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Anta

Limatambo

Salkantay Pass

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Limatambo

Salkantay Pass

Salkantay Pass

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    Location: Limatambo, Anta, Cusco, Peru

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    July 22, 2023

    Once you reach the spectacular Salkantay Pass, you are faced with breathtaking views of the Humantay and the Salkantay. The pass is located at an altitude of 4,630 meters, but the mountains tower over you. The Humantay measures over 5,500 meters and the Salkantay reaches the dizzying altitude of 6,271 meters. This place has long been considered sacred by the inhabitants of the Peruvian Andes.

    The climb is tiring, but once up here, the rarefied air doesn't matter anymore. The place has breathtaking beauty. I advise you to chew and suck coca leaves, which are very popular locally and easy to find. They help with the physical challenges of the high altitude.

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      July 10, 2022

      A place that is breathtaking in every respect and one that one struggles to achieve. The pass height measures over 4600 m and yet it is towered over by the foothills of the Humantay, Wamantay, but especially by the more than 6200 meters of the Salkantay.

      Once you get to that place, the thin air doesn't matter. Pride and satisfaction with one's own achievement prevails

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        Elevation 4,640 m

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