INKA JUNGLE TRAIL
The Tropical Inca Trail is a new route, which involves biking, walking and just being. Our multiple terrain trips, includes recently discovered real Inca paths, visited only by our clients, archaeological ruins, an 80km bike downhill through the mountains from Abra Malaga to the green valley below and the jungle base of Santa Maria. The four day, three night trip ends with a dawn view of the valleys below from Machu Picchu
Day 1: Cusco – Santa Maria
We pick you up from your hotel in Cusco and transfer by private transportation to the trailhead at Abra Malaga, here we will start to biking to Santa Maria, in this route we can appreciate archeolical site, birds of the forest, medicinal plants, snakes, butterflies and tropical fruits and also we will be able to visit local families in its daily routine. This night you can take a shower at a family run hostel
Day 2: Santa Maria – Santa Terasa
Early morning, we will continue our trip, which gets progressively steeper, until arriving at the welcoming family restaurant, where you can relax in hammocks, admiring the coca plant and take on refreshments while being entertained by the family monkey. After a short while you will reach the real Inca Trail, which winds around precipitous slopes and sheer drops for approximately half a mile. Be warned this is not for people who suffer from vertigo! We will descend to Colcamayo, where you can take a bath at the natural hot springs before going up to Santa Teresa located along the Santa Teresa River, accommodation in the family homestead.
Day 3: Santa Teresa– Aguas Calientes
Wake up, have breakfast before taking private transport to Lucmabamba town, we will see the sunset with a stunning scenery of one of the main highlights in south America Machupicchu, then descending the path easily followed down to the bamboos groves and into forest of increasingly thick vegetation and tall trees some excellent birdwatching opportunities and then we can see the faint outlines. Reaching to la Hidreoelectrica we follow the rail tracks heading up the Urubamba valley to our last night (Aguas Calientes)
Day 4: Aguas Calientes –Machupicchu - Cusco
After an early morning breakfast we will walk up to Machupicchu sanctuary and entering early for the best photos opportunities and then spend the rest of the morning visiting and exploring the ruins and take the time to climb up to Huaynapicchu before heading down to Aguas calientes to aboard the train back to Ollantaytambo and overnight.
