Inca Jungle Trail to Machu Picchu

Inca Jungle Trail 4 Days / 3 Nights

Description: Inca Jungle Trail

This is the most amazing and exciting trip to Machupicchu with bike and trek, we can discover more adventures among the mountains, valleys, rivers and crossing smalls villages, coca plantations, coffee and a lot of kind of fruits …walking on the old real inka trail which connect to the city of the Incas, we will take also a relaxing bath in the hot springs , this trip definitely is considered one of the adventure route to Machupicchu where we will observe daily living of Andean and local people, buying some fruits, mineral water, also we always use the local restaurants and familiar hostels, as we already know they are always grateful with our guest.

Day 1: Cusco – Abra Malaga - Santa Maria (Biking)

We will pick you up between 7:30 to 8.00 am, then we will leave the city seeing beautiful natural surroundings with rolling hills until we reach the town of Chinchero overlooking the Sacred Valley at about 2700 m.a.s.l. After descending this mountainside we arrive to a brief stop at Ollantaytambo where we start the 46 km. uphill to the ABRA MALAGA (Mountain Pass at 4350 m.a.s.l.) approx. at 11:00 am, the starting point again to our downhill, just in case the weather be not good for riding bikes due to haze, raining or snow, we'll go further down with the bus for about 30 more minutes to the next place being the hamlet of “Carrizales” where we'll rest a bit and get a box lunch, after that we will descend to the hot valley of the high jungle towards, this downhill will last about 5 hours, passing by little rustic villages, ravines, fruit groves and streams arriving in a small village (Santa Maria) where we will spend our first night in a tropical hostal .
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Day 2: Santa Maria – Santa Teresa (Treeking)

We will get a healthy breakfast to start walking over a flat area by the riverside for about 1 hour. Then we continue to go up the route 3 more hours taking the ancient Inka jungle trail, a rustic and rough road full of rocks and stones (with some steps on it), crossing the river using old Oroyas (Cablecar bridges) and footbridges... we can observe various wild animals of the region like birds, fruits & medicine plants like, then arriving to the hamlet of Qellumayu where we will rest and have lunch, After that we will go on with our trek walking by the river two more hours to the hot springs…We will relax for about 1 hour and continue walking 30 more minutes to arrive to SANTA TERESA town, approx. at 6:00pm and spend another night in a tropical hostal. Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

Day 3: Santa Teresa – Aguas Calientes Town (Treeking)

This morning after breakfast we will continue our trip to the Hydroelectrica This part of the trek is called the waterfall day where well pass many cascades and specially one falling from 45 m above being the smallest. and have some rest and get lunch, we will continue our trip two more hours as we reach to our final destination today to Machu Picchu pueblo known as “ Aguas Calientes” where we will spend our third night in a hotel also you can enjoy the hot springs after to have dinner in a restaurant.
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Day 4: Aguas Calientes Town - Machupicchu - Cusco

This day we will wake up very early in order to take the first bus to the Citadel of Machupicchu for to enjoy the sunrise and get the reservation for to climb up the Huaynapicchu mountain and start with our guided tour for 2 hours and plenty of free time to explore more, optional time to Climb the mountain Huayna Picchu, Temple of the Moon, or the Sun gate, after that you have to take the bus to go down to Aguas Calientes and wait for the train to return, arrive in Poroy train station and transfer to your hotel in Cusco .
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