All itinerariesPeru in 7 Days: Sacred Valley, Cusco and Machu Picchu
Seven days through Cusco and the Sacred Valley, arranged around the single stamped hour your Machu Picchu ticket gives you.
≈ PEN 2,219 per person
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Machu Picchu is booked in a fixed order, and that order is what shapes this trip. The entry ticket is date-, time- and circuit-stamped, it is sold against your passport number, and the morning slots on the classic circuit go three to four months out in dry season, so it is bought first and everything else is fitted around the hour it gives you. The train from Ollantaytambo is booked second, sixty to ninety days ahead; the shuttle bus and the guide can wait until you are there. If you would rather walk the Inca Trail than take the train, that permit jumps to the front of the queue at five to six months, and the trail is shut for maintenance the whole of every February. The second lever is where you sleep: three nights in the Sacred Valley at about 2,800 m before Cusco's 3,400 m, which is the gentler way to arrive at altitude and also the reason you stand on the Pisac terraces, the Ollantaytambo fortress and the 06:00 Machu Picchu gate ahead of the day-tour convoy that leaves Cusco each morning. Seven days, soles throughout, and every ticket priced at the foreigner rate you will actually be charged.
Day by day
Day 1 — Straight down to the valley: the Pisac market, then the terraces after the buses have goneStraight down to the valley: the Pisac market, then the terraces after the buses have gone
Day 2 — Climb to 3,500 m and come back down to sleep: Moray, the salt pans and ChincheroClimb to 3,500 m and come back down to sleep: Moray, the salt pans and Chinchero
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Every venue was checked against current public sources — hours, prices, closures — before it was published. Walks and transit legs are not in the count.
checked against restaurantguru.com · tripadvisor.com · turismoliberty.pe · ticketmachupicchu.com · yapaexplorers.com · bestofperutravel.com + 33 more
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How we check
Anything with a kitchen or a ticket gate is verified individually: the official site where one exists, plus recent traveler reviews. Public squares, parks and viewpoints get an existence check. A venue we can’t confirm is flagged below rather than quietly kept, and the whole itinerary is re-checked on a cadence — past 12 months without one, the checked claim is dropped and the date above stops being a promise.