8 Days hiking from Cachora to Machu Picchu

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May 21st 2005

Published: June 2nd 2005

Absolutley Spectacular 8 day hike from Cachora to Machu Picchu, passing through another important Incan site called Choquequirao. 6 gringos, 1 guide, 2 cooks, 5 mules, 1 horseman, 1 horsemans son, and 1 SHEEP HEAD!! Es Bueno!! Day 1 Cachora to Raqrama. Day 2 Raqrama to Choquequirao. Day 3 Choquequirao to Maizal. Day 4 Maizal to Yanama. Day 5 Yanama to Tatora. Day 6 Tatora to Playa. ... Read Full Entry

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Dinner (The sheep, not the head)

I think the head was used for the soup on day 6!! "Sorry ladies"

Yanama

The soccer field. We had a good game of footy with the locals here. It was a bit of a pain when the ball went over the wall and down the hill, it took 15 minutes to fetch it!!

Yanama

Day 5

Hiking up!!

Day 5

Caballos

Rudy and Freddy (Chefs)

Those packs aren´t so heavy!

mules dont like bridges

coca leaf and the clown-faced orchid

how many animals can you count?

Animals living in harmony

The bano

Day 6 Playa

A couple more cervesas

Day 7

First views of Machu Picchu!

Day 7

Group photo

Clusterfuck train

MACHU PICCHU!!

Sureal isn´t it!

1st August 2005

anonymous
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Nice
Very nice !

20th August 2005

Cesar Abanto Quijano
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Yanama
My mother was born in Yanama 69 years ago. I was born in Lima, both when i was a child i used to to go to Yanama. Yanama is a nice place if you love natural landscape, people is very friendly, specially with tourits. now a days i am 35 years old, and its 7 years since my last visit to Yanama.

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