Machu Picchu — the 15th-century Inca citadel at 2,430 metres in the eastern Peruvian Andes — is a UNESCO site, one of the New Seven Wonders, and probably the single most recognisable archaeological site in South America. Peruways runs the whole trip as one booking.
The common nickname “Lost City of the Incas” is historically wrong (it was never lost to local farmers, only to the wider world until Hiram Bingham’s 1911 report), but the setting is as advertised: a saddle between two peaks, cloud forest climbing both sides, the Urubamba in the valley below.
Peruways’ guided packages cover the train from Cusco or Ollantaytambo, the Consettur bus up from Aguas Calientes, the timed-entry ticket, and a licensed Peruvian guide at the citadel. Add Huayna Picchu or Machu Picchu Mountain if you want the climb — 400 permits a day for each.
The site uses three ticketed circuits with one-way routing. Circuit 2 is the standard route covering the Temple of the Sun and the main terraces.
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