Waqrapukara Hike and Rainbow Mountain Hike

Combine you adventure hikes with Local Living Experience!

Wakrapukara and Rainbow Mountain hike a perfect combination. During this unique experience tour, we will have the opportunity to visit a small town called Oropesa that still maintains an ancient tradition from the colony where until these days its inhabitants continue to produce artisan bread.

Here we will see how the locals cook the artisanal bread, we will try a fresh and sweet bread, then our journey continue to a native community place where we will share our traditional breakfast.

During this unique experience hike, we will be in direct connection with nature, mother earth, with mama ccocha, which represents life, purity, just touching it and invoking you can cleanse your soul, pure air free of all pollution, hight mountains know as Apus (protectors) for Andean indigenous people.

Choosing this tour, you are helping us with the direct support to one of our social project call Colours of Peru.

In this program we will take you through the following destinations:

* In Waqrapukara: In this non-touristy place, you will barely trust your eyes. For the incredible landscape that you have in front of your eyes. That looks like the backdrop of a science fiction movie!

* In Rainbow Mountain: To reach the top of this mountain, we will take the less crowded trail to avoid the crowd, also we will have the best views of the landscape.

Itinerary:

Day1 - Waqrapukara hike – Overnight in local Family house part of our project
Early Pick up from you Hotel at 05:00 am, then we will continue by our private van to Cusipata village, where we will organize the breakfast in local restaurant, then we will continue our journey by car 1 hour and 20 more minutes till the hike start point, from here we will hike for around 2 hour and 30 minutes more or less to reach this impressive place of Waqrapukara. Far away from the top of the mountain you will have the first pictures of Waqrapukara, then you will be getting closer little by little with a spectacular view of the canyon and you will barely trust your eyes, for the incredible landscape that you have in front of your eyes. That looks like the backdrop of a science fiction movie! this archaeological site is real and exists since Inca times, over 3,700 meters in an unreally beautiful landscape, along the trail you will have the privilege of being able to see vicuñas in their natural habitat, with a bit more luck we can see some condors flying over the sky, picnic lunch with an attuning view to Waqrapukara, we still have a 1 hour hike to the road end of Santa Lucia town, here our private transport will be waiting for us, take us to T’umi Community, place where we will spend the night with a local family.

On this hike, you will cross a 4,400-meter-high pass, wandering along Andean lagoons, past lush Ichu grass
Overnight: In T´umi Community homestay
Meal Included: Breakfast in local family house, Box-lunch, dinner
Day2 - Rainbow Mountain Hike – Cusco (we do not go by the classic trail to avoid the crowd)
At 07:00am after Breakfast with the family, we will continue our journey to Rainbow Mountain, after 2 hours driving accompanied by a spectacular panoramic view with canyons, native villages, alpacas and llamas grazing in the mountains we will arrive at the starting point of our hike which is over 4500 meters and the top of the Rainbow mountain is 5020 meters. We will prepare our day backpacks and snacks, then we need only 1-hour hike to reach this famous mountain, on the top of the mountain it is quite cold because it runs icy winds, so I recommend bring a warm jacket, wool hat and gloves if you want to appreciate the beauty of the mountain without any discomfort.

We have around 40 minutes to enjoy the beauty of this stunning place. You have two highlights in front of you. A panoramic view towards the Vinicunca mountain with its natural spectacular colors, then when turning 180 degrees, you will have the sight of the prominent snowy mountain of Ausangate, you will simply fall in love with this place. After taking photos, we will hike downhill to the point we started. As soon as we arrive at the foot of the mountain we relax a few minutes before our car will bring us to the local restaurant for our lunch, then back to Cusco.

Whats included

Excursions

Visit Oropesa bakery town

Hike to Waqrapukara

Hike Vinicunca to Rainbow Mountain + Red Valley

Visit a local community
Transportation and Others

Comfortable Private Transportation

Entry Ticket to Waqrapukara

Entry Ticket to Rainbow Mountain

Meals according to mentioned in the itinerary

Local top quality English-speaking guides to accompany visits and excursions

24-hour support by our local staff