Itinerario
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu 2 Days and 1 night
DAY 01: CUSCO – 104 KM – WIÑAY WAYNA – SUN GATE VIEWPOINT – MACHU PICCHU – AGUAS CALIENTES
At 5:00am pick up and transfer from your hotel to the train station of Poroy. Travel by train to trailhead at Kilometer 104.
10am after find the checkpoint over the Ollantaytambo River and start to walk guided by official English-Speaking tour guide into Chachabamba ruin located next of old Inca Trail, this complex was considered the second gate to Machu Picchu. 3 hours climbs the hillside leaving the woods for open grassland till lunch time.
The path continues descend to cloud forest crossing a nice waterfall and then arrive to the impressive Wyñay Wayna ruin, where you will have completely guided tour. Next to Wyñay Wayna ruins are facilities to use toilets and buy drinking water and short rest on the urban area of terraces. We walk slow following the ancient Inca Trail and getting the best view of the Urubamba Canyon and passing the cloud forest up to the final pass named Inti Punku (Sun Gate). From here you will have unforgettable scenery of Machu Picchu ruin and Wayna Picchu Mountain. At 3/4pm we arrive to Machu Picchu gate, if you like we can wait out or inside the ruins for nice sunset over the ruins. The first day entrance to Machu Picchu ruin is with additional cost of the entrance ($89 USD Per Person).
We continue downhill hike to Aguas Calientes (Optional bus down to Aguas Calientes – $5 USD Per Person). We advice to carry your headlamp or flashlight, just in case get dark on the way down to the hotel in Aguas Calientes. You will have chance to visit the thermal springs which are open until 9pm.
Today you will stay at nice and comfortable hotel in Aguas Calientes town; the room includes private bath and hot shower (L – D).
DAY 02: AGUAS CALIENTES – MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO
At 5am after early breakfast we take one of the first bus (around 5:30am) up to Machu Picchu ruin, this bus ride takes like 30 minutes along the zigzag road in the cloud forest..
At 7am begin of completely guided tour of most important sectors of Machu Picchu which takes around 2 or 3 hours. And then extra free time to explore and climb Wayna Picchu Mountain, to climb and back takes 2 hours approximately. Then we include a lunch at the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge – Hotel (Private VIP Service only), is one of the best places to have nice food feeling the Inca land atmosphere in the middle of nature. At 2pm you will have meeting with the tour guide at the main gate of Machu Picchu and aboard the tourist shared bus down to Aguas Calientes town.
The backpacker service participants will get their lunch in Aguas Calientes town.
Around 4pm will be the transfer by train to Ollantaytambo (sacred valley), this journey takes not more than 2 hours along the Urubamba canyon.
From Ollantaytambo will be a tourist bus to drop you to the hotel in Cusco and end the service (B – L).
Incluye
INCLUDES
- Backpacker train ticket from Cusco (Poroy) – Trailhead (104km).
- Official English-Speaking tour guide.
- Entrance to the Inca Trail.
- Entrance to Machu Picchu ruin (Second day).
- Porter to carry food.
- Personal porter will carry the backpacks (Private VIP Service only).
- First day snack (Lunch) and dinner.
- 1 night of hotel in Aguas Calientes – room with private bath and hot shower (3* category).
- Second day breakfast.
- Second day lunch at the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge – Hotel (Private VIP Service only), people takes backpacker service will have lunch in Aguas Calientes town.
- Tourist shared bus from/to Aguas Calientes.
- Backpacker train ticket from Aguas Calientes town to Ollantaytambo (Sacred Valley).
Private transfer by tourist van from Ollantaytambo (Sacred Valley) to the hotel in Cusco. - Trekking price includes government sales tax (19% as known IGV).
- First aid kit and oxygen bottle for any participant and our camp staff.
- PERU ADVENTURE TOURS gift (Private VIP Service only).
