Machu Picchu
"The Lost City of the Incas"
Exploring this region
Technical information
Citadel 2,430 m / 7,970 ft. Aguas Calientes town (below the site) 2,040 m / 6,690 ft
- Best time to visit
- Dry season May to October.
- Average temperature
- Day 18–27°C (65–80°F)
Night 2–11°C (35–52°F) - Distance from Cusco
- By train: approx. 1h 50min from Ollantaytambo. Approx. 3 to 4 h from Cusco.
Machu Picchu is Peru’s most popular destination, and for many travelers, the reason they come here in the first place. It earns it. Set between cloud forest and mountains, this Inca citadel is a feat of stonework so precise that, centuries later, you still can’t slip a blade between the stones. And despite everything we now know about it, Machu Picchu still holds questions no one has fully answered.
We’ll take you there privately and unhurried, and the right people around you. So all that’s left for you to do is take in what the Incas left behind.
