ITINERARY - DAY BY DAY

Day 1: CUSCO – Mollepata - Soraypampa (L)(D)
From Cusco very early in the morning at 5.00am.we will go by bus to Mollepata (this the beginning of the trek) it takes around 3 hours, when we get here we have our first breakfast and arrange our horses, afterwards we walk up for around 3 more hours to Cruz Pata Where we have lunch, after the lunch we will have one hour to take a rest and then , we start walking to Soraypampa (3.850 m.a.s.l) in this part of the trail, we are going to see in front of us, the first Humantay snow capped mountain. After we will get to see in front first campsite at 5:30 pm where our porters will be waiting with some hot tea. And later we are going to eat our dinner (the first campsite is the coldest).

Day 2: Soraypampa - Chaullay (B)(L)(D)
After having a good breakfast and leaving at 6:30am. Here We have to climb up for four hours to the first pass of Salkantay mountain. Which is over 4.600 m.a.s.l. here on the top of this Salkantay mountain (highest point). We stop for around 25 minutes to take group pictures,them we'll continue walking for 1 hour to Huaracpampa to take our lunch. After this, We are going down for 3 hours through a nice trail to Chaullay, which is over lower than first campsite 2.900 m.a.s.l where we have our tea time and dinner.

Day 3: Chaullay – La Playa - Santa Teresa (B) (L) (D)
We leave from Chaullay early as well after our breakfast at 7.00 am we will pass through Collcapampa In this part of the trek we will walk on a narrow trail on the mountainside, crossing some species of orchids and different kinds of plants, and some cornfields, fruit fields and we have opportunity to see the most beautiful waterfall on the trail. After walking for 5 hours. Finally we will get to La Playa place, which take a small truck go to Santa Teresa town is over 1.645m.s.a.l it is going to be just 45 minutes by truck and we will get to Santa Teresa around 1:00 pm to set up our tents here We can go to the medicinal hot springs waters which is only 45 minutes from Santa Teresa town.

Day 4: Santa Teresa – Hidroelectrica – Aguas Calientes (B) (L)
We get up at 7.00 in the morning and after breakfast we start walking for around 1 hours to get the Urubamba river where we cross the river by a cable. After this spectacular experience we keep going for 2 more hours to a hydroelectric power station which is also a small village and the train station for this part of the trail, after our lunch we'll continue walking 3 hours to Aguas Calientes, where we spend the night in a hotel.