Humantay Lake Full Day
Reasons to take the Humantay Lake Hike:
you want to immerse in nature and experience epic views of the Peruvian Andes. You have already been in Cusco for a few days and are acclimated to the high-altitude conditions. You appreciate the journey as much as the destination. You can complete a 4-hour high-altitude hike.
Itinerary
We pass to pick up everyone from their respective hotels between 4:30 to 5:00 am then we will go to the town of Mollepata by car for 2 hours where we will make a stop at the restaurant to have a delicious breakfast, which will take about an hour and then we continue in the same car for 1 more hour towards the beginning of the hike which is called Soraypampa at 3900 m, then we go to the control point to pay the entrance fee to the community (20 soles for foreign visitor and 10 soles for Peruvian).
Afterward, we get ready for the hike towards the lake Humantay for around 2 hours uphill hike a distance of 3 km. Once in Humantay Lake, you will have enough time to take pictures of the breathtaking scenery, listen to
the explanations of the guide, and enjoy all the wonderful landscape of the area.
The time that you will spend at Lake Humantay is about 45 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on the weather conditions, sometimes it is cloudy, foggy or a little rainy and it is very cold in that case you may stay
about 30 minutes if the weather is sunny and clear you can Stay around 1.5 hours enough time to know the lake Humantay. After we will get ready for the return hike to the car stop and it will be the end of the hike then we take the car back to Mollepata for an hour where we will stop to have a buffet lunch and then 2 more hours by car back to Cusco.
Some details of the walking:
– Distance: (06 km)
– Minimum (3,900 meters)
– Maximum altitude: (4,300 meters)
– Duration: 11horas
– Difficulty level: 3/5.