Beautiful place, this place has the most stunning mountains i have ever seen 10/10 it was 100% worth it
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- First Aid Kit
- Bottled water
- Professional multi-lingual guide (English and Spanish)
- Lunch
- Breakfast
- Transportation
- Hotel pick up
Excludes
- Horses (but you can rent directly at the first town) (40 peruvian sol)
- Vinicunca Mountain
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Tourists will be found by name or the tour guide will carry a flag for the tourist to identify their tour.
Return
- Tourists will be found by name or the tour guide will carry a flag for the tourist to identify their tour.
Itinerary
In this beautiful program we will visit one of the new natural attractions of Cusco "The mountain of 7 colors". The tour starts early in the morning, we will pass by your hotel in Cusco between 04:00 and 04:30 am. To travel by car for approximately two hours to the south, until we reach the district of Cusipata - Paucarpata where we can have breakfast, then we will travel by car 1 hour more until we reach the checkpoint, starting point for our walk, said tour will last approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes, we will observe the typical flora and fauna of the Andes, among which the presence of Llamas and Alpacas stands out, upon reaching the viewpoint of Vinicunca or Montaña de Colores (5080 masl.) Our guide will give us an explanation about the orography, ecosystem and color of the mountain, we can also take advantage of the moment to take a photograph of the memory and admire the landscape, then we will return by the same path to the point where we started the walk, point of return.
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Reviews
Michael Flores with Yupi Travel Machupicchu gave us the most incredible visit to Rainbow Mountain. We could not have done this without him and his excellent advice and guidance. Michael went above and beyond to make sure everything went smoothly and shared his incredible knowledge of Peruvian history and culture. We also want to thank Mr. Nacho who is the most awesome driver in the world. We are already sharing our experience with friends and family at home to recommend Yupi Travel Machupicchu to everyone! Thanks again Michael for such wonderful memories of Peru.
Even though the weather wasn’t great the drive alone was worth it.
Nice experience. Very early in the morning the car pick me up from the hotel lobby. Around two hours driving to a good breakfast. After that one hour More to the beautifull land scape. Very good service, very nice trekking, very good food AND the pictures of landscapes are awesome. I will back AND contact you.
Excellent service. I really enjoyed this experience. Everything was super well coordinated, from the moment I was picked up at the hotel. The food was delicious, and the guide was fantastic! The car was also comfortable. The rainbow mountain is simply wonderful and the views of the Andes and glaciers are the best I've ever had.I 100% recommend taking this tour; it's not always possible to visit landscapes at altitudes of over 5,000 meters! Tikas is a great agency and provides excellent service! They are very professional!
Rainbow mountain is one of the hardest hikes that we have ever done, but thanks to Michael Flores and his team including Guido (our tour guide), we succeeded safely! All itinerary details were planned by Yupi Travel Cusco, which included transportation to the mountain and back to our hotels, as well as a tour guide on-site during the entire hike, which was invaluable! Transportation each way is approximately 3 hours (6 hours round trip), which was helpful to know in efforts to plan bathroom stops and adequate hydration prior to summit. Bathroom stops are limited on the way to rainbow mountain since you drive through more rural areas of the town. There was a bathroom close to the start of the hike, which I highly recommend using. My husband carried a medium-sized backpack for us filled with some water bottles, Powerade, hats for sun coverage, sunscreen, medications for altitude sickness, muña candy sold in Cusco, and a small bag just in case we felt sick. During the ride to rainbow mountain, we finished 1 water bottle in the car, and then saved 2 water bottles for the hike. Our friends chewed on the coca leaves, but we opted to stick to medications to prevent nausea and vomiting,and prophylaxis for cerebral edema. Talk to your doctor prior to your trip to see if they recommend something for you. We were informed that it would be cold and potentially windy at the summit so we wore our hiking boots, wool pants, puffer jacket, scarf and packed a winter hat and extra wool sweater for the summit. One of the suggestions from our tour guide was to utilize the horses for the first leg of the trip, which we highly recommend in order to save your energy for the steeper portion of the climb that came after, which the horses cannot climb. For the beginning portion of the ride with horses (paid there in soles cash), we wore caps with sun visors for the extra coverage since the UV rays are intense at this elevation. Prior to our trip, we were worried about how to summit rainbow mountain while limiting the effects of altitude sickness, but with the well-informed guidance of our tour guide, we were able to safely hike this trail at 17,000 feet of elevation at a recommended pace! We never felt rushed or unsafe. We are not the most experience hikers so this was an incredible feat for us! Michael did not only coordinate a Rainbow Mountain hike for us, but he also helped us obtain tickets to visit Machu Picchu last minute, gave us a walking tour of Cusco himself, and coordinated a tour of Lima, which was given by his friend Bernardo! We honestly would not have been able to accomplish this so seamlessly ourselves. What an incredible experience! Thank you!
I highly recommend contacting Michael for all your Cusco tours, we did the machu pichu tour, rainbow mountain as well as walking tour in cusco. Michael is very knowledgeable of all the city and its history, he will tell you what he best recommends and thanks to him we were able to get Machu picchu. If you want to learn about history and have a great time in Peru definitely contact michael!
This tour Is very nice, the pick up Time Is very early but the landscape is awesome. I really recomment this travel agency. I will come back AND contact this travel agency.
It was an amazing trip for me and my family. Our tour guide was very professional, patience, full knowledgeable about the Inca's history. Our driver was very respectfull, friendly and always on time. Also the peruvian food is extremaly delicious in the restaurant that the travel company recomend us. Thank you very much to the team of YUPI TRAVEL CUSCO for these unforgetable experience.
Awesome view is the mountain and surrounding landscape, worth the time to get there to enjoy such a magnificent view nature has to offer.
I had an incredible experience with Yupi Travel at the Mountain of Seven Colors. Everything was very well organized, and the service was excellent from start to finish. I want to especially thank Michael, who was very kind, professional, and attentive throughout the entire tour. He was always willing to help, answer questions, and ensure that we all enjoyed the experience. The hike was challenging, but thanks to his support and motivation, everything was much more manageable. The views were spectacular, and the experience exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend Yupi Travel and Michael to anyone visiting Cusco. Thank you for an unforgettable experience!
We did the private tour with a guide in Portuguese and we loved everything. Transfer, the guide, the script. All perfect!
Great tour well organized, very good attention from staff, the truth highly recommended. Great experience in places like this, beautiful
It was a unique and great experience, I have two younger children who were very well taken care of, we rented the horses and it was a very good experience communicating with the commoners, the guide Michael Flores what patience and good humor. We will come back and do many more tours with you.
Great experience and coordination of the tour was perfect. Reliable agency and 100% recommended. We'll be back for the missing walks.
The experience was great in mountains of colors, it is super tedious to get there but the landscape is super amazing, the best of all was the explanation of the guide, the very serene and super professional driver the super good food. Thank you for everything yupitravelcusco. Soon we'll be back and using your agency.
The organization was impeccable and Guido’s guidance was instrumental in enjoying the hike and breathtaking views to the full. His knowledge and passion for the area are admirable. The sense of achievement at the top was indescribable. 100% recommend this agency and Guido for any adventure in Rainbow Mountain.
Thank you michael, we had no income to machupicchu but with your assistance we made it, mountain of colors that beautiful but your constant follow made us feel safe. Very knowledgeable guides, super clean cars. Small groups a super cool adventure. I'll be back with my friends. And we'll contact them.
A great experience, the team of very professional guides made us love Cusco, with plans to return... Greetings to Michel, I don't understand why I missed a certain Eder so much.
Fully recommended, I was oriented in the best way and with a good explanation of the place, probably revisit other places, nice places visited.
Thank you for the service provided, a company q gave everything it offered, it was a wonderful experience with the first services starting with our guide Michael who was the best on the trip, thank you Michael for everything. We recommend the company yupitravel and its guide
My dream empties in Cusco were with Ticas Travel, thank you Michael Flores for so kindness and for those lived experiences that you can not explain words. Blessings to Ticas Travel.
A great experience, good transportation, very good explanation, very pleasant food and above all the place is unique in its style. I had a really great time, I will definitely come back to you. Thanks for everything. See you soon
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