Our official guide to the archeological site of Choquequirao was Julio, 11 years old.
After a 30 minutes walk we arrived to the upper site. The first thing that appeared us was the huge terraces, which in this case, were kind of gardes for the Inca (The king of the Incas). But in most of the cases the terraces served to place the crops.
Choquequirao is supposed to be the place where the last Incas hide from the Spaniards, that is why the acces to the site is so difficult, through narrow paths in zigzag up and down the montains. It's almost always surrounded by thick clouds which adds a lot to the mistery of the place.
On the faces of some of the terraces you can see lamas made of white stone, that were supposed to look as real animals from far away, in order to trick the enemy.
After at least 3 hours of walking up and down the ruins, we were exhausted. David's legs were completely covered by mosquito bites!
The next day we went to visit the rest of the site, which is 4 or 5 Km. under the upper one. Only part of the site (30%) is cleaned from the vegetation, and archeologists are still working on it.
The terraces are perfectly adapted to the slopes and they are conected by water channels that irrigated the crops. The landscape is amazing!
These terraces were discovered only 2 years ago, so there is not a lot of people up there. On this day, there was nobody but us!
The same day, we started our hike back to Cachora.
6 to 8 hours walk per day...Finally we reached Cachora but we were almost dead!
Caro
2 comments:
magnifiques photos qui se méritent.
Votre tourisme n'était pas de tout repos, et le confort plutôt rustique.
Bravo aux courageux marcheurs, bonne aubaine pour les moustiques.
Le grand tourisme ne semble pas encore arrivé par là.
Caro parait plus palote que vous autres
Bons baisers
A bientôt
David rendido, picado de mosquitos, geniales todos estosdetalles que nos comparten. Me encantan las fotos que toman en las puertas y ventanas, como esta de Caro, y la de los dos en el Cuzco, en el esplendor de la construcción Inca.
Los paisajes ,con neblina, caminantes y llamas en las paredes, bellos, bellos.
Me inquieta lo de 7 u 8 horas de caminata por día. En Francia habían ido preparando su cuerpo, para estas supercaminatas? Si de un momento a otro le exigimos demasiado, el organismo nos pasa cuenta de cobro, ojo¡¡, hijos, que los queremos mucho, y estamos disfrutando con ustedes ese paseo tan delicioso. Sed de viajar y de conocer al máximo, ahora que lo pueden hacer, es maravilloso¡¡, pero, cuídense.
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