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Lares Trail or Salkantay trail?

Posted by starlagurl

... items are not usually included: * Breakfast on day 1, * snacks along the trail, * tourist bus from Machu Picchu to Aguas Calientes ($6), * meals on the final day apart from breakfast. A private group is generally similar to the ...

choquequirao to machu picchu, may 2013

Posted by sipako

Posted on Jan 15, 2013, 11:06:50

... few days are spent hiking towards Aguas Calientes. We'll have a short ride in a vehicle at the end, then a tour of Machu Picchu and return to Cuzco by train. Sound exciting? Do you love to hike, explore, and meet like minded travellers? We are not ...

Aguas Calientes?

Posted by irax

Is it worth staying an extra night here after the Inca Trail? Andrea I stayed in Aguas Calientes after visting Machu Picchu and I'd advise anyone else with the time to do the same. It means that you don't have to rush down from MP in ...

Machu Picchu Info

Posted by robertbeddow

... , but if you are uneasy with heights, the long ladders may make you turn back. Follow the rail track from Aguas Calientes towards Machu Picchu. About 50 meters past the last building is an obvious trail leading up to the right. Conveniently it has a sign ...

tips on cuzco?

Posted by irax

... site without the tourists. The Inca trail tourists were instead having to finish the trail by walking along the rail tracks to Aguas Calientes and then camping at the bottom of the 400 meter climb to Machu Picchu, which they´d do in the morning along with ...

Warning before booking tour to Machu Pichu

Posted by mmbcross

... first train back was at 3:30 pm, and there was never a morning train back from Aguas Calientes to Cusco. Times have now changed. Since privatization Peru Rail has now introduced many more timetables to accommodate the increased number of visitors. In ...

Transportation from Ollantaytambo Station to Cusco

Posted by apartian

I noticed the trains for Machu Picchu have ceased for the moment out of Cusco to Aguas Calientes, and there is only one train in and out of Poroy per day. For better choices of times, I would like to use the Ollantaytambo station but need advice ...

March 18, 2009 trip to Peru

Posted by travelingkat

... Bastillas Islands, Huacachina (trying some sandboarding)-possibly stay the night, Nazca Lines, Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Cuzco, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Aguas Calientes (stay the night) then back to Lima on the morning of March 27th so my friend that I&# ...

Tours?

Posted by mmbcross

... orientation. There are many options to Machu Picchu now, and trains run all day. By all means at least have a one-night stay at Aguas Calientes, the little village at the base of the ruins. Then get up to the site on one of the early morning buses. You ...

March 18, 2009 trip to Peru

Posted by travelingkat

... I could stay a day to see the Canyon (knew this might be stretching it). Colca Canyon, Cuzco, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Aguas Calientes are all near each other, and most tours do this part in 3 days time. Since bus rides to Nazca are 7 hours, doing the ...

Santiago to Cuzco ... and back???

Posted by mmbcross

... ), Iquique, Arica, Arequipa, from Arequipa take the direct bus to Cusco. In Cusco take the trip to Machu Picchu, but stay at least one night at Aguas Calientes. Return across the Altiplano to Lake Titicaca and Puno (skipping Juliaca), then La Paz, Oruro, ...

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