The most recommended package tour, which includes a visit to the Sacred Valley the first day on the way to Machu Picchu.
The tour has confirmed daily departures and can be booked up until 48 hours in advance. However, entrance tickets for the Machu Picchu citadel and the Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu Mountains are always subject to availability, so we recommend booking as far in advance as possible.
Prices of the programs with entrance fee to Machu Picchu for type of accommodation in Aguas Calientes until December 31st, 2024:
If you select a program without entrance fee to the Llaqta Machu Picchu, you must have a ticket with entrance time from 6:00 am to 7:00 am, from 7:00 am to 8:00 am, from 8:00 am to 9:00 am, from 9:00 am to 10:00 am, or from 10:00 am to 11:00 am, and a discount will be applied as follows:
*Andean Community: resident citizens in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
*Discount for minors: you can access to the prices for minors (age 3 to 17) directly in the passengers’ number selector.
The visit to Llaqta Machu Picchu offers several tour options, depending on the ticket you purchase on the Ministry of Culture of Peru's website. You can see the details of each in the following explanatory links:
If you purchase a program with an entrance ticket, we will inform you of the available entry when you confirm your reservation. The priority for confirmation is Circuit 2, followed by Circuit 3, and finally Circuit 1.
*The Vistadome upgrade train is offered only for the return trip because on the outward journey to Aguas Calientes there are no Vistadome times that you can combine with the tour’s itinerary.
*It is not possible visiting both mountains, Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu, in the same tour.
Start: Day 1 at 7:30 am in the Gate of the Cathedral in Cusco.
End: Day 2 around 9:30 pm in downtown Cusco.
Day 1: Cusco – Písac – Ollantaytambo – Aguas Calientes. We will meet in the meeting point in the morning to begin our trip by vehicle towards north of Cusco. We will make a stop at a lookout point to catch our first glimpse of the Sacred Valley, as well as to receive a presentation from our tour guide. Then, we will reach Písac, where we will visit the archaeological site with terraces used by the Quechua for cultivation. We will reach an altitude of 3,400 meters (11,154 ft.) or even 3,500 meters (11,483 ft.) if we have the energy to explore the highest part. After this, we will go back to the town where we will be able to visit the handicraft market. Next, we will drive on towards Ollantaytambo while skirting the Urubamba River. Once we are there*, we will visit the terraces and the Temple of the Sun ruins, and we will also have an exceptional view of the surrounding valleys. At the end of the day, we will take you to the train station to take the train to Aguas Calientes, from where you will then go to the hostel where you will spend the night.
*If you selected the optional service for a train upgrade to the Vistadome category, you will only receive a short explanation about the archaeological site and then you will have to go to the train station to take the train to Aguas Calientes.
Day 2: Aguas Calientes – Machu Picchu – Cusco.
We will get up very early in the morning to take the bus with our guide in the town center. The ride from Aguas Calientes to the entrance of the Machu Picchu citadel will take 25 minutes. Here, we will take a guided tour that lasts one hour, during which we will receive information about the place’s history, from its construction to the time it was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham. Then, we will say good-bye to the guide and the group to tour the citadel on our own, with enough time to get to explore the structures that we didn’t get to see with the guide, or to climb one of the mountains, Machu Picchu Mountain or Huayna Picchu, if you included one in your ticket. After this experience, we will go back to Aguas Calientes to be at the train station a half an hour before the scheduled departure on your ticket. You will arrive to Ollantaytambo, where transportation will be waiting for you to take you to downtown Cusco.
The discount for minors applies according to the age they have at the moment of making the tour. Separate from that, you have to send us the travel document at the moment of booking.
The students discount is valid as long as you are maximum 25 years old. The same way the discount is valid if, at the moment of booking, you send us a copy or picture of your university ID card. This card needs to have the following information:
The following documents are not valid to prove you are a student:
The visit has a duration of three hours, and is divided as follows: 1 hour for a guided tour by the llaqta, and two hours to climb up and go down one of the optional mountains, or to go over freely by the citadel.
We receive bookings with minimum 1 week in advance. However, the places are limited and are always subject to availability. Entry tickets for the Machu Picchu citadel and entry tickets to the optional mountains Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu have a high demand, running out of tickets, in some cases, with months in advance. Because of that, our recommendation is to make the booking as far in advance as possible.
