THE GRAND HIKE
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CODE: hike-14
DAYS: 8 days / 7 nightsCIRCUIT: CACHORA – CHOQUEQUIRAO-YANAMA- MACHUPICCHU
A hike for the really good walkers!!! You have to cross 4 passes, the highest 4560m, do steep climbings and even walking downwards can be horrible. Otherwise you have fabulous views at for example the Pumasillo massif, Salkantay, other snow peaks, deep canyons as Rio Blanco and Apurimac, you can see condors and meet very friendly people.
Highlights are your visit of the ruins of Choquequirao, also thought to be a ´lost city of the Incas´ (Only since 1992 people are working and restoring here and very few visitors come, because of the remote area and difficult hike), and then the most famous city of Machu Picchu.
Itinerary:
1st day: Cusco-Cachora- Chikisqa
By bus to Cachora and meet the mule-drivers there, start the hike with easy walking to the viewpoint Incahuasi (possibility to see condors and good views into the Apurímac valley) and down to Chikisqa to camp or a little further down to the Apurimac river. Walk 3-4 hours down.2nd day: Chikisqa – Playa Rosalina- Santa Rosa- Choquequirao
A little down to cross the Apurímac river and then all the way up, passing Santa Rosa, walking higher and then from far you already can see the ruins of Choquequirao, where you enter after a couple of hours more. Walk about 5 hours up.3rd day: Choquequirao – Pinchu Unuyoc
After the visit of the ruins ascend first about 2 hours and descend to the now partly cleaned ruins of Pinchu Unuyoc with lots of terraces and some baths. Camp around here. Walk 2 hours up and 2 hours down.4th day: Pinchu Unuyoc- Rio Blanco – Maizal
First a few hours down to the river and then a long and heavy climb to the only one house in the area of Maizal.5th day: Maizal - Yanama
Further climbing to the pass Victoria, passing old mines where people worked until the sixties, then down to the village of Yanama.6th day: Yanama- Lluzcamayo
A few hours hiking up you are on another pass, with sometimes condors around. After the pass it is relaxing walking down, entering in a valley where there are still some small communities having ´trueque´, interchange of their products. Campsite in one of these communities.
7th day: Lluzcamayo– Aguas Calientes
First walk down to Playa about 4-5 hours. Then transport to the hydro-electric station. Next it is a 2 hours walk along the river to Aguas Calientes. Overnight in hostal.8th day: Aguas Calientes-Cusco
Visit of the archaeological site of Machu Picchu. Guided tour.
Return to Cusco.Included:
- Transport to Cachora, return Aguas Calientes-Cusco
- bus up Aguas Calientes-Machu Picchu
- Guide in English
- Cook
- Tents and mattresses
- Cooking tent and equipments
- Food from lunch first day until lunch 7th day
- Porters or horses to carry the food and equipments
- extra horse for emergency
Not included:
- sleeping bag
- meals in Aguas Calientes
- bus down Machu Picchu-Aguas Calientes
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Cuzco - Peru |
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Short Treks
>> MORAY INCAS
>> INCATRAIL IMPERIAL
>> ANCIENT TOWN OF HUCHUY QOSQO
>> MAUK´A LLAQTA HIKE
>> ANDINOS INCATRAIL
>> LARES MACHUPICCHU
>> LARES QUECHUAS
>> THE INCA’S HIGHLANDS
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>> DISCOVERING CHOQUEQUIRAO
>> ESPIRITU PAMPA VILCABAMBA
>> VITCUS – VILCABAMBA
>> SALKANTAY TRAIL
>> CROSSING THE ANDES
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