Our travel agency offers you a tour adventure to the rainbow mountain located in Vinicunca south of Cusco.
Throughout the course of the trip you can appreciate of a natural landscape, see communities that still maintain their customs and traditions of their ancestors, as well as animals born and raised in the area.
This mountain known as Cusco 7 Color Mountain or rainbow mountain shows a beautiful scenery that you will be impressed at first sight, this mountain is a geological formation that due to the different minerals formed show different tone of their colors
Person must be in a good physical condition and we recommend a preliminary stage of climating of 2 days as we will be hiking in very high altitude about 4000 meters above sea level. We recommend drink a lot of hot tea infused with muna and coca leaves which would help with the process of acclimatization.
The journey starts early at 3 am. We began by picking you from your hotels to then head to the 7 color mountain on a bus trip that takes approximately 3 hours, we pass by different altitudes during the trip and run through the valley of Vilcanota then we reached to the starting point of our trip (Quesyuno) after breakfast. Distance 10 km. Walking distance approximately 4 hours.
We have a descending walk 3 hours approximately to reach to our destination ‘’rainbow mountain” where you can view the mountain that is located 5,200 meters above sea level , you can see the incredible colors and the rich minerals containing soil.
After a determined time, we began descending for 2 hours and half approximately until we reach our point where our bus transportation takes us to the town of Hanchipapa, where we have our lunch.
Finally we returned to our bus again to take us back to the city of Cusco ending to the plaza Regocijo.