South America Tours - Peru

 

Inca Trail

4 Days / 3 Nights

 

       

                    

FIRST DAY.- we are going to pick you up from your hotel between 6:00 and 6:30 am in our private transportation. The bus will take us to the 82 km mark (93019 feet’s above sea level) that is the estart of the trail. There we will have time to put in order our backpacks and receive all the details of the Inka trail

You will walk for about two hours until you get to the first archeological complex ( Pata Llacta) where our tour guide will provide you with a complete explanation. After lunch, you will have time to take a rest and then we will continue for about three hours more to the campsite (Huayllabanba or Uncachimpa ) which are located at about 3000 to 3200 meters above sea level. There you will receive a hot drink and dinner.

                   

SECOND DAY .- after the hot wake up call drink, you will have enough time to pack your backpacks and eat breakfast. This is the most difficult day and it will be important to walk at your own pace. You will walk up through the Huayruro Valley for about three or four hours to get to the (Huarmihuñuska or the Dead Woman’s Pass) which is 4200 meters above sea level. At the top. As you hike you will enjoy the view of the surrounding snowcapped mountains. . From the top it will take one more hour and half to descend into the Pacaymayu Valley. desending to 3600 m.a.s.l geting lunch and camp site in the same valley of course with the coordination of the tour guide. Dinner

                 

THIRD DAY .- Morning ritual again includes a wake up call with a nice hot drink. pack up all our stuff having breakfast we will receive the explanation of the tour guide about the programation of this day then we will keep climbing up, but not us the second day because from 3600 m.a.s.l we will get to 3980 m.a.s.l. in between we will visit RUNCURACCAY a very nice arqueological site located in 3800 m.a.s. then we continue to s the second high pass, from this point you can see another range of mountains (VILCABAMBA) with the highest pick the( PUMASILLU or PUMAS CLOW) all the mountains that you see belongs to the oriental range of mountains in the southern Andes.
After enjoying the panorama wet go down for one two until we arrive to the third arqueological complex (SAYACMARCA).You will have the explanation of our guide,then you will keep going for another half hour until arriving to(CHAQUICOCHA or DRY LAGOON) for lunch with toilet facilities having lunch you take a nap and we keep going graduated up,not hard toget to the third pass ( PHUYUPATAMARKA)or VILLAGE ABOVE THE CLOUDS)after this complex we are again in the sacred valley. We will need two hours more to get to our third camping site WIÑAY WAYNA (FOR EVER YOUNG) with the archeological complex of the same name and decanding to 2750 m.a.s.l. Hot drink, dinner.

       

FOURTH DAY.- This day is the most important day because we will get to the place of our dreams for that we will wake up at 4:30am.and leave the camping site at 5:30 after breakfast . We will walk for one hour and a half gradual up to get to the ( INTI PUNKU or SUN GATE) 3000 m.a.s.l. We will enjoy the sun rices into MACHUPICCHU and after we will go down for half hour more to get in the archeological complex. before we go for the guided tour we will register and be ready, the tour is going to be aprox. 2 hours with the same guide of the Inka trail, after the tour you will have about 5 hours for spending by our self so you will have the diferent choices to visit optionally the WAYNA PICCHU mountain or (young mountain)
(THE MOON TEMPLE) or the (INKA BRIDGE).
We go down to Aguas Calientes town where the train station and the hot springs are. By the afternoon we take the train back to Cusco in the back packer class.