Inca Trail, Argentina

Organization Science, Education and Culture of the United Nations recognizes Unesco's Inca Trail Bolivia with Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a World Cultural Heritage in 2014.

Inca Trail vaArgentina Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Inca Trail is a system of broad roads and built the most advanced pre-Columbian era in South America. Line the trail system of the Inca Trail linking together will have a total length of 40,000 km. Although there are many branches, but this work has two main branches of which one branch going through the Andes and Inca to branch away from theworld wonder of Machu Picchu .

Inca Trail to Machu Picchu result is a piece of the most famous Inca road system with a total length up to 23.000km but only used to ... walk. Ancient Incas did not have horses and trailers to travel as in Europe, Asia.

Different roads on the Inca Trail

Stretching across countries: Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina , depending on the terrain where the path may Width 8 m (coastal) and narrow only 1 m (coastal mountains), consists of two main branches: the road along 4,000 km long sea 8m wide, and the road along the 5,200 km long Andes and numerous other smaller tributaries.

The Incas (an Indian tribe in South America) have built trail network stretches across the remote corner of the Inca empire , from Quito, Ecuador to Santiago, Chile, and east to Medoza, Argentina. In particular, Cusco is the historical capital of this great empire. Most of the trails are located on the main mountains around Cusco.

Inca Trail has very narrow passages, have climbed back hanging clip with the ramp along the road is the beautiful natural scenery and numerous sites which are the leftover remnants of the Inca empire

But with a total length up to 40.000km, but important archaeological road and the most beautiful 43 km long passing only Runcuracay, Sayacmarca, Phuyupatamarca, Winay Wayna and Machu Picchu. This is the famous road that any public phượt people, or those who love adventure tourism are also dreaming. This stretch of road is relatively easy, but the climate going to change relatively big way when going from foothills to mountain peaks with altitudes of up to 4,200 meters above sea level. Along this stretch of road also has numerous archaeological importance, which are buildings, the ruins of the mighty Inca empire. Not only that, on the same street there is also Sacred Valley town of Pisac market for traditional and fortress " glamorous" in Ollantaytambo. All of these sites and landmarks on the same street are extremely attractive destination

Ancient Incas built this stretch of road with many goals and not merely serve the traffic. In fact this stretch of road also serve military purposes, commerce and religion.

On the Inca Trail, besides humans probably only camels are transporting vehicles. By no horse like in other countries so ancient Incas used camel replace horses to move and transport goods cross this road.

The most famous stretch of road from Inca roads is to Machu Picchu. This road starts from the historic city of Cusco and ended in "lost city of Machu Picchu"

In terms of trade , the Incas used this famous trail is the bridge to transport and exchange as well as providing food and goods to remote areas of the empire. Like other powerful empire, assets of the Incas wealth concentrated in the central region due to the ruling class control. To allocate resources, they have used the trail and the bridge is built on the branch line to transport, food responders and goods to outlying areas.

For the military , this road makes contact transmission of information as well as organizing the logistics for the army to be fast and convenient. On this path, the Incas had to build food storage in case of conflict, war. The archive will always have a certain amount of grain, corn reserve military service.

In terms of religion , the ancient Inca has many traditional ceremonies, including the ritual sacrifice of children, goods, camels ... to the gods. The sacrifice usually begins with the worship ceremony at the foot of the mountain, then the sacrifice will be moved up the mountain to give up spirit. The only way to gain access Incas sacrificed and put up the mountain trail is built. So along the trail up to the summit there are mountain god temple was built, the system of this temple is called the Temple Zeq'e .

Famous stretch of road leading from the Incas to Machu Picchu (Peru), for many years is the dream of many adventure travel and the explorers from around the world. Machu Picchu is known as the lost city of the Incas. It was once the royal lands of the Inca empire.To reach the city, will have to go through the anti-cross trail, winding through mountains, cloud forest area, and even the highlands. Many scientists, archaeologists have said that agriculture in the past Machu Picchu can not meet all the demand here so that the Incas built the famous trail to transport food and grow empire more and more powerful.

The popularity of the wonders of the world have contributed to Machu Picchu Inca Trail to become famous trails in the world . Special offer from the Inca path to Machu Picchu is the ramp that many lovers seek adventure tourism. 30 years ago, this stretch of road has been the Peruvian government put into operation in tourism. However, to ensure the exploitation of tourism does not affect the cultural heritage of this, the number of tourists is managed very tight and limited. All tour guide, the tour operators must be licensed and the number of paper "t hip issue" of the day limited the number 250. However, of these only 150 permits for travelers guests, others are guides, the carrier, the chef ... so, to be able to participate in the tour experience, the discovery trail, visitors must normally reserved from 4 to 6 months for the price is not cheap. Despite the difficulties with the relatively high price but this stretch of road is still one special cultural heritage tourist attraction in the world.

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