INCALLAJTA SITE DAY TRIP - COCHABAMBA

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Visit Incallajta, Bolivia's largest yet seldom visited Inca site - the most easten fortress of the Inca empire. Includes a trip to the colonial village of Chimboata largely unchanged for centuries.

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Visit Incallajta, Bolivia's largest yet seldom visited Inca site - the most easten fortress of the Inca empire. Includes a trip to the colonial village of Chimboata largely unchanged for centuries.

ITINERARYITINERARY
You are picked up in the morning from your Cochabamba hotel or hostel (airport pickup can also be arranged if you arrive in the morning) and we set off on a beautiful journey into the countryside. We pass by typical rural Andean villages, farmlands and the natural beauty of the Cochabamba area. We are driving aroudn 130 km to Inca Llajta - the largest and most important Inca site in Bolivia and a real off the beaten track experience seldom visited by tourists. The site was added to the UNESCO World heritage site tentative list in 2003.
The Incas moved into the Cochabamba valley because it offered great possibilities for agriculture and also as a launching point to try to move into the lower Amazon regions. Built around 1465 by the Inca Tupac Yupanqui, and later reconstructed by Inca Huayana Capac, to protect this ever expanding empire from attacks from the Amazon tribes it housed an Inca community until around 1525. There are similarities in the designs to many of the ruins in the Cusco area with the largest structure being a huge rectangle shaped building of 78 x 26 meters called a Kallanka. This was the largest known roofed building (although no roof now) in the whole Inca empire. 
Other buildings in the complex include houses for women and for priests, administrative function buildings and storage buildings plus a principal plaza with sacrificial altar. In all there are close to fourty buildings and a defensive wall in the site.There is also evidence of astronomical towers with the incas being well known for their belief in astronomy. Nearby there is a 30 meter high waterfall which we will see as we look out over the valley. After the site visit we will visit the small colonial village of Chimboata and see how life in this sleepy town doesnt seem to have changed much over the years.

INCLUDED / NOT INCLUDEDINCLUDED / NOT INCLUDED
INCLUDED
  • Transportation in 4x4 vehicle 
  • English-speaking guide
  • Breakfast, packed lunch, snacks, drinks
  • Entrance fees
  • Visit to Incallajta site
  • Visti to Chimboata colonial village
 
NOT INCLUDED
  • Transport to city of Cochabamba (tour departs from Cochabamba)
  • Extra drinks, water, alcoholic beverages 
  • Sunglasses and sun cream - important!

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONIMPORTANT INFORMATION
  • This tour starts in Cochabamba and DOES NOT include the cost of transport for getting there. We can arrange buses and flights to Cochabamba. Please ask.
  • The price per person for this tour changes depending on group size. To see the prices please use the Price dropdown selector in the booking form below on this page.  If the group size changes, i.e. you book for 1 person at 1 person price and 2 more join the trip you will get a refund for the difference between the 1 person and 3 person price.
  • Group size is minimum 1 person and max 6 customers.
  • These tours visit very remote areas that have very limited facilities. If you are ill or there is an accident there are often  no medical facilities nearby other than basic attention. If things go wrong you are faced with the reality of travel in a remote area of a developing country. Cochabamba is at an altitude of around 2500 meters and the site of Inca Llajta is around 2650 meters, so anyone that is used to Cochabamba or higher should have no problems on this day trip.

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