What's Included?
- Pre-departure briefing in your hotel.
- Transfer from your hotel to Cachora, starting point of the trek.
- Choquequirao entrance fee for visitors and agency staff.
- 3- people-capacity-tents, that will be used by 2 persons only, for a more comfortable overnight.
- One foamy sleeping pad per person.
- Dining tent with tables and chairs.
- Kitchen tent.
- Toilet tent with biodegradable toilet facilities.
- English speaking professional and official tourist guide (1 guide for a group of 6 people).
- Chef and cooking equipment.
- Pack animals (to carry tents, food and cooking equipment).
- 1 emergency horse every 6 persons.
- Wranglers.
- Accommodation for all our staff.
- Meals (03B, 04L, 03D + daily morning snack + daily tea service except last day).
- Vegetarian or special menus are available at no extra cost.
- One textile snack bag per person, to avoid the usage of plastic bags that contaminate our environment.
- Filtered boiled water from lunch time on 1st day onwards.
- Bio-degradable personal hand soaps.
- Bio-degradable dishwashing detergents used by our kitchen staff.
- Others: hot water every morning and evening for washing purposes / boiled water to fill in your water.
- First-aid kit including emergency oxygen bottle.
- Private transport from Cachora to Cusco, including transfer to your hotel in Cusco.
- 24 hours guest service: please ask for the emergency number available during your time of visit.
Choquequirao (3.103m/10178ft), is considered to be a sister city of similar significance to that of Machu Picchu and built along similar lines and styles, although harder to reach, was also presumed to have had about the same size and to have served the same religious, political and agricultural functions. However, because archaeologists long underestimated the importance of Choquequirao, the city’s existence was known for almost 300 years before the first restoration was begun in 1993 and it has only recently been accessible to non-academics, since then quickly joining the ranks of the world's great Lost Cities.
In this spectacular 60-km trek we drive to the charming village of Cachora, our starting point, and reach this huge archaeological complex still under cleaning and restoration process located in the surroundings of the Salkantay sacred mountain (6.271m/20569ft) and the Apurimac River canyon. The beauty of the Inca citadel, still partially covered by the weeds cumulated by the passing of centuries, its astonishing location and surrounding mountain scenery, as well as lots of Andean flora and fauna, with the chance to spot condors in its natural habitat, are some of the most important and appreciated attractions of this really adventurous program.
