Type of Tour: Culture, History, Journey with Luxury Service.
Good For: Travellers who want to visit Machu Picchu Inca Site by train and car.
Difficulty: Nothing
Consideration: AVAILABLE ALL YEAR.
Useful Information:
- Above all, your safety.
- Tour for everybody who wants to visit Machu Picchu without a hike.
- Take many photos while we are driving through the sacred valley to Aguas Calientes.
- Your belonging is gonna be transported on the car and train.
- Enjoy an amazing sunrise of Machu Picchu early on day 2.
- Observe and delight the flowers and birds in Aguas Calientes.
- See the Inca Sites that we are going to pass on the way.
- Take shortcut without a hike to this sacred city of Machu Picchu.
- You must be prepared for a lot of mosquitoes the lost city of the Incas (Machu Picchu).
- Luxury service to Machu Picchu.
- Sleep in a Hotel the night before Machu Picchu.
- We are using local staff and natural resources.
- Local company with sustainable responsibility.
- Briefing by one of Sparrow Explorer agent in our office or your hotel.
Includes:
- Pick up from your hotel by one of our agents.
- Professional trilingual tour guide (English — Spanish — Quechua).
- Professional Assistant tour guide (for groups over than 12 people).
- Entrance fee to Machu Picchu.
- Bus Transportation from Cusco to Poroy (Train Station).
- Train from Poroy to Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu town).
- Meals (01 breakfasts, 01 snacks, 01 lunches, and 01 dinners).
- Optional activity in Aguas Calientes such as a museum, butterflies or botanical garden.
- Tour the day 1 in any of these activities.
- 3*** stars hotel in Aguas Caliente.
- Bus tickets from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu.(way up)
- Tour in all Machu Picchu Archaeological site.
- Train from Aguas Calientes to Poroy.
- Bus tickets from Machu Picchu to Aguas Calientes (way down).
- Car Transportation from Poroy to Cusco.
- VEGETARIAN FOOD IS OPTIONAL WITHOUT EXTRA COST!!!
Not Included:
- Single supplement fee (hotel room).
- First breakfast (Day 1), lunch and dinner (Day 2)
- Entrance fee for Huayna Picchu Mountain.
- Tips (appreciations).
- Extra snack.
- Travel insurance.
Day 1 : Cusco City – Poroy – Aguas Calientes
We are going to pick you up at your hotel around 6:45 am and from your hotel we will drive you to Poroy train station (this train station is only 20 minutes away from Cusco) or possibly to Ollantaytambo which is 2 hours roughly from Cusco (depending on weather conditions and availability). from anywhere that the train is gonna departure. we are going to have comfortable seats on the train enjoying hot or cold drinks that are gonna be provided by the train company for free. During the trip, on the way you have the chance to see many glaciers and snow-capped peaks, lush, green valleys and Incan farming terraces on both sites of the valley. at the same time is possible to find some archaeological sites on the way to Aguas Calientes and little by little you are going to get into subtropical areas with bromeliads and ferns growing and then is possible to see birds and wildlife. in the Machu Picchu town (Aguas Calientes) Our representative of Sparrow Explorer will meet you just outside of the train station and she(he) is gonna be in charge to take you to your hotel and do the check-in. However, you can organize some optional activities if you’d like, such as a visit to the hot springs, botanical garden, butterflies museum, Mandor Gardens and waterfalls or visit the small Machu Picchu museum where you can find an amazing photos of Machu Picchu when it was first discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, mummies, bracelets, stone working, and metallurgy tools, weaving tools and pottery which were found on site. Lunch and dinner will be in town at a restaurant.
Day 2: Aguas Calientes — Machupicchu — Cusco City
We have to wake up very early in the morning of the five days in order to see the sunrise in Machupicchu (if the weather allows) We’ll start with breakfast at the hotel and then head to the bus that will take us to Machupicchu archaeological site. just after getting into Machupicchu we’re going to good spot to take amazing and unforgettable pictures for your Facebook profile. Afterward, your guide is gonna explain you for 2 hours tour in all Machupicchu site and if you want to visit the place by yourself the guides are gonna explain you at that moment. but, before your tour guide will provide your bus ticket for Aguas Calientes town from where you´re going to meet with your tour guide where he is gonna give you tren tickets and explain how to take the train in order to back to Cusco. If you´d like you to have the chance to climb up to Huayna Picchu Mountain that takes around 50 minutes to wreathe summit. From this please you can see Machu Picchu and you will feel as you never did from this, please. But if you want to hike to this mountain just let us know in advance (cost for it US$ 20 dollars extra).
Altitude Sickness
It’s common to start to wondering about altitude sickness if you thinking to come to Peru, especially in Cusco. however, It’s easy to figure out this problem. You just need to spend a few days in Cusco drinking plenty of water and coca tea.
This is the High Altitude Symptom
headache, tiredness, dizziness, nausea, tingling, loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, vomiting. Please, If you feel any of this problem contact our company or call a doctor in order to help you. but, this symptom usually is gonna be temporal just you need to drink plenty of water and coca tea. However, some times our customer prefers pills and in that way, we suggest you have an (acetazolamide or dexamethasone) and come a few days before to Cusco.
Weather
In general, the weather here in the andes is unpredictable and that is the way why we suggest to our customers have to be ready for a rainy or sunny day. although, if you have waterproof clothes for sure it’s gonna helping us so much.
First Aid Kit
All of Our mountain guides have their first aid kits and a lot of training in first aid in the mountains and every year they received classes of doctor with the most frequent problems as a (diarrhea, cuts, headache, scrapes,etc.) at the same time they have an oxygen tank in order to help you to feel much better. However, It’s fine if you thinking to bring your own first aid kit for the trek.
Travel Insurance
Always is gonna be a good idea to have travel insurance for your tour or trek and more if you thinking to travel for a few weeks or more of one month. Although, for sure you need to have one if you have any serious illness just in case if something happens.
Please, if you don’t have one is fine.
Environmental Impact
This company is a travel agency that protects our environment. because, as you know the biggest problem that we have been suffering on our planet is global warming. but, we’re a sustainable company that we use a biodegradable staff and at the same time, our principal job is to teach to everyone protect this home (earth planet).
Community
The most important for us is our workers and of course, it means their families of the communities that everybody feels so proud of all of then. because, they still keep having our culture and thanks to all of those things is possible to know more knowledge about our ancestors as their traditions, behaviors, customs, etc. However, our job is to help all of then with books, computers, buildings and with the most important points teaching to everybody how important is our culture and protect everything left by our ancestors. because We think that “Love just the things that you know” and that’s why we have to help to all of then. However, We have to keep teaching not to loss their behaviors or customs in order to preserve and conserve this amazing culture Inca.