5-Day Choquequirao Trek

Sightseeing  :  Peru  :  Cusco  :  Cusco  :  Multi-day Tours

Choquequirao is a distant and hardly visited "Machu Picchu". The meaning of the name in Quechua is "cradle of Gold". You will enjoy a 5-day trek and admire these great ruins. The ruins were first visited and accounted to the western world during the 18th century. Hiram Bingham also visited the site in 1910 before his rediscovery of Machu Picchu in 1911. The site is relatively detached, though recently there was a footpath built over the Apurimac river to make it more accessible to the ruins. However the ruins of Choquequirao are still not visited much, although with new regulations on the Inca Trail, Choquequirao is fated to substitute the conventional trek as the heavyweight. Situated above the stormy, glacier-fed Apurimac river, encircled by frost-topped summits, sitting on a tall ridge Choquequirao is a distant and hardly visited "Lost City of the Incas". The meaning of the name in Quechua is "cradle of Gold" and is considered as the place where the last Inca rulers went to after losing the city of Cusco during the Spanish conquest.