Best Time:
May - September
Trek Duration: 4 days
Grade: Moderate to challenging
Min. participants: 2 people minimum
Choquequirao means "cradle of gold" in
Quechua although this is probably not its original
Inca name. It is another "lost city of the
Incas" located high on a ridge spur almost
1750m above the raging glacier-fed Apurimac River
and surrounded by towering snow-capped peaks.
The US explorer Gary Ziegler suggests that Choquequirao
may have been the place where the last Inca, Tupac
Amaru, was raised among Inca Priestesses. The abundance
of many double jamb doorways and niches indicates
that the place was held in high status.
The ruins were first visited and described to the
western world by a French explorer during the 18th
century. Hiram Bingham visited the site in 1910.
This was his first experience of "lost cities"
prior to his discovery of Machu Picchu in 1911.
The remoteness and inaccessibility have discouraged
visitors until fairly recently when COPESCO constructed
a footbridge over the Apurimac River below the ruins.
Even today the ruins are still rarely visited although,
with the enforcement of new regulations on the Inca
Trail, Choquequirao is destined to replace the traditional
hike as the serious trekkers alternative
Day 1:
Cusco - Cachora - Chiquishca
Early in the morning, after the breakfast
in the hotel in Cusco at 5 am. We will transferred
with a pravade bus to the west side of cusco
passing the district of Curahuasi, San Luis
and Sayhuite, then we will arriving to the
Cachora district, where the donkey driver
and Mules will be waiting for us, where we
will start our trekking to Chiquishca (1850m)
for about, from Cachora we will walk for about
2 hours half, where we find a good place the
named Capuliyoc, where we will have lunch
enjoying the splendid views of the mountains
Padrilloc and Ampay, then we will continue
our go down hill to Chiquishca for about 3
hours. Over night camping at (1850m).
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Day 2: Chiquishca
- Marampata
Alter the breakfast in Chiquishca we will
start go down to Playa Rosalinas for about
45 minutes, then we will start hiking up to
Santa Rosa for about 2 hours, where we will
have a small brake, then we will continue
to Marampata (2850m) for about 3 hours, where
we can enjoy the expended view, over night
campaing. |
Day 3:
Marampata - Choquequirao - Marampata
- Chiquishca
After the breakfast in Marampata we will
start early to Choquequirao Ruins, where
we will enjoy the splendid views of this
place and some mounts around this valley,
to visit this ruins will take 1 hour half
approximately, then we will go back to marampata
for lunch, after lunch we start go down
to Playa Rosalinas for about 2 hours, then
we will go up to Chiquishca for about 1
hour more. Over night camping at (1850m). |
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Day 4: Chiquishca
- Cachora - Cusco
After the breakfast in Chiquishca at 8:00am
approximately we will start to climb up
to Capuliyoc for about 3 hours half, then
we will hike to Cachora for about 2 hours
more, where our transfer will be waiting
for us to transport to Cusco, the travel
will take 4 - 5 hours approximately. Transfer
to the Hotel. |
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