Day Hike Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru +51 943 388685

Book with us this Day Hike Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru located to the South of Cusco city, so this Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain is located at 4900 masl (16.076ft). Firstly along the drive road, we see plenty of llamas, alpacas and living culture people, so this Palccoyo rainbow mountain is the formation of minerals which creates the stripes of stunning colors, like ocher with green, blue and white stripe.

Therefore this day hike Palccoyo rainbow mountain Cusco Peru, became a magic place for travelers and the arrival without much physical effort, since the hike is gentle road for 40 minutes to the last viewpoint and then another 40 minutes back to the beginning of the road and surrounded by stunning views, like snow-capped mountain and some red valleys.

In addition from the viewpoint of Palccoyo you see nice three colorful striated mountains in all their magnitude and lonely immensity and at the same place there is a curious forest of stones, which as its name suggests, is about peaks of rock from the height of trees that looks like a true geological labyrinth and also we see the beautiful farming terraces at the mountainsides from the living culture people named Quechuas.

physical condition

Physical Condition For Day Hike To Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru

The physical effort and the time it takes to arrive at rainbow mountain Palcoyo day hike is much less than hiking to Vinicunca rainbow mountain and the latter also receives a large influx of tourists that detracts from the natural landscape.

With this we do not mean that the trekking to the Rainbow mountain Vinicunca is not worth it, is more, if what you are looking for is a physical challenge, perhaps visiting Vinicunca has more sense for you. The grace of the Cordillera de Colores Palcoyo is that it is an excellent alternative for those who can do not want to wear themselves physically to observe the same landscape that they would observe in Vinicunca and also at both places we see plenty llamas and alpacas and living culture people and the red mountains and moreover we see some nice farming terraces through the Andes mountains.

We take care of it all from door to door with the pick up at your place at Cusco city and drop you off too.

high altitude

High Altitude Sickness For Day Hike Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru

When our clients arrive in Cusco city first they are wondering about high altitude sickness, so Cusco city and the hiking in Peru is mainly at high altitude, since we are located at the Andes mountain ranges, so we would highly recommend to give yourself at least 2 days to acclimatize your body at Cusco city, if you’re used to living close to sea level and Cusco city is the perfect place to acclimatize your body for the high altitude, since is located at 3300 masl (10,826 ft) then you will be fine for high altitude and hiking mountains, so while you stay at Cusco city, you can do day tours.

How To Avoid And Cure

To avoid this high altitude problem, first avoid alcohol and coffee, because they will cause you to urinate more often and become dehydrated and also beef and meet, eat something light, like soup diets and always drinking plenty water and if you get pounding headache, you can start taking pills for high altitude named Diamox and in Spanish is called Acetazolamide and also to prevent high altitude sickness, you can start taking one tablet of Diamox, a day before starting the trip or while the trip and each tablet is every 12 hours and drink plenty water.

About Coca Tea For The High Altitude

Drinking coca tea is good for high altitude but if you have some problem with your hart is not good, since the coca leaves speed your heart beating then you will be out of breath, even hard to fall sleep. So, in this case, is better to avoid the coca tea and better to drink water.

Itinerary

Itinerary For Day Hike Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru

We pick you up at 5:20 am then we ride you for 2 hours through paved road the way to Puno then arriving in the town Combapata then we keep riding for an hour and 30 minutes through dirt road to the community named Palccoyo, where we see plenty alpacas, llamas and living culture people, located at 4600 masl (15,091 feet) then we hike for an hour gentle hike, until the last viewpoint, from where you enjoy the amazing views of Three Rainbow Mountains and the snow-capped mountain of Ausangate located at 6,384 masl (20,944ft).
Then we climb for 15 minutes, up to the amazing stone forest and enjoy the outstanding views of the mountains and then hike back downhill for 20 minutes and afterward we ride you back to Cusco city for 3 hours and a half, dropping you off at your place at Cusco city by 4: 30pm.

price

Price: Day Hike Palccoyo Rainbow Mountain Cusco Peru

We charge you just the new taxi and the experienced tour guide since we are a local company based in Cusco city.

New taxi with an oxygen tank for high altitude: US$120
The experienced tour guide, who can help you with the high altitude problems: US$75
Van with oxygen tank: US$155

how i book this tour

How I Book This Tour ???

For booking this tour, you have to send us some deposit of $20 dollars through our Paypal account and Paypal charge the 7% from any amount of money to send and the %7 is charged to you, so that means you need to send us $22 and then the rest of the money in cash, when you arrive in Cusco city and then, you need to send us the following details to our Gmail: chacrastravelperu@gmail.com

The date of the tour and type of tour
The number of people
The address at Cusco city to pick you up for the following tours
Gmail or WhatsApp to keep in touch

Then we send you a Gmail confirmation of the deposit and the tour.

Note: The $22 dollars deposit, is for any number of people, for booking this tour then the rest of the money in Cusco city in cash, it can be in dollars or soles, this is up to you and also please the final payment with good US$ bills, because the broken dollars bills no working in Peru.