photographs have appeared in international publications, including Outside, National Geographic, Travel and Leisure, Geo (France & Germany), Terre Sauvage, Life, and most leading adventure and skiing magazines.

Gordon won the 2008 Lowell Thomas Award for best Magazine Travel Photography for his images in "Vanishing Breed", National Geographic Adventure, March 2008.

National Geographic article about the last expedition to the region:
Gordon's National Geographic Story


the EXPEDITION & ADVENTURES
CHACHAPOYAS Ruins of the Andes, Land of the Cloud People

Kuelap Fortress of the Chachapoyas

The Pre-Columbian Chachapoyas culture, conquered in the 15th century by the Incas, has left a landscape scattered with villages and burial sites which until recently has been largely overlooked by archaeologists.

The winding rivers and creek beds carve the terrain, headwaters of fuel for the mighty Amazon River. The few and far between roads and paths scar a landscape where ancient civilizations arose and fell. Remote and oasitic stone ruins hide beneath the bromeliads.

Peter Lerche
Peter Lerche
With your host Gordon Wiltsie and anthropologist Dr. Peter Lerche, visit Kuelap, the largest stone ruin site in the New World. Trek on Inca Trails to Karajia, a spectacular funerary site with 3-meter anthropomorphic wooden coffins located under a cliff.

Hike into the cloud forest to the newly discovered Gocta Waterfall, considered the third largest waterfall in the world.

A journey to Chachapoyas, Land of Cloud Peoples, and an unforgettable adventure into ancient mysteries marked deep in a lost civilization that cries for discovery.

Anthropologist Peter Lerche, author, historian, explorer, and authority on the religious world of pre-Inca Chachapoya, has lived in Chachapoyas over the past 25 years. Dr. Lerche's work as Director of the Department of Conservation of Archaeological Monuments and his research studying the Chachapoyas culture have resulted in the establishment of The Camayoc Foundation.

AMAZON or MACHU PICCHU

Following our Chacapoyas photo adventure we can arrange for you to visit the Amazon or a trip to visit Cusco and Machu Picchu.
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Join Us: From the Andes to the Amazon

Or plan you own Amazon Adventure:
For your photo club or organization we can arrange your photography adventure to fit your dates of travel, with or without a professional host photographer.

Special Group Rates.

Don't want to join a group for your photography?
We are specialists to arrange your private travel logistics.

Contact Us