5 Days Salkantay Trek Tour to Machu Picchu
Overview
About
You'll hike through lush cloud forests, cross rivers, and climb steep mountain trails.
What you'll do
The Salkantay trek was named after the Salkantay mountain, also known as Salcantay or Sallqantay, in Quechua.
It is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range and is called the wild mountain. This is because the word Sallqantay means something like wild or invincible.
It has glacial mountains, lagoons and crosses the Amazon jungle, which makes it one of the most beautiful and interesting hikes in all of Peru.
Meeting and pickup
What is included?
Not wheelchair accessible
What is not included?
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Travelers should have a strong physical fitness level
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
Meet your host
Itinerary
Cusco Mountain Bike Tours Itinerary (2026 Guide) – What You'll See & Do
Explore the full itinerary for 5 Days Salkantay Trek Tour to Machu Picchu in Cusco, Peru. This mountain bike tours experience includes 5 stops over 5 days. Duration: 120 hours. Activity level: Extreme.
Here is the starting point
Humantay Lake
We start with the pickup from your hotel at 5am, this will be a ride of two hours approximately until we arrive to Mollepata community, after breakfast we continue on transportation to Challacancha where is the started point of the hike. Here we need to check our luggage, pack the horses, and begin the long ascent to our campsite. Three hours and a half approximately to arrive at our campsite, on the way you will hike the original Inca trail Canal. After this we will arrive to our campsite, you will get the accommodation and we will wait for the lunch to recover energy after lunch, you will have some free time until we will start our hike up to Humantay Lake, this will take two hours to hike up and one hour on the way back approximately. It is quite cold as you can imagine but the view is unique and worthy. Back to our campsite, you can change your clothes and then you will enjoy a delicious dinner. After dinner, our tour guide will brief the itinerary for the next day.
