Choquequirao + Machu Picchu Trek 6 Days Unique

Your journey begins early in the morning as we pick you up from your hotel in Cusco. Around 5:30 AM, you’ll set off on a scenic 4-hour drive in our private transport through the Andean highlands, arriving at the traditional town of Cachora (2,900m / 9,514 ft). Here, you’ll meet the rest of your trekking team—including your muleteers and chef—before enjoying a well-deserved breakfast to fuel your adventure.

From Cachora, you’ll start your trek with a two-hour hike to Capuliyoc (2,915m / 9,564 ft). Along the way, you’ll catch your first incredible views of the Apurímac Valley stretching far below, and the majestic snow-capped peaks of Padrayoc and Wayna Cachora (5,482m / 17,985 ft) rising in the distance.

After a break to take in the scenery, you’ll begin your descent along the eastern slopes of the Andes, where you’ll notice the climate warming and the environment gradually changing. As you make your way down, you’ll pass through Coca Masana (2,330m / 7,644 ft), where the landscape begins to shift from highland terrain to more lush, semi-tropical vegetation.

Your day ends at Playa Rosalina (1,550m / 5,085 ft)—also known as Rosalina Beach—where you’ll camp for the night beside the powerful Apurímac River. Falling asleep to the sound of rushing water under a sky full of stars will be your first unforgettable night on the trail.

• Meals:  Lunch, Dinner
• Accommodation: Camping 4 people tents  for  2 people per tents
• Maximum Altitude: 3000 masl Capulichayoc
• Minimum Altitude: 1750 masl playa rosalina
• Distance Travelled: 16 Km
• Approximate Walking Time: 6 – 7 Hours

You’ll wake up early once again, surrounded by the sounds of nature and the river flowing nearby. After a hearty breakfast, you’ll begin one of the most rewarding parts of your journey—the ascent toward Choquequirao.

The trail starts with a challenging uphill hike toward Marampata, a small Andean settlement perched on a ridge. Along the way, you’ll see the vegetation shift once again and feel the temperature cool slightly as you gain altitude.

By midday, you’ll arrive at the impressive archaeological site of Choquequirao—often called the “sister city” of Machu Picchu but far less visited. With your guide, you’ll explore this massive Inca complex step by step, learning about the engineering brilliance and spiritual significance behind its construction. As you walk through terraces, temples, and ceremonial areas, you’ll begin to feel the energy and majesty of the Inca civilization come to life.

In the afternoon, keep your eyes on the sky—around 3:00 PM, it’s common to spot Andean condors soaring overhead, taking advantage of the warm thermals as they glide toward higher altitudes. It’s a powerful and awe-inspiring sight that stays with you long after the trek is over.

After your visit, you’ll follow a quiet trail to Raqaypata, where you’ll set up camp for the night. After a warm dinner, you’ll rest under the stars, surrounded by the mystery and silence of the mountains.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
• Accommodation: Camping 2 people per tents
• Maximum Altitude:3200 masl choquequirao
• Minimum Altitude:1500 masl playa rosalina
• Distance Travelled: 15 km
• Approximate Walking Time: 7- 8 Hours

This day we will dedicate ourselves exclusively to enjoy all the magic of history and splendor of Choquequirao, with a guided visit and time to know whole the site with its 8 sectors, like barns, houses temples and also we will observe the three levels of the excavated ruins of this late Inca-town, like the ruin in progress of excavation and finally unexplored areas that can tell us about this last refuge of the oppressed inca empire terraces. Again, like in the morning this afternoon we have the opportunity to enjoy the majestic flight of condors which with big luck will pass very close to you. In the afternoon we will return to our campsite to have our lunch and then rest and enjoy the quietness of Choquequirao.

After having Breakfast we will begin to go down towards Santa Rosa, where the vegetation will become abundant and the weather hotter so then. We will continue to the sector of Chiquiska for camping.

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
• Accommodation:Camping 2 people per tents
• Maximum Altitude:3200 masl Choquequirao
• Minimum Altitude:1750 masl chiquisca
• Distance Travelled:17 km
• Approximate Walking Time :8 -9 Hours

We will  wake up with  birds’ songs and beautiful scenery. We will walk back to Cachora. The trek time to Cachora will take 5 to 7 hours depending of your physical condition. In Cachora we will met our private van to take us to Train station Ollantay tambo to take train to aguas calientes arriving at 9 pm 

• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
• Accommodation: hostel  
• Maximum Altitude:3000 masl Capulichayoc
• Distance Travelled:15 km
• Approximate Walking Time:7 – 8 Hour

Early after a good breakfast re-live the history and the mysterious world of the Incas, we take the first bus up at approx 05.30am and arrive at the ruins at 06.15am. This time is still not so crowded so we take advantage of the tranquility of this sacred site ; Guided Tour of Machupicchu. This enigmatic city is explored for Approx 2 hrs and their mysteries and archaeological information will be explained by your expert guide, ( you generally have approx 6 hrs extra free time but depends on train timetables in high season.) Option to climb to the Huayna Picchu mountain ( Please check previously with your guide. Sometimes guided tour is after Huaynapicchu.)

Machu Picchu is a magical, mysterious place that for nearly a century has intrigued archaeologists and visitors alike. Perched atop a steep, emerald green peak 8,000 feet high in the Andes in southern Peru, it is reachable only by a long road that zigzags up the slope from the roaring Urubamba river, or by hiking four days along the challenging Inca Trail. One can imagine the excitement when intrepid Yale professor-explorer Hiram Bingham, led there by local peasants in 1911, first glimpsed the jungle-invaded citadel abandoned by the Incas four centuries earlier.Bingham eagerly surveyed the site over the next five years, clearing away brush and identifying palaces, temples, and a celestial observatory from what is believed to have been a summer palace or ceremonial center for the first Incan emperor, Pachakuteq. Most of its gold and other treasures had been looted around the time of the Spanish conquest, but he unearthed thousands of artifacts and carted them off to New Haven to study. The Incas built their mysterious city here to be closer to the gods. It was placed so high in the clouds, that the conquering Spaniards never found or destroyed it. Visitors to Machu Picchu see well-preserved ruins hidden among the majestic Andes: palaces, baths, temples, tombs, sundials and farming terraces, along with llamas that roam among hundreds of gray granite houses.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Accommodation:Not Included,
• Maximum Altitude:2,700 m / 8,856 ft
• Minimum Altitude:2,400 m / 7,872 ft ( Machupicchu )
• Distance Travelled:8 Km approx plus exploration of Machu Picchu
• Approximate Walking Time:6-7 hours / Descent : 300 m