Start: Day 1 at 4:30 am at your hotel in Cusco.
End: Day 4 at 8:00 pm in downtown Cusco.
Day 1: Cusco – Mollepata – Marqoq'asa – Soraypampa (8.7 miles of trek, 5 hours).
We will pick you up at your hotel to take our transportation and leave Cusco to Mollepata, place where we will be able to have breakfast. In addition, we will deliver our luggage, so the herder can take it, and we will meet our guide, who will take us through the tracks during the next four days. After listening some directions, we will take our vehicle again to go to Marqoq'asa, from where we will start our trek. We will have the first views of the mountain landscape, if the weather allows it, while we advance to our first campsite: Soraypampa. Here we will be able to rest, settle down, have lunch and then begin a 1 and a half hours trek to the Huamantay lagoon, located at 13,451 ft. of altitude and from where it is possible to see a glacier with the same name, if the clouds allow it. After that, we will go back to rest, have dinner and prepare for sleeping.
Day 2: Soraypampa – Abra Salkantay – Chaullay (13.7 miles of trek, 10 hours).
We will get up very early to have breakfast and prepare our things to leave at dawn. We will start the trek by the ravine between the mountains that will take us to the Abra Salkantay, the highest point of our trek at 15,092 ft. of altitude, from where we will have views of the Humantay Glacier and the Salkantay snow-capped mountain. After a small ceremony to thank the Apu Salkantay, we will continue walking to Huayracpampa, where we will make a pause to have lunch and get some rest.
During the afternoon, we will go on to our next campsite and we will see how the landscape changes from the low temperatures of the mountain to the warmer temperatures of the pre-jungle. We will reach Chaullay Campsite where we will rest and have dinner to recover energy for the next day.
Day 3: Chaullay – Sahuayaca Beach – Aguas Calientes (6.8 miles of trek, 5 hours).
We will have breakfast early to start the trek of the day, going on by this new landscape, different to the one in the mountain. We will have access to explanations about the vegetation of the area and we will see coffee and quinoa plantations, while we continue to Sahuayaca Beach. Here we will have our lunch and then we will take a vehicle that will take us directly to Hidroeléctrica. From this last place, we will walk by the train rail to Aguas Calientes, where we will settle down in our corresponding accommodations. After that, we will gather for dinner and receive the last directions from our guide for the next day.
Day 4: Aguas Calientes - Machu Picchu - Cusco.
Today we will get up especially early, so we can have breakfast before taking the bus or take a box lunch with us to eat after climbing the stairs that will take us to the entrance of the archaeological site. In this place, we will gather with our guide and have a 1-hour tour in which he will give us interesting details about this place. After that, we will have the rest of the time for going over on our own or for climbing one of the mountains, if you add the ticket as optional service: Machu Picchu Mountain or Huayna Picchu. Then, we will leave the archaeological site to go back to Aguas Calientes, pick our things up, have lunch and then wait for the train that will take us back to Ollantaytambo. Here the transportation will be waiting for us and take us to downtown Cusco, where we will end our activity.