Inka Trail 4 days

The Inka Trail is the most popular trek in the Andes and most famous in the world. What makes it so special is its richness and diversity - Inka sites, unforgettable views, snowy mountains and junglecloud forests where the exotic vegetation includes one hundred varieties of Orchids. This trek presents extraordinary ecological variety.

 MACHU PICCHU itself cannot be fully understood without the experience of the Inka Trail. Its principle sites are ceremonial in character, apparently in ascending hierarchical order as you near the city. This Inka province was a unique area of elite access. the Inka trail is essentially a work of spiritual art, like a gothic cathedral and walking the Inka trail was an act of devotion. The four days of hiking covers about twenty-eight miles, starting at an elevation of 8,400 feet above sea level and ending at 7,800 feet. You must cross two high mountains passes with a maximum elevation of 13,700 feet. Trail conditions are generally good on this ancient byway. The guides are professional, knowledgeable, and English speaking. They can explain the significance and the history of the Inka trail. We use excellent equipment and serve savory nutritional meals. The porters required to carry equipment for this trek are friendly, happy and helpful.

 Size Group (04 people minimum and 08 people as maximum)

Included:

Private bus to trail head, entrances fee to the Inka trails, Machupicchu entrance fee, camping equipment such as igloo, water proof and big tents (available in simple, double or triple), a kitchen tent manned by cooking staff, dining tent and a toilet tent as well provided, mattress, camping chairs, camping table. First-Aid Kit, oxygen, radio communications, sleeping mattress and tent for our porters) Complete Meals during trip, (breakfast is provided each day with the following available, “milk coffee tea coca tea, bread, butter and jam pancakes scrambled eggs, salad and oatmeal”, lunch is provided with typical Andean food. Dinner every day which includes Chicken, Beef or lamb, fish with Potatoes rice, pepper or other such main dishes. Snacks are provided (fruit chocolate candies or sandwiches). Also we have our famous tea–time which has buffet of teas, pop corn, and a wake up tea in your tent every morning), Professional English speaking guide, professional chef, porters (they bring all company equipment and food) , bus ticket from Machupicchu to Aguas-Calientes town (train station), and return train to Cusco in a tourism class train.

There is also the possibility to take part on the "WAYKI OPTION" (Available only with the 4days Inka Trail”, which means that you can participate on the life of our porters for one day (it is done a day before your Inca Trail begins). So, your trip lasts 5 days). You will visit the village where our porters live, you will see their activities and have opportunity to participate in their life per one day. So, you will be involved in their traditions, at night we go to their home where you will have delicious typical Peruvian food. That would be a very nice experience, it doesn’t increase your payment, it’s free. This is the only way to proof that we really have good relations with our porters and they are happy working with our company, some other companies doesn’t have good relation with their porters. And notice that we are the unique company who offers this kind of option in Peru.

Prices:

us $390.00 per adult

us $360.00 per student, (with valid student card).

 Excluded:

Sleeping bag, the last day lunch after visiting Machupicchu, (you can have your lunch at any of the many restaurants in Aguas Calientes), tips for porters and guide (customary tip completely up to you)
Items we suggest you should bring. Original passport, back pack, Warm clothes for the night, flashlight, insect repellent, sun block cream, water purifying tablets, raincoat, personal medical kit, toiletries and things you see useful in a trek.

 WE TAKE SMALL GROUPS!!

Always a small group is better to keep walking together and enjoy the nature of the Inka trail, there is a possibility to make friend and share experiences, interacting more closely with each other. Whereas, in larger groups (10 – 16) people it trend to split into factions. Moreover in larger groups trends to be a sizeable difference (often over one hour in a section of the Inka trail) between the fastest and slowest member of the group. This makes it more difficult for the guides, cooks and porters to make their effective labors. In small groups, people are more likely to arrive at roughly the same time to hear the guide’s explanations. In larger groups they are more likely to arrive at different times and this will mean the faster ones waiting and becoming frustrated.

Small groups require less space in campsites and this enables the guide to select better locations. Larger groups are restricted in their choice. Also our porters are given the same food as the tourists. In larger groups agencies often provide inferior food for the porters. In small groups the guide, cook and porters have a more intimate relationship with the tourists and are better able to meet individual needs and attend to environmental issues such as waste disposal, contamination, etc. In larger groups there is less control.

The smaller the group the closer attention can be paid to health and safety issues, as the group will be together more of the time. Because of these reason in our standard service we take small groups, only in a group of friends and delegations we manage larger groups.

HOW TO BOOK:

To reserve the Inca Trail we need to send your personal information to the Inka Trail REGULATOR OFFICE, according to the Inka Trail regulation last disposition (the government makes the rule). The reservation has to be done until 4days before starting the trip at least. The entrance to the Inca Trail is restricted to protect the area to only of 500 people per day. (This means between the 4days and 2days Inka Trail) this means that if we consider all the tours guides, cooks, and our porters only 200 visitors can go for the Inka Trails in a day. Because of this reason It’s important for us to make a reservation before than availability are full, in the low season the availability gets full with couple weeks advanced, for the high season (June, July, august, September) gets full with 3 and 4 months advance, so we advice you to reserve as soon as possible to avoid missing spaces.

For a valid reserve, you only have to madeposit, and the remaining you have to pay at your arrival to Cusco in our office. For your reservation you have to send through e-mail the following: complete names, passport numbers, date of birth, nationality, gender and a money deposit of US $ 150,00 per person by the WESTERN UNION ke a prepayment ( http://www.westernunion.com/ ) the recipient name Gorki Dalens Paucar . Once done it you need to send the money transfer control number (MTCN), notice that only the complete details and the money deposit will proof your participle in any of our trips, this money deposit we use to buy your entrance fee to Machupicchu according the Inka Trail rules. If there are students, please send a scan of the student card through e-mail at the same reserving time (valid student cards are only the International ISIC cards, and also the college and high school student card if contains names, career university name and expiring date (send both sites). (Are not valid teachers card, youth travel card or). The student card gives you us$30 as a discount. In the 4days traditional trail.

INKA TRAIL ITINERARY:

DAY 1: START OF THE Inka Trail. We will pick you up, early at the hotel in the morning and transfer you until kilometer 82 in a private bus. We will stop at a place where we have our breakfast before beginning our trek. Then we will begin our journey the first part of which it is quite simple, around two hours, and we will see from the Inka trail the archaeological center of PATALLACTA from where we will appreciate the impressive landscape of flora, fauna and Andean town with Inka traditions. These archaeological sites shows the importance of this valley in the first place after lunch we will continue ascending lightly to a semi-tropical valley for two hours until we arrive at our camp, Huayllabamba at (3000.m.a.s.l). Where we’ll spend the night.

DAY 2: HUAYLLABAMBA – PACAYMAYO. We start early after breakfast and trek to the highest point on the Inka trail, passing through different climatic and ecological zones as we ascend the WARMIWAÑUSCA pass at 4200 m.a.s.l. After breakfast we’ll undertake our ascent and during the first two hours we will walk amongst abundant vegetation with trees of wild origin. Because of this reason its known by many as the worlds highest cloud forest amongst the landscapes the flora and fauna starting at 3800 m.a.l.s. Until the high point, is typical of the andean mountains covered with Icchu or straw and mountains with perpetual snow. After an arduous walk of approximately 5 hours well arrive at highest point, from there we will observe the beauty of the deep valleys and a distance covered well on the way to our third day. With luck we will see the flight of the condors and we will pass among the thick clouds as they fence the sky. After a worthy rest we’ll descend toward our second camp at PACAYMAYU (3500 masl).

DAY 3: PACAYMAYO – HUIÑAYHUAINA. From PACAYMAYU, the Inka trail climbs steeply up the opposite side of the valley wall, towards the second pass. About halfway up it’s a small round roofless stone building. This Inca remains is known as RUNKURACAY The building is thought to have been a astronomic site, a kind of way post for couriers following the Inka trail to MACHU PICCHU. It contained sleeping areas for the couriers and stabling facilities for their animals. After RUNKURACAY, the Inka trail continues to climb towards the second pass, the Abra de RUNKURACAY, which is at around 3900m. On the far side of the pass, the Inka trail descends towards a valley containing a shallow lake. At around this point, the Inka trail changes from a dirt path to a narrow stone roadway. This is the beginning of the true Inca Trail; the stones of the roadway were laid by the Quechua people of the period of the Inka State . the Inka trail leads to a second, larger Inca site, named SAYACMARCA ("Town in a Steep Place"). SAYACMARCA effectively controls the Inka trail - which passes beneath it - at this point. It is built on a promontory of rock overlooking the Inka trail, and is accessible only via a single narrow stone staircase. On the left of the staircase, which is about a meter or less in width, is an overhanging rock wall, which makes it difficult for a tall man to climb, while on the right is a sheer drop onto the rocks below. SAYACMARCA (which Bingham inexplicably and erroneously decided to call Cedrobamba) "Plain of Cedars". Despite the fact that there are no cedars to be seen, it's perched on a spur overlooking a valley) is roofless and overgrown, but the walls still stand and the shape of the fortress can easily be seen. Nearby is a stone aqueduct, which once carried water to the farmlands.  After SAYACMARCA, the Inka trail descends to the valley floor, and the roadway takes the form of a long causeway leading across what may once have been the bed of a shallow lake. On the far side, the Inka trail begins to climb again. The roadway represents a considerable feat of engineering, including even an 8m-tunnel section where the Inca engineers widened a natural fissure in the rock into a tunnel large enough to allow the passage of human and animals. the Inka trail leads up to the third pass and, just beyond it, a third Inca site, PHUYUPATAMARCA ("Cloud-level Town"). This site appears to have had some ritual function; the rectangular structures along one side are baths, which were apparently fed from a spring higher up. The highest bath was reserved for the nobles, while the lower classes performed their ritual ablutions in the water which had already been used by the aristocracy. Below PHUYUPATAMARCA, the Inka trail spirals and descends steeply towards HUIÑAYHUAYNA, ("Forever Young"), another Inca site. There is another campsite and a visitor center nearby.

DAY 4: TO MACHUPICCHU. The final section of the Inka trail, from HUIÑAYHUAYNA to INTIPUNKU is an easy hike, following a broad level path, which winds comfortably through scrub and light woodland. Colorful butterflies flutter across the Inka trail. After no more than an hour and a half or two, the Inka trail Comes to a narrow flight of stone steps leading upwards into a small stone structure with a grass floor a few meters square. This is INTIPUNKU, the Gateway of the Sun, and through the rectangular doorway, you can see the ruins of Machupicchu.

From INTIPUNKU, a pathway leads directly to MACHU PICCHU itself.

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