Join us for the Salkantay Trek to Macu Picchu.

The Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu is an incredible trekking route that combines incredible and dramatic change of scenery, from snowy mountain peaks through the cloud forest and finally to the Jungle of Peru.

Salkantay Mountain is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range and is called the wild mountain. This is because the word Sallqantay means something like wild or invincible. It has glacial mountains, lagoons and crosses the Amazon jungle, which makes it one of the most beautiful and interesting hikes in all of Peru.

The biggest reward comes on day 4 as all of our efforts culminate with a visit to Machu Picchu.

- It is crucial for us to receive a copy of your passport once your booking is accepted, Machu Picchu permits are booked with current/valid passports ONLY.

We start this amazing adventure with the pickup from your hotel at 5am, this will be a ride of two hours approximately until we arrive to Mollepata community, where we will have our first breakfast, after breakfast we continue on transportation to Challacancha where is the started point of the hike.

Here we meet the chef and muleteers and 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. The experience is unique, you will be part of nature and see far away the Salkantay mountain which is breathtaking at first glance. 

After this we will arrive to our campsite where we will be waiting for you, 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. You will enjoy the beauty of Humantay Lake which is located on the bottom of the snowcapped Humantay Mountain. 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, which is moderate to challenging.

MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

NIGHT: Soraypampa Campsite.

ACTIVITY LEVEL: Moderate to Challenge

WALKING DISTANCE: 10 km/6.21 mi 

WALKING TIME: 5 or 6 hours

MINIMUM ELEVATION: 3,800 m/12,467 ft

MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 4,200 m/13,780 ft

BASECAMP ELEVATION: 3,900 m/12,975 ft

This day, you will wake up early, be ready and prepared for this beautiful experience. Then You will enjoy the delicious breakfast and start the hike up to Salkantay Pass. 

You will pass through the Salkantay Pampa and continue zig zag up to the Summit. We will take some breaks along the way to enjoy the nature of the stunning mountains, time for pictures and a proper guiding explanation and of course recover some energy. Once you arrive at the pass you will reach 4,630m/15,228 ft. Now you can take beautiful pictures with the snowcapped Salkantay mountain. 

Then we will continue our hike to Wayracmachay all the way down the landscape will change a little bit and you will notice once there you will have a delicious lunch our chefs  will surprise you , after recovering some energy.

After lunch we need to continue all the way down you will find that the temperature will improve considerably because of the of the low altitude our campsite is located at 2900m/9514 ft so is quite nice in contrast to the first base camp- we will be waiting  for you. You can get it and break for a while to get ready for dinner, where our tour guide will brief the itinerary for the next day.

MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

NIGHT: Chaullay Campsite

ACTIVITY LEVEL: Challenging

WALKING DISTANCE: 24 km/13.67mi

WALKING TIME: 11/12 hours

MINIMUM ELEVATION: 2,900m/9,514ft

MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 4,600 m/15,190 ft

BASECAMP ELEVATION: 3000m /9,842 ft

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 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

NIGHT: Hotel in Aguas Calientes (Standard).

ACTIVITY LEVEL: Difficult

WALKING DISTANCE: 27km/16.78mi

WALKING TIME: 8 or 9 hours

MINIMUM ELEVATION: 2000m/6,560 ft

MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 3,000m/9,842 ft

AGUAS CALIENTES ELEVATION: 2,040m /6,693 ft

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

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 30min 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 drop you at your hotel.

MEALS: Breakfast

NIGHT: Not included

WALKING DISTANCE: 7km/ 3.11mi

WALKING TIME: 2 hours approx.

MINIMUM ELEVATION:  2040m/ 6690ft

MAXIMUM ELEVATION: 2430m/ 7970 ft