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Hike · Km 82 (Piscacucho)

Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Distance
22.4 mi
Vertical
9,551 ft
Summit
13,802 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

The Classic Inca Trail is the most famous trek in South America — a four-day, roughly 40-kilometre walk along original Inca paving from the Urubamba valley to the Sun Gate above Machu Picchu. From the Km 82 checkpoint at Piscacucho the trail climbs through cloud forest and puna…

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Original Inca stonework threading the misted cloud forest
Mx. Granger · CC0
The long climb to Dead Woman's Pass across open puna
Dmitry Brant · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sayacmarca's stone terraces perched above a sea of cloud
Mx. Granger · CC0
A still alpine tarn mirroring the high Andean peaks
Dmitry Brant · CC BY-SA 4.0

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