Current rule
The three circuits and ten routes
Since June 2024 the citadel is visited on 3 circuits with 10 designated routes; your ticket locks your route.
Last verified Jul 9, 2026 (verified)how we check
Machu Picchu trip planning
Your Machu Picchu trip, planned in three steps
Permits sell out months ahead and the rules shift most years. We track what is open, build the complete trip around it, and run the whole thing, so the hard part is ours and the easy part is yours.
3 rules current and datedLatest check Jul 9, 2026
How to plan your trip with us
See what is open for your dates
Check Machu Picchu and Inca Trail availability for your exact dates, free and without an email. Sold-out dates rarely come back, so if yours are tight, set an alert for new releases and we will map the closest alternative that still works.
See the trip we would build around it
We do not sell standalone tickets. We plan and operate the complete trip, guiding, transport, rail, and lodging, around the Machu Picchu access your dates allow. Real packages, real prices, planned and run by us since 2006.
7 days
Fascinating Machu Picchu
from $1,750 per traveler
9 days
Machu Picchu for Families
from $2,150 per traveler
9 days · Flagship
Machu Picchu & Lake Titicaca
from $2,190 per traveler
7 days
Short Inca Trail & Machu Picchu
from $2,250 per traveler
9 days
Inca Trail Expedition
from $2,390 per traveler
7 days
Private Machu Picchu
from $2,450 per traveler
Compare all six trips or read how we work
We design and run your whole Peru trip around the right Machu Picchu access. We plan complete trips, not standalone tickets.
We plan and run it
Tell a specialist your dates, party size, and pace. You get straight answers from the verified rules and a person who builds and runs the whole trip end to end. No pressure, no ticket sales, just the plan.
Research
Planning guides
The research questions, answered by the team that operates the trips.
- Best Time to Visit Machu Picchu
When to go to Machu Picchu: how the dry and wet seasons actually feel, month by month, and how far ahead each season sells out.
- Altitude in Cusco: What to Expect and How to Acclimatize
Cusco sits near 3,400 m. What the altitude feels like, an arrival plan that works, and how to acclimatize before Machu Picchu or a trek.
- Salkantay vs the Inca Trail: Which Trek to Machu Picchu?
The permit-limited, ruins-rich Inca Trail or the wilder, higher Salkantay trek: how the two classic routes to Machu Picchu really compare.
- What to Pack for Machu Picchu and the Andes
A practical Machu Picchu packing list: layers for four climates, what to carry into the citadel, and what trekkers need that day-visitors do not.
The proof
Every rule, current and dated
The current rules behind the tools above, each carrying the date we last checked it.
Current rule
Inca Trail permits: quotas, release, and the February closure
Operator-only, passport-bound permits with a hard daily quota; following-year permits release roughly a year ahead (recently around October or November).
Last verified Jul 7, 2026 (verified)how we check
Current rule
Machu Picchu entry tickets: how the system works
Timed, circuit-specific, capacity-capped entry tickets sold through the official platform.
Last verified Jul 7, 2026 (verified)how we check