Trek Salkantay 5D/4N

To start this great Salkantay trek adventure, we will pick you up from the hotel at 4:30am.

Then we will travel in our mobility for 2 hours to the town of Mollepata where we will have our light breakfast; After breakfast we will continue our trip to the community of Cruzpata where the cook, the muleteers and herds will be waiting for us to take our camping equipment.

We will walk 2 and a half hours to the community of Soraypampa, where we will spend the first night of the expedition and from this area it is already possible to appreciate the spectacular landscape of the snow-capped Humantay and Salkantay.

After lunch we will take a short walk to the Humantay lagoon (1 hour and 30 minutes uphill) which is on the Salkantay trek circuit and today is one of the very famous attractions in Cusco.

At 6 am we will have our breakfast, then we will begin to walk up the hill until we reach the highest point of our expedition, the Salkantay trek, right from where we will have the impressive views of the glaciers of the Vilcabamba mountain range; Also from here you can see the high Amazon jungle full of flora and fauna of this ecological floor. From here we will begin with the descent towards Wayracpunku where we will have a short break for lunch.

Then, our trip will continue entering the high jungle, where we will observe the typical tropical forest vegetation full of different types of trees and finally we will arrive at our next Chaullay camp.

After our succulent breakfast (6 am), we will begin our descent walk towards the high jungle. Here we will be lucky enough to see different types of wild vegetation such as orchids, begonias, bromeliads, timber trees and also domestic plantations: coffee, bananas, oranges and more. This part of our walk is one of the best sections.

After 5 hours of long walking we will arrive at the little town of Playa, where we will have a short break (lunch); Later we will continue with our walk towards the town of Santa Teresa, place of our next night of camping. In this town we will have enough time to explore and go to the thermal medicinal waters of Cocalmayo, an excellent place to relax after an arduous walk, and at night we will have a bonfire with all the members of the expedition.

The sunrise will be within a tropical area full of history and nature; There our breakfast will be waiting for us ready to taste and then we will continue our trip towards Machu Picchu town.

Getting to Machu Picchu town will take us approximately 7 hours, traveling by railway, passing through the hydroelectric power plant, making stops in different places to appreciate the spectacular landscape; From our tour we will be able to see the great Inca city of Machu Picchu at the top of the mountain.

We will spend the night in a hotel in Machu Picchu Pueblo.

We will get up at approximately 4:30 am and then we will begin to climb to the Inca city of Machupicchu. It will take us approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, following an ascending path crossing the lush tropical jungle and we will have the opportunity to see the sunrise in the Inca city.

Our guided tour will last 2 hours, visiting the most important points of this wonder. Then, we will have free time to explore more on our own or to climb the Huaynapicchu, Machupicchu, Inti Punku or Inca bridge mountains.

After all, we will begin to descend to the town of Aguas Calientes to go to the train station that will take us back to Ollantaytambo and there, outside the train station, our staff will be waiting to take you to the city of Cusco – hotel.