SEÑOR DE CCOYLLORITY

CCOYLLORITTYCoylloritty is a quechua word which means Snowstar or Shining Snow. The people of this zone are also a stream of Taytacha Coylloritty (The sir of the Replacement Snow). This a old religious procession only practised by the inhabitants of the big Andes. Every year, days before the celebration of Corpus Christi, every small village or clan send a delegation with colourful dancers and "pauluchas" to the Capilla del Senor Qoylloriti. This is situated of the beginning of the mountain Sinakara in the village of Mawayany, at 4600 meters above sea level. Los pauluchas represented alpacas and are intermediaries between the Sir Coylloritty and his men. Therefore they climb at 4 o'clock in the morning the gletzjer Sinikara while they ask for a grow of their groups of animals. During the party the people who participated in the procession praise our Senora de Fatima to have good luck in business, life and future. The end of the procession takes place at the ancient Inca capital of Cusco with the processions of Corpus Christi, streets filled with people and squares with music and color.
1 st Day : Cusco - Maguallani - Coylloritty
We depart at 10:00 P.M. and arrive at approximately 02.00 A.M in Maguallani. There we have half an hour to sign up our team and we go to Qoylloritti, which is situated at 292 km away from Cusco. We will walk in the light of the moon in a procession together with more than 2000 pilgrims devoted to Sr. De Qoylloritti. At around 5:00 A.M. we will arrive at our campsite where we can relax look for the sunrise and take a rest .It can be verry cold at night but we walk with Thousands of local people !


2 nd day: SACRACANCHA – SHONGO

At 07:00 A.M we will have breakfast. Afterwards we will go to the church to participate in the daily mass, which takes approximately half an hour. Then we start our hike towards the holy mountain and glacier of Coylloritty, where we will observe all the ancient rites and customs that they even put in practice at the altitude of 4, 800 meters above sea level. After that we will have lunch and subsequently we take part and look at the festival .Thousands of local people in local custom dresses are dancing , You can go to the cave of Sr Qoylloritti, or do a walk in de beautiful surroundings after that there is a big feast , in which every visitor participates. At 07:00 P.M. we will enjoy dinner .

3 th Day :

At 07:00 A.M again we can take our breakfast. Next, we will walk back to Maguallani in approximately 2 hours. Here we will shortly visit this place, have lunch and afterwards go back to Cusco by car, where we will arrive at about 04:00 PM.
Information
Departure and arrival times are approximate. This festival is only ones a year

Included
Bilingual and local guides.3 meals per day. Vegetarian food available on request.2 persons tents, mattressesMule shepherds ,mules for camping equipment and food and private backpack Transport Cusco –Maguallini – CuscoPick-up at hostel Not included
Personal travel insuranceSleeping bag can be rented

What do we need when you make a reservation?

1 Full name as it is written in your passport
2. Passport number
3. Nationality
4. Date of birth
5. a minima of 6 reservations
6. 30 % deposit at western union or at one of our accounts in Peru or Europe, the rest you pay at our office in Cusco

you should bring
Personal sleeping bag , we rent out sleeping bags
Trekking shoes
Water bottle
Flash light,
Sun Hat +sun-block
Personal clothing for trek and clothes (warm clothes!
Camera with extra rolls of film
Snack
clothes for cold and warm weather
emergency money and money for the tip to guide cook and porters