Llama Expeditions' Tour Notes & Recommendations

If you are in excellent physical condition and ready for a challenge this trip is for you! The 5-day Inca Trail hike involves significant elevation gain and loss at altitude. Steps are featured prominently. The payoff is the beauty of the cloud forest and the ruins you pass through on this pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. Read our tips for surviving the Inca Trail.

Itinerary

• Day 1: Arrive in Lima
• Day 2: Travel to Cusco 
• Day 3: Tour colonial Cusco and nearby Inca ruins
• Day 4: Visit a weaving or Inca Trail porter community
• Day 5: Start the Inca Trail
• Day 6: Hike the Inca Trail
• Day 7: Hike the Inca Trail
• Day 8: Reach Machu Picchu
• Day 9: Explore Machu Picchu and see the salt pans of Maras
• Day 10: Tour historic Lima and learn to make ceviche

Best Time to Go

April through October

Scheduling Tip

Depart on a Wednesday and fly home on a Friday night. This ensures all sites are open during your vacation. And, you have an entire weekend to unpack so that you can return to work refreshed on Monday.

Projects

• Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco

Prices for 2013

• 2 to 4 people – $4,497/person
• 5 to 8 people – $3,695/person
• Own room – $600/person (tents are shared)