"The Salkantay Trek was recently named among the 25 best Treks in the World, by National Geographic Adventure Travel Magazine. This amazing trek runs beneath the magnificent Salkantay mountain (6.271m/20569ft), one of the highest and most stunning in the Peruvian Andes. The first two days are dominated by the impressive "Apus" of Salkantay and Huamantay, in the high puna landscape. On the third day you descend to the warm cloud forest, to reach Aguas Calientes on the fourth day. The impressive Sacred Inca city of Machupicchu is visited on the last day of the program." Again this was an early start for us, leaving at 4.30am to travel to Mollepata where we had some breakfast of bread and chicken burgers (!) which we ate out in a garden surronded by some very plucky, hungry, brave chickens
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