Our commitment to responsible tourism and you
Our commitment to clients is to provide a caring, friendly, professional and above all SAFE trekking and climbing service at a fair price. We specialise in providing exceptional superior personalised service to all our clients with attention to detail and emphasis on quality in all aspects – professional advice, guides and crew, food, equipment, safety, information and logistics.
Our aim is for you to have an unforgettable trip while enjoying our mountains, people and culture, and making new friends along the way and most of all TO HAVE FUN !!
We will take special care to advise and suggest tours, hikes, treks or climbs that will provide you the best possible holiday, after discussing with you what you would like to do, the time you have available, your level of fitness and previous trekking or mountaineering experience.
Peruvian Andes Adventures means:
- Superior Service
- A registered and fully licensed agency
- Personal attention & individualised service
- Small groups
- A high guide & staff to client ratio
- Licensed guides, cooks & porters
- UIAGM International mountain guides
- Fantastic Food
- Quality Equipment
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Following our commitment to provide quality customer focused service, on 4 March 2010 we were successful in complying with all the rigorous requirements of the exhaustive external audit and were successful and proud to be one of only two companies in the entire Ancash region of Peru to be granted ISO 9001:2008 certification.
Each year prior to the season commencing, we hold training courses for our guides, porters, cooks and donkey drivers to ensure continued quality and safe service.
We specialize in providing varied and delicious nutritious trek meals and snacks, using fresh local produce and preparing many local specialty dishes.
Each year we invest time and money in training with our excellent cooks to prepare nutritional food combining proteins, carbohydrate and vegetables.
We have also had an international chef train our staff to cater for vegetarian & vegan meals, gluten & lactose free, nut free and other special diet requests.
Trek menus vary depending on the personal preferences and favourite recipes of the cook, but a typical trek menu will include:
• Breakfast – porridge, quinoa or cereal, yoghurt, with eggs or pancakes or toast & marmalades. lots of hot tea, coffee, herbal teas, drinking chocolate
• Snack box – nuts & dried fruits, biscuit, chocolate or sweets, piece of fruit, small fruit juice
• Trail Lunch – includes some protein, carbohydrate & vegetable e.g. tuna & tomato salad with salad prepared from cooked carrot, cauliflower, broccoli & rice, herbal tea
• Afternoon tea – popcorn , crackers, cheese, spreads, nuts, extra treats like wontons & guacamole
• Dinner – fresh made soup (not packet), main dish with chicken, fish, meat or vegetarian dish, pasta, rice or potato, vegetables and then dessert
• Always available in camp – hot boiled water, tea, coffee, herbal teas, hot chocolate
• Mountaineering meals – are the same as for trekking while in base camps. On the mountain light meals are prepared using packet & dried foods, with high energy nuts, dried fruits & chocolate for snacks.
Each year we re-invest profits back into new camping & cooking equipment, climbing equipment and tents.
Equipment we provide during treks & climbing:
• Quality international brand tents ( Doite, North Face, Salewa, Vaude, Terranova, Camp)
• Cooking tent
• Spacious dining tent
• Toilet tent / Poo tubes
• All cooking equipment, kitchen equipment, eating utensils
• Tables & chairs
• Oxygen Bottle (treks only), Oxygen saturation meter, emergency stretcher
• Thermorest inflatable & foam mat sleeping mattress
• And some nice extra touches!
There are no implemented controls over who can operate selling trekking, hiking & mountain guiding services in Huaraz. While the Huascaran National Park Authority has regulations that only permit licensed operators to work within the National Park (Cordillera Blanca) these regulations are rarely implemented.
Unlicensed operators by-pass park regulations by paying bribes to park officials. There are no controls at all over who may operate trekking services in the Cordillera Huayhuash. As a result there are literally hundreds of individuals and companies offering guiding services out of Huaraz, many of which are not licensed businesses & who do not employ licensed or qualified staff.
Many operators in Huaraz offer budget level treks & climbing expeditions BUT do not use appropriately qualified staff. Many use unlicensed staff or porters as climbing guides or trek guides.
When selecting your operator in Huaraz, it is important to check that:
1:The agency is a legal entity and licensed Tourism Operator (Ancash Region)
2: The agency is registered with the Peruvian Taxation Authority (SUNAT) as a Tourism Agency and Guide Service
3: Guides provided by the operator are licensed either as:
Mountaineering Guides:
• UIAGM international certified guide
• Assistant mountain guides are Aspirant Guide
Trekking Guides:
• Guia de Caminata or Guia de Turismo (Trek or Tour Guide)
Peruvian Andes Adventures only uses licensed guides & staff:
• Chief mountaineering guide in charge of the climbing group is UIAGM guide
• Assistant guides are licensed aspirant guides, members of Peruvian Mountain Guides Association
• On technical peaks and 6000m peaks, the ratio is maximum 2 clients per guide
• Trek guides have appropriate licenses
Peruvian Andes Adventures is a member of a prestigious group of tourism & hotel operators in Huaraz APOTUM. (Asociación Peruana de Operadores de Turismo en Montaña / Association of Peruvian Mountain Tourism Operators)
This is a tight group of only the most esteemed operators in Huaraz, and with the inclusion of Peruvian Andes Adventures there are only 10 members.
The objectives of the group are:
• To offer only fully qualified and professional service to their trekking & climbing clients & hotel guests
• To practise sound environmental practise when operating with groups on treks & climbs
• To treat staff with respect & pay above average salaries with excellent working conditions
• Provide staff training in all aspects of quality client service and safe mountaineering practises.
• Promote the region of Ancash & Huaraz as tourism destinations
• Lobby the National Park and Local Government to implement controls over illegal and untaxed tourism operators & guides, improve management of the National Park and the local environment, and lobby transport operators to improve the quality and frequency of services offered
You can combine any two or more of the peaks for an extended climbing expedition.
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