Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu 4 Days / 3 Nights

We start this amazing adventure with the pickup from your hotel at 5am, this will be a ride of two hours approximately until we arrive to Mollepata community, Where We will have our first breakfast which is not included, after breakfast we continue on transportation to Challacancha where is the starting point of the hike. Here we meet the chef and muleteers and need to check our luggage, pack the horses, and begin the long ascent to our campsite. Three hours and a half approximately to arrive at our campsite, on the way you will hike the original Inca trail Canal. The experience is unique, you will be part of nature and see far away the Salkantay mountain which is breathtaking at first glance.  After this we will arrive to our campsite where we will be waiting for you, you will get the accommodation and we will have the lunch to recover energy, you will have some free time until we will start our hike up to Humantay Lake, this will take two hours to hike up and one hour on the way back approximately. You will enjoy the beauty of Humantay Lake which is located on the bottom of the snowcapped Humantay Mountain. It is quite cold as you can imagine but the view is unique and worthy. Back to our campsite, you can change your clothes and then you will enjoy a delicious dinner.

After dinner, our tour guide will brief the itinerary for the next day, which is a hike moderate to challenging.

• MEALS: Lunch, Dinner
• NIGHT: Soraypampa Campsite.
• ACTIVITY LEVEL: Moderate to Challenge
• WALKING DISTANCE: 10 km/6.21 mi
• WALKING TIME: 5 or 6 hours
• MINIMUM ELEVATION: 3,800 m/12,467 ft
• MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 4,200 m/13,780 ft
• BASECAMP ELEVATION: 3,900 m/12,975 ft

This day, you will wake up early, be ready and prepared for this beautiful experience. You will enjoy the delicious breakfast and start the hike up to the Salkantay Pass. You will pass through the Salkantay Pampa and continue zip zap up to the Summit. We will take some breaks along the way to enjoy the nature of the stunning mountains, time for pictures and a proper guiding explanation and of course to recover some energy. Once you arrive at the pass you will reach 4,630m/15,228 ft. Now you can take beautiful pictures with the snowcapped Salkantay mountain. Then we will continue our hike to Wayracmachay all the way down.  The landscape will change a little bit and you will notice it.  Once there you will have a delicious lunch. Our chefs  will surprise you. After recovering some energy, We need to continue all the way down. You will find that the temperature will improve considerably because of the low altitude, our campsite is located at 2900m/9514 ft.  So it is quite nice in contrast to the first base camp. You can rest and get ready for dinner, where our tour guide will brief the itinerary for the next day.

• MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• NIGHT: Chaullay Campsite
• ACTIVITY LEVEL: Challenging
• WALKING DISTANCE: 24 km/13.67mi
• WALKING TIME: 11/12 hours
• MINIMUM ELEVATION: 2,900m/9,514ft
• MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 4,600 m/15,190 ft
• BASECAMP ELEVATION: 3000m /9,842 ft

After a challenging day, we will wake up early in the morning to have a delicious breakfast. This day will be for relaxing, the trail is beautiful and the vegetation is very dense and we will see a variety of orchids and impressive waterfalls approximately 80 meters high.  We will hike all the way down through the Santa Teresa Valley to Lucmabamba where we will have lunch and board the transportation to Hifroelectrica. In the afternoon, we continue walking towards Aguas Calientes for 2 hours (12 kilometers) where we will spend the night in a proper hotel. The dinner is Included and your tour guide will give you important information for the next day. The main reason for this program: Machupicchu.

• MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• NIGHT: Hotel in Aguas Calientes (Standard).
• ACTIVITY LEVEL: Difficult
• WALKING DISTANCE: 27km/16.78mi
• WALKING TIME: 8 or 9 hours
• MINIMUM ELEVATION: 2000m/6,560 ft
• MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 3,000m/9,842 ft
• AGUAS CALIENTES ELEVATION: 2,040m /6,693 ft

We wake up early in the morning (depending on the time of our entrance).   Some of you will want to hike to the entrance to Machupicchu which can take one hour and a half. Some of You will want to take the first bus (5:30am) from Aguas Calientes to the Machupicchu Citadel, usually 30 minutes by bus. Our guide will thoroughly guide you through the Machupicchu archeological site for about 2 hours, then time to come back to Aguas Calientes town where You can get lunch (not included in the program) and in the afternoon we will take the train to Ollantaytambo, you need to be at the Aguas Calientes train station 30 minutes in advance. A representative of our company will meet you at the train station in Ollantaytambo town then We will take You back to Cusco in proper tourist transportation. We will leave you at your hotel.

• MEALS: Breakfast
• NIGHT: Not included
• ACTIVITY LEVEL: Moderate
• WALKING DISTANCE: 7km/ 3.11mi
• WALKING TIME: 2 hours approx.
• MINIMUM ELEVATION:  2040m/ 6690ft
• MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 2430m/ 7970 ft