Best treks to Machu Picchu - cusco

INCA JUNGLE INFORMATION:
What is the Inca Jungle at Machu Picchu?
The Inca Jungle tour is a tour that departs from the City of Cusco and ends in Machu Picchu, after 4 days and 3 nights after carrying out a series of adventure sports such as: cycling, trekking, canoeing and zip line.
The Inca Jungle is one of the most popular tours in Peru.

What is the Inca Jungle route?

The Inca Jungle begins in the city of Cusco and ends in Machu Picchu.
During the journey you cross the Sacred Valley of the Incas, then enter the jungle eyebrow of Cusco to finally arrive at the Wonder of the World.
This is the route during the 4 days of the tour:

• 1st. day: Cusco - Abra Málaga - Santa María Town.
• 2nd. day: Santa María - Thermal baths - Santa Teresa town.
• 3rd. day: Santa Teresa - Hydroelectric - Aguas Calientes town.
• 4th. day: Aguas Calientes - Machu Picchu - Cusco.

What is the height during the Inca Jungle?
The Inca Jungle covers its highest point in the so-called ‘Abra Málaga’ (4,230 masl).
The lowest point is in the town of Aguas Calientes (2,000 m.a.s.l.), also known as Machu Picchu town.
Map of the Inca Jungle Machu Picchu
The Inca Jungle begins in the city of Cusco.
After doing various adventure sports, visit the Inca City of Machu Picchu.
The return to the city of Cusco is by train and bus.

LARES TREK INFORMATION:

What is the Lares Trek?

The Lares trek is an alternative path to Machu Picchu of 4 days and 3 nights, which runs through high Andean landscapes inhabited by Quechua peoples. This adventure tour is also known as the Circuito de las Tejedoras because during its journey, you learn the technique of ancestral yarns in native towns.

Lares: where is it located? How high is it?

Where is Lares located?
Lares is located in the Andes Mountains, in southern Peru. This district of Cusco belongs to the province of Calca.
How high is it?
Lares is 3,150 meters above sea level (m.s.n.m.).
What is the weather like in Lares?
The climate in Lares is temperate with cold at night. The average temperature is 11ºC. During the day, the heat can reach 21ºC. At night, temperatures can reach 1ºC.
How to get to Lares?
Lares is separated from the city of Cusco by 149 kilometers of highway. From this point, it is reached through a car trip that goes through the towns of Pisac and Calca in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
What to see and do in Lares?
Lares has several tourist attractions such as:

1. Lares thermo-medicinal baths.
2. Mantto Falls.
3. The hiking route to Machu Picchu.

HUCHUY QOSQO TREK INFORMATION:

This complex is the most important archaeological center in the Urubamba Valley, after Ollantaytambo and Pisac. The ruins are impressive, although the conservation of the site is inferior to that of Ollantaytambo or Pisac, because they are older. But unlike the aforementioned places Huchuy Qosqo has a peculiar architecture: the buildings have been built on polished stone bases of fine finish, with clay plaster (they are the best preserved parts) and the highest floors are made of adobe.

Useful Information
- Starting Altitude - 3800m / 12,467ft..
- Highest Altitude - 4300m / 14,107ft.
- Walking Distance - 18km / 11 miles
- Meals - 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner
- Overall Difficulty - Moderate
- STARTING POINT: - Cusco at your hotel

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

1. The Hispanic chronicles refer that Huchuy Qosqo (probably a place known in Inca times as Caquia Jaquijahuana) was the favorite work and place of the Inca Wiracocha.
2. A kallanka of at least 40 to 50 meters long is observed. Also a remarkable building with two stone floors and one upper one of adobe. There are also large terraces, a very large square and a large Inca gate through which passes a very well preserved road that leads from Tambomachay.
3. Machu Picchu is one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World , Heritage of Humanity, Historical Sanctuary of Peru and probably the most important archaeological site in Latin America.
4. Machu Picchu is majestic architecture comprises 140 structures throughout the citadel.
5. Machu Picchu is was built by the Inca Pachacutec around the year 1460
6. After being forgotten, it was only in 1911 that the American Hiram Bingham reached Machu Picchu on an expedition and spread the site worldwide.

Brief Itinerary

1. - DAY 1: CUSCO – TAUCA – HUCHUY QOSQO – OLLANTAYTAMBO – AGUAS CALIENTES
2. - DAY 2: MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO

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