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Inca Trail and Tours to Machu Picchu

Tours, guided tours, outfitters and practical facts about touring Peru's best-known attraction, either by rail and bus or overland by the Inca Trail.
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu - Walk or Ride?
Every year during the dry season between May to September multitudes of visitors from all over the workd stand in awe of the spectacular ruins of the Lost City of the Incas.
Views of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Views of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu include views down deep river gorges and up at snow-clad mountain peaks. These images are only a sample of the trek through barren puno, up and down rocky mountain trails, through meadows and cloud forest, sheer cliff faces and on to the fabled ruins at Machu Picchu. Enjoy!
Walk The Inca Trail
Depending on your starting point, the Inca Trail is 27 to 35 miles long passing through high-mountain desert, cloud forest, and mountain passes with elevations of nearly 14,000 feet and an orchid-rich jungle before it brings you to to Machu Picchu, the fabled Lost City of the Incas.
Hiram Bingham Orient Express Train
"The 'Hiram Bingham' is a new luxury train service that runs from Poroy Station to Machu Picchu taking 3 and a half hours."
Andes Adventure on the Inca Trail
Inca Trail trek and photographs.
Andes Expedition
Read the accounts of the National Geographic expedition and the ice mummies.
Huaraz Cuzco and Machu Picchu
Seven day trip from Lima for bikes or 4x4's. From Peru Expeditions.
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Options: Inca Trail Discovery (5 days/4 nights, 3 nights camping), Inca Trail Classic (4 days/3 nights, all camping), Short Inca Trail (2 days/1 night, no camping), Inca Trail De Luxe - Platinum Service and The Weaver’s way to Machu Picchu.
Inca Trail
Map photos and comments about each day's journey.
Indiana Expedition
Small group tours (6 people at most) to Cusco, the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, plus lots of information about Peru.
Lost Cities Adventure
Use Quicktime 4 or see the photos of Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca, Lima, and various sites in Northern Peru. With historical and archaeological commentary.
Machu Picchu
Choose from the options: Andean Explorer, Inca Trail & Beyond, The "Other" Inca Trail, and add on a Peru Extension Tour or Trekking in the Cordillera Blanca.
Photojournal: Inca Trail Porter
Photos and text describing one porter's experiences on the famed Inca Trail.
The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu - Virtual Trail
"The real Inca Trail is a walking route that leads through the mountains above the Urubamba river, following (at least partly) the course of an old Inca roadway leading to the city of Machu Picchu."
The Inca Trail and Machu Pichu
Follow the photographic trail.
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
What makes the Inca Trail a magnet for hikers from all over the world? Roy Davies has an answer.
The Other Inca Trail
"Here's another way to get to Machu Picchu - via an unfrequented yet entirely spectacular route that features several days of peaceful, far-from-the-crowds trekking before connecting with the 'classic' Inca Trail leading to the celebrated citadel."
Vaya Adventures
Click on Machu Picchu and Peru to browse an array of tours to Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and the amazon jungle.

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