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The Lares Valley Trek: Off the Beaten Track

It's been a long-held ambition of mine to follow in the footsteps of the ancient Incas on an adventure of Peru, and visit the mountain ruins of Machu Picchu. However, when I went online to research my options it was revealed that the famous Inca Trail has become so busy with tourists that UNESCO requested the Peruvian government to require permits - 500 released per day - to prevent its overuse and degradation. I

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The Lares Valley Trek: Off the Beaten Track

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  1. The Lares Valley Trek: Off the Beaten Track incalandadventures.com It's been a long-held ambition of mine to follow in the footsteps of the ancient Incas on an adventure of Peru, and visit the mountain ruins of Machu Picchu. However, when I went online to research my options it was revealed that the famous Inca Trail has become so busy with tourists that UNESCO requested the Peruvian government to require permits - 500 released per day - to prevent its overuse and degradation. I got the impression that this path had perhaps been a bit too well trodden already. Few know that there is more than one way of trekking to the lost city of the Incas - the standard Inca Trail, and a different route called the Lares Trek. The trek involves two nights camping and a third hotel night in a small town called Aguas Calientes located at the base of Machu Picchu, which we would visit on the last morning. The Inca Trail, by contrast, spanned three nights on the trail and arrived directly at Machu Picchu early on the fourth day. For me, the Lares Trek was an easy sell: I was lured in by descriptions of a cultural hike that traversed highland Incan settlements. We would hike passes over 4500 meters in altitude and meet a minimum of other 'western traffic'. And the extra day I would save in my holiday would be an excellent recovery day, if I needed it. What could be better? There was an air of excitement and nervousness as our minivan filled with 16 fellow trekkers and set out from Cuzco towards a mountainous backdrop. Small, concrete-bound, bustling Peruvian towns gave way to pastoral scenes of verdant fields. The mountains that once loomed in the distance now loomed over our heads, and soon after our bus began to negotiate steep S-shaped turns as we climbed ever higher. The landscape became remote and barren; the ground covered with large

  2. boulders strewn so randomly it appeared it had hailed stones the night before. The rainbow mountain tours are awesome for travelers. Finally we arrived at our departure point, a small, nondescript town of Lares, tucked behind large, rocky outcrops. Our guide, a jovial Peruvian man with a surprisingly young face, quick laugh and neatly pressed shirt named Julio Cesar, ushered us out of the bus and we tentatively followed. Adress: Flor de la Cantuta B -2 San Sebastian Cusco Peru Tel: (+51) 84 275973 Mobile Flavio: (+51) 84 958195265 Emergency Mobile: (+51) 84 940188346 Emergency Mobile Flavio(+51)84 940188346 Flavio Huamani, founder of Inca Land Adventures E-mail: incaland@gmail.com incalandadventures@yahoo.com Skype: inca-land Facebook: Flavio Huamani Quejia

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