Qeswachaka Inca Bridge Full Day Tour, Come for Q’eswachaka Tour plus experienced tour guide day trip, located to the southeast of Cusco city Peru with plan Inca Grass Bridge, firstly this Day Trip to Q’ueswachaka Rope Bridge is passing through some remote villages where live the living culture people and speak Inca language and moreover along the drive road we see many llamas and alpacas with four lagoons along the route.
So this suspensión Inca grass bridge is located across Apurímac river in the district of Quehue, province of Canas and department of Cusco city and this bridge is visited from Cusco city with plan, day trip to Queswachaka Inca bridge with expert local tour guide and car with oxygen tank for high altitude in case you can need it and air conditioning for sunny days.
Therefore the maintenance and renovation of the Inca bridge is carried out through a ritual and executed by Quechuas people who are the Inca ancestors and they live close to this famous Q’eswachaka bridge at high altitude and they keep their ancestors skills and moreover Q’eswachaka bridge during the Inca time was type of crossing the rugged geography of the Andes mountain with the river in this type of suspension bridge made out of Andean fiber, which is type of grass that grows on the top of the Andes mountain, which is also food for llamas and alpacas.
In conclusion this Q’eswachaka Inca bridge is 500 years old and moreover in 2013 it was recognized as a national cultural heritage by UNESCO, and now is the highlight tour of Cusco city Peru for the tourists and located at 3700 masl ( 12,139 ft) and located in the brown Andes mountain range, where the main activity for the local people is farming types of potatoes and quinoa and also some animals, like llamas, alpacas, cows, donkeys.
The tour begins with the pick-up from your accommodation between 4:30 and 4:45 am. If your hotel or hostel is not located in the city center, we will pick you up from the doorway of our office building. Once the whole group is gathered, around 5:00 am, we will start our journey in our private transportation.
We will then have a two hours hour van journey to the town of Combapata, where we will have our local breakfast (made of local cereals like quinoa, quiwicha, maca). After this will continue drive for 15 minutes until we will get the Combapata viewpoint, from which we will enjoy the beautiful landscapes and see where the Salcca River meets the Vilcanota, the Sacred River of the Incas.
Then, we will continue our journey to Yanaoca, one of the eight districts in the Canas province of Cusco. From Yanaoca, we will drive thirty minutes more to the Q’ewe district. From there, you will have your first glimpse of the ancient bridge suspended between the steep rock cliffs, as we drive down the Apurimac canyon.
We will then leave the car and descend a steep path to a viewpoint to take photos, before carefully crossing the bridge together! Get ready for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as you make your way across the swaying bridge, and try not to look too closely at the river several meters below! On the other side, the bridge attendant will greet us and give a brief demonstration of the bridge’s history and construction.
After visiting the bridge, we will drive to the regions where the four famous lakes are: Pampamarca, Asnacqoccha, Acopia, and Pomacanchi. Set like jewels among the gold-green hills, they shine in the warm, afternoon sun as native flamingos and other birds fly and feed around their edges. We will stop in one of the lakeshores to set our picnic blanket and enjoy our picnic.
Finally, we will explore Rumi Punku before returning to Cusco at about 4:30 pm.
04:30 – 05:00
Pick up each passengers from their respective hotels around of the historic center of cusco.
05:00 – 07:30
We will visit the famous 4 lakes of Cusco
07:30 – 08:30
Breakfast in Yanaoca.
08:30 – 11:00
We”ll arrive at the Qeswachaka Bridge where we can participate in the special “pago a la tierra” ceremony, carried out by an Andean priest – an offer to the mother earth.
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch at Qeswachaka Bridge.
14:00 – 15:00
Visit the Natural Cave of Carañahui.
15:00 – 17:00
Transport back to Cusco
17:00 – 17:30
Arrive to Cusco (San francisco square).
