One moment
Forests
Catarata de Gocta
A view worth the climb · Cocachimba, Peru
Photo: Elemaki · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.8★Rating
535Reviews
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May–SepBest time
The experience
A 771 m two-tier waterfall in Peru's northern cloud forest, among the tallest on Earth — locals knew it for generations; it was only publicized internationally in 2006. A ~5-hour round-trip hike from Cocachimba.
A full day's travel from the Cusco–Machu Picchu corridor where nearly all of Peru's tourism marketing is spent.
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It's only worth the detour May–Sep. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
What a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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