6:30 PM flight? Your airport pick up will be at 8:30 AM, 10 hours in advance.
Chachapoyas is truly remote. It has one paved road into it, and all others are gravel or worse. The choice of airports is Terapoto, 7 hours away, or Chiclayo, about 9 hours not counting road slide delays. It seems they built an airport in Chachapoyas for the tourists, but the runway is 70’ too short, and is on top of some mountain, so I guess they cannot fix it? I looked it up in advance of the trip and saw pictures of the terminal and everything, but no flights. Of course, you can take the bus, which is only 23 hours to Lima. (Flights, if they existed would be less than 1 hour.)
To further grasp the remoteness, my hotel, Gocta Lodge, which was very nice, sits with a great view of Gocta falls, one of the 10 highest waterfalls in the world, and only documented in 2002! Prior to that it was totally unknown, except to the locals of course.
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| Gocta falls, 2,505′ high, officially discovered 12 years ago. |
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| Gocta Lodge. I was in the upper far right. |
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| Morning clouds over the valley |
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| Of course, llamas on the grounds. |
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| Nice sunset from my deck. |