Machu Picchu Full Day Tour is the most preferred tour by most tourists visiting Peru and the best Machu Picchu one day trip by train from Cusco, considered to be one of the new seven wonders in the modern world. This stunning site situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley is the best-preserved relic of Inca Civilization and South America’s most popular attraction with an estimated 3,000 people visiting on a typical day.
Please Note: We recommend this Machu Picchu Full Day Tour ONLY, if you are very short of time, otherwise. We are highly recommend the 2 days / 1 night train tour or the short Inca Trail 2D/1N.
Machu Picchu Full Day Tour is the most amazing tour and considered to be one of the new seven wonders in the modern world, take the most incredible train journeys in the world. Boarding at Ollantaytambo you can enjoy fine dining and the beautiful scenery as you make your way to Machu Picchu.
You will have through briefing with your guide 1 or 2 days before your Machu Picchu Full Day Tour. Your guide will meet you at your hotel and you can take this opportunity to ask questions and make any final preparations.
In the morning, we pick you up from your hotel and transfer your to a railway station (either at Poroy, which is 30 minutes far away from Cusco or at Ollantaytambo which takes 1 hour and 40 minutes from Cusco), to start our Machu Picchu 1 Day Tour.
There you board a train and travel for about 1 hour 45 minutes experiencing spectacular changeable landscapes passing through lush fields and colourful villages placed on the foothill of the Andes. The highlight of the way are wonderful views of mountains and the marvellous Urubamba River that runs through the Sacred Valley of the Incas. In the end, you reach Aguas Calientes, a town just below Machu Picchu, where our Representative welcomes you at the railway station to accompany you to a bus stop.
There you get on a shuttle bus taking you up to the archaeological complex of Machu Picchu following a zigzag path for about 25 minutes.
Once in Machu Picchu, your Tour Guide introduces you the most important attractions of this antique Incan site such as its main square, the Sun Temple, Intiwatana (Sun Clock), the Royal Rooms, the Temple of the Three Windows and the Royal Incas Cemetery. This guided tour takes about 2 and half an hour and then you are given time off to explore around the complex and to climb Huayna Picchu (or Machu Picchu Mountain) to take some amazing panoramic photos of Machu Picchu.
So please do not forget your camera and enjoy the visit of the “One of the New 7 Wonders of the World” !!
When you have enjoy the site enough, you take a shuttle bus down to Aguas Calientes where you can have lunch (not included in the package) in one of many lovely restaurants offering traditional Andean as well as international cuisine. Afterwards, you can visit the thermal baths of Aguas Calientes or the Museum of the Site (neither entrance of these is included in the package).
In the afternoon, we take a train back to Ollantaytambo (alternatively to Poroy) where our driver expects us in front of the railway station to transfer us to Cusco.
When you’re planning a trip to Machu Picchu Full Day Tour, there are must-haves things that you can’t forget in your backpack, even more, if you are going to do a Machu Picchu tour. For this reason, we prepare the following list to help you.
Permits are needed for your chosen start date. The Machu Picchu Full Day Tour prices are based on the number of people in a Shared group. Prices are valid from January 2024 through January 2025. All prices quoted are $USD
