Ausangate Trek to rainbow 4 Days This hike is very interesting where you will surround the Apu Ausangate, the highest mountain in the Cusco region the Best Ausangate Trek 4 Days offers you a real taste of Andean life as you will find and see modest communities where the natives still speak the Inca language (Quechua) and where traditional living methods are still used. Additionally, you will see hundreds and hundreds of alpacas and llamas. So if you want to do an authentic Peruvian hike off the beaten track, enjoy the Rainbow Mountain for longer and the Red Valley this is the right excursion for you.
We will pick you up at 4:00 am and go by private van to the trailhead of our hike at the base of the majestic Mountain Ausangate. We will start the hike From Upispampa. You will hike through many remote villages with many stream crossings until you get the small town of Upis. Here we have our private tents where you will spend the night. Our cook will prepare a delicious lunch. After eating, you have an option to hike to the Upis lake which take 2 hours. you will have the chance to enjoy the first starry night, you will remember it for life.
We will wake you up at 05:00 am with coca tea delivered to your tent and you are given delicious breakfast for the day ahead. In The morning start hiking up to Arapa pass (4968m) Along the way we are going to observe local farmers and alpacas, Ausangate snow-capped to your left side, and you will have English speaking guide explaining about flora, fauna and talking about the landscape along the trail. if we are lucky we might see condor, chinchillas, and vicuñas. Also, we will enjoy colorful lakes and get our campsite of Puca Ccocha where we are going to be surrounded by high mountains and unbelievable hanging glaciers, watch and hear for the glacier crashing into the tarns below!. Since this campsite is close to the Puca Ccocha Lake, you will go to the lake where you will see many types of ducks, andean geese and many other types of birds. Then you will have dinner at our dinning room.
Today is a difficult day, You start with Puca Ccocha pass (5051), very colorful mountains which surround you. As well as You have a spectacular view of mount Ausangate and colorful glacier lakes then you will enter into the Red Mountain valley, an intact landscape with vivid colors all around, and llamas eating grass right close to you. Then you will have lunch spend the night. After our meal, we need to climb the second pass called Warmi Saya pass(15,090ft-4500m-14,000feet)from where, you see this amazing Rainbow Mountain in the distance, but you are not quite there yet! From this place, you go downhill to circle the lake and keep walking a Peruvian flat until we reach our campsite. we will go to the Rainbow Mountain for the sunset.
Today is the day you have been waiting for. We will wake you up at 06:00 am with coca tea delivered to your tents then you will hike for about 45 minutes until Rainbow Mountain. you will have time to explore the area and take pictures. We will spend approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour (depend on your trekking speed and weather conditions). After enjoying the RAINBOW MOUNTAIN for about one hour, we go to visit the RED VALLEY which takes another 30 minutes. Then we go to the bus station to catch our van. Today after our last supper we say goodbye to our horseman and the chef and get back to Cusco where you will be dropped off at your hotel around 03:00 pm.
