Cusco Ausangate Trek 6 Days

• Description

 

Ausangate trek is a long hike around the biggest mountain in southern Peru in Cusco (Cuzco), the broad and majestic Ausangate (6384m), and offers glimpses of high altitude wildlife and pastoral people living with their animals, quietly apart from the turmoil of the modern world. We pass ice walls, a glacier, the cascades of a frozen river, and numerous springs of hot and medicinal underground water.

The mountaineer will also find lovely views over the surrounding countryside, looking down into fertile valleys and across to the Vilcanota Mountains. These snow covered ranges arc away to the east, the southeast, then the south, protecting the valley of Canchis. From these high mountains, cold waters whisper through totora swamps south to Titicaca Lake.

Eager rapids plunge north into the tropical Inambari. And from the glacier-fed lakes of the Canchis valley, rich green waters feed the Vilcanota River and Sacred Valley in Cusco (Cuzco). We may observe rare Andean wildlife in the high wilderness, such as vicuña, vizcacha, condors, flamingos, Andean geese, and ibises..

 

• Itinerary

 

Day 1 Cusco (Cuzco) - Tinki

We take the bus for 100 km to the southeast from Cusco (Cuzco) in the morning. The road passes north of Ausangate, and we leave the road a bit west of the mountain. We camp in Tinqui at 3,800. As we fall asleep the setting sun lights up the glacier on the NW face of Ausangate.

 

Day 2 Tinqui - Upis

We break camp and hike up to the Ausangate glacier. We set up camp alongside the Upis thermal springs, about 4 kilometers higher. We bathe in the hot springs and the cold Upismayo, which is the head of the river Madre de Dios that in going to the Manu Park  it runs beside our camp.

 

Day 3 Upis - Pucacocha – Ausangate Cocha

After breakfast we will start our kike going to the NW side of the Ausangate we will pass our first high Pass which is name is Arapa Apacheta, just turnig this pass we will see a lot of lakes, one of them very dark this is because is very deep,  and the other three are very nice solors like torques blue intense the name of this lake is Pucacocha, where we will have our lunch, with a great view of the Ausangate and the avalances, by the afternoon we will pass our second Pass which is name is Ausangate Pass from here you will see a beaitull picks and great valleys in the afternoon we will descent to the Ausangte Lake where will be the tird capmoing site

 

Day 4 Ausangate Cocha – Palomani – Jhampa  

After breakfasta we will start climbing the hights pass of the trek the mountain which is known as Palomani this is over the  5350 Mtrs above the sea level, here you can feel to be over the world and feel the sky almost near of your hands, after a small break we will start to decent straight to the valley of Phinaya which is a very nice place where the people are experiment ting to have the camellones this is a very ancient tecnics to protect the agriculture from the freeze nights, after the lunch we will climb a little bit to a small valley where you can see the mountains and the glaciar around the Ausangate, our camping site will be at Jhampa a very small place with a great view from the great pick of the andes

 

Day 5 Jhampa – Qhampa Pass – Pajchanta  

We will have a great awake because the sun will get us first with a great view from the glaciar, after breakfast we will start hiking to the last pass of the trek  which is name is Qhampa over 4900 Mtrs over the sea level, after this pass we will descent to ninaparayoc  here we will see beautiful lakes some of them are very mystical according the locals, after the lunch we will still going down until the places which is name is Pacchanta where we will find nice hot springs and enjoy the bath always under the attentive view of the  Ausangante Mountain, this night you will have the chance to share a last dinnder with the staff who were always with us

 

Day 6 Pacchanta – Tinki – Cusco

After a nice evening with a nice bath in the hot springs of Pacchanta, we will start our way back to Tinki where our bus will wait for us and take us back to Cusco, we will have the options to make a Pachamanca (lamb cokked under the floar with rock as the same was did by the ancient people) this will be with aprevius concerning with the guide or the company, it will be an extra beside the payment, we will get Cusco around 2 or 3 in the afternoon great day to rest in the city

 

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