SALKANTAY TREK TO MACHUPICCHU

We will begin our adventure today with a pick up in the early hours of the morning from your hotel. We will go to the town of Mollepata where we will stop to have a nutritious breakfast. We will follow this route until we reach the Cruz Pata area, where our muleteers and all our equipment will be waiting for us.

This day will be quite exhausting and exciting, we will walk about 20 km, crossing the Andes with a changing climate, after breakfast we will start the ascent to the slopes of the snowy Salkantay and we will arrive at Abra Salkantay (4,630 meters / 15,190 feet) which is the highest point high of our walk so we will stop to take photos and appreciate the beautiful landscape that surrounds us.

Continuing we will arrive at the area known as Wayra, where we will have lunch and rest a bit. Then we go to Colpapampa and in this section we will find a change in climate and temperature with a dry and temperate climate characteristic of this area, later we will arrive at the edge of the Cusco jungle where we will see a great variety of flora and fauna characteristic of the area. Finally, we will arrive at the small settlement of Colpapampa where our camp will be ready.

This day we will have a very quiet walk, we will wake up very early to have our breakfast and we will begin our walk until we reach the area known as La Playa Sahuayaco, where our team will be waiting for us with lunch and the vehicles to continue our trip to the district of Santa Teresa.

In this district are the hot springs of Cocalmayo, where we will have an afternoon of relaxation and rest, after enjoying these magical waters we will return to Santa Teresa to enjoy our dinner.

Dinner and overnight at Santa Teresa camp.

Today will be a very fun day, we will go to the mountains that surround the town of Santa Teresa where we will have activities full of adventure and adrenaline, traveling on a zip line more than 1 kilometer away, crossing a Tibetan bridge and flying in the style of the condor.

Then we will transfer you to the hydroelectric station, where we will resume our walk to Machu Picchu Pueblo or Aguas Calientes where we will have dinner and spend the night.

After a well-deserved rest, we will leave the hotel and board the bus that will take us to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, considered the jewel of Inca architecture and engineering. We will see squares, neighborhoods, houses, barns, streets, observatories and more. Built on one of the flanks of the “old mountain”, Machu Picchu is surrounded by subtropical vegetation.

After the guided tour, we will return to the town of Aguas Calientes to take the train back to Ollantaytambo and then take you to the hotel in the Sacred Valley or Cusco in our private transfer.