Llaca lake — Attraction in Independencia

The 1,5 hour drive up to the track start was a crazy journey in itself, our driver took his bog standard station wagon car from sealed roads in the city and then onto a windy dirt road. As we climbed and bounced higher into the mountain we suddenly turned left into an impossibly bad track. The track would have been a challenge for a 4WD truck, never mind a normal car. It could be best described as a dried up river bed, it was just a bed of uneven rocks on a narrow track carved into the steep mountainside.(We found out later the road was built 30 years ago when the lake's dam was built and never maintained since).

It was still cold when we arrived at the start of the track, the sun hadn't risen over the 5,000m ridge on the eastern side of the lake. It wasn't going to be too hard of a walk today, once we climbed the 50m up to the lake which sat at 4,474m, it was just a walk round the glacier lake's edge.

The colour of the water in the lake was really unusual, a kind of greeny colour which I guess was due to being melted glacier water. At the end of the lake, we walked onto the finest white sand imaginable. At the far end of the sand was the glacier although it looked...

Amazing high mountain lake with a glacier you can walk right up to. The road from Huaraz is rough and long, and the route from the refugio to the glacier includes some boulder scrambling and stepping stones, but it is well worth it. The glacier is very grand and powerful, take care near it. Watch out for the weather coming in quickly too, it can be very...

Absolutely stunning- and hardly any other people there. 'Treacherous' mountain roads to get there, but hire an experienced driver, and you'll be fine. It's only about 90 mins drive from Huaraz. So worth it. Liked it even more than Laguna Paron. We took lots of drone footage - it's absolutely beautiful and off the...