The Inca Jungle Trek is an adrenaline-filled and adventurous route to Machu Picchu, combining hiking with extreme sports. For four days and three nights, travelers enjoy mountain biking, rafting, and ziplining through jungle and Andean landscapes. The trek follows the Inca trail through the jungle, passing local villages and hot springs, before reaching Aguas Calientes. The adventure culminates with a visit to the citadel of Machu Picchu, providing a unique experience for lovers of action and nature.
Cusco: Inca Jungle to Machu Picchu 4 Days and 3 Nights
FIRST DAY
Adventurers will be picked up early morning and driven through the stunning Sacred Valley, cradle of the Inca civilization and dropped off at the 4,316 m high Abra Malaga. Here bikers will change in to the kit provided by us (gloves and helmets) following a 20 minute briefing by our experienced tour guide. Then the fun commences freewheeling down quiet but challenging roads, past changing landscapes and ice capped mountains, you will not want to catch your breath until the first pit stop in Alfamayo, some three hours from your starting point. Here you can enjoy your box lunch provided by us, while taking in the endless panoramas.
After a quick change and a dab of insect repellant, it is onwards and downwards towards Huamanmarca, site of a recently discovered archaeological Inca finding. Your tour guide will provide the historical background and the rest you can fill in for yourselves! Carry on descending to 1500 meters, while the jungle's edge rears up and the small but charming town of Santa Maria looms on the horizon. Browse the Internet, buy provisions or just rest your legs and enjoy a cold beer before dinner- traditional Peruvian food, served hot. This night you can have a hot shower at a family run hostel and sleep in either single, double or three bed rooms.
SECOND DAY
Rise at 5:30 hrs, shake off your weary limbs and enjoy the finest indigenous coffee prepared by your landlady for breakfast which is at 6am. Under dawn skies you will begin your walk, which gets progressively steeper, until arriving at the welcoming family restaurant in Santa Rosa, where you can relax in hammocks, admiring the coca plantations and take on refreshments while being entertained by the family monkey. After a short while you will reach the real Inca Trail, which winds around precipitous slopes and sheer drops for approximately half a mile. Be warned this is not for people who suffer from vertigo! The descent continues for just over two hours until you reach Qellomayo, a pueblito, where you will have lunch. Make sure you have saved enough energy for the final stretch, a riverside walk beside the Rio Vilcanota until reaching the delicious hot springs Colcamayo. Rejuvinate in the heavenly hot waters and forget your weary wake in these natural settings. Fully replenished, you will find the final stretch to Santa Teresa a sinch. Here you should sleep well in the family homestead after dinner.
THIRD DAY
Wake at 07:00 hrs, have breakfast before taking private transport to Lucmabamba town, the entrance to another Inca Trail, which was discovered just a few years ago. We are the only tour company to walk this part of the Inca Trail, so for three and a half hours you will feel like Adam and Eve walking amidst parrots in this tranquil Garden of Eden. You will be rewarded for your efforts with a view of Machu Picchu from the top of Llactapata,
Machupicchu toursflanked by the grotesque peak of Salkantay. Your picnic here is unlikely to be forgotten for a while, gazing down on all those tourists who took the traditional Inca route because they did not know! It is only about a two hour walk down to the hydro-electric train station where the train departs for Aguas Calientes, the base town for Machu Picchu. Included is dinner at a local restaurant before retiring to your hostel with hot water and private bathrooms.
FOURTH DAY
An early rise today, as you will take the first bus to Machu Picchu at 5:30 hrs, reaching Machu Picchu at 6:00 hrs, which with luck will coincide with a beautiful sunrise! Your guide will leave no stones unturned but feel free to challenge their knowledge of Inca history. Afterwards you have free time to dally with the llamas and show off your photographic skills. Those who still have the will can tackle Huaynapicchu, which actually looks down on Machu Picchu. A frequent bus service takes visitors back to Aguas Calientes, where you will catch the train to Hidroelectrica or Ollantaytambo and then the bus to Cusco.
Important:
If you want to access to the Huayna Picchu mountain, must pay $ 20 (twenty dollars) additional.
All the buses the coming back from the Inca Trail leave the passengers one block from the main square, you are going to return to the hotel by yourself.
The service includes:
Professional, Tour Guide
Assistant Guide (for groups of 10 or more people)
Return transportation (tourist or local bus to the Start of bikking train back to cusco
Biking equipment (bike helmet gloves)
Entrance free to machupicchu
Bus ticket from Aguas calientes to Machu Picchu (optional)
3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 afternoon snacks, 3 dinners.
3 nights in a hostal
Oxygen bottle
First Aid kit.
What you need to take
Original passport (and International Student card ISIC if applicable)
Travel is essential
Walking boots
Waterproof jacket/rain poncho
T-shirts
Comfortable trousers
Sun hat
Sun protection cream (factor 35 recommended)
Insect repellent
Toiletries
Objects to be Carried:
Camera and films
Shorts
Plasters and bandages
Sandals
Extra money
Bathing suit (for hot springs in Aguas Calientes)
Personal medication
Please Note: We do offer two options of Services
PRICE OF THE TOUR PER PERSON
Prices | |
Cost of tour | USD 285 |