Vinicunca or Winikunka, also called Mountain of Seven Colors, Rainbow Mountain or Mountain of Colors (the inhabitants call it Cerro Colorado), is a mountain in Peru with an altitude of 5,200 meters above sea level.
It is located on the road to the snowy Ausangate, in the Andes of Peru, Cusco Region, between the districts of Cusipata, Quispicanchi province, and Pitumarca, Canchis province.
In the mid-2010s, a process of tourist massification5 began, attracted by its series of stripes of various colors, this due to its mineralogical composition present on the slopes and peaks.
All travelers agree that the best time of year to visit the Rainbow Mountain is in the month of August, since it is a dry season and this is excellent for visiting it. Its already famous colors look pretty good. You have to try to avoid days when it has rained (December, January and February) or times when a snowfall has fallen.
According to the investigation of the Cultural Landscape Office of the Decentralization of the City of Cusco, the colorations of the mountain of the 7 Colors are due to the mineralogical composition that it has: the pink color is due to red clay, mudstones (mud and arillites ( sand) The Whitish, for the quartz sandstone and marls, rich in calcium carbonate.
Red is made up of clays (iron) and clays belonging to the upper tertiary. Green is due to the compound of phyllites and clays rich in magnesium ferro. The earthy brown is a product of fanglomerate composed of rock with magnesium belonging to the Quaternary era. And the mustard yellow color due to the calcareous sandstones rich in sulfur minerals.
We pick you up from your hotel in the city of Cusco (4:30 a.m.) in our private transport to the town of Vinicunca Palcoyo to have a delicious breakfast with their respective organic coffee from Cusco.
Leaving the city of Cusco, you drive along the Longitudinal Race of the Sierra del Sur Peruano (PE-3s) towards the town of Checacupe where you take the fork towards the town of Pitumarca, and from this town you go through the trip along a carrosable trail passing through various peasant communities such as Ocefina, Japura, Hanchipacha, until arriving at the community of Pampa Chiri, where the road ends and begins the 5 km walk approximately to the Vinincunca pass, where you can see the Rainbow-shaped natural formation, considered the Mountain of Colors.
The entrance to the Rainbow Mountain is made through the town of Pitumarca, two hours from the city of Cusco, then a walk on foot, by car or by motorcycle on the slopes of the mountain and then you can go up on horseback or on foot the rest of the way until you reach the Mountain of Colors.
At 14:30 p.m. We will have lunch and then start our return to the city of Cusco.
Estimated time of arrival at the hotel in Cusco: 18:30 p.m.
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