When: year round

Length of tour: any length of stay is welcome; below we provide a suggested 5-day itinerary.

Number of guests: 1 or more

Fee: US $13.44 per person, per day, which includes three meals a day and lodging . Then, depending of the routes you choose, you have to add the price of the excursion. Also, the guide's fee is not included, and this depends on many factors, but we apply precios solidarios.

THE CONCEPT:
We support a network of traditional rural lodges, or mucuposadas, in the Andes where visitors can walk and ride horses between the homes. The area involved is within two national parks (Sierra Nevada and Sierra La Culata) and
in the middle, the valley of Mucuchíes. A baquiano (guide)
will be your companion on the trails both by foot or riding. There are interesting things to do at each place, and plenty of scenery along the way. The routes cross different ecosystems and altitudinal belts and you will also feel various temperatures
depending on the routes you choose. In the High Andes, there are potatoes but at the lower range the cultures are varied (yuca, sugar cane, ocumo, etc.) At each stop there are activities that take from two to five hours to complete, and the costs of each activity is not much. The homes are clean and the food is very nice. Since your money is funneled into the local communities and homes where you stay, you are assured of being treated as a very important guest.

Here is a map to give you an idea of how the homes and trails are distributed:

A SUGGESTED 5-DAY ITINERARY

Day 1: Mérida - Mitibibó
Arrive at airport in Mérida, go to Mitibibó (elev. 3380m), have lunch, hike and ride horses through surroundings, dinner and lodging.

Day 2: Mitibibó - El Banco Valley
On horseback leave Mitibibó. On this stretch you see a typical potato-growing valley. Lunch at Mucuposada Agüita Azul, tour the surroundings, then have dinner and lodging here.

Day 3: El Banco Valley - Misintá
On this stretch you go to the Misintá Valley, crossing over the high Andes belt   through Muruzoque Heights. You will be in a glacier landscape interspersed with lakes and giant frailjón plants, at an elevation of more than 4000 m. Lunch during trip. Descending to Misintá on the upper limits of the farming area, you will go along the Camino Real, a trail used since Spanish colonial times, built over trails made by local Indians, arriving at the town of  Misintá, where you will spend the night and have supper at the Mucuposada "El Gavilán.

Day 4: Misintá - Mérida
Breakfast, tour of the local area, lunch, then transporation back to Mérida for your return flight.