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Locations Visited: Salkantay Mountain, Hot Spring, Machu Picchu |
Starting Altitude: 3700 masl = 12139 Feet |
Highest Point: 4630 masl = 15190 Feet |
Group: 2 pax min, max 10 paxs |
Physical Grading: 5/5 |
The trek from Salkantay to Machu Picchu 5 days, is the best alternative option to the Inca Trail, the famous Salkantay Trek (or Salkantay Trek), was named among the 25 best Treks in the world, by National Geographic Adventure Travel Magazine. It is a walk open to all, without limitations of spaces or permits (at least for now). An ancient and remote path located in the same region as the Inca Trail with snowy mountains and lush tropical forests, located northwest of the city of Cusco by the Vilcabamba Mountain Range and rising to 6271 masl. Salkantay is an outstanding mountain covered by snow turning it into a glacier and is adored for thousands of years by local people, Salkantay is a Quechua word that means (wild mountain). Local Trekkers Peru, offers you the best staff (guides, cooks and porters), and the best camping equipment that will make this experience an unforgettable memory.
Pick up from your hotel at 5:00 am. Travel by bus to Soraypampa (4 hours): on the tour you will observe ancient villages, small Inca citadels. Breakfast at Mollepata in a rustic restaurant. Then we will continue the trip until we reach the trekking point, where the mountain guide will join the group and make an offering to the Apus (Gods) with the famous kintu, which is the union of the three coca leaves and begin to make a small ritual as payment to the Pachamama, as our Inca ancestors used to do, to obtain the permission of the Apus and to enter sacred spaces and thus arrive without any problem to the Inca citadel of Machupicchu. After 3 hours of trekking we will arrive to Soraypampa, to our base camp, where you will enjoy a delicious lunch (12:00 pm), with a view to the Salkantay and Humantay glaciers. In the afternoon (1:00 p.m.) We are going to visit to the Humantay Lake: magical lake of turquoise waters, located on top of the snow-capped mountain, this tour will take 3 hours' round trip. You will surely be impressed with the panoramic view of seeing the turquoise lake at 4200 masl. 13779 ft. close to an astounding glacier.
After we will return to our base camp (17:00 hrs), where our personnel will we waiting with delicious appetizers, before dinner and then rest in our Igloos, where you will spend the night in transparent glass balls, which will allow you to observe the Milky Way from the comfort of your bed.
This day you will test your physical and mental strength, since you will walk a stretch of 22 km, but at the same time totally rewarding because you will cross different landscapes from mountainous areas, snowy peaks, cloud forests and jungle scenery, and at the end of this day all your expectations will have been satisfied.This second day starts with an alarm clock at 4:30 am and a delicious breakfast at 5:00 am. At 5:30 am we start our trek for 3 hours until we reach the highest point of the trail, the gigantic snowy Salkantay.
Then we will descend through the desert of stones, for a time of 2 hours until we reach the lunch point, called Wayra Machay term in Quechua which means Wayra wind and crazy Machay. Continuing with this challenging day, prepare yourself to immerse yourself in the cloudy forest, where you will glimpse flora and fauna, that will leave you amazed and you will be enveloped by the soft melody of the song of the birds that will introduce you to this magical and mystical place. We will arrive at approximately 5:00 p.m. to our Capsule Trek in Chaullay, where the team of chefs will be waiting for you to offer you a varied and traditional dinner. Finishing this day of full trekking, you will arrive to another adventure, this time to the capsules suspended in the air, totally transparent, that will be your refuge of rest and at the same time the perfect viewpoint towards the stars and the awesome space.
This third day is characterized by being relaxing during the morning and full of adrenaline in the afternoon, when doing adventure sports activities and experiencing experiential tourism and agro tourism. On day 3, you will wake up with a spectacular sunrise in the Salkantay canyon, this day will start at 8:00 am with a typical breakfast in the area, then descend from the Capsule Trek, into the lush jungle, coming into connection with nature, surrounded by waterfalls, rivers, colorful mountains, diversity of birds and a great variety of orchids; This tour will take us approximately 6 hours to reach Lucmbamba, where the Capsule Trek are located, suspended in the mountain, in the middle of paradisiacal landscapes, to reach these capsules you must cross a 200 meter long Tibetan bridge, in a height challenge and full adrenaline. Lunch halfway through the trekking. In the afternoon you will experience the famous Coffee Tours, in a local farm. If you want more adventure and fun on this day, we offer you to make our Zipline, considered the highest and the longest in the whole area and South America, with a route of 5500m long, divided into 5 zip lines and 150 meters high, flying at more than 60 Km / h. Dinner at 18:00.
At the end of this day you will have a restful break in the Capsule Trek in the middle of the jungle.
After enjoying several days of beautiful wild places full of flora, fauna, snow and glaciers. This day you will have the opportunity to walk the Inca's royal road, Llactapata, which is part of the road network of the Great Qhapaq &tildean, of the majestic Inca Empire. This day 4, start with a succulent breakfast, in the capsule suspended in the air, then challenge the mountain Llaqtapata, for a stretch of 2 hours 30 minutes of full ascent to reach the archaeological site, where you will witness the First views of the Urubamba Valley, walking along the top of the mountains.
Then we are going to visit the archaeological complex Llactapata, Quechua word meaning, llaqta, town and leg, high place. In this marvelous place, which is the perfect observatory, you can take the first pictures of the amazing Machupicchu and Huaynapicchu, which no other trekking offers you. At the same time, the mountain guide will give you some scopes of the most important points of what was the admirable and outstanding Inca culture. Continuing with our itinerary, we will make two hours of hiking down the mountain, which is a different experience, where you will find and you will live closely the reality and habitat of the inhabitants and farmers of the area, ending up arriving at Hidroelectrica, where we will have lunch.
In this place we offer you two options:
1) Go by train to Aguas Caliente which has an additional cost of 31 dollars, with a travel time of 45 minutes.
2) Continue the trekking to Aguas Calientes, for a time of three hours, following the train track, walking on the slopes of the Machupicchu mountain.
Following the itinerary of this day, during the dinner schedule, the tour guide will organize your income for the citadel of Machu Picchu the next day. This day ends, with your stay in a comfortable hostel in Aguas Calientes.
The day so expected for all the trekking, the exploration of the citadel of Machupicchu, one of the wonders of the world and in this guided tour you will discover its reasons.
On day 5, you will start to wake up very early to see the sunrise and the first rays of sunlight towards the citadel, which we will arrive by bus (with an additional cost of 12 dollars) arriving in a time of 30 minutes. Then we will enter the royal Inca sanctuary, where you will feel all the energy of the Andean cosmology and thus initiate a guided tour for approximately 2 hours and feel part of our ancestral culture. Seeing this place of great beauty, which is in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, the sanctuary of Machu Picchu that was the most amazing architectural realization of the Inca Empire in its heyday, you will enjoy its ramparts, terraces and gigantic ramps that the impression of have been sculpted in the escarpments of the rock, as if they were part of it. In this fantastic place every space within it is fascinating, and no matter where you look, you will be amazed. After this tour, you can go up to Huayna Picchu, it will take you about 3 hours.
We recommend that you return to the city of Aguas Calientes no later than two hours before the departure of the trains to Ollantaytambo, trip that lasts 2 hours, upon arrival at this place, our staff will be waiting for you, to take you back to the Imperial city of Cusco, trip that lasts 2 hours.
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800 USD$ | 780 USD$ | 760 USD$ | 740 USD$ | 700 USD$ |
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950 USD$ | 900 USD$ | 880 USD$ | 850 USD$ | 800 USD$ |