Trekking through the Salkantay mountain is connecting with living nature surrounded by lakes, rivers, flora and fauna and with a lot of history because they were sacred places and paths of the Incas which they used to perform religious ceremonies to the apus (which means god of the mountain),
which are the ones that protected them and allowed the Incas to get closer to their important god who was the sun, that is, the higher the mountains were, the more important they were for the Incas.
Salkantay Trekking, Original Inca Trail to MachuPicchu, Inca Jungle Trail Machu Piccho, Ausangate Trekking to Machu Picchu and other alternate routes in the city of Cusco. The best options to Machu Picchu trekking
The Qhapaq Ñan (INCA TRAIL) or royal road to machu picchu original, is one of the greatest works of engineering and state power that very few cultures came to hold in our pre-Columbian America using the inca original,
the first news about its existence is obtained with the first Spanish chroniclers, who accompanied their armies in the campaigns of conquest throughout the inter-Andean alley the inca impire.
In the year 1533, the overseer Estete, who accompanied Hernando Pizarro on his journey from Cajamarca to Pachacamac, when referring to the Inca trail original, highlights that:
“most of it was cobbled and made of ditches where the water runs”, (Guaman Poma 1936, 355-356), authors such as Humboldt, who traveled it at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century, describe the Inca trail network as:
“one of the most useful and same time the most gigantic works ever carried out by man the inca trail original to machupicchu” (Guamán Poma original inca trail),
more contemporary researchers, such as Regal, Ravines, Lumbreras, Espinoza and Hyslop himself were dazzled by its majesty which still causes admiration today.
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is the best tour in Peru and South América, can choose according to time and budget available in Cusco, more information about Inca original 2-day or inca original 4-day or salkantay trekking + inca original 5-day to machupicchu with Okidoki Travel Peru.
The original Inca Trail or classic Inca to Machu Picchu in Cusco is a very old one that has been traveled since the time of the Inka empire with walks from section to section.
This original Inca connects Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Along its route you can see exuberant geographical beauty, diverse ecological floors and rich flora and fauna typical of the Inca sanctuary.
“The original Inca Trail” is the name by which it is commonly known from the kilometer 88 section of the railway line to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. This Inca trail runs through 11 kilometers of mountains and the Sacred Valley.
You can travel along this impressive “original Inca Trail” by bus that runs through the Vilcanota Valley. However,
it is not the only route to the original Inca Trail to machu picchu, there are other longer routes whose journey takes one or more days (ancascocha trekking to machu picchu, valle de lares treks to machu picchu, salkantay trekking, huchuy qosqo trekking to machu picchu, etc.)
and which involves visiting surrounding places of the valley, Andean roads and picturesque landscapes of the area.
Every day, visitors from all over the world arrive in Cusco, with the hope of knowing and personally experiencing the original Inca trail that the majestic Incas traveled more than 500 years ago in Peru.
