Inca Trail Tour Group is designed for those who are on a budget but want to hike the Classic Inca Trail. The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is one of the world's most famous hikes in world. it brings you along ancient paths high into the Andean mountains with amazing stonework of perfectly fitted stones, cloud forest, and majestic valley views en route to the Iconic Machu Picchu. Explore the Inca Trail en route to the lost city of the Incas at a reasonable price. Hike up to dead woman pass (Warmi wañusca, highest pass(4200 m) offering great views of the surrounding scenic beauty with different ecosystems for instance; paramo with steep straw slopes, lush cloud forest. Admire archaeological sites i.e Llactapata, Runkuraqay, Sayacmarca, Puyupatamarca and Wiñaywayna before arriving at the famous sun gate, an excellent vantage point overlooking Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu is the most popular tourist attraction of Peru and usually hiking to Machu Picchu through the Inca Trail or Alternative Trail are expensive. Tierras Vivas created this service for low budget travellers. The Cheap Inca Trail Tour is the best option for you, if you want to experience the Inca Trail tours with the best price. Book Online!
During the hike you will explore Inca sites, and admire scenic beauty.
Join a group to get the lowest price! Small group big adventures
Its included the all Inca Trail permits for this hike and Machu Picchu tickets
Double tents and foam roll mattresses. You need to bring the sleeping bag, hiking poles and other personal equipment
Our guide and cook stays with you during the tour to Machu Picchu
During best Inca Trail tours, our porter will carry the camping equipment (Tents and dining tents), food and personal belongings (7 kg)
Some high altitude and strenuous hikes, but accessible to most healthy travellers.
Large group experience during the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
At Tierras Vivas, we are always happy to have families travel with us. Our minimum age requirement is 1 year old, at the time of hiking the children will be the responsibility of the parent or legal guardian 100%. The children will need full coverage travel insurance. 18 years old is the minimum age to travel without a guardian.
If you are vegetarian, please let us know in advance. A vegetarian meal option involves no extra cost!
Note: Water is not included on the first day and second, you can take or buy it from the local shop at the campsite. For day 2 and 4, our cook provides cold boiled water for the road.
Tourist transportation door to door, 1x train.
Free Transfer Service: From the Airport to your hotel upon your arrival at Cusco if the accommodation is in the city of Cusco.
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Day 1: The starting point of the Inca Trail - Km82 to Wayllabamba
Day 2: Wayllabamba - Chaquicocha
Day 3: Chaquicocha to Wiñay wayna
Day 4: End of the Inca Trail - Wiñay wayna to Machu Picchu
Why is this price for the Inca Trail tours? |
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Others Tour Operator |
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All-inclusive camping equipment (Double tent and roll mattress). |
Not Included: You need to pay extra or rent by yourself. A sleeping bag (U$ 25), an air mattress (U$ 25), A pair of hiking poles (U$ 20), and others or you should bring it. |
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Our tents are of the brand Eureka and designated for 4 seasons, These are 4-person capacity tents; however, just 2 trek participants use them! |
Usually, the others tour operator will provide basic tents and it is only for two people capacity |
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Personal Super Porters: Our porter will carry your personal belongings during the Inca Trail (7 kg) |
Not Included: You will carry your personal belongings and if you want a extra porters, you will pay U$ 90 dollars for half porter and U$ 180 a porter. |
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Sustainable operator: Not plastic in the Inca Trail, natural food without chemicals, vegetable "farm to the pot", all personal equipment for our porters like backpacks, jackets, t-shirts, pants, caps and others, and also our porters have a health and life insurance |
The other tour operators do not provide insurance for their porters |
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Tierras Vivas donates 5% of the cost to the foundation Responsible People and every year we reforest in the local communities native trees. The next planting is on September 01, 2023 |
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Our porters have a remuneration according the Peruvian goverment. Visit the New porters law´s |
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What is the difference between them? The difference is the type of service, cheap Inca Trail backpacking goes with large groups and includes only the necessary equipment for your hike and you will need to bring the hiking equipment, and Inca Trail tour all-inclusive is private with small groups and includes all camping equipment.
The dry season in the Andean highlands, from April to October, is the best time for Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail. Expect little or no rainfall, hours of sunshine, and great views of Peru's rugged Andean peaks. In the rainy season from November to March there is much more precipitation and temperatures get cold very quickly after sunset.
If you would like the best Inca Trail Tours all inclusive, choose the best option hike:
Our journey to Machu Picchu through the classical Inca trail begins at your hotel, from where you will be picked up after the breakfast (optional) around 6.00 – 6.30. From your hotel you will have a transfer 2 – 2.5 hours with your guide to our starting point which is called km 82. At the starting point you need to show your Inca Trail permission card, your original passport, and your ISIC card if you have one.Here the Inca Trail begins and we will start hiking for 2 hours to Miskayl, where we are going to enjoy a nice lunch. The hike to Miskayl is a flat and a beautiful walk, where we can enjoy the incredible flora of the landscape around us.
After the lunch we are going to have another two hours hike to Wayllabamba (3.000 m.) which will be our camping spot. We will arrive there at 5. Pm in the afternoon, and we will enjoy a nice dinner from our personal professional chef at 6.30 pm. After the dinner we will settle down for the night.
At the second day the guides wakes us up at 5.30 with warm tee, so we can get a good start of the day at the Inca trail and we will eat breakfast at 6.00. Our first hike of this day begins at 6.30 and it will take around 5 hours (7 km) to get from our camp to the high spot which is called dead woman pass (4.600 m), where you can experience the female spirit, a woman that lives on the side of the mountain.
From this place we have a 2 hour hike down to our second camping spot (Pacamayu 3,600 m), where we finally will have our lunch after 7 hours of hiking in total on the Inca trail. At the camp we will rest and around 6.30 we will have dinner. Later we will get comfortable under our blankets, so we can stay warm for the cold night.
We get up at 6.00 am and breakfast will be served by the chef at 6.30. At 7.00 we will start hiking. This day is a very special and beautiful day where we will pass 3 Inca ruins along the Inca trail. To get to the first Inca ruin Runkqurakay (3.800 m.), we have to hike one hour up; thereafter we have another hour of walking to the second high spot, Runku Pass (4.00 m.). After the second Inca ruin it will get easier, from there we will walk down for 45 m. to Sayacrmarka (3580 m.).
After the visit we will have 25 min. to chakicoccha (3.600 m) where we will enjoy our lunch in natural surroundings and incredible landscape. After the lunch we have a one hour hiking to Phuyupatamarka (3.60 m), which is the last hike on the Inca trail of this day. On this place we can find the last Inca construction for today.
From this point we will have an easy two hour walk down to Wiñnahuayna (2.600 m), where we will settle our camp and our chef will make a nice buffet to everyone so we can say goodbye to the chefs and the porters in a very nice way at 6.30. If you still have energy left after the hike, you can visit the archaeological site of wiñahuayna, only 5 minutes from our camp spot, a really delightful site on the Inbca trail with a lot of terraces and ruins.
Begin hike overlooking the Urubamba River to the sun Gate or INTIPUNKU to see the sunrise on Machu Picchu. We enter the site early in the morning for the best photo opportunities and then spend the rest of the morning visiting and exploring the Ruins, free time in Machu Picchu. Meeting for those interested in visiting Aguas Calientes for lunch or to visit the hot springs otherwise, in the afternoon return to Cusco by tourist train from Aguas Calientes (actual town of Machu Picchu) to Cusco
The porters we have only carry cooking and camping gear, so you must hire an additional porter if you do not wish to carry your personal belongings. $180 for a full porter that can be shared between two people can carry up to 14kg, and a half porter can carry 7kg for one person only and costs $100. There are several regulations that restrict how much weight a porter is allowed to carry, but several companies disregard this to the harm of the porters. We are an advocate for the fair treatment of porters, and as such are very careful to ensure that our porters do not have to carry more than what is fair and ask for you to do the same.
More information: New Inca Trail porters
Our guide will visit your a day before the trek and He/ She will give you a briefing and more information about your Inca Trail. It very important, let us know, where you will be staying in Cusco, our guide will visit your hotel 2 or 1 day before the trek for your briefing.
All Tierras Vivas trekkers are accompanied by a Tour Guide. The aim of our Tour Guides is to take a hassle out of our customers’ trips and to help them to have the best trip possible. The Tour Guides provide information on places visited, offer suggestions of what to see and to do, recommend a good place to eat and introduce to his/her colleagues. The Guides have a broad general knowledge of each country visited during a tour, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects. We also use local Tour Guides where we think that more specific knowledge could add more enjoyment to visited places.
Usually our hike is starting from Cusco, but we can pick you up from your hotel outside of Cusco. Please check your trip and location for pick you up.
| Trip/ Hiking | Starting point & pick up |
| Inca Trail Tours | Cusco, Chinchero, Urubamba, Yanahuara, Ollantaytambo |
| Salkantay Trek | Cusco |
| Lares Trek | Cusco, Pisac |
| Rainbow Mountain | Cusco |
| Ausagante Trek | Cusco |
| Choquequirao trek | Cusco |
| Inca Jungle Trek to Machu Picchu | Cusco, Urubamba, Yanahuara, Ollantaytambo |
| Inca Quarry Trail | Cusco, Urubamba, Yanahuara |
| Cusco Day tours | Only from Cusco |
This famous Inca Trail has two traditional versions of 4 days and the short version of this, which consists of 2 days, now we will explain the degree of difficulty for both routes, so you are prepared before starting your walk.
Day 1: Cusco- Ollantaytambo - KM 82 to Llulluchapampa Campsite.
Distance: 16km approx
Starting Altitude: 2,650m
Finishing Altitude: 3,700m
Walking Distance: 8 - 9 hrs
Degree of difficulty: easy
Day 2: Lluchapampa Campsite up to Dead Womens Pass.
Distance: 8 km approx.
Starting Altitude: 3,700m
High Pass Altitude: 4,200m (Dead Womens)
Finishing Altitude: 3,950m
Walking Distance: 7 - 8 hrs (walking slowly)
Degree of difficulty: difficult
Day 3: Trek Pacaymayo Valley Campsite up to Runkuraqay - Phuyupatamarka.
Distance: 16km approx.
Starting Altitude: 3,950m
High Pass Altitude: 3,600m (Phuyupatamarca)
Finishing Altitude: 2,700m
Walking Distance: 6 hrs
Degree of difficulty: difficult
Day 4: Trek Winay-Wayna Campsite to Inti Punku (Sun Gate), then to Machu Picchu!
Distance: 5km approx.
Starting Altitude: 2,700m
Finishing Altitude: 2,300
Walking Distance: 4 hrs
Degree of difficulty: moderate
Our tents are of the brand Eureka Timberline Outfitter 4 person designated for 4 seasons. We provide with 4 person capacity tents; however, just 2 trek participants use it! In this way, we provide you more space and comfort. In case of a single traveller, we provide with a 2 person capacity tent.
During the Classic Inca Trail we spend three nights full-service camping, meaning that our camp staff will erect and dismantle the tents, cook, and do all camp chores for you: you need only carry your day pack. There will also be dining and toilet tents and bowls of warm water are provided both morning and evening for washing with.
Single Supplement: If you are traveling on your own, and would prefer to share a tent, we'll pair you with another trekker of the same gender and there will not be an extra cost. If you prefer to have a tent to yourself a surcharge of USD 50 will have to be paid. If you want an upgrade any service to the train or accommodation or do you want to stay extra night in Machu Picchu, contact us directly to info@tierrasvivas.com for this to be done and confirmed to you.
If you want to say that you’ve hiked the famous Machu Picchu, then the Cheap Inca Trail Tour is for you. but usually you will need to book in advance, in case it is fully booked, we recommend the Inca Trail alternative hikes:
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Superior service is the best option hike for you. This hike is all-inclusive camping equipment and extra porter. You don´t have to worry about what do you need to bring or rent on your hike. Our porter will carry your camping equipment and personal belonging. Only you will need to walk with your daypack and water.
The Inca Trail is the most famous and popular hike to Machu Picchu and even one of the most famous and favorite treks in the world. Discover one of the most pristine landscapes of Peru and experience an Andean journey. Through the high mountain passes, highland meadows and tropical cloud forests. BOOK ONLINE the Inca Trail Superior service
The 4 day Salkantay Trek Cheaper has created by Tierras Vivas tour operator. This hike is included the basic equipment such as double tent, sleeping mattress, food (3 B, 3 L, 3D), professional guide, cook and entrance fee to Salkantay and Machu Picchu horses for your camping equipment and train service at 18:20. The other tour operator companies offers this service and the price is expensive.
On this 4 day Salkantay hike you overcome the highest point of the trek, On the first day it is easy hike, you walk between the Challacancha to Soraypampa (3700 meters). On the second is hard day, you will walk up between Soraypampa 3700 meters to Salkantay Mountain.4,550 meters above sea level!, Camping on Chaullay, Third day you will walk 4 hrs from Chaullay to la Playa Sahuallaco, then local bus to Santa Teresa, Hot spring option, the fourth day you will walk from Santa Teresa to Aguas Calientes, spend a night on the hostel, option ZIP Line, and the last day Machu Picchu
| Days | 4 |
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$ 650.00 |
| Code | CITT |
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