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INCA
TRAIL-4 DAYS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Our classic 4-day Inca tour runs from March through January. Please note that the Inca Trail is closed for the rainy month of February. Due to recent regulations, the Trail is limited to 500 trekkers a day, including tour guides, porters, and cooks. For this reason, we highly recommend you book the Inca Trail at least three months in advance, especially during the peak season (May to September). Trek permits are issued on a first-come, first- served basis until the permits are sold out. Fortunately for those who have missed out on the Inca Trail option, we offer a number of alternative routes that can be booked just days ahead in Cusco.
TRIP AT GLANCE
TRIP ITINERARY
Day 2: Wayllabamba -
Pacaymayo
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Day 3:
Pacaymayo – Wiñay Wayna
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Day 4:
Wiñay Wayna to Machupicchu
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that you may have forgotten, such as a walking cane, water, and rain
ponchos, as well as use the last real washroom for awhile. We start
walking from Km 82 to Wayllabamba; a quite level and beautiful walk
along the Urubamba River with a view of Mt. Veronica’s snowcapped
peak at 5,750 m/18,860 ft. Here we pass several villages where
residents still build their houses with traditional ichu grass
roofs. Here we can see the famous tuna cactus—some with the
cuchinilla louse—famous for its amazingly powerful clothes dye.
We’ll rest on a hill overlooking Llactapata – an important
agricultural area for the Incas. After Llactapata, we hike up the
valley along the Kusichaca River. Here we have a good chance of
seeing hummingbirds in the flower bushes. We arrive at the village
of Wayllabamba in the afternoon and camp here. Meals: L, D.
site of Runkuracay. As we reach the second pass, the landscape opens into
spectacular new views of the snowpeaks of the Pumasillo range. We
descend to the ruins of Sayacmarca (Inaccessible Town), an intricate
labyrinth of houses, plazas, and water channels, perched
precariously on a rocky spur overlooking the Aobamba valley. The
Inca trail, now a massive buttressed structure of granite paving
stones, continues along the steep upper fringes of the cloud forest
through a colorful riot of orchids, bromeliads, mosses, and ferns.
At the third pass, pinnacles topped with Inca viewing platforms
overlook the archaeological complex of Phuyupatamarca (Cloud-Level
Town). Pausing to explore the wondrous maze of Inca stone towers,
fountains, and stairways that spill down the mountainside, we begin
a long descent through ever-changing layers of cloud forest. An Inca
stairway partly cut from living granite leads us finally to our camp
by the ruins of Wiñay Wayna (Forever Young), the largest and most
exquisite of the Inca Trail sites. Meals: B, L, D.
