Pitumarca - Plaza de Armas/Police | Informal Campsite

March 10th, 2024 by globbetrailers

i really don't recommand to stay overnight here on the place. We did, but at 4AM, we were waked up by inhabitants and buses drivers. We seem that they were happy to annoy us with lots of horns and they were speaking very loudly just next to the car.

No generalization, but really, Peruvians are very special (to be polite)...

July 14th, 2023 by nomadexpedition.es

pasamos dos noches en la plaza frente a la iglesia. la gente del pueblo muy agradable y simpática, todo tranquilo. eso sí el viernes por la mañana nos despertamos en medio del mercado que montan en la plaza! nadie nos dijo nada ni nos echo, pero en cuanto escuchamos ruido nos fuimos para no molestar.

June 18th, 2023 by sarahhayes

Safe and surprisingly quiet place to stay one night on route to rainbow mountain. Very friendly policeman. Used toilets in hostel on square after central market was closed.

July 12th, 2022 by tainaometto

we stay one night in front of the police station. the police Man was really Nice with us, and gave us informativo about the region. good for one night, no facilities. @dinapelasamericas

May 22nd, 2022 by vandariegos

Al frentr de la estación de policía, fueron muy amables, nos prestaron el baño y nos dieron agua potable, después de preguntar nos dejaron tomar un baño de agua caliente. Es un sitio tranquilo

May 20th, 2022 by vandariegos

Acampamos a un lado de la estacion de Policia pues llegamos tarde a la zona de escalada, la gente se acercó con curiosidad y la policia muy mable nos regaló agua y nos dejó usar el sanitario cuando lo solicitamos.

March 2nd, 2019 by j.milcak

Safe and quiet place to spend to night. In front of police station. No disturbances, no facilities.

November 13th, 2018 by instagram

We spent a night here in front police station. Very quiet town, kind and lovely people. Toilets at the central market.
From here start one of the route to the rainbow mountain. There is no any tour from here BUT you can ask to go with the truck who takes the local workers to the entrance of the rainbow mountain. And only charges you $5 soles!!! ($3,5 soles if you want go back in te same truck)
The truck departure at around 4am,arrives to the entrance around 6am and go back 2.30pm. Plenty of time to do the trekking.
The entrance to the mountain $10 soles.
The tour from Cusco is around $50/60 soles, do the maths!

October 16th, 2018 by oehlmannt

This is a good spot to sleep before driving up to the Rainbow Mountain parking lot. At roughly 3500m its not too cold and there's no wind.
There's a police station directly on the square. The officers were nice and friendly and told us to park anywhere on the square but not directly in front of their office.

We left Pitumarca around 8.15 AM and arrived at the parking lot at 10AM. We don't have the fasted/most powerful van there is and managed up without an issue. Its a hard dirt road, with only a few hairpin turns.
At this time, no tourist buses were going up nor down. So no issues with upcoming traffic.

If you start hiking around ten you'll reach Rainbow Mountain when most of the tourist crowds are about to leave or already have left. You won't be alone but it won't be too crowded either.
Big plus, leaving at this time, it will be warmer.

Due to cloudy weather and a little snow storm at the viewpoint, we had to wait some 15 minutes for the weather to change and suddenly we had the perfect view on Rainbow Mountain!