#rainbowmountain

Rainbow Mountain

Rainbow mountain was one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen on our entire trip. The trail head starts at 4,400 metres with a peak of 5,200 metres. I found the hike very hard as about 70% of the hike was up hill and at that altitude I struggled. James however bounded up the hill to get to the top before the other tourists arrived to take the best photos. We were lucky we were able to camp at the trail head, unlike the other tourists that got up in the middle of the night to take to 3.5 hour bus ride from Cusco. We set off at 6:00am to beat them to the top and thankfully we did as when we started to descend at around 10:00am there were at least a hundred tourists walking or taking donkeys up (slackers!).

The photos are not edited in any way, the colours were so bright our brains were trying to tell us it was a trick!