Classic 1 Day Inca Trail To Machu Picchu

1: CUSCO- OLLANTAYTAMBO-MACHU PICCHU- CUSCO

Our  tour guide is coming to your hotel in cusco to pick you up in our tourism van and after that heading down to sacred valley of the incas, the time is about 1/30 minutes to get to Ollantaytambo town, where you find the train station, but along the road going to sacred valley you can see amall villages also big farming places. Ollantaytambo train station, is for every single traveller to machu picchu, also for inca trail hikers, this the only train station in Ollantaytambo to machu picchu.  Your expedition by train will be around 1/20 minutes to get to km 104, traveling by train you are going to enjoy about view to machu picchu valley, here little by little is change the ecosystem along valley, is more hot, taller trees, also more plants, closes to machu picchu, power station is already the beginning of amazon jungle, by the way the local people are planting coca trees and coffee plants, also  avocado green plants. The hiking trail to machu picchu is 12 km/ 7.46 miles, from the beginning to machu picchu incan site, the first hours will be little chellenge, after that is much betther the trail to get to sun gate and machu picchu incan site. But the inca trail is rocky path, amazing road to hike  also under the trees like % 40 without sun like 3:30 pm we are going get to sun gate, which is here we can enjoy the first view to machu picchu inca site, where is the sun gate!  sun gate is at upper part of machu picchu inca ruins, where you can see the whole inca building. when we get to machu picchu incan site after sun gate, you are taking the classic photos to this sacred place, after that your going with your tour guide to explore the last city of the incas in the jungle. after machu picchu ruins or let say after guiding tour you are going outsite to take the bus to aguas calientes town, to have dinner before to board to your train to back to ollantaytanbo and cusco city  

Everything is here for your hike to machu picchu

•      Meal: box lunch
• Hiking distance: 12 km / 7.46 miles
• Walking time:  6/7 hours
• Lowest elevation: 2,040 / 6,690 ft
• Highest elevation: 2,720 m / 8,920 ft
• Physical condition: moderate