Camping perolniyoc - socma

This guide to the Perolniyoc campsite above Socma, outside Cusco, opens with a running joke: no two trekking blogs agree on the waterfall's height, and almost nobody stops long enough to actually look up. You'll hear how earlier Andean peoples built here before the Inca arrived, drawn by a waterfall tied to fertility and water, and how Inca builders folded their own halls, storerooms and shrines around those older walls to bind Cusco to Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu. It also covers the 2017 regional effort that reopened the site after centuries of neglect. Pitch your tent below the falls and pick your own number for the drop.