Duration

full day

Location

Cusco

Tour Type

Adventure

Price

$50.00

Difficulty

high

RAINBOW MOUNTAIN VINICUNCA.

RAINBOW MOUNTAIN VINICUNCA.

Rainbow Mountain is located in a town called Pitumarca at more than 5,200 meters above sea level. Over the years it became the main tourist attraction in Cusco Peru.

This is a geographical feature belonging to the Ausangate Vilcanota Mountain Range, it is the fifth mountain in Peru and the highest at 6,300 meters above sea level. The colors are natural, due to the large amount of eroded sedimentary stone.

This mountain is the most beautiful and expressive, giving the appearance of a rainbow mountain.

Among the royal colors, red, purple, green, yellow, white and others stand out.

The incredible mountain of colors near the Ausangate apu, which is considered the protector of Cusco. On this tour you will enjoy impressive panoramic views and lots of flora and fauna of the place.

Small history of vinicunca

Says have two brotehrs that take diferents ways that in cusco salkantay and ausangate, and there was agreat dry season this this two bothers they decided adventure starnge lands so they can safe there village sankantay went to the northerm part of village and found the jungle and love of veronica nar to the sacred valley.

By other section ausangate and went to the souther village and found agreat production of agriculture and fron there, they send food to there people, meat, llamas, sheep, alpacas, products likes, corn, potatoes, cheese milk, etc.

This tour can be done on foot, which lasts an hour and a half, on horses, which lasts one hour, by linear motorcycle, which lasts about 45 minutes, and on ATVs, which lasts about 2 hours.

Itinerary

Mountain of colors – vinicunca.

Pick up 5:30 a.m. from the main square we traveling to the southern part of Cusco to Checacupe aproximatly 2 hours and a half, Will have to stop for watch this three diferents bridges, here in Checacupe were we appreciate 3 types of bridges left in the history like for isntance. The inca, republican and colonial bridges, after seeing the bridges Will we Will continue with take 1 hours of road and Will be arriving parking of the comunity.

Our guide Will give you walking stik and Will explaing about tour, the guide Will take a back pack a oxigen and firs aids four your protection.

Will start our hiking tour whith our profetional tour guide aproximadly one hour and a half antil we arrive look own point we Will enjoy the view of the rain mountain and our guide Will explains the colors of the meaning of the color of the rainbow mountain and Will return our walk to our parking lote.

Once all the group returns to Cusipata for a delicius buffet lunch and rest return Cusco aproximetly at 6:30 p.m.

Include

INCLUYED:

  • Transportation
  • Tourism proffetional guide spanish/ english
  • Buffet lunch and drinks.
  • Stick
  • entrance

NOT INCLUDED:

  • Hotel in Cusco.
    extra expenses

What to Bring

WE RECOMMEND TO BRING:

  • Bring warm clothes.
  • Sunscreen (preferably factor 90+).
  • Sunglasses.
  • Hat
  • In rainy season a water poncho.
  • Hiking shoes (hike / treeking).
  • Water
  • sweets

Price

150 soles

Recommendations

  • Hiking boots.
  • Sunglases
  • Hat
  • Sunblock
  • Wáter.
  • Coins

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