Hotels near Chachapoyas Airport - CHH, Chachapoyas

I like the community at the backpackers and town. Everyone was so friendly. The kitchen could have been bigger since that is where everyone liked to meet but we made it work. Getting around Chacha was very easy. I can't wait til it becomes a bike friendly city. I would avoid going to Kuelap on Mondays. They are closed for cleaning.

The city itself is quite relaxed and not too touristy. There are hiking options in the area which I definitely recommend. Gran vilaya and Gocta for example are 2 great hikes. For gran vilaya you will need to do some work to arrange it though, since there are not always guides available. If you want a good guide for that trek: try to reach SpecialCloud travel agency.

Chachapoyas is a really beautiful city. I like it so much. Most of their streets have an inclined plane so it could be a little difficult for people who aren't acquainted to walk in this way. The landscape is amazing. There are different tours you can do in this city, but everything depends on your available time.

There are many siteseeing places around, it is easy to reach there with local tranportation which is cheap and friendly. We have visited the most wonderfull waterfalls, the Kuelap ruins. We could have visit the sarkofags and many more thing if we had more days to stay. Be sure that if you go to a trip outside chcachapyas it can be a day long activity, it seems that things are close but actually the roads are curvy and it takes time to get from A to B. Most of the time you have to change buses to motos etc...

Chacha is great place to go see the surrounding area from. Kuelap, Gotta, a couple of mummy museum things, plus all the conveniences of town in a very walkable area. If Mass Burger is open, get a burger and the Mocha Frappe.

There is 3 main tours each taking a full day. Kuelap, Karajia & Gocta. All were great, the drive to and from these locations is not too far and the history is great and of course Gocta is a highlight for me (I did the 2 tier hike instead of just the single tier, longer day but I was there for Gocta and hiking so wanted the full experience). As for Chachapoyas itself, it is great to be able to fly there (the airline is ATSA), because i didn't want to spend a long time on buses. The town itself is very well kept, very colonial style and clean, the locals are very friendly. It was nice to sit in the main square of a night and just enjoy the atmosphere. But, once you have had a small wander there is not much else to see in the town. Unlike other places that seem to have many landmarks to see or street carts to eat from so you can do something a little different each day, Chachapoyas didn't have this (in my opinion). This does not make it a bad place, just there was nothing else to do for me as a tourist other than the tours each day. So my trip was perfect with flying in one day, having 3 full days of tours and then flying out the next.