Machu Picchu Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Hola mis amigos,

Well, my journey on the Inca trail is finished, and it was absolutely amazing. Highlight of my trip so far, no question.

On Friday, I woke up around 4:30 to get ready for the trek. Storing my big backpack with my hostel, I packed up my Camelback daypack with the essentials, and waited for my ride. A bit before 6, ...

So Monday I found some people at the hostel and we booked a 4-days trek from Cusco to Machu Pichu, for the next day. Like everything in Peru's most touristy city, it's way more expensive tan what I've grown used to : 130usd, with the studen reduction ! way more than in Huaraz.

Well at least it's better than in Lima, where they frankly rob...

Today we began our walk in the footsteps of the Inca. We are packed with our little daypack with some snacks, water, camera, rain jacket. The rest of our clothes, food and camping gears are carried by local porters. Each porter is carrying 26kg and the only footwear they wearing are sandals. But they past us with a speed, just amazing. We all we...

After a sleepless night (damn partying brits in our dorm) its up at 5am to drive to the start of the trek. There have been cancellations in our group, so its just us, Loz and Kassia with guide Raul and 10 porters. TEN!!! And a professional chef well trained in the art of presentation and the carved cucumber parrot garnish. Despite this abundance...

September 11, 2009 Friday 10:12 p.m.
Amazing…that is how I can describe Machu Picchu. I woke up around 5:30 a.m. and had breakfast. The bus picked me up at 6:20 a.m. We picked up other riders and then we were off to Poyay. When I got there I got on the train. I was in seat 45 in car D. I had a window seat and on the train four seats fac...

This is a journey.

On the Lodge-to-Lodge Trek with Mountain Lodges of Peru, we trekked the "Salkantay Route", going from lodge to lodge in the Cordillera Vilcabamba, an awe inspiring Andean mountain range that includes the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu. The Salkantay Route is the path less trekked to Machu Picchu; we saw few other trekkers al...

This is a journey of new horizons.

I love going where I haven't been before. The experience invites me to see with new eyes, be open to new ideas, and inspires my curiosity. Our small group of 10 guests all shared an enthusiasm for nature, exercise, cultures, history and camaraderie. We represented a broad age range, from the 20's, 30R...

We managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 4:45am, had breakfast at 5am then made our way across to the queue for the buses up to Machupicchu (which was massive!!) We got on a bus at 5:45am which took about 20 minutes to get up the mountain. We got our passports stamped with a novelty stamp on the way in and attempted to locate the meeting point...

Yet another early start again this morning to catch the 5.30am train up to Machu Picchu. The shower would have to be one of the dodgiest ever seen - there was some water heating gadget attached to the shower, and wired from the light so every time the shower was on all the lights in the room dimmed! We had some coca tea while we were waiting to ...

A tummy bug picked up en route scuppered to our plan to arrive at Machu Picchu on foot and instead we caught the bus up to the site at 5.30am the next morning to see the sunrise over Machu Picchu and begin the tourist jostle to be two of the 400 people each day allowed to climb Huana Picchu, the smaller peak overlooking the ruins site. We squeez...