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My trip to Cusco was brilliant! I passed too much or, I knew quite friendly people, Uruguayan, other Mexican, Greeks which they were very graceful and other Brazilian that did not understand anything to them, jaja, although they if to my, I did not leave to any disc because my sister is not to leave by the nights, mainly because we finished cansadotas of as much walking, and torrensiales rains that either do not ponian it of the good humor… I believe that to my sister it did not like much to walk climbing hill, in fact was apostatizing, but good, I if I passed it very good.

The last year, friends went to Cusco, and whenever she called them they said to me: Wilbert you have q to come! you cannot be lost this! and good me I did not want it to lose and overnight I was there… Step on Cusco, you step on the sky, from that moment, my life changed…. They were all the right, it was a beautiful place, and the people who inhabited it still more.

I knew people wonderful, and among them to Car it, a Canadian with a very special angel, now my better friend, and also I had the opportunity to know a project called “Yanapay Village”…. one of reasons x which would return… One week later arrived the moment for starting off, and since I returned to Lima, in the only thing that thought it was in returning… but the great question was: Someday I will be able to return…

The Inca Trail to Machupicchu those who enjoy hiking in the mountains and valleys, and wish to take pictures of nature and Indian ruins at the same time that better fate recommend The Inca Trail in Peru, which runs about 42 miles from what was the rule Tawantinsuyo, ending in the very Machupicchu.

It proves the soup of quinua, cream of champiñones, chaufa, arequipeños, guinea pig (to me I did not like much, but it is necessary to prove it), skewers of alpaca and mainly ceviche. The gastronomy is well, I of tí I would prove a little everything. In Cuzco I recommend the Hotel Arqueologo. In that same street podreis to find restaurants and bars where comereis very well nearly money. In this street also many local agencies that organize excursions Machu Pichu and to the Reserve of Manú are concentrated

De tous les lieux que nous avons visités sans doute Machu Picchu il est le meilleur et est incroyable voir et être dans les installations de l’hôtel ARCHÉOLOGUE puisqu’il se trouve dans le Cusco, contagiante et relajante en écoutant chanter des oiseaux. Sans doute je retournerai. Merci est des garçons jeunes et entreprenants.

Machupicchu is a real architectural gem. The beauty and the mystery of his palaces stone are highlighted by the great landscape environment, almost virgin, steep topography that the lush jungle flora dyed green.

The buildings have been erected in harmony on the surface of a hill surrounded by the imposing cliffs of the Urubamba canyon, which rages and the river meanders 400 meters below. Machu Picchu is located about 2,400 meters above sea level, on top of a plateau between two peaks of different sizes, with the smallest, the Huayna Picchu, which characterizes typeset the site. The original name of the ruins happened to oblivion with the centuries. Machupicchu is only a topographic name, which means the same as “old peak” and Hayna Picchu means “top young” in this case; the translation should be linked to the concept of volume and meaning “highest peak” and “top minor, “respectively.

Since its discovery in 1911, Machupicchu is a genuine archaeological and insoluble enigma. Its history and role remain intriguing to scholars and perhaps can never be completely clarified.

“Machupicchu is a trip to the serenity of the soul to the eternal merging with the cosmos, there are our fragility. Is one of the greatest wonders of South America and the world. STAND A butterfly at the epicentre of the great circle of life”

De tous les lieux que nous avons visités sans doute Machu Picchu il est le meilleur et est incroyable voir et être dans les installations de l’hôtel ARQUEOLOGO  puisqu’il se trouve dans le Cusco, contagiante et relajante en écoutant chanter des oiseaux. Sans doute je retournerai. Merci est des garçons jeunes et entreprenants.

El Santuario Historico de Machupicchu es un patrimonio cultural y natural que cuenta con 35 grupos arqueologicos, siendo el principal de todos la ciudadela de Machupicchu; esta alberga al 10% de la flora y al 20% de la fauna existente en el Peru. 

Machupicchu es el Parque arqueologico mas conocido y espectacular del Continente, considerado por la UNESCO como Patrimonio Cultural de Humanidad. Ademas de las maravillas arqueologicas, posee una flora exotica con mas de 180 especies de orquideas, asi tambien, una fauna abundante teniendo entre ellos al oso de anteojos y al gallito de las rocas (rupicola Peruvianis) ave nacional. 
 

Se cuenta de Machupicchu que pudo ser el refugio de las nustas o virgenes del sol, por lo cual fue Ciudad Sagrada, esta teoria se da porque a la llegada de los españoles,  los gobernantes Incas, con el fin de evitar mas latrocinios, hicieron escapar a estas mujeres escogidas a un lugar secreto en los Andes, resultando ser este lugar la ciudad de Machupicchu; esta teoria se explica tambien por el hallazgo de 107 restos humanos, de los cuales el 68.9% eran restos de mujeres. Una tercera teoria plantea que Machupicchu fue la ultima Capital del Imperio y que Vilcabamba fue la ultima ciudad a donde se retiraron los incas al mando de Manco Inca en el ano de 1536 cuando fue vencido por los espanoles luego de sitiar el Cusco.

El nombre Quechua de esta ciudad se debe a la toponimia de la montaña que se denomina Machupicchu, palabra que descompuesta quiere decir Machu = anciano, Picchu= montana. Esto vendria a significar montana anciana, pero el nombre de los restos arqueologicos propiamente dicho pudo ser Markanay.

El Santuario Historico de Machupicchu tiene un area de 32,592 hectareas, la altitud es de 2490 msnm tomando como referencia a la Plaza Principal del sitio arqueologico, por hallarse en una zona subtropical posee una temperatura que oscila entre los 8º a 22º C. Los meses mas lluviosos van desde Diciembre hasta Abril.

El Acceso se da por via ferrea (112.5 Km - 4 horas aprox), desde la estacion de San Pedro en Cusco, hasta la estacion de Aguas Calientes y luego se asciende en Bus por carretera hasta el Santuario Historico de Machupicchu lapso que dura 30 minutos aproximadamente.

TREK: SALINERAS DE MARAS & OLLANTA - MACHUPICCHU
Itinerary and Description of Services:

Day 1: Cusco (3,350m // 10,990pies) – Moray (3550m // 11,646pies) - Salinas de Maras (3,300m // 10,826pies)- Ollantaytambo (2,700m // 8,858pies) - Depart by bus from Cusco at 7:00 am - Moray cultural place where you are going to find an interesting laboratory for the acclimatization of diferentes Incas aliments, Maras interesting place where you can find Incas terraces.- Trek between Salinas & Maras and Ollantaytambo city. Get off to the trogloditas houses of Pichingo; after we are going to walk for the Incas terraces, you are going to see a great vison vision of the sacred valley. - After trek you are going to visit Ollantaytambo where people live now in culture houses.- Duration of the trek: 4 or 5 hours- Overnight: 01 night in camping Wayruro Wasi. Day 2: Ollantaytambo – Machu Picchu - Cusco- Breakfast and Transfer to the Ollanta Station - Bus Round trip to Machu Picchu - Visit Machu Picchu.- Return from Machu Picchu to the Hotel in Cusco. The price includes:- Transport and excursions icludes in the program.- Excursion in Shared service- 01 Breakfast+ 02 box lunch + 1 Dinner- 01 night in camping Wayruro Wasy- Entrance fee to Machu Picchu.- Buses Tickets (Round Trip) to Machu Picchu- Train Tickets (Round trip)- Tour guide in English or Spanish, for other language CONTACT US. The price not includes:- Extra Drinks- Entrance fees to Maras, Salinas - Tips- Equipment trek

Machu Picchu

 La ciudadela de Machu Picchu constituye, de lejos, el más importante de los atractivos turísticos del Cusco. Se ubica a 3 h de viaje en tren desde la ciudad, aunque también se puede llegar a ella en helicóptero (30 min) o a pie (4 días por el Camino Inca). Descubierta en 1911 por el explorador norteamericano Hiram Bingham, esta ciudadela es considerada una de las más extraordinarias muestras de arquitectura paisajística del mundo.

Enclavada en la cima de una montaña que domina el profundo cañón del río Urubamba, en plena selva tropical, constituía a la vez centro de culto y observación astronómica y hacienda privada de la familia del Inca Pachacútec.
Consta de dos grandes áreas: una agrícola, formada principalmente por andenes y recintos de almacenaje de alimentos; y otra urbana, en la que destaca la zona sagrada, con templos, plazas y mausoleos reales trabajados con un exquisito nivel de perfección. Las escalinatas y canales de piedra labrada son una constante a lo largo de este singular sitio arqueológico. Frente a la ciudadela se levanta el cerro Huayna Picchu, al que se accede por un empinado camino de piedra.