INKA TRAIL (5 DAYS / 4 NIGHTS)
Day 01. - CUSCO – CHILLCA – HUAYLLABAMBA
We will start our trip by bus to the km. 82 (piskacucho), from where we will begin the walk following the urubamba river. after four hours of walk, we will arrive at the place called llactapata, where we can observe the affluence of four rivers and an important archaeological place and also the beautiful nature. here ends the urubamba river and begins the kusichaca river. our first camp will be around of huayllabamba.
Day 02. - HUAYLLABAMBA – PACAYMAYO
We will continue the trail and we will come to a cloudy and tropical forest area. we will follow this forest until the valley of llulluchayoc. then we will climb till the opening of warmihuañusca for walking until the beautiful valley of pacaymayo, where we will have our second camp.
Day 03. - PACAYMAYO – PHUYUPATAMARKA
After a while of walk, we will visit the old ruins of runcuracay, from where we will be able to see the snowy mountains from the mountain chain of vilcabamba. passing the opening of runcuracay, we can see the changing of the vegetation and we will be sure, that we have crossed the continental division of the river basin of the amazonas. the inca trail is now more evident then before. we will walk down until yanacocha (la laguna negra, the black lake), a drained lake. we will pass the complex of sayajmarca till we will enter the first forests of the jungle. the walk is continuous and we cross the inka tunnel and after we will follow the way till phuyupatamarka, the highest inka construction. there we will have our third camp.
Day 04. - PHUYUPATAMARKA – MACHUPICCHU
again we will be in an open field. far away we can see the mountains called pumasillo and salkantay and a hundreds of meters downside, we can see again the urubamba river. following the walk, we will go up the never-ending inka stairs. we will eat our breakfast and have a little break in the good conserved inka place called wiñay wayna. from the point of view of inti punku (door of the sun), we will see the beautiful and historically very important ruins of machupicchu. finally we will cross the route to our destiny: machupicchu. we will have our fourth camp at the boarder of the river or – if you wish – in the hotel.
Day 05. - MACHUPICCHU – CUSCO
we will go back to the holy city of machupicchu very early in the morning for making our guided tour inside and around the city. in the afternoon, we will take the train back to cusco.
Our Service Includes:
- Transportation hotel – km. 82 (piscacucho) and railway station of cusco - hotel
- Professional bilingual guide (in the language of you wished)
- Camping equipment
- First-aid kit
- Alimentation (with vegetarian option): 4 breakfasts, 4 lunches,
4 suppers, daily tea-time and snacks, drinking water
- Entries to the inka trail and machupicchu
- Bus aguas calientes – machupicchu – aguas calientes
- Train back to cusco (2nd class “back packer”)
We don’t Include:
- Sleeping bag
- Extra and personal porter
- Breakfast (first day), lunch and supper (last day
WHAT YOU BRING BY YOURSELF (RECOMMENDED):
- Personal private hygienically articles
- Pphoto- or film camera with extra batteries
- Enough warm changing clothes
- Sun cream
- Sleeping bag and flashlight with extra batteries
- Sun hat
- Trekking shoes
- Sunglasses
- Water cleaning pills
- Raincoat
- Drinking water for the first day
- Passport and international student card (i.s.i.c.)
Important:
if you wish to spend the last (fourth) night in the hotel, you must pay it by yourself and separately. also, if you wish to take the 1st class train “vista dome” back to cusco, you must pay it by yourself and separately.
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