Ausangate Trek Peru

Ausangate Trek Peru, Early in the morning we will pass by your hotel to begin the great adventure to Ausangate, we will head to the south east of the city of Cusco, we will travel along a surrounded road on a bus, a 2:30 hour trip to the village of Tinqui, the starting point of the walk.

Passing several traditional villages along the route, they include Urcos, Cattca and Ocongate, picturesque little towns that still preserve ancestral customs and ways that enrich our Inka culture until we reach Tinqui (3850 meters above sea level) where we will have lunch and then continue to the first shelter called PucaRumi.

We will head towards the community of Tinki which is 6 hours away by car. On the way we will pass through the district of Urcos at 3,150 meters above sea level, among its attractions is the lagoon and its famous artisanal bread.

Continuing with our trip we will arrive at “Muñapata” at 3,188 meters above sea level, the route connects with the South Interoceanic Highway.

We continue an ascent until we reach Ccatca at 3,700 meters above sea level, a place that has lagoons and Andean plains covered with ichu (straw), we will stop to enjoy a delicious lunch based on Andean ingredients.

Ausangate Trek Peru, the tour through the Vilcanota mountain range, you will come across communities with ancestral customs and traditional clothing such as the Combapata district.

We will arrive at “Tinki”, our first camp and the beginning of our walk.

We have lunch and in the afternoon we will be free to explore the surroundings, observe snowcapped mountains, a variety of flora and fauna and hot springs. The walking time on this day varies from 6 to 7 hours. At our camp we will have dinner and sleep comfortably until the next day.

Ausangate Trek, After placing the equipment and getting familiar with your horses, the walk will begin surrounded by landscapes like something out of watercolors, fresh air and a silent natural silence that will allow you to think about everything from the simplest to the most complex of our existence in this planet.

You will spend about 5 hours walking to reach the community of Upis (4400 masl) where we will have a local lunch, after lunch we can visit the Puca Cocha lagoon which is one hour from Upis and then we will attend the rustic but healthy and relaxing Thermo medicinal baths of the Community called Aguas Calientes Upisbest can be found in Pacchanta on the fourth day of the walk.

Ausangate Trek Peru, Vearly and after breakfast we will depart on a long, tiring but pleasant walk that will take us to the first pass known as Arapa (4800 meters above sea level) from where we will be able to contemplate the mountain range and all its shades of colors due to the vegetation in the area.

We will continue descending. towards Yana Cocha (4500 meters above sea level) or black lagoon where we will have an improvised picnic surrounded by a spectacular view, after a short rest we start ascending towards the highest point of this route to the Ausangate Extreme Pass (4850 meters above sea level)

From where we will feel the touch the sky with our hands and we will also contemplate all the beauty that the high Andean nature offers us, already somewhat tired but satisfied with everything we have experienced, we will descend to the edge of Ausangate Lagoon (46,500 meters above sea level)

Where we will ascend to the highest pass of this expedition, called Palomani Pass (5200 meters above sea level) from where we will have a spectacular and breathtaking view, over the Ausangate Mountains that I can assure you will take your breath away.

Today is an important day, we are going to reach the first of the two high altitude passes, Palomani open. It is a short walk uphill from our camp to the highest pass of our hike. We are going to enjoy a unique landscape above 5,000 meters above sea level.

With some nostalgia but quite cold, we will descend a little through a valley where we can camp and after a refreshing dinner we will spend the night.

Ausangate Trek
After breakfast and when the dawn barely breaks, we will begin the adventure and the reason why it was worth choosing to do this walk and where we will test the most perfect machine that nature could create, “the human body.”

We will begin the walk with a small climb to the place called Jampa (4700 m.a.s.l.), Paso Campa (5100 m.a.s.l.), Beautiful Andean landscape where camelids coexist with the mountain peaks, watched over by the spectacular Colquecruz snow-capped peak.

We follow the path downhill to our lunch place and then continue downhill towards the thermo-medicinal baths of Pacchanta (4350m.a.s.l.) where we will take a relaxing bath. An excellent end to one of the hardest days of our hike.

Ausangate Trek, return to the town of Tinki where we take our transportation back to the city of Cusco, where we will have a transfer back to their respective hotels. End of our services.