Cusco/Rainbow Mountain

What an incredible day! We had a 4am wake up call and boarded the bus on route for our day to hike rainbow mountain.
We stopped for breakfast at 6am before another short bus trip and commenced the hike at 4600m by 7.30am.
The weather was clear and warm on the way up which made for incredible views. Both Gab and Daniel made it up to the top with no major concerns - obviously got the lungs and heart pumping though and we took plenty of breaks!
We learnt that the different colours are due to erosion of different minerals: red-iron, green-copper and yellow-sulfur.
We then walked around to another viewpoint which was a large stone hand statue and we were able to see some incredible views of the snow-capped mountains.
We commenced our descent (much easier than going up!) and it even snowed a bit on the way down!
We then boarded the bus to our much needed buffet lunch before arriving back in Cusco around 3pm.
We then packed our small duffel bags which would be the only items we can take to our Inca Trail hike starting on Thursday. The porters will carry our main duffel bags so the company is quite strict in relation to the weight of these bags.
After that, we met the group for an awesome dinner of alpaca streak with gnocchi for Daniel and trout and gnocchi for Gab plus some red wine from Peru :)
We went to a club where we did some salsa and bachata classes with the group (we were much better this time!) before heading back to the hostel for some sleep.Read more