Your Machu Picchu trip, planned in three steps

How to plan your trip with us

1. 01

   See what is open for your dates

   Check Machu Picchu and Inca Trail availability for your exact dates, free and without an email. Sold-out dates rarely come back, so if yours are tight, set an alert for new releases and we will map the closest alternative that still works.

   • Availability CheckerThe status for your dates, stamped with when we last checked.
   • Inca Trail Permit TrackerRelease status by trek and month, with an alert when access opens.
   • Circuit & Route RecommenderA best-fit route and a backup, from a few questions. No email.

   First, see how access works

2. 02

   See the trip we would build around it

   We do not sell standalone tickets. We plan and operate the complete trip, guiding, transport, rail, and lodging, around the Machu Picchu access your dates allow. Real packages, real prices, planned and run by us since 2006.

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     7 days

     Fascinating Machu Picchu

     from $1,750 per traveler

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     9 days

     Machu Picchu for Families

     from $2,150 per traveler

   • 

     9 days · Flagship

     Machu Picchu & Lake Titicaca

     from $2,190 per traveler

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     7 days

     Short Inca Trail & Machu Picchu

     from $2,250 per traveler

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     9 days

     Inca Trail Expedition

     from $2,390 per traveler

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     7 days

     Private Machu Picchu

     from $2,450 per traveler

   Compare all six trips or read how we work

   We design and run your whole Peru trip around the right Machu Picchu access. We plan complete trips, not standalone tickets.

3. 03

   We plan and run it

   Tell a specialist your dates, party size, and pace. You get straight answers from the verified rules and a person who builds and runs the whole trip end to end. No pressure, no ticket sales, just the plan.

   • Ask the AI trip specialistStraight answers from the verified rules, and a human handoff when you want one.
   • Custom Peru Trip PlannerA feasibility read on your month, party, and pace before anyone asks for an email.

Research

Planning guides

The research questions, answered by the team that operates the trips.

• Best Time to Visit Machu Picchu

  When to go to Machu Picchu: how the dry and wet seasons actually feel, month by month, and how far ahead each season sells out.

• Altitude in Cusco: What to Expect and How to Acclimatize

  Cusco sits near 3,400 m. What the altitude feels like, an arrival plan that works, and how to acclimatize before Machu Picchu or a trek.

• Salkantay vs the Inca Trail: Which Trek to Machu Picchu?

  The permit-limited, ruins-rich Inca Trail or the wilder, higher Salkantay trek: how the two classic routes to Machu Picchu really compare.

• What to Pack for Machu Picchu and the Andes

  A practical Machu Picchu packing list: layers for four climates, what to carry into the citadel, and what trekkers need that day-visitors do not.

• Machu Picchu Circuit 2 vs Circuit 3: Which One to Book?

  Circuit 2 is the classic postcard view plus the urban core; Circuit 3 is the lower citadel and the Huayna Picchu climbs. How to choose between them.

• Machu Picchu Tickets Sold Out? What Actually Works

  Sold out rarely means gone for good. The moves that actually work when Machu Picchu entries or permits are sold out for your dates, and the traps to avoid.

All planning guides

The proof

Every rule, current and dated

The current rules behind the tools above, each carrying the date we last checked it.

Open the Rules Center