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If you might hike Salcantay:
- Browse the FAQs first
- Browse the rest of the site
If you have a specific question:
If you’ve already hiked Salcantay:
- e-mail to let us know how it went
- Consider joining us — become a contributor by sending trip notes and / or photos from your hike.
If you have an addition or correction for the website please e-mail. We’d appreciate any advice you have to improve this site.
If you need to know EVERYTHING about the Salcantay Trek, this website is written sequentially like a book. Read the whole thing starting on the home page. Keep clicking on Next Page when you reach the bottom of each.
Not as up-to-date as we would like.
Note that each web page has the most recent date of revision posted at the bottom.
Salcantay will change rapidly as more-and-more hikers choose this option. One day it will be regulated, no doubt.
The biggest impact will be on the local population of those high mountain valleys. It was not touristy in 2004, but will be increasingly.
Local information is important. The best source of advice is hikers who have recently hiked Salcantay.
First stop in Cuzco should be the South American Explorers Club. Members have full access to facilities and trip reports, but non-members are still helped. You can buy your map there.
See if you can find someone through SAE who has recently done this hike.
Conditions change in the mountains on a day to day, hour to hour basis. Expect the unexpected. Be ready for anything, especially high wind & horizontal rain.
That said, the main advantage of the Internet is currency. This site is as up-to-date as the last hiker who e-mailed to advise us of new issues on the hike.
