Lares Trek to Machu Picchu with Hot Spring 4-Day & 3 Night.

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Cusco – Thermal baths of Lares – Kiswarani 6 Waterfalls campsite
3 stops
1
Cusco Region
We will pick you up from your hotel in Cusco, at 5 am, where we start a three-hour trip through the beautiful Sacred Valley of the Incas to the start of the Lares trail.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
2
Once we arrive at the town of Lares, very famous for its medicinal hot spring, you will have your first breakfast, accompanied by tropical fruits and a view of the Lares Valley. Then you will enjoy the Medicinal Thermal Baths, which are divided into several pools with different temperatures ranging from cold to hot water. All of them are made up of pure water of volcanic origin with minerals, which is considered good for bones, stress, muscles, etc.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
After soaking in the medicinal pools for a while, our driver will drive 20 minutes to the Lares Trail trailhead to Machu Picchu. Starting here you will meet your horses and porters from the Lares trekking area who will carry our camping equipment and food for the tour, and you will deliver your canvas bags to be taken to the camp. Then we will start walking, seeing fields of crops, Quechua Andean communities with colorful costumes, and domestic animals such as llamas, and alpacas, and we will also get to know local medicinal plants. Our lunch spot on the Lares trail will be at the first town called Kiswarani, where we will also spend dinner, We will have the afternoon free to visit the 6 Cascadas de Aguas waterfalls and we will spend the night with a view of the Lares lagoon, alongside our Dog Travel Peru team.
4 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Kishuarani – Condor Pass – Cancha Cancha Andean Community
3 stops
4
After breakfast, we will fill our water bottles and pick up our organic fruit snacks, before beginning our Lares trail expedition towards our second campsite.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
5
You will have spectacular views of the mountains of Peru and lagoons of different shades of blue and turquoise. We will also appreciate many wild animals along the trek. We will trek uphill for four hours until reaching the highest pass in Lares called Paso del Cóndor where we will have spectacular views of the huge condor birds and over the Pituitary Glacier with an Elevation of 5,700 m / 18,700 ft. The Condor Pass itself is at 4,680 m/ 15,354 feet high. Later, we will enjoy a hot drink and hot chocolate while taking in the panorama of the Lares Valley.
4 hours • Admission ticket free
6
Continuing downhill, we will arrive at the community of Cancha Cancha where we will enjoy our lunch. The town of Cancha Cancha is located at (3,750 m). Here you will learn about the lifestyle of the locals and will see how they raise their cuy cusqueño – guinea pigs, which are considered a local delicacy. In the evening you will enjoy a hot drink and dinner.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Cancha Cancha – Huarán – Maras Salt Mine – Ollantaytambo – Machu Picchu town
5 stops
7
After breakfast, we say goodbye to the Cancha-Cancha high Andean community, and we will continue with our trek from Lares downhill, to the warmest area of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, where we will begin to feel the climate changes.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
8
Then we will begin to see fields of different crops such as giant white corn, organic quinoa, peaches, apples, avocados, and other types of fruit. We will finish the Lares Trail tour in the small town of Huarán, in the Sacred Valley, which is located at 2700 m. In this place, you will have your lunch, then say goodbye to the porters, horses, and chef.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
9
From there we will take a private transport to the Maras Salt Mine, where more than 3000 small evaporation chambers have been created that seem to be falling down the mountainside. This Maras salt mine has been in use since pre-Inca times. The salt is said to have healing properties because it is full of natural minerals. Local families own each of these salt flats and make a living supplying salt to the towns of the Sacred Valley. There is a small shop on site if you want to take some Peruvian Inca salt home with you.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
10
Ollantaytambo
After visiting Maras Salineras, we will board the van for 45 minutes to the city of Ollantaytambo, located in the Sacred Valley. It still has many Incan water channels, colonial houses, and Incan walls. Your tour guide will take you to see this small town until dinner time, at a local restaurant. We will then take the 7 p.m. train to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town)
2 hours • Admission ticket free
11
Aguas Calientes
Upon arrival at the town of Aguas Calientes, you will check into your hotel and have dinner in Machu Picchu town. Your official guide will give you recommendations for the view of Machupicchu.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Machu Picchu Tour – Ollantaytambo – Cusco City
5 stops
12
Aguas Calientes
Today is an important day because you will explore Machu Picchu, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Machu Picchu sanctuary is open from 6:00 am. For this activity, we will start with breakfast at our hotel. Our guide will explain the restrictions of Machu Picchu. We recommend taking the bus from Aguas Calientes town up to Machu Picchu, but the other option is to walk uphill for an hour and a half until you reach the historic sanctuary of Machu Picchu.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
13
Machu Picchu
To pass the control points, we need to have entrance tickets to Machu Picchu and a personal passport. Once we enter, we have a 3-hour guided Machu Picchu Tour. In Machu Picchu LLaqta, we will observe the Inca architecture and the Inca hydraulic engineering and the important sites of the archaeological center. We will stop by the classic photo spots, the main gate to the urban sector of the Incas quarries of Machu Picchu, the main temple of Machu Picchu (Temple of the Sun), the Royal Tomb, the Intiwatana sundial, the Temple of the 3 Windows, the central square and Sacred Rock of Machu Picchu, the Craft Sector, the Temple of the Condor and others. Our official guide will explain in detail about Machu Picchu and its key places.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
14
Aguas Calientes
We recommend taking the bus back down to the village 3 hours before your train departs. In Aguas Calientes town you can have lunch, visit the hot springs, or walk through the city and the craft market.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
15
Ollantaytambo
At the indicated time we will take the train back to the sacred valley of Ollantaytambo where the representative of Dog Travel Peru waits for you.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
16
Cusco
So you can board the bus that will take us back to Cusco. We will there finish our classic Inca Trail adventure.
2 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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