This is your best chance. You have to come with Machupicchu Andes Tours to explore Rainbow Mountain and Red Valley of the Cusco. This is a very famous alternative hike nowadays. The colorful mountain is next to the Ausangate Mountain which is the highest mountain in Cusco and this tour combines culture, tradition and incredible landscapes full of typical flora and fauna of the Andes.
Rainbow Mountain hike.
We will pick you up at 4 a.m. from any hotel where you are spending the night in Cusco. It is a three and a half hour drive in our sightseeing van to Hanchipacha – village of Pitumarka. Here, you will stop to enjoy a fantastic breakfast, after breakfast, continue by bus until you reach the end of the Pampachiri community road. From here, you will start your trek, it will be a two and a half hour hike until you reach the famous Rainbow mountain.
Along the way, you will enjoy incredible views of the Andes, the glacier peaks, the red earth, the rocky hills, the native animals of this area, the llamas and alpacas that graze along the colorful valley.
When you reach the top of the Rainbow mountain, you will have enough time to photograph and film. After all, you will begin to descend through the Red Valley (2 and a half hours). This is another amazing and unspoiled place where there are not many tourists and this is the only place in Cusco where you can see wild Vicuñas. The vicuñas are smaller than llamas and their wool is the most expensive in the world.
The descent will be very slow until Hanchipacha, place of lunch and also where you will take your bus back to the city of Cusco.
You will be in Cusco around 7 p.m.
“INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES” is a 100% Peruvian local company and tour operator in Cusco, with many years of experience in hikes, adventure tours, and travel packages. We are a 100% local company.
Our dream as a local company is to offer personalized travel and hiking experiences, operated solely by local professional staff, focusing on a PERSONALIZED and HIGH-QUALITY SERVICE.
We are proud of our reputation as a travel operating agency, in addition to practicing RESPONSIBLE and SUSTAINABLE actions with the environment and local people.
We consider our staff as family and guarantee them a fair salary. We are very proud of our team! Without their support, we could not offer the quality of service that hundreds of our travelers have enjoyed.
At “INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES,” we are aware that our reputation and what our passengers say are crucial for our travelers to trust their next vacations; you can check the reviews our travelers leave on TripAdvisor, Facebook, and Google; in an honest and reliable operator to create your adventure in Peru.
To offer a more personalized service at “INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES,” we maintain a limit of 8 people for each of our groups. This distinguishes us from other companies that operate with larger groups.
We are very proud of our guides. They are experts and professionals, fluent in English. They are experts and knowledgeable about the routes, and they are passionate about Inca heritage and history. Our guides are dedicated to their continuous personal and professional development, researching to offer you accurate and recognized theories about Inca and Andean culture. They are friendly, athletic, and well-educated, with degrees in Archaeology, Tourism, Botany, History, or Anthropology.
Hiking with “INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES” is an uplifting experience, we prioritize your comfort and enjoyment throughout the hike, and you will have the assistance of our porters. You will interact with local people, explore incredible sites, and rediscover ancient Inca ancestral towns. Our porters carry your gear, prepare your meals, set up our camp tents, and take care of you while you relax.
We provide our porters for free with: jackets, sun hats, warm hats, shirts, pants, hiking boots, comfortable travel bags, canteens, back support belts, sleeping bags, mattresses, and travel insurance. All are hired from isolated communities, improving their economic circumstances and supporting the education of their children. We treat all our porters like family!
Our team (guides, cooks, porters, muleteers) and our equipment make “INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES” stand out among our competitors. On our adventure hikes, we include:
At “INCA TRAIL ADVENTURES,” we have always believed in giving back to isolated local communities. As part of our commitment to responsible tourism, we carry out various social projects and always hire local people.
We are very proud to support our local people. We not only employ them but also support their families, contributing to a holistic approach with our employees from the Peruvian Andes and their loved ones.
All service is personalized (private) and it varies according to group size.
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