Day 1: Visit Humantay lake & sleep close to Salkantay peak
Day 2: Crossing the Salkantay Pass & descend to the Cloud forest
Day 3: Coffee farms & first views of Machu Picchu
Day 4: Visit Machu Picchu & Back to Cusco
Each journey provides a different experience to the traveler and is incredibly magical
Explore far from the beaten track and city streets, hike by rugged, unpaved roads; over rough, steep, and sometimes slippery paths without handrails with amazing views of peaks, lakes, unique countrysides; and climb many high and uneven stone steps at Inca sites.
Discounts apply to anyone who has a valid STUDENT CARD at the time of the journey (Students must be under 25 years of age) or who is 17-years-old or younger. The discount is $25 USD per person.
To book a tour you need to enter in contact with our consulters and make an initial payment of $ 200USD per person, the remaining balance can be paid online in full or installments up to 30 days prior to start date, or in cash on our office upon your arrival. Also, we are going to require a scanned copy of your passport.
Today, we will pick you up from your hotel at 6:00 am, then drive in our private transport to Killarumiyoc Inca Site, where we will go to explore the temple of the moon, then continues to the Inca site of Taray, after that to Soraypampa for our lunch.
after lunch starts our hike of approximately 1 hour to Humantay Lake to appreciate its beauty and have free time to take photos with the sunset, finally we will return to Soraypampa for our dinner and overnight.
like every morning, our staff will wake you up with hot tea inside the tents and get ready to enjoy the day. After breakfast approximately at 7:30 am after the big groups, we will start our trek with a slow ascent for 2 hours until the Salkantay Pampa for short break, later continues our hike for another two hours until Suyrococha for the lunch.
After lunch and a short break starts another uphill for 1 hour until the Salkantay Pass, where we will have the opportunity to get a little closer to the Salkantay peak and lake to have the best view and appreciate the lake formed by landslides.
Then we will start descending for about 2 hours more until we reach our campsite located at Wayracmachay, today again we will have incredible views of Salkantay.
in the night after our dinner, we are going to see some Inca constellations before to go to bed.
After wake up, and leave our things ready for a delicious breakfast, we are going to hike 4 hours down until Colpapampa for lunch, along this trail will see beautiful nature, local farms, rivers, and waterfalls.
Later we will drive a local comfortable transport to the place called Hidroelectrica and we will say goodbye to our cook showing our appreciation. Then we will continue another 3 hours by the side of the rail train to the village of Aguas Calientes, where we will have dinner at a local restaurant and spend the night in the hotel.
Note: today if you prefer we can continue from Hidroelectrica to Aguas Calientes by train for USD $ 30.
We get up early to try to be the first to board the bus that will take us to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. We will have a nice guided visit of approximately two hours along with our guide for the most important places, then we will have free time in a certain place to appreciate this amazing and magnificent Inca construction.
At the recommended time you will need to go to the bus station to board and go back to the village of Aguas Calientes so that you can have lunch and board the train that will take you to the station of Ollantaytambo or Poroy, from there you will be transferred to your hotel in Cusco in our private transportation.
Here is What is Included in the price; We Have Got You Covered.
For any Trek, you need sleeping bag. We recommend a warm sleeping bags for a low temperature as -15C. Air mattresses and trekking poles are optional but recommended. If you don’t have or want to bring all these items, we have for rent.
Departure: We offer guaranteed departures since two travelers, this tour departs all the Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of the week in group service, along the 12 months of a year.
A group tour means that you are going to explore with other travelers with different fitness abilities
Price: All our tours are priced in US Dollar and it is per each person (not per room) according your selected category.
| Category | Based on 2 in a room |
|---|---|
| Economic | |
| Standard | |
| Tourist | |
| Superior | |
| Without Hotel |
Price without hotel: Mean that you have to book your own hotel, but following our itinerary.
Important: The exactly hotel that we are going to book for you depends on the room availability of each category listed below in our website, if these listed hotels are full we are going to book another with the same quality.
The prices are based in Matrimonial, Double or Triple Room, and are per person, if you like a single room there is an extra fee according the hotel category.
| Hotels | In Aguas Calientes |
|---|---|
| Economic | Muyurina Inn / Kantau Inn |
| Standard | Retama Inn / Alameda Inn / Tambo Inn |
| Tourist | La Cabaña / Tierra Viva / Inti Punku / Waman Inn |
| Superior | Jaya Hotel / Casa Andina / Taypicala |
| Premium | Hatun Inti Boutique / el Mapi / Tierra Viva Superior |
| luxury | MachuPicchu Pueblo / Sumaq |
A private tour means, The tour is just for your group, are available on any date and the prices are according to the group size.
