Originally Posted by
Adam1222
Thanks. Seems like those places are all a fair bit spread out and would be logistically difficult to cover in 5 days or so? It seems I can fly to Cajamarca from Lima, but Chachapoyas and Trujillo are both 8 to 10 hours drives in opposite directions, so i would have to pick one?
Yeah, good point. I wasn't factoring in the limited time.
If you're up for it, you could do the Cajamarca to Chachapoyas route in five days and you'd have two or three days around Chachapoyas, one day for Kuelap, one day for Gocta Falls and perhaps another day to see other sights.
That drive between Cajamarca and Chachapoyas is not for the faint of heart. It's a narrow (one lane) winding road through rugged mountainous terrain with no guard rails. Fortunately it's lightly traveled, but given how narrow the road is you still have to be very careful around blind corners (of which there are many). Spectacular but I don't recommend it unless you are experienced with backroad travel in Latin America.
The other way to get to Chachapoyas is via Jaén, which is connected to Lima via regular commercial air service. Jaén would be two or three hours (I'm guessing) by road from Chachapoyas and there are plenty of tourist shuttles that do the route.
That corner of Peru is fascinating, I highly recommend it if you can work out the logistics.