Tour Location: Machu Picchu, Aguas Calientes, Peru.
Type Tour: Day tour.
Tour Duration: All day.
Start/End Tour: Door-to-door service. We’ll pick you up from your hotel 🏨and return you safely at the end of your adventure.
Advice: Sneakers, winter hat, warm cloth, raincoat (for raining season).
Highlights: Citadel of Machu Picchu.
Overview
Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by the famous explorer Hiram Bingham. The day he entered to the citadel, it was fully covered with a grand amount of vegetation. As well, two families lived there and used its buildings and terraces for their needs. Hiram Bingham was not the first to enter in the citadel, In 1902 Agustin Lizarraga enter in Machu Picchu and left his sign with the year.
Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century. Its real purpose is still a mystery. It is also proved that it was a rather lively city, there lived representatives of the nobility, priests, and “akyas” – “priestesses of the Sun”. This ancient city was inhabited only until 1532. Then the Incas mysteriously disappeared. It is assumed that this happened because Machu Picchu depended on food supplies from Cusco, and after the capture of the capital of the Inca Empire by the Spanish conquistadors, these supplies ceased.
On the other hand, there is an assumption that ordinary people went to fight against the Spanish, and the nobility with treasures escaped to the city of Vilcabamba.

The guided tour in Machu Picchu takes approx 2 hours, during which you will visit the main points of the citadel.
If you want to make an upgrade and visit Huayna Picchu or Huchu Picchu, your tour will extend 1.5 – 2 hours more.




