Description of the experience.

It is the last Inca bridge that has survived modernity and continues to pass its ritual from generation to generation. It is located in the province of Canas, in the district of Quehue at an altitude of 3700 m.a.s.l. This Inca suspension bridge is used to cross the Apurimac River, being approximately more than 500 years old, measuring 28 meters and 1.20 meters wide, made of ICHU, (a grass in the highest areas of the Andes. The renovation and maintenance of the Bridge is made once a year by the local people of the four communities that are around, the elaboration of the bridge involves the realization of a ritual and a holiday that lasts about four days, starting with the payment to the Apu (Sacred Mountain) ancestral ceremonies, after having completed the replacement of the bridge, all the people of the communities inaugurate crossing it.

Q’ESWACHAKA THE LAST INKA BRIDGE (LIVE CULTURE) 1 DAY

$80.00

Category: Cusco imperial city of amazing places

Tags: Full Day

What is included?

Pick up from your hotel
Round trip private transportation
Official Tourism Guide
Breakfast
lunch
Tourist ticket
First aid kit

WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED?

Extra expenses:

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING

Treeking hiking shoes
Hat or sun caps
Sun glasses
Sunscreen

ITINERARY

Q’ESWACHAKA THE LAST INKA BRIDGE (LIVE CULTURE)

CUSCO – COMBAPATA – YANAOCA – QUEHUE – Q’ESWACHAKA

DAY 1: the trip starts from the city of Cusco with the pick up from your hotel at 6:00 a.m. South-West direction. After almost two hours of travel we will visit the four lagoons: Pomacanchi Lagoon, Acopia, Asnaqocha and Pampamarca or Tungasuca. After enjoying a quiet moment near the lagoons, the next place we will visit will be the small Pabellones volcano, continuing with the tour we will have a rest near the town of Yanaoca for breakfast. Around 11 a.m. we will arrive at the impressive Inca bridge of Q’eswachaka, where we will have the opportunity to cross the Inca bridge, you will feel a great emotion when crossing this grass-made bridge of the highest areas of the Andes called “ICHU” and we will also participate in the special ceremony making an offering to Mamacha Tierra (Pachamama), performed by an Andean priest. At the end of the ceremony we will enjoy a delicious lunch at the Qeswachaka bridge, continuing with the tour On the way back to Cusco we will make a final visit to the colonial Inca bridge of CHECACUPE where you can see the differences between the two bridges. This interesting trip ends in the city of Cusco at approximately 5 pm.