Sacred Valley and Short Inca Trail to Machupicchu 3 Days

After breakfast at your hotel, our Machupicchu Latin America guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby between 7:00am to 7:30am and drive you in our private transport from Cusco passing through Sacsayhuaman & Puca Pucara Inca sites, our first stop will be at Manos de la Comunidad rescue center (we can observe Alpacas, Llamas & Vicuñas) and then continue descending to Taray lookout and stop a few minutes for one of the best classic pictures of the Sacred Valley and then we will drive up to Pisac Inca site to have stunning views over the valley. Here you can appreciate temples, residences, altars, channels and learn about the Incan agricultural methods shared by our Machupicchu Latin America expert guides. Then we will stop at the village of Pisac to visit its traditional market to interact with the local people and purchase some local souvenirs. After this beautiful visit, we will drive you to Urubamba town to enjoy a delicious buffet lunch (not included). After lunch, we continue our journey to Ollantaytambo to visit this amazing Inca site, which is an important area with Inca constructions, built during the Incan times. This is an extraordinary Inca citadel where we will find an amazing rock formation representing the Inca god Wiracocha. Finally, we will drop off you to the hotel. After check in, the balance of the day is all yours at leisure.

Overnight: Ollantaytambo or Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu pueblo)

Today we will pick you up at 6:00am from your hotel and walk/transferred to the train station and board the train to Km 104 (start point of our Inca Trail hike). This one-hour train journey allows you to appreciate the fascinating scenery along the sacred Vilcanota River. Once we reach the kilometer 104, we will disembark the train and walk across bridge over the Urubamba River to the control and check the passports and Inca trail permit and then will visit Chachabamba which is a lovely Inca site which contains water channels, fountains and more. After s short guided tour at Chachabamba we will commence the hike mostly upwards around 3.5 hours until Wiñaywayna (forever young) an impressive Inca site which was an agricultural center with numerous terraces, a religious sector and an urban sector. After the guided tour we will enjoy our boxed lunch. Then we will continue our hike for an extra hour to the Sun Gate (Inti Punku) from here you will have the first amazing view of Machu Picchu. After a brief stop for pictures, we will walk down for an extra 40 minutes to the enigmatic Inca citadel of Machupicchu and then board the bus (30 minutes ride) to Aguas Calientes town to check in into your accommodation. After check in the rest of the time is at leisure to explore the little Machupicchu Pueblo (Aguas Calientes) and visit its restaurants for dinner.

Total distance: 13 km (8,08 miles), Estimated walking time 6-7 hours, altitude gain 600m

Overnight: Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu pueblo)

After breakfast at your hotel, our Machupicchu Latin America guide will pick you up from your hotel lobby between 6:30am to 7:00am and walk you to the bus station to board the bus and take a 30 minutes ride up to the main entrance gate of Machupicchu to begin a unique experience by exploring one of the New Seven Wonders of the World accompanied with a professional tour guide who will share with you all his knowledge about the history, traditions and more that surrounds this mysterious and enigmatic Inca citadel of Machupicchu. After we are done with the visit, board the bus down to Aguas Calientes for lunch (not included) and enjoy some extra time at the town to get some local souvenirs and then board the train back to Ollantaytambo train station where our representative will be waiting for you and transferred in our private transport back to your Cusco hotel.