A Fantastic Short Inca Trail Experience!
When we booked our trip to Peru, we knew we wanted to visit Machu Picchu but didn’t know the best way for us to get there. After some research and knowing our total trip length constraints, we landed on the 3 day-2 night tour that included a day trip through the Sacred Valley, the “short” Inca hike on day 2 and visiting Machu Picchu the morning of day 3 before heading back to Cusco. It included many meals, hotels, and all transit/tickets needed, so seemed like a good plan!
This was our first time booking an overnight tour through a company and we absolutely loved it. Miguel was super communicative prior to our trip, met us the day before at our hotel in Cusco to walk through everything, and from that moment on everything was taken care of.
For day 1, we had a great time with Julio and the rest of our tour group visiting Pisac and Ollantaytambo. Julio was an extremely informative guide and made it a great day! One of the best parts? Getting dropped off at a hotel in Ollantaytambo with our reservation already set and ready!
We met our guide Raul early in the morning day 2 to take the train to stop 104 and begin our hike. Raul is who made the entire 3 day-2 night trip amazing! 10/10. We ended up on a private 2 day tour with him, and it was so nice to be able to go at our own pace up the trail and learn from him along the way. He didn’t mind my frequent breaks - hiking uphill at such high elevation is no joke! Despite the amount of sweat and heavy breathing endured, the view at the top was absolutely worth it looking into Machu Picchu.
Raul also went with me and my spouse to the hot springs after we got to Aguas Calientes, which was so cool to get to see! And after the short Inca trek uphill was quite the nice relaxant for our muscles.
Overall, we lucked out with everything. Weather was clear blue skies days 1 and 2, and we got to see Machu Picchu on day three in the clouds/fog and learn all about the grounds from Raul.
We can’t recommend this trip (or Raul) enough. Seamless, educational, and an overall wonderful time! Booking through a tour group and having everything taken care of made us able to be fully present with our experience in the Sacred Valley and at Machu Picchu. While we didn’t know what to expect, it exceeded all expectations we had going into our trip to Machu Picchu!
23 maggio 2025
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