September 9, 2018 – September 11, 2018
In the streets of Cusco we had seen advertisements for tours to Rainbow Mountain, or, Winicunca to use the local name, but I couldn’t find anything in our slightly out-of-date guide book about the hike. As it turns out, the multi-hued mountain was covered under a layer of ice until recently. With the changing climate, the ice has now disappeared, revealing striped, rainbow like slopes, and the locals soon figured out that tourists would pay to hike to such a magical place. Interestingly, most of the tourists were Peruvian, possibly captivated by the natural representation of the age old Incan rainbow flag.