Info Session: Inca Trail & Machu Picchu (4-Day Trek) 2024

The Inca Trail 4 day Trek to Machu Picchu is a truly amazing, educational, challenging and must have experience in your life time. Our 4 day trek on the traditional Inca trail covers 33.7 miles over 4 days. We cross over 3 passes with the highest at 4,215m/ 13,828 feet. We have refined our service to only offer quality through on our full service trek.

Your journey starts in Cusco at 3,400m/ 11,152 feet. You will end up in the lost city of Machu Picchu at 2,430m/ 7,972 feet on the edge of the Amazon. Machu Picchu is positioned in this incredible location that will leave you spell bound. We have developed the best service over the past decade. We have trekking guides, educational guides, quality food, tents and we use four star hotels for our trips.

On the Inca Trail 4 day Trek, the most famous trek in South America, you will be able to learn about the ruins and scenery which make this trail so famous. There are many sights of interest all the way along this famous trail and we aim to explore them all. The trips starts from $2,550.

Itinerary will be as follows.

Day 1: Arrival to Cusco & Welcome
When arriving to Cusco airport, you’ll be picked up from the airport by our staff. On the way to the city center, you’ll spot the typical colonial architecture.

Note: Use this day to relax so you can get used to the altitude for the adventures that are to come.

Day 2: Sacred Valley (Optional)
Explore the Salt Mines of Maras, the agricultural labs or Moray and the fortress of Ollantaytambo. Relish a delightful lunch enveloped by the Andean landscape, visit a vibrant local textile center and try of a sip of Chicha (Inca beer made of corn).

Day 3: Inca Trail Head
The Inca Trail starts with a pickup from your hotel after breakfast, and then drive to the town of Ollantaytambo, where you can pick up any last-minute items you may need. From Ollantaytambo, we continue to the start of the trail, Piscacucho (AKA km 82) at 2,700m/ 8,858 feet.

Day 4:(Inca Trail) Ayapata Camp - Wayllabamba to Runcuraccay Pass
We will rise early this morning for breakfast before we start what will be one of the toughest days on the trail. Today, we will be reaching the highest point in the Inca Trail, the high mountain pass of Abra Warmihuañusca, or the Dead Woman Pass, at 4,215m/ 13,776 feet. Along the climb today, the landscape will change from sierra to puna (a dry and high area with little vegetation).

Day 5:(Inca Trail) Runcuraccay to Wiñay Wayna
5After a good night’s sleep we will wake early for another challenging day on the trail. After breakfast, the trail moves steeply up the opposite side of the valley wall, towards the second pass, the Abra Runkurakay at 3,970m/ 13,022 feet. Halfway up the pass, we will stop to visit the archaeological complex with the same name.

Day 6: Explore Machu Picchu - Return to Cusco
The final leg of our journey on the Inca trail. We will be up very early, around 3am, for breakfast and a final quick pack up of our things. We will walk the short distances to the Machu Picchu entrance gate and wait for opening. From Wiñayhuayna to the Sun Gate, or Intipunku, is an easy trek, following a broad level path, which winds comfortably through scrub and light woodland, where colourful butterflies flutter across the trail

Day 7: Say goodbye & Return Home
You will be picked you up from your hotel in Cusco depending on your flight time. We will drive you to the airport in order to take your flight for your onward journey. There are options to join tours to the Amazon, Lake Titicaca and other treasures Peru has on offer.

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