This Short INCA TRAIL Tour will take us to the end of the famous Inca trail. We will walk in tropical forests full of native plants and orchids, occupied by more than four hundred species of birds, passing by beautiful Inca constructions of wiñayhuayna, to reach our final destination. The magnificent machupicchu hidden under the skirts of the tropical mountains, now the largest tourist destination in South America.
12 km to travel on short inca trail to enjoy its majestic machu picchu, the short Inca trail is one of the best roads that exists to reach machupicchu. Because it will be 100% that you will see the ruins of machu picchu without many people without fogs because we will arrive in the late and it is the best time to have some classic photos of the Inca ruins.
The classic photos are on the arrival of the Inca trail either 4 days or 2 days a classic point, where all visitors want to be and take those beautiful photos that are seen in the photograph of the company of national geography society
Lets explore the inca trail to machu picchu. for this this trail you need your entrance ticket to be in machu picchu. We recommedend to take this short trail to be there, hiking this trek your are going to be at sun gate, before to get to machu inca ruins. your travel tours is with hiking and train, the best tours to machu picchu incan site
Why 2 Days Inca Trail?
Two days of hike, you can appreciate first day with a sunset inside machu picchu, second day with a sunrise inside Machu Picchu sacred place.
Amazon Jungle?
This Inca Trail is at the beginning of the Amazon jungle, this place is the end of the high mountains. at the beginning of the Rainforest there are no wild fly to get yellow fever these only exist in the central Amazon Rainfores
Why Km 104?
This is the point where people start the hiking to Machu Picchu. In km 104 we have control where travelers show their passports and guide licenses.
To be inside Machu Picchu National Park, rangers check the ticked and passports at the controls to see how many leave and enter the national park.
Sun Gate The First View to Machu Picchu.
The first view to Machu Picchu is in this place called Sun gate. This place is to take the first photos from a distance and rest for a moment before entering the sacred place of Machu Picchu.
How Is The Trail?
The 12 km to cover the two-day Inca trail. The road is in two sections 6 km uphill road and the rest of the distance is flat and downhill until to reach Machu Picchu Inca city. the way is Inca step rock path, why rocky path because we are close to Machupicchu Inca ruins, The Inca building or ruins are super cool around sun gate and Machupicchu
on this trail we have places to stop to take rest and to enjoy the priceless view, our guide will be super patience with you on way to Machupicchu thats make us different than other guides we know haw is hiking along this Inca Trail we have experience with it because we took 1oo nad 1oo groups to our destinations
Aguas Calientes Town.
This Town is very small, but with a lot of demand for tourism the city is full of hotels and restaurants basically the business is just for travelers.
Is There ATMs in The Town?.
The city is touristy and we have ATMs if someone needs some as a service
Briefing to Machu Picchu
You will have through briefing with your guide 1 or 2 days before your inca trail to machu picchu, we will provide you ample information regarding your upcoming TWO day inca trail trek and any other details that you would like.
Availability 2022 - 2023
You can choose this additional visit for your tour. Please contact with our staff for more information.
DAY 1: Inca Trail-Waynapicchu
Included today: Box Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner.
The short 2-day Inca trail to Machu Picchu starts from your hotel in Cusco. Our departure from your hotel will be in our tourist bus, with your professional guide who speaks English and Spanish, the route from Cusco to Ollantaytamo will be approximately 1/30 to reach the train station Town of Ollantaytambo.
In the station the guide will be in charge of distributing your tickets to board the expeditions train that will take us to km 104, point where we will start the hiking to reach Machupiccchu.
what to see on short Inca Trail?
- Chachabamba Inca site
- Wiñaywayna Inca site
- Sun gate to Machupicchu
- Machupiccchu ruins at first day in the afternoon.
- Sunset on machupicchu ruins
Here there is a wonderful view towards the famous citadel lost city of the Incas: the machupicchu splendor (2400 meters / 8000 feet) after a short walk to take classic photos then we will go out to the main entrance to take bus that will take us towards small town of Aguas Calientes, where you can relax in the comfortable hotel.
- Accomodation for today: Hotel in Aguas Calientes town .
- Min Altitude: 1200 m. / 3862 ft.
- Max Altitude: 2754 m. / 9036 ft.
- Distance to walk for today: 12 Km. / 7.46 mi.
- Weather Sensation: Warm, Cold.
- Difficulty of this day: 3.
- Time Statics for this day: Start and End Time: 06:00 am to 06:00 pm, Total enjoying hours for today: 12:0 hours, Total Walking Time: 06:00 hours,
DAY 2: Visit to Machu Picchu
Included today: Breakfast, Lunch.
After an early breakfast, we will take the first bus to Machupicchu to do the Guiding Tour and to enjoy the sunrise in this magical place, the most famous attraction in South America, will be with an expert guide, who will guide the Machu Picchu citadel guided time will be three hours to learn our inca culture.
- Sun Temple
- Temple of Condor
- Inca Palace
- Inti Huatana
- Temple of three windows and more Temples in machupichu inca site
And then we will return to Aguas Calientes to have luch and after that to return to Cusco, where you will be transfered to your hotel in Cusco.
- Min Altitude: 1050 m. / 3379 ft.
- Max Altitude: 2400 m. / 7874 ft.
- Distance to walk for today: 2 Km. / 1.25 mi.
- Weather Sensation: Warm, Cold.
- Difficulty of this day: 2.
- Time Statics for this day: Start and End Time: 06:00 am to 06:00 pm, Total enjoying hours for today: 12:0 hours, Total Walking Time: 03:00 hours,
Included in this Tour:
- Box Lunch.
- Bus from 0llantaytambo to Cusco.
- Camp.
- Dinner.
- Entrance ticket for Machu Pichu.
- First aid kit.
- Hotel in Aguas Calientes town.
- Oxygen tank.
- Round bus ticket from Aguas Calientes town to Machu Pichu- machupicchu to aguas calientes town.
- Round Bus trip Cusco to Ollantaytambo – Ollantaytambo to Cusco.
- Round train ticket from Ollantaytambo to Machu Pichu- machupicchu to ollantaytambo-cusco.
- Tourist guide fluent in English, Spanish and quechua.
Not Included
- First Day Breakfast.
- Lunch for the second day.
- Machu Picchu Mountain.
- Tips for the Crew, cook and muleteers.
- Wayna picchu mountain.
Extras for aditional fee
- Drinking water.
- Walking Sticks.
What to Bring
- Camera.
- Hat for the sun and for the cold.
- Head cap, glasses.
- Hiking shoes, trousers and jumpers.
- Hiking sticks.
- Mosquito repellent.
- Original passport.
- Personal backpack.
- Personal medication.
- Raincoat.
- Sunglasses.
- Sunscreen.
- Warm clothes.
Our prices for this tour:
Disccount for this tour:
Departure for: 2024 - 2025
Every Day.
Important:
- Camelbaks ( or water bottle).
- comfortable Daypack.
- comfortable hiking boots.
- immigration card.
- Original passport.
- valid student card.
Gear inside your Daypacks
- 4 Sets s-shirt.
- Bug Spray.
- Camera.
- Fleece.
- For your Duffel.
- Hand sanitizer.
- headlamp essencial.
- Music Iphone.
- Personal backpack.
- Personal medication.
- Rain jacket and pants.
- Sunscreen.
- Toilet Paper.
- toothbrush and paste.
- water proof jacket.
- Wet Wipes.
Our Reviews
Unforgettable experience
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