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Last update: 27 Dec 2017
VALLEY OF LARES TREK 4 DAYS / 3 NIGHTS
| Activity type: | Hiking |
| Activity level: | Moderate |
| Availability: |
1 May 2020 - 1 Nov 2020 |
| Duration: | 4 Day(s) / Tour with flexible start dates |
| Price: | from $650 |
Full description
The geography of the Cusco region comprises a complex surface, from warm valleys to snowy dazzling, to meet these wonders. Today various walks, using mostly the roads used by the ancient inhabitants of the Andes who dominated without difficulty rugged geography are made.
The tour program, four days Lares trek to Machu Picchu is an excellent way to meet the Andean landscape, with valleys, rivers, crystal-clear lagoons, waterfalls, forests queuñas and know the way of life in the Andes. In addition to the tour in the Andes, the program connects with a visit to one of the wonders of the world Machu Picchu.
Price includes
- Pick up from the airport to the hotel.
- Private transport at the beginning of the hike.
- Professional Guide.
- Horses and mules to carry luggage. And mules chief
- Cook
- Food: 3 lunches, 3 breakfasts, 3 dinners
- Camping equipment: 1 tent for 2 people.
- Dining tent, kitchen tent, and bath tent.
- First aid kit
- Oxygen balloon
- Emergency horse.
- Hostel in Aguas Calientes.
- Bus tickets up and down from Aguas Calientes to the Machu Picchu archaeological site.
- Roundtrip train tickets, Expedition Service.
- Bus from Ollaytambo to Cusco
- Transfer from the hotel to the airport.
Not included in price
- First breakfast and last lunch.
- Sleeping bag (You can rent in our office for $ 20)
- Walking poles (You can rent a pair for $ 12)
- Tips
Guide
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- Email address
- Phone number
HIGH MOUNTAIN TRAVEL
Cusco Travel Agency
We are an Adventure Travel Agency and tour operation based in Cusco - Perú.
We create travel experiences customized to the needs of our travelers.
Our Tours: ( Days and Nights)
- Inka Trail 2d/1n
- Inka Trail 4d/3n
- Lares Trek 4d/3n
- Choquequirao Trek 5d/4n
- Choquequirao Trek 8d/7n
- Salkantay Trek 5d/4n
- Ausangati Trek With Rainbow Mountain 6d/5n
- HuchuyQosqo Trek 2d/1n
- Secret Valley With Machupicchu 2d/1n
- Traditional Secret Valley 1d
- Waqrapucara Trek 2d/1n
- Manu Jungle 4d/3n
- Valley of Condors Chonta 1n.
Contacts:
highmountaintravelcusco@gmail.com
info@highmountaintravelcusco.com
+51984349958 Perú
+15405780547 USA
www.highmountaintravelcusco.com
Location
Peru, Lares, Qosqo, Khallka pruwinsya
Day 1
CUSCO – LARES VALLEY – HOT SPRINGS – WACAHUASI
At 06:00 am a private vehicle will pick you up from your hotel to go out to the Sacred Valley. This section of our trip is by bus for approximately 3 hours, during which we can see some archeological sites, Andean markets, small villages. From this point (4480 masl), from here we will descend to the Lares Valley (3,200 m.). When we reach the natural hot springs of Lares we can enjoy the hot baths and then have our first lunch. In this place we will also meet our horseman in charge of carrying our camping equipment. After our lunch, we will start our climb for approximately 4 hours until our first camp (Wacahuasi Village 3900 masl). When we arrive at our camp we will visit families who will teach us their customs and traditions.
Distance: 8 km.
– Time: 4 hours.
Day 2
WACAHUASI – WACAHUASI PASS – MANTTANAY
This day we will wake up early 6:00 am and start our walk around 7:00 am, after a nutritious breakfast. This day will be the longest and hardest.. For approximately 4 hours the road will ascend to the highest point Wacahuasi (4500 masl). From this place we will begin to descend for 1 hour until the our lunch spot called Aurora CCocha (4200 masl). After our lunch we will begin to trek for 3 hours to our camp called Manttanay (4000 masl). This day along our way we will be able to see many llamas, alpacas and farming sites of the High Andean peoples.
– Distance: 14 km.
– Time: 9 hours.
Day 3
MANTTANAY – YANAHUARA – OLLANTAYTAMBO – AGUAS CALIENTES
This day we will wake up at 06:30 am and start our walk around 07:30 am after a delicious breakfast. This day will be easy, as our path will be downhill for 4 hours to the town of Huanahuara (2900 masl) where our bus will be waiting to go to the town of Ollantaytambo. From Ollantaytambo we take our train for approximately one hour and forty-five minutes to the town of Aguas Calientes, where we will spend the night in a hostal. On this section of our journey we will be able to see trees and endemic bushes of the Andes and some birds of this site.
– Distance: 7 km.
– Time: 4 hours.
Day 4
GUIDED VISIT TO MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO
This day we will wake up very early at 04:00 am and head to the bus station to be the first in line (we will wait in this place for 1 hour and a half) and then we will take the first bus that leaves at 05:30 am to Machupicchu. Arriving at Machupicchu early (06:00 am), we will pass the main control of this site where we show our original passports. After entering we go to the highest part of the site and appreciate the sunrise, plus have the famous postcard view of Machupicchu without many people and get incredible photos of the site. The guided tour in this place will be approximately 2 hours, after which you will have free time to explore and take photos of this enigmatic place. After visiting Machupicchu we go to the bus station that is 2 minutes from the main control of Machupicchu, return to the town of Aguas Calientes and have lunch. Then we go to the train station and travel for 1 hour and 45 minutes by train. At the station of Ollantaytambo our bus awaits us and takes us to the city of Cusco directly to the hotel.
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Last update: William Jaramillo Quispe
(2 Nov 2020)