SALKANTAY TREK TO MACHUPICCHU
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Day 1: Cusco - Mollepata -Soray panpa (18 km. of hiking)
Stop At: Humantay Lake, maruri, cc. ima sumaq oficina 115, Cusco 08000, Peru
You will be picked up at 5.00 in the morning at your hotel in the city of Cusco. After 2 hours of journey by bus, you will arrive in the town of Mollepata around 7.00 where you will have chance to get a breakfast. Around 8:00 am we will take our bus one more hour in order to arrive to Mollepata town where the hike will start surrounded by a typical landscape of the Peruvian Andes. At noon the lunch is going to be ready at Soraypampa camp site, in the afternoon after a short break, you will hike to the HUMANTAY LAGOON located very close to the glaziers accompanied by your guide ,this last as a training for the next day. After this challenge you will be back at the campsite and past the night after a delicious dinner.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 2: Soraypampa - Salkantay mountain pass - Chawllay (22 km of hiking)
Stop At: Salcantay, Calle Procuradores 388, Cusco 08002 Peru
Early in the morning, you will taste our breakfast compound by some pancakes, beams cream, batter, marmalade, etc. this day you will get great altitudes 6464 meters above sea level at SALKANTAY PASS, and a distance of 24 km. your walk will be between high snow caped mountains, after passing the lands of llamas and alpacas you will enter to the inter Andean valleys where you will find some spectacular orchids, and observe the rapid hummingbirds and more. Arrive to the camp site and pass the night at the eyebrow of the amazon jungle
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 3: Chawllay - la playa - Santa Teresa (16 km. of hiking)
Stop At: Banos Termales de Cocalmayo, 4 Km from Santa Teresa, Santa Teresa Peru
After a hearty breakfast, very early we will begin to walk along a thin path that extends through a dense valley of vegetation where we can observe some birds among them some endemics, we will pass through passion fruit crops and coffee. At noon we will arrive at Sawayaco Beach for lunch and continue the trip this time in a mini bus that will take us to the camp in the town of Santa Teresa. (optional: you can go to the thermal baths of Cocalmayo to relax after staying at the camp. You will need 20.00 soles for your transportation and admission).
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 4: Santa Teresa - Intihuatana Hidroeléctrica - Aguas Calientes (11 km hiking & Zipline)
Stop At: Intihuatana Stone, on the left bank of the Urubamba river, Machu Picchu Peru
A day full of extreme adventure and adrenaline. We will go to the longest Zipline park in Peru, we will slide along 4 steel cables that cross at a height of 200 m. over the great Urubamba river and the longest one with more than 1200 meters of length that extends over the treetops and finally you will have to pass through a bridge suspended on top of the trees with more 200 m. long Then a transport will come to find us and transfer us to hydroelectric where we can have lunch and recover energy. In the afternoon we will walk the last 11 km. To get to Aguas Calientes following the train route and spend the last night in a hotel.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Aguas Calientes 2** hotel
Day 5: Machupicchu- Ollantaytambo - Cusco city (walk and visit the Inca citadel)
Stop At: Machu Picchu, 08680, Peru
At 4.30 am, we recommend leaving early in the morning in order to get to Machupicchu city quite early and perhaps with a lot of luck to be able to live the sunrise and without many tourists. We will walk along a zigzagging road full of bleachers that climbs from 2000 meters to 2440 meters when we reach Machupicchu. You will be accompanied by a professional tour guide who will give you an unforgettable experience during your visit to Machupicchu. In the afternoon you will return by train enjoying the beautiful landscape of wild forests and corn crops of the Urubamba river valley until you reach Ollantaytambo. From here our transportation will take you to your hotel in Cusco city.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
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Day 1: Cusco - Mollepata -Soray panpa (18 km. of hiking)
Stop At: Humantay Lake, maruri, cc. ima sumaq oficina 115, Cusco 08000, Peru
You will be picked up at 5.00 in the morning at your hotel in the city of Cusco. After 2 hours of journey by bus, you will arrive in the town of Mollepata around 7.00 where you will have chance to get a breakfast. Around 8:00 am we will take our bus one more hour in order to arrive to Mollepata town where the hike will start surrounded by a typical landscape of the Peruvian Andes. At noon the lunch is going to be ready at Soraypampa camp site, in the afternoon after a short break, you will hike to the HUMANTAY LAGOON located very close to the glaziers accompanied by your guide ,this last as a training for the next day. After this challenge you will be back at the campsite and past the night after a delicious dinner.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 2: Soraypampa - Salkantay mountain pass - Chawllay (22 km of hiking)
Stop At: Salcantay, Calle Procuradores 388, Cusco 08002 Peru
Early in the morning, you will taste our breakfast compound by some pancakes, beams cream, batter, marmalade, etc. this day you will get great altitudes 6464 meters above sea level at SALKANTAY PASS, and a distance of 24 km. your walk will be between high snow caped mountains, after passing the lands of llamas and alpacas you will enter to the inter Andean valleys where you will find some spectacular orchids, and observe the rapid hummingbirds and more. Arrive to the camp site and pass the night at the eyebrow of the amazon jungle
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 3: Chawllay - la playa - Santa Teresa (16 km. of hiking)
Stop At: Banos Termales de Cocalmayo, 4 Km from Santa Teresa, Santa Teresa Peru
After a hearty breakfast, very early we will begin to walk along a thin path that extends through a dense valley of vegetation where we can observe some birds among them some endemics, we will pass through passion fruit crops and coffee. At noon we will arrive at Sawayaco Beach for lunch and continue the trip this time in a mini bus that will take us to the camp in the town of Santa Teresa. (optional: you can go to the thermal baths of Cocalmayo to relax after staying at the camp. You will need 20.00 soles for your transportation and admission).
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Camping in professional KAILA tents (DOITE 5931) designed for 4 people will be use only by 2 persons.
Day 4: Santa Teresa - Intihuatana Hidroeléctrica - Aguas Calientes (11 km hiking & Zipline)
Stop At: Intihuatana Stone, on the left bank of the Urubamba river, Machu Picchu Peru
A day full of extreme adventure and adrenaline. We will go to the longest Zipline park in Peru, we will slide along 4 steel cables that cross at a height of 200 m. over the great Urubamba river and the longest one with more than 1200 meters of length that extends over the treetops and finally you will have to pass through a bridge suspended on top of the trees with more 200 m. long Then a transport will come to find us and transfer us to hydroelectric where we can have lunch and recover energy. In the afternoon we will walk the last 11 km. To get to Aguas Calientes following the train route and spend the last night in a hotel.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight in Aguas Calientes 2** hotel
Day 5: Machupicchu- Ollantaytambo - Cusco city (walk and visit the Inca citadel)
Stop At: Machu Picchu, 08680, Peru
At 4.30 am, we recommend leaving early in the morning in order to get to Machupicchu city quite early and perhaps with a lot of luck to be able to live the sunrise and without many tourists. We will walk along a zigzagging road full of bleachers that climbs from 2000 meters to 2440 meters when we reach Machupicchu. You will be accompanied by a professional tour guide who will give you an unforgettable experience during your visit to Machupicchu. In the afternoon you will return by train enjoying the beautiful landscape of wild forests and corn crops of the Urubamba river valley until you reach Ollantaytambo. From here our transportation will take you to your hotel in Cusco city.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
Included
- 4x Breakfast
- 4x Dinner
- 4x Lunch
- Accommodation included: 4 nights
- Pre briefing one or two days your tour starts (let us to know at the tour booking time)
- A Duffel for every person
- Pick up passengers from their respective hotels and then transported to the beginning of the excursion which is Ch’allacancha.
- Shuttle bus Chaullay to Lucmabamba.
- Transporting from the train station in Ollantaytambo to your hotel.
- 1 tent for two people, the tents that we provide are spacious with seating for 4 people but we use it only for 2 people (Doite Kailas 4 and Doite pro Aconcagua 4)
- 1 mat for each person, the mats we use are doubles to allow relaxation.
- Dining tent and cosine with the respective table and chairs.
- meals
- accommodation we include in the package:
- Night 4: a **Hotel
- 1 Professional bilingual guide for every 12 passengers.
- 1 Andean cooker and an assistant for every 8 passengers
- Horsemen and horses to carry all camping equipment, kitchen and 5 kilos of personal belongings of each passenger.
- Entry/Admission - Humantay Lake
- Entry/Admission - Intihuatana Stone
- Entry/Admission - Machu Picchu
Not included
- First breakfast
- Lunch and dinner on the last day of trip
- Bus Service from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu
- Sleeping bag
- Entry/Admission - Banos Termales de Cocalmayo
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Bring for the tour:
- Warm clothes for days 1, 2 and 5
- Sport wear (2 pairs each)
- Hiking shoes
- Camera or camcorder with extra battery
- Mosquito repelente
- Hat or cap
- Sunglasses (optional)
- Rain jacket or poncho
- Extra money in soles
- Standard Backpack Trip
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers
Features
Tourism
65%
Sport
40%
Cultural
35%
Adrenaline
20%
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