Rainbow Mountain and Red Valley

Today we took a four hour minibus ride to visit the Rainbow Mountain and Red Valley. The roadworks (very loud pneumatic drill) outside our hotel all night didn’t prepare us well for the 4.45am start.

This was a nice warm up trek for the 4 day Inca Trek we are doing in a couple of days and took us to 5,045m above sea level.

The Rainbow Mountain was heaving with lots of people but there was hardly anyone at the Red Valley and it was nice to get away from the crowds.

An eventful minibus ride back as first a car drove into the back of the minibus and then we got stopped by the police who were doing an immigration check.Read more