The Vilcabamba Mountain range has different climates and species of animals like the bear of eyeglasses, the fox, the llamas, the condor and many more. We will walk from the depths of the Tube from the Apurímac River to 1.550 meters to passages of 4.600 meters of height.

The valleys of this tube are surrounded by high glacial mountains and, where the old settlers complied in harmony with the nature and settled down a civilization with a high social and technological order. Getting to be one from the great civilized centers of the old world, where the glacial, the tropical humid forest and the Amazonía get together. Choquequirao (gold Cradle) is the city sister of Machu Picchu, located in similar places in the heights on the tube of a river, in almost inaccessible places, with a Vista spectacular and interconnected by the Inca trail.

Itinerary:

Previous day:

Meeting with the tour guide to explain the trekking

Day 1: Cusco - Cachora - Chiquisca (L, D)

5.00 a.m. We left Cusco in a private transport that will take us until the little town of Cachora. There our carriers and mules for the load will be waiting for us. We’ll be walking approximately 6 hours, lowering the tube of the Apurímac until Chiquisca to 1800 meters where we will encamp.

Day 2: Chiquisca - Maranpata - Choquequirao (B, L, D)

After a succulent breakfast we began our long walk towards the Apurímac River. After crossing the bridge the ascent of approximately 5 hours begins, until arriving at Maranpata where we will have lunch. A couple of hours later we will arrive at Choquequirao where we will encamp.

Ruth Karina

Day 3: Choquequirao (B, L, D)

We will visit the archaeological complex of Choquequirao.

Day 4: Choquequirao - Maizal (B, L, D)

After we take a walk by the ruins we left by the back part, passing by a humid forest until the passage of Choquequirao. Soon we continued by some terraces called Pincha Huniyoc, that mean where the water jumps. These terraces have peculiar ritual sources. It seems that here they cultivated in time of the Incas to provide to the city of food. We continued descending towards Rio Blanco where we’ll have lunch. In afternoon we will raise towards Maizal where we will encamp.

Day 5: Maizal - Yanama (B, L, D)

We’ll walk around the Snow-covered Corihuarachina, important because have been archaeological rest, like channels Incas. Later following a section of the Inca Trail we arrived at the passage from Minas Victoria where at time of the Colony the Spaniards extracted silver. We’ll continue towards the spectacular Valley of Yanama under the shade of the Snow-covered Pumasillo where we will encamp.  

Day 6: Yanama - Totora (B, L, D)

After a delicious breakfast, we´ll be walking surrounded by beautiful mountains of the Vilcabamba Mountain range, raising towards the passage of Yanama, upper of our passage. In the afternoon we lowered following a river until the little town of Totora, where there is an exquisite tranquility and pure air surrounded by the glacial ones, Salcantay, Pumasillo and Padreyoc.

Day 7: Totora - The beach (B, L, D)

We left early and will begin the reduction following TheTotora River, that way we can get into a tropical humid forest happening through another little town in Lluscamayo. Soon the route continues by the left flank of the River Santa Teresa, where we will see plantations, of bananas, granadillas, cacao, coffee and others. Arriving soon at a plain of natural grass, where we will encamp.

Day 8: Paltallacta – Aguas Calientes (B, L, D)

From early we followed the way by the river Santa Teresa, passing by plantations of bananas, granadillas, cacao and coffee. Soon we crossed to the other side of the river and raised by the humid forest the passage of Puncuyuc, soon to descend to our camping in Paltallacta. The panoramic view is spectacular, because we will see from a different angle the back part of the Sanctuary from Machu Picchu. Then we descend by a route from flowers and orquídeas until the Acobamba River and crossed a metallic bridge near the hydroelectric power station. Soon we will arrive at the line of the train, where we can wait for the arrival of the train that took to Aguas Calientes, where we will spend the night in a hotel and we will relax in its thermal Baths.

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