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Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

The Inca Trail is a mountainous jungle hike leading to the Inca city of Machu Picchu. The 45km inca trail trek is usually covered in 4 days.

Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, Cuzco Peru. Inca Trail tour and trek

The Inca trail to Machu Picchu is a hiking travel experience in Cuzco Peru.

Visit the Inca trail trek to discover archaeological sites as Sayacmarca, Puyupatamarca, Winay Wayna and Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu has lost little of its mystery in the more than ninety years since its scientific discovery, but recent finds have given the site a new context best demonstrated by travelling there on foot in a spectacular pilgrimage along ancient Inca roads, although the ruins can also be accessed by rail via a route known to enthusiasts as one of the world’s great train journeys.

 

Machu Picchu was the capital of a province of the Inca empire which was planned, constructed and abandoned in a period of less than a hundred years. Eight Inca roads converged on the city, conquering a wild and vertical landscape.

Hiram Bingham never realised that he had discovered an entire lost Inca province, with Machu Picchu at its centre. Today, the Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary (MPHS) covers an area of 32,592 hectares and contains some of the most breathtaking scenery on Earth. Uniquely in South America, the sanctuary was declared both a Cultural and Natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1983, in recognition of its archaeological and natural wonders.

It is the Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary geographical location, forming the transition zone between the Andes and the Amazon, which makes it unique. The extraordinary altitudinal range, from 6,271 metres to 1,725 metres, means that the Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary comprises ten distinct life zones, from glaciers and highland pasture to cloud forests and the Amazon basin. This remarkable range of habitats brings with it incredible biodiversity. Within the sanctuary, over 420 species of birds have been recorded (or 5% of the world’s species) and 250 species of orchids have been registered (although it is thought that this figure may represent just half of the orchid species within the sanctuary). 

 
 
 

Inca Trail Programs:

  Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (4 days /3 nights)
  Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (3 days /2 nights)
  Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (5 days / 4 nights)
 
 
  Mandor Waterfalls (1 day)
     

Alternative to Inca Trail, Trekking Programs:

     
  Choquequirao – Machu Picchu’s Sister City (5 days / 4 nights)
  Mount Salkantay to Machu Picchu (5 days / 4 nights)
  A Journey with the Last Incas (5 days / 4 nights)
  Weavers’ Trek (5 days / 3 nights camping / 1 night hotel)
     
 

Inca Trail Information

The Inca Trail is Peru's most known hiking, combining a mix of Inca ruins, mountain scenery, cloud-forest. Over 250 species of orchid have been counted in the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary.

Inca Trail To Machu Picchu - Cusco Peru Information Tours
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