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Hi guys,
Just returned from a hiking-trip (aug/sept 2019) to Conquering Choquequirao:
the long walk to Peru's lesser-known 'lost city'.
For the ones interested a brief history (but feel free to ship towards the
photo's)!
There's only one reason travelers go out of their way to visit the rural
village of Cachora, and it's to see a set of ruins that lie just out of sight
on the far end of the Apurimac Valley:
Choquequirao. Said to be up
to three-times the size of the more widely-known Machu
Picchu, these ruins
astoundingly see only about a dozen visitors each day.
Before American explorer Hiram Bingham ever laid eyes on Machu Picchu, he was
whacking his way through the Apurimac Valley, surveying the remarkable carcass
of its so-called sister city. Scared off by the prospect of a grueling, four-
day round-trip journey, however, few tourists have bothered to visit over the
years. That could change now that the government has announced plans to build
a cable car across the valley that would cart up to 3,000 visitors per day to
the ruins in a trips lasting just 15 minutes.
This news has sparked something of a now-or-never moment to visit Choquequirao
before it becomes the next Machu Picchu. So I wrapped man AT around my wrist
and took off.
