Vocabulary
- Alpenglow:A rosy glow that suffuses snow-covered mountain peaks at dawn or dusk on a clear day
- Sashay: To strut or flounce in a showy manner
- Pinwheel: a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- Fuse: A cord of readily combustible material that is lighted at one end to carry a flame along its length to detonate an explosive at the other end.
- Shriek: to utter loud, high-pitched sounds in laughing
Report
Choquequirao, a city in Peru, has a lot of similarities with Mahcu Pichu. It
is hardest to reach it and it is not very well known. It may be what Machu Pichu looked like before tourism inflow.
Originaly it was built by Topa Inca because of the similarities with Machu Pichu and it even had the same significance. The tow cities are boaut the same size and wer used for the same religion, political and agricultural functions. Excavation showed the city but a long time passed trough before Peruvian government started witrh the first restoration.
Choquequirao remains unknown but Peru has the intention of large-turism in this area. In the last years more people have visited the place.
Getting to it is pretty tough. The nearest city is Cachora which has no direct bus service. Once you get there, 
the scenary is breathtaking with the alpenglow on mountain Salkatay`s snow-covered summit.
Peruvian government is specially interested in preserving communities like Cachora and the other towns near Choquequirao in order to keep them from becoming a new Aguas Calientes, the closest town to Machu Pichu which has grown and became a tourist city. They do not want communities to loose their identities.
For now Choquequirao still belongs to their residents and keeps on being a place full of tradition and customs.
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