Palcoyo Rainbow Mountain tour

We will pick you up from your hotel at 4:00am. And drive to the southeast for 3 hours, until ‘Palcoyo Community’. On the way we will enjoy the beauty of the local communities with local people wearing their typical clothing, herding the llamas and alpacas, as well the great views of the landscapes with big farming areas, colorful fields due to the diversity of the products and some snowcapped peaks.
At ‘Palcoyo Community’ (4,500 m./14,463ft.) we will enjoy a hot delicious breakfast before we start our hike.
Approximately 1 hour along the path where we find three different viewpoints, from each one of the them we have different colorful mountains or rainbow mountains, also red valleys, etc. once at the last lookout, we continue exploring the “Stone Forest” which is a rock formation with narrow paths like a maze of alleys, from here we will be able to take the best pictures of the Vilcanota Mountain range far in the distance where is located the Ausangate Mount (highest point of Cusco region) then we continue walking down till the exit. Basically to visit the place will take us 2 hours’ round trip. Your guide while you enjoy your snacks (probably at the second lookout will explain you what makes this mountain so interesting and about the different minerals founded in the area). After enjoying this astonishment places we continue until our lunch place where our chef will be waiting for us with a lovely lunch.
After lunch, 3 more hours in our private van back to Cusco, on the way we will visit the colonial Bridge of Checacupe, built using the foundations of an ancient Inca bridge. Continuing we stop to visit the Huacarpay lake. After we drive directly to your hotel. (average time to reach to Cusco 6 pm.).

• Meals: Breakfast, snack, lunch.
• Distance hiking: 2 kms. – 1.864 mi. (round trip)
• Average time: 2 hours.
• Considered: moderate.
• Weather: Dry – hot / cold – windy (if cloudy)
• Maximum altitude:4,970m./9,842 ft.