Tamara Clarkes Travel Blog: Travel to Peru and reach the Inca Trail

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Travel to Peru and reach the Inca Trail

by Sun Gatein travel/vacation rentals (submitted 2012-05-09)

Travel to Peru offers a variety of places to visit, the inca trail is one of them.It is a beautiful trek with a number of sights from the icy glaciers to steaming tropical forest. Trek is private guided with a fixed itinerary and go to a start price of $ 894 lasting for 6days with guests camping night.

Inca trail tour takes tourists to destinations of Cuzco and Machu Picchu with activities including trekking, walking and visiting historical and cultural sites. Highlights Tour is machu picchu, inca archeological sites, mountain scenery and the Salcantay high mountain pass.

Inca trail is a good tour for tourists seeking knowing, because it has less tourists and quieter trails with an opportunity to visit local villages in the peaceful traditional environment. Tourists get chance to see life as it is lived in the mountains of farmsteads. The first two days of the inca trail tour is the most challenging, since they involve Hiking around the ice caped Mt. Salcantay, which is 6271m high.

Peru tour then takes you over high passes where you continue on a back country rail rocky in certain places untill you join the famous inca trail. Day 1 sees the tourists in the city of Cusco where they are picked in kl. 10.00 am and drive to 4hours to the town of Limatambo. Activities today lead to driving along the Apurimac river shores, horse riding, climbing, see little groups of houses, flora and small wild birds.

Day 2 Peru Tours to Salkantay pampa where tourists continue Hiking towards Inca Chiriasca pass the highest of the whole inca trail route on 4850m.Here you will get an impressive view of Salkantay snow peak. 3Rd day Tour is a downhill walk along the Pampacahuana River where tourists visiting the inca archaeological complex.
Day four in Peru travel takes tourists on a hike up the highest point in the inca trail to reach the mountain pass of Abra Warmihuafiusca, stands at a height of 4200m.The available activities view of the archaeological complex of the same name, which is believed to have been a watchtower.

Inca trail Peru tours then leads the tourists to Chaquqocha where they have a slight climb in order to understand the extent of the Incas emerged ancient crafts and rocks to fill up ravines in perfect order.The tour then leads into the inca tunnel to the 3rd pass known as Phuyupatarmarca, which means town above the clouds.

Peruvian vacation comes to an end with a visit to Machu Picchu, requiring tourists to wake up very early and after breakfast climb to Inti Punkun the Sun gate to view the sunrise over the sacred citadel of Machu Picchu standing at 2400m.The tourists then take a guided tour of the inca Citadel and afterwards get free time to walk around all Machu Picchu. This is an opportunity to see valleys and mountains, the Temple of the Moon and the inca bridge.The tourist then take the train back to Poroy train station and back to Cusco hotel. About the author

David Quispe is the author of this article on peru travel.
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