I still don’t understand why they needed to make two pit stops at our hostel, but alas, I will just blame that on Peru, there’s probably no good reason. The reception man assured me the bus would be back. One of our friends was on the bus, his name had been called and was messaging me the entire time. The bus took off from our hostel around 3:15 AM leaving us behind- so I walked up to the reception guy to ask why it had left early and what was going on. We were set to be downstairs ready to go on our adventure just before 3:30 AM, as that was when the bus would take off. A little wary, we took her word and assumed it would all be fine. At the time of booking, we asked if we could go ahead and purchase horses for the trek, and the lady at the desk responded that we could purchase a horse when we got to the trail, and it would cost around 70 soles ($25 USD) per horse. The hostel is very reputable, and the cost for the trip was only 100 soles (about $35 USD), so we had assumed they had vetted the tour company, considering plenty of people booked through the hostel daily for this excursion. We booked our Rainbow Mountain tour through our hostel, Pariwana, in Cusco. I’m just going to give you guys the ~shortened~ version of my experience with Rainbow Mountain, and then give you pointers, because I feel like if I share my experience with you then you’ll be even more prepared than if I just gave you a list of ways to prepare- so here goes. but I promise the story is a good one and involves a bus catching on fire.
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If you don’t want to read about my experience and just about how to get there/costs/preparation, go ahead and skip to the bottom…. If you haven’t already and want to, check out my blog on Machu Picchu as well, there’s plenty of great advice there for you to prepare on seeing one of the 7 modern world wonders! How to get there, food, preparation, why you should go, what to expect, are not things that have been covered extensively online about visiting this crazy place just a 3-hour bus ride from Cusco, so I’m going to give you the lowdown- the good, the bad, and the ugly. There is little online about how to get to this amazing natural wonder, except reading that there is little online about it. High in the Andes, at an altitude of 5200 meters (15,600 feet) lies the mysterious and well-hidden Vinicunca Mountain, commonly referred to in the traveler world as Rainbow Mountain.
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