Lucma to Collon

Pink flower in a garden

Yellow flowers, probably a weed

Another yellow flower, but still probably a weed

Purple flowers

Sunlight through tree

Huge plant, I have no idea what it’s called

After a couple of days of resting, we decided to find ourselves a walk, not a hike, a walk, and headed out on the collectivo for Lucma. After seeing so much stunning flora on the Laguna 69 and Lake Churup hikes, I’d hope to photograph a bit more with my DSLR, having only taken my phone for the previous walks due to the weight of the camera.

One of Peru’s many, many stray dogs

Not the little house on the prarie, but wonderfully colourful

As it was, the walk was just through a rural area, not in the national park, so I didn’t quite end up with what I was looking for, so just snapped some of the flowers I spotted along the way.

Subsistence farming

Cordilleras blancas as seen from Lucma

Our spot for lunch

Cordilleras blancas as seen from Collon

The local quarry, seen from afar

We were still treated to the great views that you find around Huaraz, as well as seeing examples of the local subsistence farming and also the local quarry, which is basically a strip-mine at the top of one of the mountain peaks.

This one was an accident, but I actually quite like it

Stone by the river

Butterfly striking a pose

How we did it

This was a fairly simple trip which was intentionally the case as we didn’t want to do any complicated or expensive journeys for our last walk. We took a Route 10 collectivo from outside our bed and breakfast in Palmira to the bridge just before Paltay. This cost PEN 2 each way.

As per the first walk we did to Wilcacocha, we used the maps.me app to help navigate our walk. That app is really a god send!