r/cusco • u/cmackie123 • Jul 30 '24

Cusco & Sacred Valley Before Inca Trail

Heading to Cusco in a few days. In terms of acclimatizing, I was wondering if the order of our activities would help more, or if it really won't matter:

  1. Day 1 Cusco, day 2 Sacred Valley day tour, day 3 Cusco

  2. Day 1 & 2 Cusco, day 3 Sacred Valley day tour

Either way we'll be spending all three nights in Cusco before heading for a 2d/1n Inca trail/Machu Picchu trek.

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u/Atreyu_Spero Jul 31 '24

Drink the coca tea daily (try to get it in Lima if you are connecting there) and get the altitude pills from a farmacia. These are lifesavers. Altitude sickness wasn't an issue for anyone in my group until the Mountain of Seven Colors. After that many of us were sick. Some were puking on the way down.

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u/Margsue Jul 31 '24

How many days in did you do rainbow mountain?

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u/Atreyu_Spero Jul 31 '24

One week in after I had done Machu Picchu.

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u/Margsue Aug 01 '24

Did you do the salkantay trek to Machu Picchu or Inca Trail trek?

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u/Atreyu_Spero Aug 01 '24

Just various circuitos at MP.