Trails to Machupicchu

Trails to Machupicchu

The Inca Empire traced the widest net of roads registered in history. In the era of the conquest, Michael de Montagne recognized the superiority of these works compared to Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Two hundred years after, Alexander Von Humboldt did no doubt in qualifying these roads as the most outstanding work of mankind. He pays attention to the outlines of the most abrupt area of the world, passing immense deserts and constructing roads on impenetrable jungles. There were bold engineers for this geographical challenge in the most mountainous country of the world.

John Hyslop calculates in his book “the Inca Road System” that the Inca road system has 23,000 Kilometers, registered and measured by the Author regardless of those roads lost in the jungle. With these additional parts, the system could total forty thousand kilometers. With this road system, the Incas mastered several nations; the plan was extended from sea level to 5000 meters of altitude, emphasizing extraordinary staircases, tunnels, and pendulous bridges, the largest known. The construction of an Empire in the age of the cooper and the stone was a miracle, a challenge accomplished with millions of hours of work. This was an Empire made to travel on foot, and the roads with inns and posts were sufficiently broad to give a rapid and comfortable travel to the imperial litter and host.

Many roads led to Machupicchu; Inca Roads called “Inca Ñan in Quechua” departed from the Capital of the Empire with a destination for the four regions “Suyos,” Cusco was the center navel of the Inca world. These were super causeways with deposits of food or Tambos and water situated at prudent distances. One of these roads of excellent quality was necessarily leading from Cusco to Machupicchu.

The Trek from Cusco to Machupicchu takes two or four days nowadays. There is no state or city without roads; the quality of these roads keeps related to the development of civilizations and their level of culture. The Andeans built admirable roads by quality, length, and cost.

We recognize today its perfect outline, solidity and complete perfection, and stunning defeat of immense abysses. Furthermore, the Incas recaptured and integrated the said outlines into the landscape. The Inca trials are of such importance that their explanation motivates controversy and polemics among experts. Envisaging the Inca roads that leave Machupicchu built in rock on impassable ravines and immense altitudes, it is difficult to explain how the Andean Man took nature to his service. The roads conduct on stairs toward high summits or on humid wetlands.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (The first Andean and Spanish blood), in his Royal commentaries, refers to the roads and the existence of principal and secondary roads. There were eight or nine roads with two main ways that arrived at Inti Punku and one that entered by an Inca bridge; many roads surpass the imagination by their quality and mastery in the work of the thousands of men in constructing them.

Explore the Short Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in two days.