Day 1: Cusco – Mollepata – Soraypampa – Soyrococha (6 km/3.7 miles)
We will pick you up from your hotel in Cusco and make our way to Mollepata, approximately 4 hours away, where we will have a warm breakfast in the countryside. We will drive from Mollepata to Soraypampa, where our trek begins on a sprawling plane of high altitude grasses and the snow-capped Salkantay Mountain, regarded by many as an extremely important deity of the landscape. A short walk will take us up to the glacier lake,
Laguna Humantay before going back to Salkantay Pampa to have lunch at 3,900 meters above sea level (masl). We then ascend approximately four hours to Soyrococha, our first campsite, at 4,400 meters about sea level, where on a clear night, many passengers remark that they have never seen so many stars.
- Meals included: Breakfast/Lunch /Tea time/ Dinner + snacks
- Lowest Elevation: 3,900 meters
- Highest Elevation: 4,400 meters
- Distance to wolk : 6 km
- Approximate walking time: 4 hours or 5hours
- Level of Difficulty : moderate
- Camping : soyrococha mountain
Day 2: Soyrococha – Collpapampa (16 km/10 miles)
We leave the campsite for an hour of ascent to the highest point of our salkantay trek, 4,600 meters about sea level, surrounded by frozen peaks topped with ice, which we might hear rumbling and crashing in distant avalanches. At a nearby bright blue lake fed by glacier runoff, we will practice a tradition of offering coca leaves to the mountain spirit. A descent through changing microclimates will take us to our lunch area, Huayracmachay at 4,000 meters about sea level. Walking with the dry environment of the cold mountains at our backs, we head into an area with an increasingly greater diversity of plants, until reaching our campsite in Collpapampa at 2,900 meters about sea level.
- Meals included: Breakfast/lunch/tea time/ dinner+snacks
- Lowest Elevation : 4,400 meters
- Highest Elevation: 4,600 meters
- Distance to walk: 17 km
- Aproximate walking time : 9 hours
- Level of difficulty : one hours hard after this all down
- Camping: collpapampa
Day 3: Collpapampa – Playa – Santa Teresa (15 km/9.3 miles)
From our campsite at Collpapampa, we will walk into the subtropical highlands and begin seeing plants very different from those where we began our trek, including banana plants , passion fruit, avocado tree, and coffee trees. We will have lunch at Playa, an area where we may be able to observe how coffee beans are ground and roasted. Our descent continues to our camp site which is lucmabamba, where we can camp under the bananas plants and coffe trees really nice place to stay night
- Meals included: Breakfast/lunch/tea time/dinner
- Lowest Elevation : 2,050 meter about sea level
- Lowest Elevation: 1,800 meters about sea level
- Distance to walk: 11 km
- Difficulty: easy
- Area: rain forest
- Camping: santa teresa village
Day 4: lucmabamba – Hidroeléctrico Area – Aguas Calientes Town (7 km/4.3 miles)
From our campsite which is lucmabamba we can go to in Santa Teresa and we will board a van for the Hidroeléctrico area, where we will see beautiful plants like coffee and avocado trees. we will see birds as well. we will begin walking a few hours to Aguas Calientes Town at 2,040 meters about sea level, where we will have time to explore at your leisure.
also other way could be hiking from the begins to aguas calientes which is 16 km hiking, way up and way down to be in hidroelectrico place here we can have lunch and after that still we can hiking alonf this train track to get to machupicchu town or aguas calientes, once when we get to the town straigh to your hotel to rest before to go to have dinner
- Meals included: Breakfast/box lunch/ dinner
- Lowest Elevation: 1,800 meters
- Highest Elevation: 2,100 meters
- Distance to walk: 4 hours
- Distance to walk: 7 km
- Difficulty: moderate
- Area: Machupicchu town ( aguas calientes town)
Day 5: Aguas Calientes Town – Machu Picchu – Cusco
After a night in Aguas Calientes Town, we will head up by bus to the Machu Picchu Sanctuary, where we will have a guided tour of about 2.5 hours. You will have time to freely explore the sanctuary and the option to walk up to one of the overlooks, Wayna Picchu Mountain or Machu Picchu Mountain, with picturesque views of Machu Picchu Sanctuary below.
- Meals included, breakfast is included in your hotel
- lunch is not included here
- After returning to Aguas Calientes Town by bus, we will board the train to Ollantaytambo or Poroy, and transfer back to Cusco.