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Inca Trail
Inca Trail Machu Pichu Peru

Hiking the Inca Trail

Our Best Inca Trail Tours

The Inca Trail

Inca Trail
8 Days from USD 1900

Guided Group (Incl. Taxes)

Follow in the footsteps of the Peruvian Incas

Walking & Trekking

Essential Inca Trail

Inca Trail

Join our express trip to the once-lost Inca city of Machu Picchu: fewer days, the same New Wonder of the World

Walking & Trekking
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Glamping on the Inca Trail

Inca Trail
9 Days from USD 4350

Guided Group (Incl. Taxes)

Trek the classic Inca Trail, glamping each night to wake each morning refreshed

Walking & Trekking

The Inca Trail in Comfort

Machu Picchu

Follow in the footsteps of the Peruvian Incas in extra comfort

Walking & Trekking
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Inca Trail, Titicaca & Nazca

Lake Titicaca
15 Days from USD 4948
USD 4455

Guided Group (Incl. Taxes)

Peru's deserts and high Andes and follow a classic trekking route

Walking & Trekking
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Inca Trail & the Amazon Rainforest

TPJ
15 Days from USD 6298
USD 5670

Guided Group (Incl. Taxes)

Trekking, jungle and indigenous culture – the best Peru has to offer

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The Salkantay Trek

TPS
14 Days from USD 3898
USD 3510

Guided Group (Incl. Taxes)

Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba, join the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Walking & Trekking

A four day hiking journey that had as much beauty as it had challenges. Breathtaking in every way. Rewarding and overwhelming. The camping makes it that much more intimate with the trail and that much more challenging with the journey.

Denyse LeBrun The Inca Trail

3 nights in the Amazon were unbelievable, so much to see and do and our Amazon guide Roland was incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. He made everything easy.
Hiking the Inca Trail through the scenery of the Andes mountains was awesome and our guide Ollie was also amazing at looking after us and explaining the history of pre Inca civilisations and the Incas.
Our home stay with villagers on Lake Titicaca was also a fantastic experience, watching the sunset and learning about their lifestyle on Amantani island.
Also the time spent in Lima, Cusco and Puno was also very enjoyable for more of a city feel and they are beautiful cities.

Darren Lyon Inca Trail & the Amazon Rainforest

There may be an easier way to see Machu Picchu, but I don’t think there is a better way! The local team , led by Edwin, were absolute legends – 100% professional throughout, and took the very best care of us. I remain in awe of how head porter Roger and his team did everything we did (but carrying an entire campsite and in a faction of the time!) and chef Roberto is a magician for producing restaurant standard meals in remote mountain locations! The trek was certainly hard in places – but not excessive – and it was a truly special and rewarding way to see this iconic location (with added bonuses of the sacred valley at the start and being able to see Machu Picchu twice at the end – once when you descend from the trek and again, in more leisure, the following morning).

Edward Bedford The Inca Trail in Comfort

Why choose Exodus for your Inca Trail tour?

Inca Trail permits – early booking essential!

There is a daily cap on the number of trekking permits available for Inca Trail trips, and they sell out very quickly, especially for peak season treks. For this reason, we recommend booking your trek at least six to eight months in advance, particularly for the peak trekking months of May to September. Better still, book before the permits come on sale and we will try to purchase your trek permit as soon as they are released. If permits do sell out, we do also offer an alternative yet equally spectacular route – The Moonstone Trek – which does not require permits and can be substituted for the Inca Trail on most tours.

Inca Trail Highlights

Dead Woman’s Pass
The ascent to Dead Woman’s Pass, the first pass on the Inca Trail, is notoriously the toughest and most demanding part of the whole trail. Trekking to 4200m is slow going, relentless and requires every ounce of your stamina, especially if you’re still acclimatising to the altitude. Once you reach the top, usually on the second day, expect to be exhausted to the depths of your soul but totally uplifted by views of snow-capped mountains, endorphins and a powerful sense of accomplishment.

It’s impossible not to feel enormous respect for the Inca workers who carved the stairways into the mountainside and laid over 22,000km of these Inca roads stone by stone. You’ll also be in awe of your fighting-fit porters, the rightful descendants of Inca Chaqui messengers, who bound past you on the trail carrying bags, food and camping equipment without seeming to break a sweat.

Phuyupatamarca
After a tiring trek over the second pass and descent through exotic cloud forests you’ll notice the ancient Inca forts, store houses, tunnels and settlements begin to increase, a hint that you’re nearing the end of the Inca Trail tour.

Phuyupatamarca, the ‘town above the clouds’, is a real landmark on the Inca Trail. Complete with a fresh running water system devised by the Incas and beautiful ceremonial baths, it marks a welcome stop before one last test of endurance: the tough bone-shaking descent down 2600 worn Inca steps to Wayna Picchu.

Wiñay Wayna
Almost as beautiful as Machu Picchu itself, Wayna Picchu – ‘forever young’ or ‘to plant the Earth young’ – is set amid verdant green Inca terraces made up of spring-fed stone baths and a waterfall tumbling from the peaks above. Stop here to offer thanks to the Inca Earth Goddess Pachamama for getting you this far, because nearby is the campsite you’ll call home before your final trek along the Inca Trail to Intipunku and your first, unforgettable sight of Machu Picchu.

Intipunku and Machu Picchu
Most groups strike out for the entry point of the legendary Sun Gate of Intipunku in the dark in order to catch their first glimpse of Machu Picchu gloriously lit by the rising sun – a fitting end to your walk along the Inca Trail.

No matter how fatigued you are, no matter how badly your muscles ache, the moment you see the majestic sacred citadel of Machu Picchu laid out before you, birds singing in your ears and blood pumping through your veins, it makes every step of the Inca Trail worthwhile.

See our trips above for Exodus holidays that include Inca Trail tours and Machu Picchu.

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