Huchuy Qosqo beaten to remove path

“How high is this hike again?” I asked that as soon as I pants the Mountain Trail, it seemed far away at the distance.

“12,0000 ft,” our guide affrine happily told him and others Amazonas explorer The office raised the footpath. “But it soon gets flat out!” He added a little encouragement.

I suspected.

When I first reached in relation to Amazonus Mera Machu Pichu HikeI asked them to choose a path that was the beaten path and could be done in a day. There are many and lots to choose in the holy valley after all; Inkas built over 40,000 kilometers of roads through its empire, and many of them have become hiking trails.

The whole day’s hike was less visited than others and we will be taken to the archaeological site, called Huchu Cucoko (in “Little Kusko” Queshua). At the beginning of an hour outside Kusko in Tuka’s small village, it goes to some mountains, a delightful ravine filled with abandoned villages and ink ruins, and winds on a ridge before reaching our final destination: Huchui Cusco.

Starting in the village, we proceeded directly in our first way. We were the highest height in our life (more than Machu Pichu), and, despite staying in this area for a week, I was feeling it, when I split my way on the mountain, then the break again and again There was a need to take. Thankfully, he was injured in the sky and hidden the sun, while the soft wind kept me cool.

But continuously stayed easy to appreciate the landscape around me. The more we went, the better the scenes we get from the ground below and the mountains around us. At this height, it does not grow too much, and the barren, dry landscape reminded me of the fields of Vyoming and New Zealand’s Tongiro HikeCragi mountains came out as far as the eyes could see and there were villages and fields below us.

“The lake in front of the city is part of a hydroelectric dam,” said Epient. “Most people are farmers, mostly for local markets and potatoes. Large farms exporting food you purchased in states are elsewhere in the valley. ,

After the first trail marker (actually just a telephone pole that marks our first stop), the mark slightly flat out and I found one of the Amazonous employees, in a deep conversation about food with the Patriss. She lived in states, so we discussed the quality of food Peru Vs. United States. (He found food better in Peru because it was less processed. It was difficult to disagree.)

“All the foods that you call superfood and spend a lot of money, we just call food. We are eating it since time. ,

As we made our way in our way, it became more hill, although after the mark it looked like the remains of a ravine. The path slowly started sloping downwards, in which trees and flowers began to appear, as well as for a long time after the walls and foundations of the ancient man. Soon, we collapsed most of the abandoned villages made of collapsed clay structures and caved-in straw roofs.

Such villages are common in the entire region, where people live a subsistence lifestyle. But as young people go to the cities, they die, and most structures are left in the chaos of different states. Fraine said that only some families were left in this community. Whatever we saw, they were two women throughout the time, who used to clash some goats in traditional dress.

At the end of the village, we came in front of the thing that Efraine described as an old man guardhouse, where we stopped for lunch near a small waterfall and saw in front of us as women’s goats. , We were all enjoying our food.

When we eaten and made a lively discussion about the Western people coming to Peru for Ayahuska celebrations – and how they do not always include spiritual essence, but simply want to get high – we are medium through an ancient incon door Continued from, due to which the last part was led. Our trek for huchuy Qosqo.

“It was probably a military guardhouse,” Ephraine explained that we passed through it and landed a series of steps down in a valley. “Such structures were used to protect people inside the valley and also to monitor their number to ensure that they have enough food for all. Incas were great counters and took detailed sensors to ensure food supply. ,

As we followed the path and the small river, which originated from our lunch-spot waterfall, I could not help but was overwhelmed by joy. I was spending the best day with my entire visit to Peru. While Machu Pichu and trek were very special, it felt a lot. The views were fantastic, I got a glimpse on rural life and traditional dress, and we were the only people on the footpath, who felt the trek extra special.

Ephraine pointed out the age-old human stone roofs because we made our way with the footpath, which eventually widened, which made us surprise a scene of the onset of the holy valley, because I did not see that I had not seen that The “valley” we were suddenly stopped passing. While I felt that we are slowly landing on the base of the mountain, we were still thousands of feet above the floor of the valley!

After staring in the valley, we continued to row the mountain walls towards Huchui Cucoko on the roofs. I am always surprised by how they change this place, to move between roofs to connect underground water routes, irrigation systems and stairs. The food grown here would have fed the surrounding area as well as Huchuy Qosqo.

We entered the city ruined through an old gate. Little is known about Huchui Cucoko, but, according to the records we have, it was the home of the Inca ruler Vikocha, who was deported here after his youngest son Pachakuti, rebelled against his father. A decisive victory was won against the people.

After the fight, Pachakuti declared himself a king and his father spent the last days of his days in Huchui Kosko, which was one of the last settlements built with a stone walls covered with mud (Pachakuti was a famous stone-wall Decided to start construction of inka structures. Following the collapse of the Inka Empire, it was eventually printed and used by Spanish, which destroyed most of the buildings in 1534.

Like the rest of the mark, we were the only on the site besides the guards. We did not last long, because the site was not as impressive as a trip there, and I was tired and ready to go back to Kusko.

We gathered our fellow hikers and started our descent under the mountain, through a series of steep switchbacks, which placed a number on my knees on the actual floor of the valley, where our driver picked us up.

“What an incredible growth!” I came back on the ride.

As I looked out of the window to pass the villages, I had a huge smile on my face. This increase was my favorite experience that I had Peru And, with only two days in the country, I was satisfied to feel that I got something special.

How to increase huchuy Qosqo

You can go with a guide or on your own, although I will not give later advice. While you can easily take a cab from Kusko at the initial point and hold a bus back to the end point, it is difficult to find the mark (and sometimes, especially in the beginning, it disappears) and There are no signs anywhere. Even in Huchuy Qosqo, there is no indication of what you are seeing, landscape, or history of ruins. If you want a reference, you will need a guide. Like Machu Pichu, I went with Amazonus Explorer,

Comment: Take sunscreen! I came back to my hotel, which became a crisp. Lobster is also not as red as I was. I forgot to apply sunscreen because it was cloud and rain and I did not realize the sun, but at this height, UV is very strong and I paid the price for it. Do not be like me!