Travel Machu Picchu 5days and 4nights

Enjoy a fascinating train ride through the beautiful Sacred Valley to reach the sacred area which is one of the 7 wonders of our planet «Machu Picchu». Enjoy spectacular scenery en route as it descends to the forests of the tropical forest along the river Urubamba. Explore with our local guide the great Machu Picchu, a wonderful Inca citadel built on top of the mountains during the rise of the Inca empire. Visit the various attractions within the city of Machu Picchu such as Intiwatana, the sun temple, agricultural area and urban area where the main civil and religious activities in Machu Picchu were developed.

Early in the morning transfer from your hotel to the train station to go to the town of Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village). During the trip to Machu Picchu, we observe beautiful landscapes and vegetation change from landscape to tropical Andean valleys. Guided tour of Machu Picchu. Then free time in Machu Picchu and return to Cusco.

Machu Picchu Archaeology:
Gamboa said that this Inca «took to his bedroom Tambo Valley without being his own». Maria Rostworowski, based on Polo Ondegardo, said that the Inca was born in the palace Kusikancha6 against the temple of Qoricancha in Cusco, whence came his original name of Cusi Yupanqui, the Inca, or the «Kusi» for the palace. Coincidentally, the river where the sanctuary of Machu Picchu begins is also called «Kusi» (Cusichaca). He belonged to the Panaca Inaca, but then founded the panaca Hatun Ayllu, which his descendants, who must have occupied the grounds of Machu Picchu were attached. «Kusi» is the name of curaca ruler of Chucuito, in the region of Collao Lupaqa, so that may not want to mean only «happy» which is the Spanish meaning of the word. It is also used to signify liveliness. It was not the Kusicancha where Inca mummy was. It was Patallaqta, outside of Cusco. According to Juan de Betanzos, who wrote his Chronicle before 1550 and perhaps saw the mummy of the Inca, «only your body is today in Patallacta which by its members think it was in his life a man of good height and great stature which it is said to have died aged a hundred and twenty years. » The chronicler Joseph Acosta, who did see his mummy in 1560, says on his head with a rock that gave some war and was not lacking graying hair. Acosta saw the dead Inca when his «package» was taken prisoner from Cusco to Lima for more than 500 kms., On foot, by order of the Spanish viceroy, after the mummy was found by Polo de Ondegardo, almost 30 years after the arrival of the Spaniards. At that time, the Incas had hidden their mummies, taking them out of their original mausoleums to prevent the sacrilegious treatment of foreigners. It is assumed, from generational calculations that not all scholars agree that the Inka Pachakutec seized power around 1420-30. All documents that speak of this Inca, attributed the construction of the imperial Cusco as well as most of the great buildings of the region «Tampus» where Machu Picchu is located. For this reason, all agree in considering that the sanctuary was built by him. If that is true, the buildings were built in the fifteenth century, no more than 100 years before the arrival of the Spaniards. Archaeological studies confirm these assumptions, including dates obtained by carbon 14. Of course, the resort reflects a well-crafted plan.

MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL 5D / 4N

• AVAILABILITY OF MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL: Daily
• DURATION OF MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL: 5days/4nights
• FREQUENCY OF MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL: All year in Peru with Viajes a Machu Picchu Peru.
• MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL: Minimum 2 pax for travel tour.
• MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL: Tour Cusco, Machu Picchu Travel,

 

SUMMARY MACHUPICCHU CUSCO TOUR:

TRAVEL MACHU PICCHU Day 1: CUSCO CITY TOUR

• Air flight from Lima to Cusco (55 minutes’ drive)
• Arrival to Cusco and transfer to hotel.
• Afternoon – City tour Cusco: 2:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• Visit the Temple of the Sun Koricancha, Sacsayhuaman,
• QenQo, Puca Pucara, Tambomachay.

TRAVEL  MACHU PICCHU Day 2: SACRED VALLEY

• Tour Sacred Valley of the Incas.
• Full Day 8:00 a.m. to 19:00 hours.
• Buffet Lunch (Optinal USD 10)
• Visit to Pisaq – Ollantaytambo and Chinchero.

TRAVEL MACHU PICCHU Day 3 .

• Transfer Hotel – railway station.
• 6:30 a.m. to 22:30 hours.
• Visit Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.

TRAVEL MACHUPICCHU Day 4.

• Bus up and Down
• Train Back 22:30 hours.
• Guide Speek Englis to  Ruin
• 2 hour with the Guide.
• Entrance Fee to Machu Picchu

TRAVEL MACHU PICCHU  CUSCO AIRPORT  Day 5.

• Pick up from hostel and transfer to airport or bus terminal
• End of tour service Machu Picchu Peru.

 

DETAILED ITINERARY TRAVEL MACHUPICCHU PERU

MACHUPICCHU 5days/4 Night

TRAVEL DAY 1: CUSCO CITY TOUR:

A start time, our uniformed staff and a sign which is written your name or you tell us, will be waiting for your reception at the Cusco airport or bus terminal, quickly moved to the selected hotel ah, tourism mobility for this service we offer is fully equipped for your comfort, travel time will vary according your hotel location wing after we will Arrival at the hotel, registration and accommodation.

A hotel pick start time to 1:30 pm start of our tour of the city, where our professional guide will provide us with detailed information on all the attractions we visit, will be attentive to any questions and / or need for each of our visitors require.

The places we are visiting. The main Sun Temple also known as the “Qoricancha”, “Sacsayhuaman” known as the head of the Puma in reference to the city of Cusco was in the form of a Puma in times Inkas and the head of the puma was exactly Sacsayhuaman.

Sqsaywaman-cusco-city tour “Qenqo ” Then visited temple in honor of Mother Earth or Pachamama wing, continue along ” Pucapucara” control center or wing income Holy city of Cusco, ” Tambomachay ” later visited resting place and hang time Inka temple natural element Water .

Later we return to Cusco; optional at no additional cost to take him to offer typical Dance Theatre Qosqo known as the Native Art Center, it is your choice whether you want to be transferred to your hotel or leave the beautiful main square of Cusco

MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL DAY 2: TRIPS SACRED VALLEY – PISAQ – URUBAMBA – CHINCHERO

This tour begins with the picking up of passengers at the hotel to go through an asphalted path to the town of Pisac located 32 km from the city of Cusco; where you can see and do some shopping at the handicraft market of Pisac, located in the Main Plaza, the typical craftsmanship in ceramics, leather and looms elaborated by the artisans themselves will also be observed.

Continuing the tour you will pass through the towns of Coya, Lamay, Calca, Yucay, Urubamba, observing beautiful flora and fauna during the route that takes about 45 minutes to reach the city of Urubamba where we have lunch in a cozy typical restaurant; in the afternoon we will continue the journey to the town of Ollantaytambo, where we will visit the archaeological complex of Ollantaytambo, after the visit to this important archaeological site, in return we will visit the ruins of Chinchero and its small chapel a few minutes from Cusco, later we will take you to your hotel.

MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL DAY 03: Cusco Ollantaytambo Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu Pueblo).

At proper time you will be picked up from your hotel to travel to the town of Ollantaytambo which takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes to the train station in Ollantaytambo, where we board the train to Machu Picchu takes 2 hours by train to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu village). Transfer to hotel hot water.
Today will have the afternoon to explore ways of Aguas Calientes and take pictures of the place and enjoy some medicinal hot springs (entrance is 10 soles per person). Night hotel in Aguas Calientes.

MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL DAY 04: Aguas Calientes – Trek to Machu Picchu.

Today we get up early 5:20 a.m. for breakfast, then take the bus, the trip takes 30 minutes to climb to the citadel of Machu Picchu and appreciate the majestic sunrise at Machu Picchu. Where our guide will explain for 2 hours and 30 minutes over the Incan city of Machu Picchu. After the tour guide you. They will have free time of 4 hours to visit and photograph inside the citadel of Machu Picchu on your own. (Optional: visit the mountain of Huayna Picchu or the Inca Bridge).

In time descend by bus to Aguas Calientes to approach the train station to board the train to start our journey back to Ollantaytambo, once a bus tour to return to Cusco and move to the hotel.

NOTE ABOUT MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL: To visit the Huaynapicchu will be confirmed at the time of booking and is subject to space availability: this income is extra and optional, entry is restricted to only 200 people can enter at 7:00 am; and another 200 people at 10 am; so if you want to have your right of entry, you need to confirm your trip ahead: Cost Additional $ 15 usd.

MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL DAY 05: Cusco Airport

Pick up from hostel and transfer to the airport in Cusco or Bus station.

End of tour Service.

IT INCLUDED IN THE MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL :

• Transfer from the airport hotel, bus station etc.
• Cusco City tour (transport, guide, entrance fees).
• Sacred Valley (transport, guide, entrance fees).
• Machu Picchu 1 night
• Free day (optional maras Moray and salt mines or free walking tours)
• Transport Cusco – Ollanta (train station) – Cusco.
• Train Ticket outward and return.
• Bus up and down to Machu Picchu.
• Entrance ticket to Machu Picchu.
• Guide in Machu Picchu.
• All transfers during the tour 5 days

NOT INCLUDED IN THE MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL:

• lunch and dinner (not mentioned in the itinerary) Power.
• Optional lunch buffet Sacred Valley $ 25.00 USD (on request).
• Optional lunch buffet Machu Picchu $ 30.00 USD (on request).
• Entrance to Waynapicchu ($ 150 optional).

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MACHU PICCHU TRAVEL .

• Original passport for travel.
• Use Small Vans sneakers or shoe
• Raincoat (poncho long) in the rainy season, January, February, March.
• Long-sleeved shirts.
• Long pants.
• Insect repellent.
• Sunscreen.
• Binoculars.
• Sunglasses, plastic bags.
• Medicine and / or personal items.
• A light backpack (there is a weight limit between 5-6 kilos maximum)
• Camera or Digital Camcorder.
• Take money currency soles and dollars.
• Bath towels for the hot springs

 

 

INFORMATION OF TRAVEL TO MACHU PICCHU PERU

Travel and photographs of Machu Picchu:

Machu Picchu has been described since its discovery almost a century ago in the tension between continuity and the loss of speaking the heading – Peru. The archaeological, historical, literary and photographic work has attempted to reconstruct and redefine the invisible, the hidden and absent in its fragmented structures of Machu Picchu. Its stones were petrification sign and symbol of longevity for some and for others in Machu Picchu. Although conceptions (petrification-durability) of the same Latin root Petra / stone-, sparked a controversial debate until today because of what was discussed and question is to define cognitive and ideological heritage, ie the treasure or cultural capital a nation Peru. The question to answer since its discovery has been to who is authorized to speak about Machu Picchu and why. For Hiram Bingham, the discoverer, was a «lost» and «wonderful», petrified and fossilized unrecoverable in his mystery of Machu Picchu, conquistador and challenge for adventurous city. For cuzqueños indigenistas, however, it meant the vital and essential durability of Andean culture of Peru – Machu Picchu. The stone monument was used as the source of telluric leadership of highland Peru intellectuality (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

The aim of this work is precisely to study the forms of visibility with Machu Picchu and its surroundings were made known to the national and international community in five photographs taken between 1911 and 1930, two taken by Bingham to the National Geographic Magazine for their expedition and three taken by photographers «cuzqueños» Abraham Guillen and Martin Chambi. The photographs of Bingham, «Group of Mountain Indians: Southern Peru» and «The Temple of the Three Windows: Machu Picchu», appeared in the National Geographic Magazine in April 1913 in a number entirely dedicated to the discovery of Machu Picchu entitled «In the Wonderland of Peru «with 244 other illustrations. Guillen photograph is entitled «Archaeologists in Machu Picchu» and was taken during scans of Valcárcel on site. The fourth and fifth photographs belong to Martin Chambi and are titled respectively «The temple of the three windows. Machu Picchu «and» Inca Trail Wiñaywayna «. Both were taken in 1920 (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Against the «illusion of denotation» on which calls attention to Roland Barthes to discuss the photo story (279), this paper seeks to clarify how such referential illusion in photographs of Machu Picchu was used to present different ideological versions of the otherness and modern surveillance practices. The analysis of the photographs that I propose is based primarily on a comparative study of travel narratives Bingham for National Geographic Magazine, «In the Wonderland of Peru» (1913) with the trials of figures more incidents of Cuzco indigenismo as Tempest in the Andes (1927) and Memories (1981) Valcarcel and city of the Incas (1922) and the Indian new (1930) Uriel Garcia. In the story of Bingham, the ruins are built as evidence of a romantic and spectacular arcadia of Otherness, while endorsing a project monitoring and scientific standing to a mass culture in the early days of American expansion and modernity imperial (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Photographers and essayists of Cuzco indigenismo – Peru, meanwhile, appropriated the imperial scientist and romantic speech to reconcile or «sutured» contradictorily last of the Inca culture with the present of the speeches of the national currency (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Machu Picchu travel opposite the romantic individualistic heroism of Bingham and his photographs of difference and racial supremacy, are developed in parallel the collective project of Cuzco indigenismo and its own representations of indigenous – Peru. Photo «Archaeologists in Machu Picchu» Abraham Guillen is a good example of this. Guillen was known as the «scientific photographer» for having his photograph documented archaeological projects in Peru leading scientists as Max Uhle, Julio C. Tello and Luis E. Valcarcel. The same Valcárcel appears as one of the leading figures in the photo we analyze machupicchu. In 1932 Guillen also begins its work in the Department of Photography and Cinematography at the National Archaeological Museum at the initiative of Valcárcel, becoming head of the Department and to travel around Peru photographing the national heritage of the ruins and fossil remains of Machu Picchu (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Machu Picchu in the photo of the three windows is representative of most of the photographic corpus of the expedition of Bingham on their trips to Machu Picchu: They are shots of a direct plane where the documentary value acquires prominence Machu Picchu. The photographic paper also follows the aesthetics of decadence, where nature appears reworking stone constructions, advancing on them to acapararlas. Thus the splendor of antiquity is returned to its natural origin, to its original state of Machu Picchu. This is because in Western aesthetics, depictions of decay thematise return to nature. One could speak of a cyclical symbiosis between historical monument and nature, Michael Roth explained as part of the inexorable condition of nature. The camera seeks to Machu Picchu, however, paralyze this return, reverse or prevent memory loss, stop the instant of the irreversible  (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

History of Machu Picchu – Peru:

When Professor Hiram Bingham returned to Yale University after his discovery of Machu Picchu, Peru, in 1911, he stated that «the Inca were good engineers» (Bingham 1913). Recent engineering research at Machu Picchu has demonstrated that Bingham was correct. This paper describes the carefully planned and constructed drainage infrastructure at Machu Picchu, without which it would not have endured to the present . Peru (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Machu Picchu served a permanent population of about 300 with a peak of 1,000 when the Inca emperor was in residence. When Bingham stumbled upon the ruins of the beautiful Andean Inca community, it had endured nearly intact for over four centuries without suffering from foundation failures or landslide damage (Bingham 1930). The potential ravages of time, steep mountain slopes, and excessive rainfall were overcome by the exceptional ability of the Inca engineers to construct good building foundations and install effective drainage systems. These two Inca achievements delivered Machu Picchu to the 20th century scientists in a condition nearly as it had existed when it was abandoned in the 16th century. It was occupied between 1450 and 1540 A.D., with some people remaining until 1572 A.D. (Rowe 1990) (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

Machu Picchu, the royal estate of the Inca ruler Pachacuti (Rowe 1990), is the most well known of all Inca archeological sites. While numerous visitors view the site in awe each year, little was known about its paleohydrology or surface and subsurface drainage, or how the various infrastructure components of this Andean community functioned. It was for this reason that the Peruvian government issued an archeological permit to the writers in 1994 to carry out research on the agriculture, water supply, hydraulics, and drainage of this ancient Andean community (Wright 1996); this paper deals with its surface and subsurface drainage (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).

When viewing the complex but orderly layout of the ruins, scientists and laymen alike express wonder and ask questions about the drainage and potential irrigation of the numerous agricultural terraces. Because the annual average precipitation likely was about 1,940 mm per year at the time of occupation, there was no need to irrigate agricultural land at Machu Picchu, and field investigations by the writers indicated that no irrigation delivery or distribution system existed [Wright et al. 1997(c)]. presents the ice core data from the Quelccaya ice cap, representing long-term precipitation patterns (Thompson et al. 1992; Thompson and Moseley-Thompson 1989). The Machu Picchu period is shown for comparison (Travel Machu Picchu Peru).