“Beginning in 1994, we allied ourselves with Peru’s foremost living explorer, Dr. And in 1984 I began traveling there, to the north and northeast of Cusco, first in the company of Cusqueño hunters who had made forays well past their holdings in Paucartambo, and then with the Quechua-speaking highland campesinos of Challabamba and Calca that I had met through them.” It was then that I began to hear about a site which lay hidden somewhere off to the east, where the Andes and the Amazonian rain forests meet in a riot of hills, ravines, and isolated peaks, all covered in jungle and crisscrossed by unnavigable boulder-strewn rivers and streams. Legendary explorer Greg Deyermenjian explains his extraordinary devotion to the area, “The quest for Paititi, for the furthest presence of the Incas into the selva beyond the ranges, began for me after having visited, in 1981, the site of Vilcabamba, the redoubt of Manco Inca–who did finally rebel against the Spaniards after enduring nearly three years of their increasingly harsh rule–at Espíritu Pampa in the forested plains of La Convención province to the northwest of Machu Picchu. Currently drug trafficking, illegal logging and oil mining are overtaking this part of Peru, and many amateur explorers that enter are often killed. ![]() ![]() Due to the remote location of the area, as well as dense mountains that have to be traveled, it is no wonder that Paititi remains so hard to find.
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