Private Tour Rainbow Mountain + Red Valley + LUNCH
Description
Exploring a lesser-known destination like the Red Valley is sure to add a touch of adventure to the experience. The exclusivity of having the trail just for your group will undoubtedly make the experience even more special. And if travelers prefer the Red Valley over the colorful mountain, that says a lot about the beauty and unique charm of this place! . Red valley + rainbow mountain Cusco excursion. . The hidden treasure road, red valley. . Includes round trip transportation . Includes breakfast, buffet lunch.
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Itinerary
You will be picked up from the hotel between 4:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. and then take a 2-hour trip to cusipata where you will have breakfast. Then we will continue our route until we reach the red valley (4750 m.a.s.l.) where we will get ready to walk. First it will be about 11⁄2 to 2 hours of climbing.
This path will be more special because we may be one of the only groups on this route. This time for the Red Valley, the name is due to the special pigmentation of the earth, which has a reddish color due to the abundant amount of minerals. where we can see beautiful landscapes with many mountains covered with snow, local people with typical costumes of the area and llama and alpaca breeders, in addition to the beautiful high-Andean landscape of the Vilcanota mountain range, we walk through the red valley in 2 hours to arrive to rainbow mountain
Your guide will describe how the Andean mountain ranges formed and history, legends, after explanation we will begin to descend. For the same place we will have the opportunity to appreciate the red valley twice. until we reach (Phulllawasipata) where our transport will be waiting to take us to enjoy a well-deserved and delicious lunch.
Then we will take our mobility to return to Cusco (arrival between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m.) we finish the tour to a street of the Plaza de Armas for traffic reasons.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
All hotel and We also pick up from AirBnB and any other place within the city of Cusco. Wait in the lobby of your hotel.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(30)
Samuel is a 10/10 guide. Always attentive and takes very good pictures. He was always around in case we needed anything and made us a video of our experience at the end.
The views are amazing, the service of the guide is excellent and they suggest you and take good photos. Always kept an eye on our security and provided interesting information
¡Muchísimas gracias por tomarse el tiempo para compartir su experiencia con nosotros! Nos alegra enormemente saber que disfrutó de su visita
The mountain is beautiful, but unfortunately I didn’t get to do the Red Valley hike, as I was the only one in the group who booked Red Valley + Rainbow Mountain (everyone else just booked Rainbow Mountain), so I was told that the “Red Valley route is closed”.
The Red Valley is a hidden gem next to Rainbow Mountain, with awesome views of the valley and the surrounding mountains. Samuel showed us around and in addition taught us so much about the animals living in the area and about how his Inca heritage relates to this place. Can definitely recommend, though make sure you are well acclimatized by doing some other high-altitude hikes first. That way you will get most out if the experience!
This was a great tour, Samuel has a lot of experience and knew the best spots to take pictures with out having to wait in line. Talking about photos, we were impressed on the awesome pictures he was able to take from us. The hike is short but do to the altitude it makes it really hard. We never felt pressure form our guide he will wait for us to recover and would tell us to go at our own pace Samuel has a great knowledge which he was really excited to shared with us. He was also genuinely interested in our culture so we had a great chat about both cultures.
Amazing experience with Samuel! It showed us the way for the 7-color mountain and then we continued to the Red Valley. You can tell that Samuel knows what he does and is inexpert on the subject. He also took the time to explain the whole story and take thousands of pictures! Really what an amazing experience!
The experience was amazing, the guide gave us a lot of information matters and took very very good photos. They were punctual with the pickup and we were very satisfied with our trip, definitely super recommended
The tour was highly critizable and it did not live up to the decription on Tripadvisor at all. The so-called guide did not guide at all. He barely spoke 3 sentences on the entire tour. We were picked up 1 hour later than scheduled. When we finally arrived to the Rainbow Mountain and Red Valley, the guide rushed us to walk fast, and he did not walk with us at all. He just pointed out which way to walk, and then he left. He did not tell a single fact on the entire tour and he just showed us photos on his phone of the different viewpoints - he did not show us any of them, which led the group to missing out on more of them and even getting lost. It felt very unsafe and unprofessional. It would have been nice with at least some guidance on how to handle the altitude and the symptoms. On our way back to Cusco, the guide was very busy making stops for picking up his girlfriend, dropping her off and shopping for fruits. The guide jumped off the bus 1 hour before arriving to Cusco and left us with the bus driver who could not speak a single word in English. The minivan was a disaster. It was old and very dirty. Only 10 minutes after leaving Cusco, we had to stop for gas and a flat tire. There were no functioning seatbelts, which combined with very dangerous mountain driving, is highly critizable. The engine stopped functioning two times uphill on the narrow mountain roads, and on our way home, all of us had to help pushing the van to start again.
Couldn’t recommend more reaching Vinicunca through the red valley instead of the super touristic direct path. Way more challenging, way more rewarding. Shoutout to our guides to be extra caring with those experiencing altitude sickness!
We made the excursion of the Mountain of 7 colors and the Red Valley and left delighted. It was an amazing experience and Samuel was an excellent guide. We would definitely repeat and recommend it.
