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 Bye bye bus by SirRichard
In this first stop out of the bus, the guide organises the porters and each one gets ready for the walk. Leave a Comment
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 Km82 by SirRichard
Here you find a tickets control, and after crossing the bridge over the Urubamba river, you enter the National Park and start the trekking. Leave a Comment
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 climbing by SirRichard
Our guide told us that a month ago, a 70 years old man suffered here from a heart attack, and they had to take him back to Cuzco! Leave a Comment
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 Me there by SirRichard
Then you enter the place and have all morning to explore the area.
After lunch you have the train back to Cuzco from the nearby village of Aguas Calientes, and you arrive to Cuzco at about 21:00h. Leave a Comment
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 Ollantaytambo by SirRichard
From there there are less than 2 hours to Ollantaytambo, where the bus stops for a breakfast, last shoppings (sun lotion, walking sticks, hats...) and to pick up the porters. Leave a Comment
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 by jadedmuse
During the Inca empire, the Trail served as a kind of royal highway, linking the Tawantinsuyo ("Four Ways" in Quechua) empire which stretched from Colombia to Chile and included such famous Andean cities as Quito, Ecuador, Cochabamba and La Paz in Bolivia, and finishing in Tucuman, Argentina. It was a vast and glorious empire that eventually ended, thanks in part to the Spaniards' systematic destruction of the communication links between these important points.
But the trail itself has remained intact just as it was centuries ago, with some of the overgrowth having been cleared for hiking of course. That's what makes it so remarkable - you are actually following in the very footsteps of an ancient civilization. The trail is often paved with tightly laid stones - the Incas were famous for among other things, their stone work - in fact it is still not know today, how the Incas were able to transport the giant stones used to build the city of Machu Picchu. The Incas hadn't yet discovered the wheel - can you imagine?!
You can better appreciate this fact when you're actually standing in the middle of the ruins, looking across at the other mountains alongside, and realizing there aren't even any rock quarries around.
Hiking the Inca Trail gives you the opportunity to see cloud forests, sleep in green pastures where horses are grazing (hearing them whinny at night had a surreal and very dreamy quality to it), explore overgrown Inca ruins never discovered by the Spanish, treat yourself to beautiful vistas of the Urubamba River, and walk along side wildlife, flora and fauna indigenous to the area.
The reward - and the chief motivation - is seeing Machu Picchu at the end of your hike.
This trail and the memories you'll make hiking it, will become imprinted in your mind forever. Leave a Comment
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 The Inca tunnel by Alain_Smeets
You well get in this tunnel before you reach the Third Pass and you will see why they made that tunnel here. There is simply no other way to get further with this track because that solid rock is blocking the path. Leave a Comment
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 by kzapanta
The picture posted with this tip is taken from the train. It is a small section of a rest stop where the various groups of guide led expedition hikes to Machu Picchu. The train actually stopped to let a few in and out. There are so many people on this trail. And there are now buildings built on the trail to sleep in, and buildings to cook and eat in. To better accomodate the hikers. But I thought the point of doing the Inca trail is to experience the sacred trail just like the Incans used to do.
That kinda takes the fun out in my eyes. You decide, and check up on the facts for yourself.
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