If you’ve read any of my previous blogs, you probably know that Brett and I prefer to hike independently or without a guide. We like being on our own schedule and carrying everything ourselves. However, with Laguna 69 it was different.
While researching the Laguna 69 hike, we quickly began to realize that it would be cheaper for us to book a trip through a local tour company. There is pretty much no local transit that heads to Laguna 69, so if we wanted to go on our own, we would have had to take a taxi which would have been more expensive.
We ended up booking a Laguna 69 trip through our hostel, Campo Base. As we were checking in, the owner asked us if we wanted to book it for the next day, so we did!
The tour cost us each S/30 (around $9 USD). We found this price quite reasonable. Our day trip started by us being picked up at our hostel at 4:50am and ended with us being dropped back off at 6:00pm so plan for a full day! Later in this blog, I will go deeper into the details of the hike.