Description Vinicunca Colored Mountain Tour
With the Vinicunca Colored Mountain Tour, we will appreciate a chain of mountains that as we go up will change their colors until we reach Vinincunca known as the Rainbow Mountain for its similarity to the colors of the Rainbow and known as Cerro Colorado. And for the large amount of minerals that has revealed product of the thaw has obtained its colors that attract hundreds of tourists a year.
RAINBOW MOUNTAIN OR MOUNTAIN OF COLORS, the villagers call it Cerro Colorado or Vinincunca, is a mountain of Peru with an altitude of 5,200 meters above sea level, this mountain is located on the road to the snowy Ausangate in the Cordillera del Vilcanota, in the district of Pitumarca.
Its slopes and summits are tinged with intense shades of fuchsia, turquoise, lavender and gold; the visual spectacle offered by Vinincunca attracts visitors since early 2016, these sediments transported by the water that once covered the area, over time were forming layers and the movement of tectonic plates in the area raised these sediments until they became mountains. Then they acquired their striking colors due to the oxidation of its minerals, exerted by the humidity of the area and the erosion of the same ones that today are seen as the stripes that attract tourists so much.
Machu Picchu is the main destination visited by all travelers, and the mountain of colors is the second most visited destination, so we recommend that after making your tour to Machu Picchu to reserve a space for the mountain of colors with us.