Permits in your name
The classic four-day trek, the slower five-day version, the short trail from Km 104, and the one-day walk to the Sun Gate. All of them need a government permit that sells out months ahead.
13 tripsfrom £510 per person
Forty-five kilometres over four days on the original Inca road, over Dead Woman's Pass at 4,215 m, camping three nights and walking into Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate at dawn. Our own permits, our own porters.
Forty-two kilometres of the original Inca road over four days, with your own guide, your own chef and your own porters. You set the pace, you linger where you want, and the Sun Gate on the last morning belongs to your group alone.
The classic four-day trek walked properly — Patallacta, Dead Woman's Pass at 4,215 m, Phuyupatamarca, Wiñay Wayna and the Sun Gate — with a private crew who move your camp ahead of you. Walk-in tents with real cots, hot showers, a massage every night and a chef plating dinner in your own dining tent.
The same trail as the four-day trek with a fifth day folded in — shorter stages, one pass per day, a night camped at Phuyupatamarca above the clouds, and Machu Picchu twice over. Once through the Sun Gate in the afternoon light, then again the next morning after a hotel bed.
Most groups cross the river at Km 82 and turn left. This one turns right, onto the quiet bank, past Salapunku, Machu Q'ente and Wayna Q'ente — more than a dozen Inca sites in five days — before joining the classic trail, crossing both passes in a single day and reaching the Sun Gate.
The classic trail walked over five days instead of four, starting from Km 88 past the quiet Inca sites, with luxury glamping camps, hot showers, massage and a four-star hotel in Aguas Calientes before the final guided visit. The most comfortable way there is to walk to Machu Picchu.
The last twelve kilometres of the Inca Trail in a single day, through Wiñay Wayna to the Sun Gate, then a hotel bed in Aguas Calientes and the citadel with a guide the next morning. No camping, no 4,000 m pass.
The final stretch of the Inca Trail from Km 104, through Chachabamba and Wiñay Wayna to the Sun Gate and into the citadel in the late afternoon. Then a night camped by the Urubamba and a second visit on a different circuit the next morning.
Thirteen kilometres of original Inca road from Km 104 with a guide who is yours alone, picnic meals cooked by a chef on the trail, the Sun Gate in the late afternoon, a four-star hotel in Aguas Calientes, lunch at the Sanctuary Lodge and the Vistadome Observatory train home.
Thirteen kilometres on the original Inca road — Chachabamba, Wiñay Wayna and the Sun Gate — walked in a single very long day from Cusco, with picnic meals cooked on the trail. You arrive at Machu Picchu on foot from above, which no train ticket can buy.
A full day in the Sacred Valley — Pisac, Moray, the Maras salt pans and Ollantaytambo — then the Short Inca Trail from Km 104 to the Sun Gate, and a guided morning inside the citadel. Two hotel nights, no camping, and the citadel twice.
The whole Cusco region in one booking. A city tour on arrival day, the full Sacred Valley circuit on day two, then the four-day Classic Inca Trail from Km 82 to the Sun Gate, with hotels, airport transfers and the Vistadome train all arranged.
Everything the Cusco region has, in one booking. A city tour, the full Sacred Valley, the four-day Classic Inca Trail to the Sun Gate, and then Rainbow Mountain and the Red Valley on day seven — the highest point of the trip, after you have been walking for a week.
Tell us your dates and how much walking you want to do, and we will tell you which of these fits — including when the honest answer is one of the cheaper ones.
