SALKANTAY TO MACHU PICCHU (5 DAYS)-Perú
 

Alternative trek to Machu Picchu - 5 days/4 nights

A different way to reach Machu Picchu, by Inca tracks rarely taken! The wonderful landscape where you may admire the exotic flora and fauna makes this circuit an unforgettable adventure between valleys and mountains.

Itinerary

DAY 1:

am. we left from the city of the Cusco and passing by the localities of Izcuchaca and Limatambo we will arrive at Mollepata (9am. approximately) stops after a light breakfast to together initiate our long walk of the first day yet the support personnel, and to 12m. we lent ourselves to serve to the lunch in the denominated sector Silca Field and after but from three hours of long walk we will arrive at our first camping SORAYPAMPA.

DAY 2:
After a good breakfast (ãm) we prepared ourselves to undertake the long walk but dificil of the trip, leaving to 7am. we cross all the denominated site Salkantay Pampas soon to direct to us towards the left side of the made snow-white UMANTAY that this next to the snowed one of the SALKANTAY, to 12pm we will be in the high point but (step Salkantay Umanata to 4500msnm). In this site we observed the snowed ones and glaciers of the Salkantay and to appreciate we magnify Vista of the caida one of snow avalanches, after one hour of reduction we have the lunch, despues has left two hours but of reduction until denominated place HUAYRAC where she waits for the second camping to us.

DAY 3:
This day will be unforgettable because throughout the way we will see a great variety of flora and fauna, starting off of HUAYRAC will happen through the ARRANNIYUC community and continued descending towards the forest eyebrow, where we will appreciate the thermal water formation in a small valley, soon to follow the course of the river Santa Teresa, observing in this section diverse varieties of orquídeas and cataracts of great magnitude, finally we arrived at our camping in denominated site LLUSKAMAYU (5pm. approx.) Supper and spends the night.

DAY 4:
The exit is programmed for the 7,30 a.m. until the noon in long walk by forest eyebrow appreciating great variety of coffee cultures, fruit trees, platanos, paltas, fragmentation hand grenade and most interesting it is to see some cultures of Cocaine leaf, grass sagrada at time Inca and that is cultivated at the moment only in tropical zones like this, soon it is arrived at SAHUAYACO where by inciamos dirt road trail reduction until the lunch point. After 3 hours of reduction we got to descry ciudadela of Machu Picchu from a little usual angle and we will stop by space of one hour, soon to descend until the hydroelectric one where we will approach the train that takes towards the station of Bridge Ruins to us where we will have our last camping. It has supper and It spends the night.

DAY 5:
Soon of the breakfast we dedicated the day to the visit of the Historical Sanctuary of MACHU PICCHU, in the evening soon of the lunch return to the city of the Cusco in train Back Paker and transfer to its hotel.

 
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