CHOQUEQUIRAO - MACHUPICCHU (9 days 8 nights)
Price: $ 520.00 for person.
EXITS: Every day
DURATION: 9 days and 8 nights
PERIOD: The Whole Year
ITINERARY :
DAY 1:
CUSCO / CACHORA / CHIQUISCA:
We leave Cusco early. Our private mobility takes us to the town of Cachora, where our muleteers, and mules will be waiting for us for the load of our team and respective food. We walk like some 6 hours, going down the canyon of Apurimac until Chiquisca to 1800 meters where we camp and we spend the night.
DAY 2:
CHIQUISCA / MARANPATA / CHOQUEQUIRAU
After a succulent breakfast, we begin our walk toward the one he/she laughed and after crossing the bridge we walk hill up, for some 5 hours but or less until arriving to Maranpata where we will eat lunch and after a couple of hours but we will arrive to Choquequirau where we will camp. The Name Choquequirau means "Cradle of Gold", and this citadels it is considered as sister of MachuPicchu by its similarities, as the one of being 1500 meters above the one Apurimac laughed in a similar latitude and MachuPicchu this above the river Urubamba. He/she was an administrative center and religious. It covers but of 8 hectares and alone a third has been discovered and every day the archaeologists discover but.
DAY 3:
CHOQUEQUIRAU / CORNFIELD
We leave early after having walked through the ruins and we leave for the later part, going by a humid forest until the step of Choquequirao. Then we continue for some called terraces Pinchiyoc that means where the water jumps. These terraces have some ritual curious sources. It seems that here they cultivated in time of the Inca to provide from feeding to the citadel.
We continue toward River Blanco where we eat lunch. In Trade we go down to a valley interandino toward Cornfield where we camp.
DAY 4:
CORNFIELD / YANAMA:
Today we leave early and we walk around Snowy Corihuarachina, since important place has been archaeological remains, as Inca channels. Then we go by the step of Mines Victoria where in the time of the Colony the Spaniards extracted silver. Continuing toward the spectacular Valley of low Yanama the shade of Snowy Pumasillo where we camp.
DAY 5:
YANAMA / TOTORA:
After a delicious breakfast, we will continue the surrounded journey of the beautiful mountains of the Mountain range of Vilcabamba, ascending toward the step of Yanama, the but high of our voyage. In the afternoon we will lower following the river to the town of Totora, where one has an unique tranquility and pure air surrounded by the glacial ones, Salkantay, Pumasillo and Padrayoc. Camp and spend the night.
DAY 6:
TOTORA / WIÑAYPOCO
We leave early and we follow the course of the river Totora, he/she stops then to enter to a humid tropical forest going by another town in Lluscamayo and arriving to Colcapampa, known by their thermal waters. Then the route will continue for the left flank of the River Santa Teresa, where we will see plantations, of bananas, granadillas, cocoa, coffee and others. Arriving then to a plain of natural grass, where we will camp.
DAY 7:
WIÑAYPOCO / PATALLACTA:
From temprado we follow the road for the river Santa Teresa, going by plantations of bananas, granadillas, cocoa and coffee. Then we cross to the other riverbank and we ascend for the humid forest to the step of Puncuyuc, it stops then to descend to our camp in Patallacta.
The panoramic view is spectacular, because we will see the later part and of a different angle the Sanctuary of Machupicchu.
DAY 8:
PATALLACTA / YOU DILUTE HOT:
Today we descend for a route of flowers and orchids to the river Aobamba and we cross a metallic bridge near the Hydroelectric power station. Then we arrive to it lines her of the train, where we can wait the arrival of the train that took us to Hot Waters, where we will spend the night in a hotel and we will relax ourselves in their thermal Bathrooms.
DAY 9:
MACHUPICCHU / CUSCO:
Early we ascend in the bus toward the Sanctuary of Machupicchu, to have a guided company of this marvel of the world. In the afternoon we will take the return train to Cusco.