Salkantay trek 5D/4N

DAY 1: CUSCO – MOLLEPATA – HUMANTAY LAGOON – SORAYPAMPA

Around 4:30 a.m., your guide will pick you up from your hotel. We will have a 3 hour trip to the town of MOLLEPATA, located at 3850 meters above sea level, in this beautiful town we will enjoy breakfast.
Then we will continue our journey for 1 hour to CHALLACANCHA, where we start with the hike, at this point we meet with our staff who will organize the camping equipment. Around 10:00 a.m. we begin our adventure, we will walk approximately 3 hours to SORAYPAMPA place where we will have our lunch and spend the night. After a well deserved rest we will visit the Humantay Lagoon and we will also be able to admire the impressive views of the Andes mountain range, after taking pictures we will return to our campsite where we will enjoy our dinner.

DAY 2: SORAYPAMPA – SALKANTAY PASS – COLPAPAMPA
After enjoying a delicious breakfast, we will begin our trek from SORAYPAMPA, we will ascend for 3 hours to the highest point of the ABRA SALKANTAY, from this point we can enjoy a beautiful view of the mountains, snowy SALKANTAY, HUMANTAY, TUCARHUAY and PUMASILLO. Continuing we will pass by SALKANTAYPAMPA and SOYROCOCHA, we will know a beautiful small lake and then begin our descent to HUARACHMACHHAY for 3 hours approximately. We will have lunch and continue our descent for 3 hours until we reach our campsite in COLPAPAMPA where we will spend the night.

DAY 3: COLCAPAMPA – SAHUAYACO BEACH
We start our day with a comforting breakfast, this day we will walk for 5 hours approximately through the Peruvian jungle, during our walk we will be able to appreciate several coffee plantations, orchids and a great variety of plants used in traditional medicine. We will arrive to our camping area PLAYA SAHUAYACO where we will have lunch. This day we will be able to relax as we will visit the thermal baths of Cocalmayo, in the evening around 6:00 we will be back at the camp to enjoy our dinner.

DAY 4: SAHUAYACO BEACH – LLACTAPATA – HYDROELECTRIC PLANT – AGUAS CALIENTES
This day we will enjoy the sunrise with an impressive view of rivers, waterfalls, plants such as orchids and many banana, avocado and coffee plantations. We will have a nutritious breakfast and get ready for our hike of the day, we will walk along a part of the ORIGINAL INCA TRAIL. We will enjoy impressive views of the SANTA TERESA valley, then we will ascend for approximately 3 hours until we reach the archaeological center of LLACTAPATA. We will have a guided tour, from this point we will have a view of two sacred mountains MACHU PICCHU MOUNTAIN and HUAYNA PICCHU MOUNTAIN in the distance. We will descend for lunch and then continue to HIDROELÉCTRICA. We will walk to the town of AGUAS CALIENTES for about 3 hours, upon arrival we will go to the selected hotel and in the evening we will enjoy a delicious dinner at a local restaurant.

DAY 5: AGUAS CALIENTES – MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO
Our most awaited day, we will wake up early to go to our imposing wonder of the world MACHU PICCHU. We will take the bus and travel for 25 minutes to reach the entrance, we will have a guided tour of its main sectors, after the guided tour we will have some free time to take pictures.
We will return to the town of AGUAS CALIENTES, where we will have free time to have lunch (not included) then we will take the train to go to OLLANTAYTAMBO, where we will take the bus to return to CUSCO.