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This breathtaking journey is an excellent option for adventure travellers who wish to challenge themselves in remote higher altitudes, or for trekkers who are simply looking for an alternative to the traditional Inca Trail.
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Salkantay Trail starts in Mollepata, a couple of hours away from Cuzco and ends in Santa Teresa or Hidroelectrica, giving access to Aguas Calientes for Machu Picchu. The trek is so popular as the overbooked Inca Trail but many find it just as beautiful.
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Urubamba river, also known as Sacred Valley or El Valle Sagrado, traces its winding, astonishingly beautiful course to the north of Cusco. Standing guard over the two lush of the Sacred Valley road, the ancient Inca towns of Pisaq and Ollantaytambo are among the most suggested ruins in Peru, while the small Andean towns of Pisaq and Chinchero really come into their own on Tuesday.
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Best time to come Peru will be depending upon which areas of country you need visit. What activities do you plan on doing in Peru? The coast of Peru, tends to be mostly dry around year, but sits under a blanket of fog from April to October each year (especially in Lima), driest sunny season (December to March) tend to coincide with the rainy climate elsewhere.
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Cusco is perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in Peru. Entertainment here is, like the city itself, both global and modern as well as highland and traditional. Horse Riding: Visit the ruins closest to the city: generally Saqsayhuaman, Qenqo, Tambomachay and Pukapukara.
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Koricancha, main temple of the sun god, was of the most awesome building of Inca Cusco City, with its walls entirely covered in sheets of gold. In 1532 the Spaniards built the Dominican church and convent over it. Both were destroyed by the 1650 earthquake and were rebuilt around 1681.
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The famous Salkantay Trek (or Salcantay Trek), named among the 25 best Treks in the World, by National Geographic Adventure Travel Magazine, is a trek open to everybody, with no limitation on spaces or permits (at least for now). Connecting the city of Mollepata, Cusco with Machu Picchu,
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Machu Picchu (the southern Quechua, machu pikchu, "Old mountain") is the contemporary name given to a llaqta - former populated Andean-Inca built before the fifteenth century in the rocky promontory that connects Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu mountains on the eastern slope of the cordillera Central, South of the Peru and to 2490 meters above sea level, altitude of the main square. Your name original would have been Llaqtapata.
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