Salkantay Trek to Machupicchu 5 Days Camping and Hiking Tour

Salkantay Trek to Machupicchu 5 Days Camping and Hiking Tour

Salkantay trek 5 Days is one of our most iconic tours. Our guides with a lot of experience will accompany you on this journey to visit all the attractions that await you on this trip as Laguna Humantay located at 4300 meters and the Salkantay pass at 4600 meters. Our camps located at strategic points make your experience unforgettable and do not make extra walks as with others. Food and camping equipment are included. best of all we carry your extra backpack on the mules.

Itinerary

Day 1: Journey Cusco - Mollepata- Soraypampa Campsite (16 km. of hiking)

Stop At: Humantay Lake, Cusco 08002 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: Salkantay Trail, 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 village - aguas Calientes town

Stop At: Machu Picchu, 08680, 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 a 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.