Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

Rambling along the bumpy road from Cuzco out to Cachora, it becomes
abundantly clear that I’ve left the feverish Machu Picchu crowds behind and
am now entering the less polished corners of the Peruvian Andes. These are
the fabled hills of the Inca, though they’re not the ones most visitors fly across
oceans to see.
There’s only one reason travellers go out of their way to visit the rural village of
Cachora, and it’s to see a set of ruins that lie just out of sight at the far end of the
Apurímac Valley: Choquequirao. Said to be up to three times the size of the more
widely known Machu Picchu, these ruins astoundingly see only about two dozen
visitors each day.
I’ve always wondered what it must have been like to visit Angkor Wat, Chichén
Itzá or Machu Picchu before the roads and tour buses arrived. Then I found out
about Choquequirao, a citadel so far up in the Andes of Peru that archaeologists
have only freed about 30% of it from the jungle.