Trekking Salkantay – Machu Picchu (Alternative walk - GROUP SERVICE) 4 days / 3 nights

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Program

First day: Mollepata – soraypampa
04:30 transfer hotel – bus station
05:10 departure Cusco – Mollepata
08:10 (approximately) arrival in Mollepata
08:30 breakfast in Mollepata
09:00 walk from Mollepata to Sayllapata, 4 hours approximately
12:00 lunch in Sayllapata
13:00 walk from Sayllapata to Soraypampa, 3 hours apporximately
17:00 campsite
19:00 dinner

In this passage you can appreciate different ecological zones: plains highlands, small house groups, amazing views of the snow-covered Salkantay, Humantay and Soray. The coldness of this place is really felt.

Second day: Soraypampa – Challway
06:00 breakfast
07:00 walk from Soraypampa to Huayracmachay, 4.5 hours approximately
10:00 snack on the way
12:00 lunch in Huayracmachay
13:00 walk from Huayracmachay to Challway, 3.5 hours apporximately
17:00 campsite
19:00 dinner

In this passage you walk across the mountainside of the majestic Apu Salkantay. After this, you continue in a progressive form the jungle region of Cusco, where we appreciate exotic plants; in addition the climate begins to be tropical.

Third day: Challway – Aguas Calientes (MachuPicchu village)
04:30 breakfast
05:00 walk from Challway to Playa Sahuayaco, 6 hours approximately
11:00 local bus from Playa to Hidroelectrica, 1.45 hour approximately
13:30 lunch in Hidroeléctrica
15:45 local train from Hidroeléctrica to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village)
16:45 accommodation in hostel with private bath and hot water
19:00 dinner

Fourth day: Aguas Calientes – Cusco
05:00 breakfast
06:00 Bus Aguas calientes - MachuPicchu ruins
07:00 Guided visit in MachuPichu for 2 hours with the official guide, after this free time in the ruins, Recommendable to walk up to the hill Huayna Picchu, to visit the Temple of the Moon, the Inca
Bridge and/or the Intipunko
14:30 bus Machupicchu ruins.- Aguas Calientes.
16:20 by train: Aguas Calientes - Ollantaytambo, by bus: Ollantaytambo – Cusco, arrival at Cusco
Around 20:00

A minimum group is conformed for at least 6 people, and the maximum group is confirmed by 16 people. In any case, price per person $ 370.00

Included:
· Bus from Cusco to Mollepata
· Official guide
· A nurse with the group during the all trek.
· Cook and auxiliary cook
· Alimentation: 04 breakfasts, 03 lunches, 03 dinners
· charge horses and porters
· emergency horse
· right for 6 kilos equipment per person during 3 days
· Bus from Playa Sahuyaco - Hidroelectrica
· Train from Hidroeléctrica to Aguas Calientes
· Hostel with private bath and hot water in MachuPicchu village (Aguas Calientes)
· Bus MachuPicchu going and return
· Entrance to MachuPicchu ruins
· Train from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo
· Bus from Ollantaytambo to Cusco
camping equipment: sleeping tent quadripartite using for two persons, mats,
, cooking tent, tables, chairs, dishes, air tank, first-aid kit

Not included:
four day lunch

NOTE 02: The tariffs are subject to any rise or adjustment that the National Institute of Culture of Peru or Peru Rail S.A. could determine.

Very important: For booking the trekking Salkantay – MachuPicchu you have to send the following information: complete name and last name, date of birth, nationality and passport number. Students have also to send their scanned ISIC card and children up to 7 years their scanned passport.

Recommendations
Passengers should bring with them the following personal things:
Personal hygiene, a small first-aid kit containing some bandages, muscle ache lotion, pills against altitude sickness, fever, stomach aches, bottled water and purification pills, sun cream, mosquito repellent, sunglasses, binoculars, photo camera, flashlight, plastic covers, stick, trekking shoes, thermo-clothes for the cold nights, light clothes for the day and some money. Besides, the original passport and students as well their international student card ISIC.

Machupicchu one of the 7 wonders

Trekking Salkantay – Machu Picchu (Alternative walk - GROUP SERVICE) 4 days / 3 nights