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Salkantay Trek; Trek Around Salkantay Mountain – This is a great alternative for the Inca Trail trek, better suited for more adventure some trekkers who are able to handle a little more altitude and distance. This trek takes you up and along Mount Salkantay, the second largest mountain in the Cusco region. On the first night, you'll camp within clear sight of the snow capped peak of Salkantay mountain. The second day will be the longest day of the tour, and while you work a bit harder to get there, the views at the top are even more rewarding. The walk to reach the famous Apacheta Pass at 4,600 masl (the Inca Trail's 'Dead Woman’s Pass' is only 4,200 metres) is not strenuous neither very steep, afterward it is mainly descent into a more tropical area passing Andenes and Chaullay on the far side of the mountain. We`ll take the forty five minute train ride from the famous Hydro Electric Dam and then spend the rest of the 4th evening relaxing in the town and hotsprings of Aguas Calientes. In the morning you take the bus (or walk if desired) up to Machu Picchu for your guided tour. 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: We will leave Cusco at 5:00 am.and passing by the localities of Izcuchaca and Limatambo we will arrive at Mollepata (9am. approximately) 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. OUR SERVICES INCLUDES
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