15.10 Choquequirao Ruins, a memorable and challenging journey
A view from 3rd camp, that river crossing makes it tough. A subtle sunset viewed from the camp outlines the jagged and rugged mountains. The mountain path from Marampata, camp 2, to the ruins. Three days on the outside edge...fantastic. It is difficult to relay the feeling of being on top or near the tops of mountains, few people, if any, about and not have a clue where in the world one is. The only access back to, as some like to say, civilization, is to follow the trail or path. Miss that path and one is lost in what feels like the middle of nowhere. The isolation, the tranquility, the beauty of the mountains and the night sky filled with an untold number of stars is not a feeling describable easily. It probably means something different to each of us. Should a spectacular sunset precede the evening dusk, then better still. Sitting in the darkness and gazing at the jagged outline of the mountains, sometimes aided by moonlight, the trickle of a stream or the pounding o...