From Cusco: Ausangate 7 Lakes Guided Hike with Breakfast & Lunch

Explore the Ausangate 7 Lakes on a guided full-day hike from Cusco with breakfast, lunch, and round-trip transportation.

Getting started

Begin your day with hotel pickup within Cusco’s Historic Center and board the round-trip tourist transportation to the Andean community of Pacchanta. On arrival, meet your professional bilingual English and Spanish-speaking guide and get a short briefing for the guided hike around the seven lakes of Ausangate. After check-in, sit down to breakfast in Pacchanta before starting toward the mountain trails.

What to expect

Ausangate 7 Lakes

This guided hike focuses on the seven lakes of Ausangate, known for their turquoise and deep blue waters surrounded by snow-capped Andean peaks. The route unfolds through high-altitude landscapes where you can observe llamas and alpacas along the trails as you move between viewpoints over different lakes.

Features

• The guided hike around the seven lakes of Ausangate lets you see each lagoon up close, so you can compare their shifting turquoise and blue tones against the nearby snow-capped peaks and sweeping Andean landscapes.
• Along the mountain paths, your bilingual English and Spanish-speaking guide points out local wildlife such as llamas and alpacas and shares context about life in this part of the Andes as you progress between lakes.
• A first-aid kit and emergency oxygen travel with the group for the entire hike, and assistance is provided throughout, so you have support available if you need to adjust your pace or deal with altitude.
• Round-trip transfers are included through round-trip tourist transportation from Cusco, which starts with hotel pickup within Cusco’s Historic Center and finishes with a drop-off at Plaza Regocijo in Cusco.

Pacchanta

Pacchanta is your Andean base village for the day, where you begin and end your hike and share meals with the local community. It is also the place where you can choose to unwind in Pacchanta’s hot springs after the hike for an additional fee.

Features

• Breakfast and lunch in Pacchanta are included, giving you two seated meal breaks in the village to fuel up before the hike and recover afterward.
• You have the option to visit Pacchanta hot springs for S/10 per person if you want to soak your muscles after walking among the lakes, although this admission is not included in the tour price.
• The stop in Pacchanta is integrated into the logistics, since you arrive here by round-trip tourist transportation at the start of the day and depart from here back to Cusco after completing the hike.

Wrapping up

The experience concludes when your driver brings you back to central Cusco, where you are dropped off at Plaza Regocijo and can continue your day independently.