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TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE INCA TRAIL TREK TO MACHU PICCHU
Walking the Inca Trail is an experience that should inspire excitement, invoke a bit of fear, arouse jealousy among your friends, and awaken a sense of wanderlust in your soul.
The Inca Trail is a journey through the lowlands to the mountain valleys of the Andes in Peru. The exciting journey through the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu can last from 1 day to 10 or more days through villages, valleys, mountains, lakes and hills. The Trail is well known for its variety of biodiversity and its history since 1915. Hiram Bingham discovered the trail and from 1960 was open for commercial trek. Trekking is by far the most popular sport practiced by visitors to Machu Picchu. Some hikers take long hikes, while others seek shorter days of leisurely walks through the hills.
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is a recently opened trek for the travelers from all around the world which serves as a wonderful blend of the natural splendor as well as the cultural miscellany of Peru. The Inca Trail has been creating a buzz among the travel enthusiasts and adventure seekers thinking about trekking to Machu Picchu. Although, it has succeeded in grabbing attention and curiosity it is still unscathed and unharmed in regards of the count of travelers who in reality visit the place. The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is rich in its beauty with the inclusion of isolated and off beaten trail, as only few people actually decide to take the trek. The fewer visitors also add more exclusiveness to the trek.
Best remote trek of Peru
Although the trips to Machu Picchu are the most famous tours of Peru, the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu stands out among other off beaten trails. Peru is a home country to many mountains with altitude over 6,000 m which includes Salkantay and Ausangate. The Inca Trail is located in the national park of Machu Picchu a conservation area which is a home to 20 species of mammals, 1000 species of birds, 200 species of butterflies, 2,000 species of flowering plants and 11 types of forest which provides you an enormous assortment in a short upright vicinity.
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Prosperous cultural experience
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu passes by Mani mysterious Inca settlements and different ecosystems. You will get to visit the Machu Picchu which is also considered as the wonder of the world where you will get to experience pure and original culture of the Incas.
Moderately strenuous
Although, the Inca trail to Machu Picchu belongs to the off beaten trails of the country, the trek requires moderate fitness. This means that you aren’t required to have an athletic body or capabilities in order to embark your journey in the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. However, you need to consider your health issues especially concerning bones, ankles and knees because this might result in an unpleasant trek. The trek needs you to walk for about 6-7 hours per day, thus some prior trekking experiences will be beneficial to the travelers. However, those who don’t have any such experiences can try exercising few weeks prior to the trekking. This will not only boost your endurance level but also brings your body in proper shape and condition.
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What is the Inca trail to Machu Picchu?
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is a well-established and iconic 4-day, 3-night trek that takes travelers from km 82 (the starting point 40 minutes from the city of Ollantaytambo) through its unique Puerta del Sol – also called Inti Punku-).
The good news is that it’s much shorter than you might expect, at just 26 miles (45 km). The bad news? An important part of these 40 km runs through steep and narrow Andean Mountain trails.
The Inca Empire (which for the most part united Peru, much of present-day Ecuador, western and south-central Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern and central Chile, and a small part of southwestern Colombia) has created over 50 thousand of kilometers of trails to connect its important colonies and centers of civilization, but it is this specific 4-day route that is known as the only “Classic Inca Trail”. Which traveller hike every year.
Please note that if you see a tour with fewer days offered, it will only cover a small part of the itinerary like the 2-Day short Inca Trail.
Why is the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is so popular?
The Trail to Machu Picchu is Peru in a microcosm; a lush green cloud forest teeming with birds, Andean peaks and steep passes, a landscape dotted with centuries-old ruins, accessible only to those who follow this most famous trail.
However, as beautiful as the trek is, the real reason for its popularity lies at the end of this four-day adventure; passing through the Puerta del Sol for that magical first sighting of Machu Picchu in the distance. Only Inca Trail trekkers can access the Gate at sunrise, and it is this crescendo, in one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, that makes this trek a feature on so many “to do” lists in South America. South”.
The Inca Trail trek marked our second visit to Machu Picchu and we arrived via Puerta del Sol with sweaty brows and tired feet rather than taking the morning bus from Aguas Caliente with thousands of people dropping us off. Clearly this was the best way to get there. to one of the most iconic attractions in the world.
You will not regret!…
The benefit of walking the Inca Trail
- The trekkers return home after the Inca Trail trek, fitter, slimmer and more aware of Inca culture than at the beginning, and are inspired to live a healthier life.
- Trekkers spend an average of 6-8 hours per day on the trail walking between camps.
- “If you love the outdoors on your vacation, hiking is hard to beat,” he says. “Daily training has never been so satisfying.”
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