4-Days Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1CUSCO - MOLLEPATA - CHALLACANCHA - SORAYPAMPA⌄

   We start with the pickup from your hotel at 5am, this will be a ride of two hours approximately until we arrive to Mollepata community, after breakfast we continue on transportation to Challacancha where is the started point of the hike. Here we 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. After this we will arrive to our campsite, you will get the accommodation and we will wait for the lunch to recover energy after lunch, 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. 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.

   Meals: Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Camping

2. 2SORAYPAMPA – SALKANTAY PASS–WAYRACMACHAY- CHAULLAY⌄

   We will begin this day by climbing for three hours to the Salkantay pass (4.460m). After a brief break and picture-taking session we will begin a long descent to wayracmachay. After lunch we will descent and be able to literally see the changes in vegetation as we go from high mountain areas down to tropical jungle with its dense forest. We will camp in Chaullay.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Camping

3. 3CHAULLAY-COLCAPAMPA – LORETA LA PLAYA – LUCMABAMBA – HIDROELECTRICA – AGUAS CALIENTES⌄

   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 not Included and your tour guide will give you the important information for the next day. The main reason for this program is Machupicchu.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Hotel 3 ***

4. 4AGUAS CALIENTES – MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO⌄

   We wake up early in the morning (depending on the time of our admission). 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 30mn 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