Schedule
- Pick up at Cusco hotels at 8am
- Drive from Cusco to ruins ~ 1 hour
- Drive past local market selling cattle (Fridays)
- Walk around Ruins 1.5 hours
- Toilet break right after (very primitive, take TP)
- Drive from ruins to lunch ~ 1.5 hour – 12:45pm
- Beautiful valleys, tropical flowers, rough road for half hour, bring book but windy
- Lunch at local house
- Drive from lunch to trailhead ~ 1.5 hours
- Traffic dusty bumpy windy narrow ~ 3pm
- Hike 4-6:30pm / 4 miles
- 7pm Dinner
Ruins
- Inca walls, caves that had mummy
- Moon carving
- Temple of the Sun semicircle
- Waterfalls
- Nooks for mummies
Lunch
- Chicken from the fire oven
- Potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Grilled Carrots, tomatoes, zucchini
- Salad, Avocado, Olives, cheese
- Bread
- Beautiful garden
- Handmade weaving, jelly, honey
Day 1 Hike to Salkantay Lodge
- Start hiking at 4pm
- 700 m elevation gain in half mile
- Old road with grass or scree and rocks
- Then 1 mile of narrow trail
- Last 1.5 miles along aqueduct
- Amazing views of mountains as you approach the lodge
- Lots of flowers
- Hummingbirds
- 2.5 hours
- 3.9 miles
Salkantay Lodge
- Hot tub at 4pm
- Snacks at 4:30pm
- Free domestic drinks, import extra
- Massage extra
- Laundry extra but cheap
- Dinner at 7 but depends on group
Dinner
- Bread
- Carrot soup
- Beef fillet, mashed potatoes, vegetables
- Ice cream with crepe