Experience the short inca trail 2-day hike, covering 12 km/ 7 miles. of hiking in just 7 hours on the real path to Machu picchu, this road is a short vertion to be in machu picchu inca site. This short inca trail is at the beginning of amazon jungle unique hiking trail trough sun gate to machu picchu. inca trail with lush trees and beautiful mountain view
Highlight on short inca trail
Chachabamba inca site
Wiñayhuayna mini machu picchu inca site
Waterfall
Sun gate
monkey steps
Why short inca trail?
Short inca trail 2-day hike and 4-day inca trail hiking are taking you straight to sun gate and amchu picchu incas site. this is the only trail following the inca stone path to machu picchu exploring the spiritual places in the mountain before to get to machu picchu
The costs depend on the type of service you want for this trek to Machu Picchu because there are different prices for this hike . Our price for this 2-day trek is $450 , which is reasonable because we include all the services. Our service is door-to-door, and it includes Machu Picchu entrance tickets, Inca Trail permits, a hotel in the town of Aguas Calientes, transportation from Ollantaytambo to Cusco, round-trip train tickets , and your return to your hotel in Cusco .
Short inca trail breifing
Our Briefing orientation will take place at your hotel one day before in the city of Cusco. Our professional guide will be in chance of providing you with all the details of the short Inca Trail trek . The most important points of the trail will be explained, as well as the rules of Machu Picchu.
Itinerary
Day 1: Cusco – KM 104 – Inca Trail – Machu Picchu Town
The pick up will be early in the morning from your hotel, in Cusco (4:30 am) in our tourist car, the pick up will be together with the tour guide, who will guide you on legendary Inca trail. The van ride is 1:30 minutes to reach Ollantaytambo train station, where you will enjoy the view to agricultural fields along this route until to reach Ollantaytambo train station together with your guide, board the train that will take you to the beginning of the short Inca trail, you will travel on the train passed through the valleys of Chillca and begin with the high Andean jungle that begins the famous Amazon. The trip will be approximately 1:20 minutes to start the walk of km 104. Be in the national park of the Machupicchu, Short Inca Trail, you will have the honor to enjoy panoramic views and native plants and fauna, the Inca trail is 7 hours walking to this Machupicchu incan site. Be inside Machupicchu you will have the opportunity to appreciate the archeology site, and to see the incoming sun set to the west, its unique journey to enjoy the Incan buildings because, in the afternoon there are few people inside of Machupicchu. Your opportunity to take advantage of the classic photos from the most traveled points. We can be here 20 minutes, feeling the positive energy of this sacred places, Machupicchu was built by pure people who have been here making llama sacrifice, imagine how mush energy was into this place. On the legendary Inca Trail 2-day trek , you can see the local trees and royal Inca steps about rocks, also you can feel the pure air, because this is as little jungle in this place we have the ancient buildings to explore.
High Elevation: 2700 mt /8,858.278 ft
Low elevation: 2100 mt /6,889,760 ft
Distance to walk: 12 km / 6 miles
Walking time: 7 hours
Weather: warm
Day 2: Aguas Calientes Town – Machu Picchu Inca Ruins – Ollantaytambo – Cusco
The 2nd day of the Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu is a great tour to explore. This day early in the morning you will have breakfast at your hotel, and then we will go out to take a van that will take us directly to the Machu Picchu Incan site. When we arrive at the Inca site, before moving to the archaeological center, we will have to go through to control, where we will show Machu Picchu documents and so we can explore this city of the Incas. Our tour will be 3 hours, that means exploring this Inca site to the fullest tour, later on We will return to the village to have lunch, we are going to take a return train to Ollantaytambo and Cusco, After that to your hotel. Basically this day is our highlight to be in Machu Picchu Inca site, exploring the magic place, as a Inca palaces, temples and Inca buildings, also to see the sacred sun temple
Machu Picchu Elevation: 2400 mt / 7874.016 ft
Weather: Warm
Walking time: 2/30
Included
INCLUDED IN THIS TREK
Professional Tour Guide who speaks English and Spanish
Transfer from the airport to your hotel in Cusco
Transport from Cusco to Ollantaytambo
Bus Transport – from the town to Machu Picchu inca ruins
Machupichu- Ollantaytamba by train- Cusco by bus
Train ticket
Machu Picchu Tickets
Inca trail ticket
Box lunch on the Inca Trail
Hotel in Aguas Calientes 3 stars
Gear That You Need To Bring Me Your Hike
Daypack for carrying your important things to your trek
Sun hat because the day is really hot, sun is burning. thanks to global warming everything is changing
The water bottle. better could be the alumining bottle, this bottle is not pollute our nature or to our pachamama
Hiking shoe. is better to have a good shoe to enjoy the hiking, the inca trail is ancient rocky steps which is going up also going down