Residency 'Casa de Salcantay' is an family-Inn situated in the Peruvian Andes at the border off the village Cachora and nearby the cities of Cuzco and Abancay. Here starts the Inca Trail to the largest Inca-city in South America, Choquequirao. These complexes of ruins are fourth time larger then the famous Macchu Pichu.

Casa de Salcantay is a friendly Inn with comfort. There are three rooms for companies where twelve quests can have lodging. There is warm water, three douches and internet-communication. The central-room is the balcony-room where the meals are served and meetings take place. In the comfortable resting-room next door you can relax and make your Internet connections.

The Inn overviews the whole valley to Choquequirao overlooking the river Apurimac and gives a really sensational look at the highest mountain of the Cordillera Valcabamba; the Nevado Salcantay (6.271 m). Casa de Salcantay thanks its name to it. With good weather you can see Choquequirao.
 
 
View from Casa de Salcantay
 


The costs for staying are



US $ 30,-

a night per person inclusive breakfast.




Dinner can be served with the family and has to be annotated before.
 

At Casa de Salcantay you can communicate in English, Spanish, Dutch, German and Quechua.

Casa de Salcantay is primary meant for tourists who wants to walk the Inca Trail to Choquequirao. It is also an ideal place for rest and to enjoy native flora and fauna.

For mountain-climbers it is the place for acclimatization and base for attacking the mountains from the Cordilleras of Urubamba with the Nevados Verónica and Chicon; the Vilcabamba with the Salcantay and the Vilcanota with the Nevado Ausangate.

Casa de Salcantay is owned by Jan Willem van Delft, who is from Dutch origin. Before he opened the Inn Jan Willem had nine years of mountain experience in Perú. Together with his teammates, the German Holger Paerschke and the Dutchman Teun Oosterom, he climbed many mountains in Perú, like the famous Huascaran (6.846 m.), and the most beautiful mountain in the world, the Alpamayo (5.864 m.), both in the Cordirilla Blanca.