The 40km trip, which fuses spectacular scenery and history, is a trek into the Andes - think snow-capped peaks, tangled cloud forest, wild orchid ... As the Peruvian government limits the number of people allowed on the Inca Trail to 500 per day, permits ...

You need at least two nights in Machu Picchu; it is best to take two days to visit the site, but the hotel offers other interesting things to do: an orchid tour (there ... yet for all the souvenir sellers, Peruvian hats and Inca Kola T-shirts, I still ...