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Village to village
This trek in the Sierra La Culata National Park supports a community-based rural project. You walk, with a mule to carry your pack, between mucuposadas—traditional adobe and stone houses renovated to offer food and lodging in a simple and warm manner.
Mucuposadas are set up by local families and are the only lodgings in areas of great natural beauty. Income from them is linked to the upkeep of the local environment, so villagers co-operate in the care and upkeep of their surroundings. Job opportunities lessen the exodus to the cities, and rural families’ incomes rise in a sustainable manner.
It is also great fun, with a warm welcome and opportunities to taste the simple life in these remote and beautiful places.
Sierra La Culata National Park
Day 1 LD You are collected from your hotel in Mérida by your English speaking local trekking guide and driven up to the high moors to limber up with a walk to Laguna Negra. Perhaps visit the nearby Astronomic Observatory before spending the night at your first mucuposada in the village of Mitibibó at 3,400m
Day 2 BLD A half day’s walk through the beautiful landscape of the Sierra La Culata through a changing scenery passing through the region of wheat and potato cultivation to the Valle de El Banco , then crossing the tree line and walking on the páramos moor. Spend the night in La Toma Alta.
Day 3 BLD A full day’s trek takes you through a glacial landscape of lakes, huge frailejónes and endemic plants up to a high point, the Alto de Muruzoque, at 4,264m. You then follow an old royal road to your final mucuposada at Misintá
Day 4 BL A leisurely start to enjoy the tranquillity of the high mountains and Dońa Rosa’s garden. Mid a.m. you will be collected from Misintá by 4WD and driven to a paved road, then back to Mérida.
