Located 3.5 hours from Cusco, in the Cloud Forest ecosystem, is Machupícchu. Inca city built on a mountain relief with amazing views. Access can be through the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Inca Trail or the Santa María - Santa Teresa jungle area.
The built-up area in Machu Picchu is 530 meters long by 200 meters wide and includes at least 172 enclosures. The archaeological complex is divided into: agricultural area, formed by sets of cultivation terraces, located to the south, and urban area, which is, the residential area, where civil and religious activities took place. There is a separation between both areas given by a wall, a pit and a staircase.
It is warm and humid during the day and cool at night. The temperature is between 12 and 24 degrees Celsius. There is a predominance of rain, especially between November and March with low fog.
The archaeological site is located on the Vilcabamba batholith, made up of intrusive rocks approximately 250 million years old, mainly white and greyish granite, cut by some veins of tonalites and talcescysts.
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The new “Wonder of the world”, “World Heritage Site”, to visit this place is to back in time to understand our ancestors perfectly adapted to their ecosystem.
In this 2-day INCA TRAIL tour. We will visit Huiñay Huayna, one of the most beautiful routes of the Inca Trail, and then arrive at Machu Picchu.
For centuries our ancestors dominated territories, traded food and valuables and distributing knowledge through a road system of more than 14 thousand kilometers. A small sample is our Inca trail that goes to Machupícchu.
Peru is home to 1,800 species of birds, comprising almost 20% of the world's total bird species. It also has the best climatic conditions to host multiple varieties of birds. Furthermore, new species of birds are still being discovered in the forests and mountains of Peru. While walking through the different altitudes
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