Choquequirao, Peru · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

Choquequirao is often called Machu Picchu's sister city, built around the same period and roughly three times its size, yet still only around forty per cent excavated. The rest remains buried beneath jungle nobody has cleared. Where Machu Picchu receives up to 2,500 visitors a day, easily reached by train and bus, Choquequirao sees around a dozen, reachable only by a multi-day trek. It even played a quiet role in Machu Picchu's own discovery, a 1909 mapping trip to Choquequirao is what first drew Hiram Bingham back to Peru in 1911, on the journey that led him to Machu Picchu instead.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.