Rainbow Mountain

A little footprint to mark the highest altitude point of my trip.

As mentioned under my Cusco footprint, this was to Palccoyo, the lesser known rainbow mountain in the area. The benefits of going to this one is that it's a shorter hiking time and there are far fewer people. Our group more or less has the walking circuit and view points to ourselves.

Sadly it is due to global warming that we can now see the colours of the mountains. They had always been covered in snow until the year 2012.Read more