SALKANTAY TREK BY YOURSELVES OR SEMI AUTOMATIC 3DAYS/ 2NIGHTS
SALKANTAY TREK BY YOURSELVES OR SEMI AUTOMATIC TO MACHU PICCHU
This is one of the new and cheap okidoki options that allows you to enjoy the walk at your own pace but already having your lodging and food ready (and they do not need to bring a sleeping bag because all the accommodations have covers or blankets)
In this service you do not have a Guide and also in this service you do not have horses or mules to transport your things……. for this reason you do not need to carry many things for the whole trek only what is necessary because you have to take them.
for your accommodation you have 2 options: the shared dormitories and the sky lodges these options are only for the first camp because for the second camp they are accommodations with 2 or 3 beds
THE BEST PLAN FOR THE FIRST DAY THAT WE CAN RECOMMEND YOU
We recommend you arrive first at the sky lodge for your accommodation and rest and enjoy the wonderful view that the place has and then make your lunch and then you can go up to the Humantay lagoon when all the groups of the 1-day visit to the lagoon leave and you can visit without many people
DAY-1: CUSCO – MOLLEPATA – SORAYPAMPA – HUMANTAY LAKE
This day we start early at 4:30 am with the pick up from your hotels if they are accessible by bus or near the center of the Plaza de Cusco or we can meet in the Plaza Armas of Cusco and then go for 2 hours by bus to the town of Mollepata (entrance not included to the community and humantay lagoon 20 soles) where we will have a 30-minute break with breakfast included and then go for 1 more hour to the Soraypampa bus stop and then walk for 40 minutes until we reach the base from the okidoki camp and make your accommodation have lunch and then make your 1 hour 30 minute ascent to the humantay lagoon to enjoy without many people because all the groups that visit the lagoon in the 1 day tour are returning to cusco and after their visit to the lagoon, you will return to the okidoki base camp to enjoy the views of nature and the salkantay mountain in front of you, then you will have dinner.
DAY 2: SORAYPAMPA —SALKANTAY PASS —CHAULLAY
This day is the longest. We start early with breakfast and then we give you a packed lunch for your hike. Ascent time approximately 4 hours to the top of the mountain or Salkantay pass and then you make a descent of approximately 5 hours to the second Chaullay camp where they will have their dinner (we will include the extra services that this community offers but they are not so good a local shower almost hot and wifi signal sometimes good).
DAY 3 CHAULLAY —END OF THE SERVICE—LOCAL BUS—
In this camp you have a breakfast included and then it is the end of the service ……
RECOMMENDATIONS SO YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR TRIP TO MACHUPICCHU
where you have 2 options to get to the town of Aguas calientes (pueblo Machu Picchu):
Option 1
Take a transport to Lucma bamba to make a 3-hour walk to reach Llactapata archaeological site and viewpoint and then make a 2-hour descent to Hidroelectrica and you can have lunch in cheap local restaurants and then walk 3 hours to reach the town of Aguas hot and look for your hostel and make your dinner in any restaurant
Option 2
- From there you can take a local transport to Hidroelectrica
- and you can have lunch in cheap local restaurants and then walk 3 hours to get to the town of Aguas Calientes and look for your hostel and have your dinner in any restaurant
DAY 4: MACHUPICCHU
- Macchu Picchu
- After your visit you have 2 options to return to Cusco
- return by train
- Or return by bus bus
Contact Us Okidoki Travel Peru Operator
Tour Name: Salkantay Trek by yourselves Semi Automatic to Machu Picchu
IMPORTANT FACTS
SALKANTAY TREK : SEMI AUTOMATIC
- the shared dormitories: 73 USD Dollars
- the sky lodges: 80 USD Dollars
**Important points:
to make your reservation you need the exact date of your trek departure because there are no changes or cancellations
MONEY DEPOSIT
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations and date changes are not accepted, you simply lose your deposit, there is no refund.
your deposit is not for our pocket, it is for the organization of a good trek in okidoki and to have this good organization you have to make advance reservations of all the services that you are going to have during the 2 days of your trek and these reservations are made with deposits so as not to have inconveniences or last minute cancellations from our suppliers and if we cancel these reservations we lose our deposits because this is not a game and by making a reservation with our service providers for the trek we are blocking spaces that they can simply give to other tour operators or travelers who need it too.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
- ORIGINAL PASSPORT
- BACKPACK (30 LITERS)
- RAIN JACKET OR RAIN PONCHO
- WALKING SHOES
- LANTERN
- TOWEL + BATHING PAPER
- PERSONAL MEDICATION
- SOLAR BLOCKER-SUNGLASSES-HAT HAT ..
- MOSQUITO REPELLENT
- CHOCOLATE CARAMELOS SNACKS
- EXTRA MONEY ( SOLES )
WHAT INCLUDES
FIRST DAY :
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Transportation to Soraypampa
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Breakfast
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Lunch
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Dinner
Accommodation;
the shared dormitories or sky lodge okidoki
SECOND DAY :
Breakfast
packed lunch
Dinner
Accommodation in the second Chaullay camp
THIRD DAY
Breakfast
DOES NOT INCLUDED
- The entrance ticket to the community of Mollepata – Humantay Lake price 20 soles
- Entrance Machu Picchu ticket US$ 50
- Entrance huaynapicchu mountain ticket US$ 65 (book months in advance)
- Entrance to machupicchu mountain ticket US$ 65 (book months in advance)
- food for the third day and fourth day
- guide
- horse mules
- transportation for day 3 to get to lucmabamba or hydroelectric (price 25soles or 30soles)
- accommodations for the third day fourth day
- Water (cold beer champagne wiski etc.)
- Bus from Aguas Calientes to Machupicchu US$ 12 only up
- Tips (voluntary tips)
- transportation back to cusco
FAQs Frequently asked questions of our travelers
How is your Cultural Landscape in Salkantay Trek Semi Automatic?
The natural heritage constituted by elements that nature has created “Salkantay” for thousands of years and that is represented by the variety of geological and physiographic formations that together are part of the scenic beauty of the heterogeneous environment, in which the different ecosystems, plant formations with the diversity of Salkantay flora species, which in turn are habitats for the variety of fauna species characteristic of the area and made up of all those elements and tangible or intangible manifestations produced by societies, the result of a process; where the reproduction of ideas and material become factors that identify and differentiates the natural space of the Salkantay as a cultural landscape, evidenced in its different manifestations and cultural expressions from a territorial dimension illustrating the evolution of human society and its settlements over time, conditioned by the limitations and/or physical opportunities presented by its natural environment and by successive social forces, economic and cultural. In relation to this territorial dimension of cultural heritage, the existence of a great diversity and complexity of cultural landscape is evident, as a result of a process of transformation, use and occupation of the natural space of the Salkantay apu (located between the districts of Limatambo, Mollepata, Machu Picchu and Choquequirao), an important space, which was probably constituted from the Late Intermediate into one of the first and most important apus that was honored with offerings at special ceremonies.
According to Polo de Ondegardo (1575 Peru Operator), “he was one of the main apus in the entire kingdom, the oldest that the Incas had who performed ceremonies with honors and sacrifices” (Polo de Ondegardo 1906: 67 Cusco Operator). And according to ethnohistorical and ethnological investigations, it has a sacred value in its condition as “sacred apu that protects its territory”.
For the same reason, in colonial times the importance of it declined, due to the extirpation of idolatry that erupted with these ideological-ceremonial practices of beliefs and cults of the Andean region. However, the religious cult was not completely eradicated, since currently the Salkantay Semi Automatic, preserves and persists in its religious symbolic importance among the contiguous populations, considered one of the most important mountains in the invocations of the ceremonies of gratitude towards the sacred apu from the mountains.
What is Salkantay apu sacred mountain in Cusco – Peru?
The Salkantay is known as a sacred mountain that, in addition to the snow-capped Waqay Willke, is venerated next to the Inka city of Machu Piccho, Choquequirao, considered a “sacred icon” of the Inka empire in the Andean world. enabling a social cohesion of veneration since time immemorial, confirming the inhabitants their full identification with the Salkantay apu (Semi Automatic Operator); perpetuated as an expression of deep gratitude according to their beliefs, rituals and ceremonies for the start of sowing, cultivation and harvesting of agricultural products and livestock production.
Mollepata, located in the Vilcabamba chain, has been known since ancient times as “andes de molles, pueblo del inca y del sol”, which in the year 1757 – “Peru Operator” the mitimaes settled on the banks of the Apurímac and Patakancha and close to Marcahuasi, Cotomarca, Qonoq Cancha (Bellavita), was entrusted to Francisca Robles, widow of Captain Lorenzo Suaso, during the visits of Viceroy Toledo in 1570, who in Spanish custom called it “Santiago de Mollepata” where Marcahuasi haciendas were established, being usufructed to the the same as the La Estrella farm located on the route that joined the road of the Salkantay – Soraypampa. It is this historical – cultural – natural context that Mollepata constitutes natural heritage with diversity and complexity of cultural landscape and result of a process in use, occupation and located between the districts of Limatambo, Mollepata, Machu Picchu and Choquequirao inka.
Expressed in the popular religious imaginary of the 16th century, the Salkantay apu is cataloged as a “protector lord”, which protects the towns of Limatambo, Mollepata, Machu Picchu and Choquequirao located in the Vilcabamba mountain range (cusco operator), remaining “majestic and stately” who, unlike the Ausangate apu is considered “the powerful” in attribution to the myth of the young Akanaku and the daughters of the apu had a great fortune in gold, silver and herds of llamas, white alpacas, lived accompanied by his wife “ Cayancate” considered goddess of colored alpacas, located at one end of the “Singrina” lagoon qocha» that has an emerald color, to this lagoon is offered every August 1st by the shepherds of Yanacocha; believing that from the existing springs in the areas come alpacas that in some cases are captured by the lucky ones, but that in their hands they become Enqaychus or Illas that are kept as magical objects within the “messa q’epe” (paraphernaria pastoral or tied ritual inka). As a reflection, the important snow-capped Salkantay that occupies the southern position of the Aobamba valley basin, where events of landslides of glacial masses have been generating hanging, due to the phenomenon of global warming that progressively affects the glacier mass; being urgent the conservation and restricted use of protected areas and implement sustainable management policies in Peru – Salkantay Trekking Semi Automatic.
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