TREKKING CHOQUEQUIRAO 12 DAYS AND 11 NIGHTS - CHOQUEQUIRAO PERU

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TREKKING CHOQUEQUIRAO 12 DAYS AND 11 NIGHTS

DAY 1: CUSCO - CACHORA - CHIQUISCA
Leaving early in the morning of Cusco, we give a spectacular walk crossing the chacras of the plateau of Elk, surrounded by the snowy picks of you Walk them. The serpentine road descends abruptly to 1,800 m. until a bridge on the Canyon of the Apurimac, then it climbs for splendid fields and orchards before making a final descent to the valley of Cachora, to 3,400 m., where it astonishes us face to face our encounter with the sensational ones snowy of the Mountain range Vilcabamba. Here we join with our muleteers and load horses and we begin our walk, reaching to glimpse the distant Choquequirao for the first time from the mirador of Capuliyoc, before lowering steeply for the dry cactus field and orchids, and to enter to the Canyon of the River Apurimac. We camp in the small oasis of Chiquisca, at 2,000m. /6,550 feet.

DAY 2: CHIQUISCA - CHOQUEQUIRAO
We descend the last five hundred elevation meters to the River Apurímac--The Great Talkative Spirit in the Quechua language of the Inca - and we cross the powerful river for a hanging bridge to 1,550 m. / /5,100 feet. A wide road makes a zigzagueante ascent that takes us outside of the arid area of the canyon, going by a small plantation of cane of sugar toward grasslands in the high lands where we see, to the other side of a deep valley, our first panoramic view of the constructions and terraces of Choquequirao. The last stage of today's walk, goes by the fresh shades of a native forest of clouds while we come closer to the boscosa crest (3,000 m.) where the Inca built its remote center ceremonial. We camp near the Inca ruins.

DAY 3: CHOQUEQUIRAO
We have the whole day to explore this blinding establishment. As mysterious as Machu Picchu, their name means Cradle of Gold". The first Spaniards knew this place, but its distance protected it. French scanners visited him in the XIX century, and in 1909, Hiram Bingham was the first one in investigating the place scientifically. Some speculate that the emperor Collides Inca it ordered it to build as his spiritual refuge, to compete with his father's magnificent domain Pachacuti in Machu Picchu. Who has built this place, he/she made it without a doubt as an elite establishment, built with ceremonial purposes and occupied by the nobility Inca.El I Laugh Apurímac it roars at a distance of 1,450 m. below, visible from any side of the sheer summit where he/she clings the Inca city. While we go approaching to the heart of the city, an imposing curve of platforms leads our eyes to a hill and a ceremonial platform with view to the main square.

Here the thermal currents of air bring Andean condors that fly drifting on the complex of temples, mausoleums, real residences, ceremonial bathrooms and channels of water, big rooms for assemblies, warehouses, hidden gardens, and giant stairways, everything in foot still, like testimony of a careful planning of the Inca engineers. The excavation work is very recent, and the archaeologists are discovering, continually, areas and unknown structures so far. The sheer mountain hillside, under the main square, shows several groups of constructions, including the call Group of the Kitchen knife and the Temple of the Waterfall, an intriguing ceremonial complex that gives toward the cascades of water of a sheer gulch. Other investigations have revealed more than 130 terraces in the sheer hillside to the west, some of these recovered with friezes of white stone that present zigzag designs and chess boards, together with 22 figures of flames.

DAY 4: CHOQUEQUIRAO - UNUYOC PUNCTURES
We climb for a narrow road through bamboo heaths and a dense forest of clouds, glimpsing species of birds and exotic plants, while we surround the ram of the mountain Choquequirao it has more than enough and we cross a moderate step, before descending for wide hillsides covered with grass, to the basin of the river Yanama. Embracing the horizon before us toward the north, we see the massive blue-greenish crest of Qoriwayrachina, formerly an agricultural complex and Inca miner that it supplied Choquequirao. The height of Hill Victoria that rises on this kitchen knife, presents a sacred platform where the Inca, at some time, observed the winter solstice. With the view of the canyon of the river Yanama in the distance the massive scale of the landscape is under, here impactante. For the hour of lunch we arrive to the distant place of Unuyoc it Punctures--Jet of Water"--a fan of cultivation platforms, carefully built in stone, crowned by a small sanctuary. Camping near the terraces, we enjoy the view and the relax that he/she offered us this short walk of one day.

DAY 5: UNUYOC PUNCTURES - CORNFIELD
We begin our turn descent to the gulch of the White River, opening up goes by a dry micro-climate of gnarled and ghastly trees, líquens drapeados and epífitas; this it is the day to see strange orchids, tillandsia flowers, and great cactus variety.
Leaving the torrid spread gulch of rocks, we ascend once but to the forest of clouds, and the heights, while we arrive to our camp in the small chacra of Cornfield.

DAY 6: CORNFIELD - YANAMA
We ascend for the always-changing layers of forest of clouds, going at once by the first of many tunnels of abandoned mines - the remainder of what was one silver vein exploded in the XVII century by missionary Spanish Jesuit and its native parishioners prospers. While we go climbing under the line of trees, we are stepping the remains of an Inca road that it crossed the kitchen knife ahead of us, in the step of Mines Victoria (4,400m./14,500 feet). In the step we have extraordinary views of the Mountain range Vilcabamba, with the picks of the chain of the Pumasillo to 6,000m./19,800 feet forward and the step of Choquetacarpo in the distance to the northwest. This place is exactly in the passage of the Andean condors that you/they drift for the north hill of Qoriwayrachina, and where we usually see them. After the step the road descends going by dozens of holes and rumas of rich waste in brilliant minerals, continuing for a wide path carved in the face of the dramatic cliff. The road penetrates for heaths of giant lupino and it waves for small cultivation lands while we come closer to Yanama, where maybe the friendly peasants want to sell their fabrics and agricultural products in our camp next to the stream.

DAY 7: YANAMA - TOTORA
Our route ascends for extensive pastizales of the valley, among the chain of snowy picks of Pumasillo to the north, and the one of Padreyoc to the south. The ascent is gradual but continuous, until finally we leave the prairies covered with grass behind and we cross the rocky and riotous slope of Port Yanama (4,700m/15,500 feet). In this step, while we go crossing the fall of water among the system of the rivers Apurímac and Urubamba, we can look down to Santa Teresa's valley, and the dramatic views of the Salcantay (6,270m/20,565 feet) and the Humantay (5,917m/18,760 feet), the last big picks of the chain of Vilcabamba, but there of which Machu is Picchu. We make a slope zigzagueante until arriving to the camp next to the stream near the town of Totora.

DAY 8: TOTORA - COLLPAPAMPA
We take a dramatic road that crosses the sheer south riverside of the river Santa Teresa. The wild life of birds and plants overflow along the banks of turbulent creeks while we enjoy this short and soft day. We camp in the prairie of the small town of Collpapampa, where we can take a time to rest or to lower on foot and to give us a soaking in a delicious pool of thermal waters in the border of the river Santa Teresa.

DAY 9: COLLPAPAMPA - BEACH
We cross to Santa Teresa's north bank and we take an undulant path I laugh below for the pleasant forest of clouds and then for the plantations of coffee and tropical orchards of granadilla, papaya and avocado, with imposing mountains for both sides. We meet with school children and some packs of the local farmers' mules, while we approach to the highway tip in the town of Beach. Here we camp near the school and we enjoy a chapuzón in the river.

DAY 10: BEACH - PATALLACTA
After a short walk, we leave the one on the way to earth and we begin to climb for one Inca, well preserved, toward a kitchen knife that divides Santa Teresa's valley with the following valley to the east. The kitchen knife is covered with vegetation with high trees, a strange example of a pristine cloudy forest, and here we meet with an Inca road that he/she runs along the border of the gulch. We advance some few steps for this path, to sight our first views of Machu Picchu, sitting in the seat of the mountain far to the east. Then we lower for the ruins of Patallacta, a discovered place for the first time in 1915, later on lost for the science, and then rediscovered in the years eighty. This extensive place seems to be an annex of the main Inca city, with ceremonial importance identified with the exit of the sun in the winter solstice that you leave from here, rising on Machu Picchu. We explore these ruins, while we descend toward our camp place, an isolated prairie covered with grass with stupendous views toward Machu Picchu, to the river Urubamba and to the snowy picks of Salcantay and Wakay Wilka.

DAY 11: PATALLACTA - MACHU PICCHU
We take a road zigzagueante crossing the forest to arrive at the river Aobamba, fair current up of their fork with the Urubamba. After to pass the station of hydroelectric energy and to cross the bridge, we find the strong line and we follow their line along the riverside of the river to the town of Hot Waters. Here we can rest in the hotel, to enjoy the purchases or of the thermal bathrooms in the tight and bustling community, or to choose to take the bus to make a visit to the spectacular city of Machu properly this Picchu.

DAY 12: MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO
We leave early to take the first bus to Machu Picchu, the mysterious Inca establishment, scientifically discovered for Hiram Bigham in 1911. Here we make a tour for the more resaltante of the place, and then we take a time to explore and to discover the hidden corners of the Inca city for our bill. Erroneously identified for Hiram Bingham like Vilcambamba. the last Inca refuge, to Machu Picchu is known to have been the private real domain of Pachacuti, the emperor who undertook the expansion imperial Inca, by the middle of the XV century. It is still ignored exactly because Pachacuti chose to build such a complex and so big establishment in this place, isolated of the main centers of the Incan world. With all probability, being surrounded by the river Urubamba and for the concentration of the snowy picks around,--powerful and sacred elements in the Andean cult--what attracted the Inca to this place went; as well as the impactante natural beauty of the place attracts visitors of all parts of the world until today in día. for the afternoon we say goodbye to Machu Picchu, taking the bus toward the station of the train, and then the return train to Ollantaytambo or Poroy.

CHOQUEQUIRAO PERU : TREKKING CHOQUEQUIRAO 12 DAYS AND 11 NIGHTS

Enviado por qorianka el 9/1/2011 19:10:00 (416 Lecturas)

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