Start of Rainbow Mountain tour

We woke up at 3 am since the pickup for the tour aws directly at the hostel at 3:30 am.
In this region of Peru, there are only 2 seasons, the dry season and the rainy season. We had arrived here towards the end of the dry season and finally the rains had caught up with us.
It had been raining all night and it was still raining when the pickup arrived at 3:30 am. We picked some other people from other hostels. Finally we were 11 of us in the van. We left Cusco around 4:00 am.
After a drive of almost 3 hours, we stopped on the way where the tour operator had arranged for a breakfast. It was nice and sunny in this valley with no clouds visible. Despite the sun, it was quite cold in the shadow. We had our breakfast of pancakes, bread, butter, jam and coca tea.
There were a lot of trucks full of locals going down the valley. It seems they were all going for the weekend markets in the villages nearby.
We stopped for about an hour there before continuing further.Read more