Peru trip planning, verified
Entry is rationed, rules change most years, and stale answers cost real trips. Start with the tools below: they run on rules we verify against official Peruvian sources and stamp with the date we checked them.
3 rules verified against official sourcesLatest check Jul 7, 2026How we verify
Tickets, circuits, add-ons, and permits on one page. The map to everything else.
The current official rules, verified against primary sources and dated.
A best-fit route and a backup, from a few questions. No email required.
The release status for your dates, with an alert the moment access opens.
A feasibility read on your month, party, and pace before anyone asks for an email.
Direct answers from the published rules, and a human handoff when you want one.
Live reference
Every rule carries the date we last checked it against the official source.
Current rule
Operator-only, passport-bound permits with a hard daily quota; following-year permits release roughly a year ahead (recently around October or November).
Current rule
Since June 2024 the citadel is visited on 3 circuits with 10 designated routes; your ticket locks your route.
Current rule
Timed, circuit-specific, capacity-capped entry tickets sold through the official platform.
Highland Adventures designs and runs your whole Peru trip around the right Machu Picchu access. We plan complete trips, not standalone tickets.
Complete trips
We do not sell standalone tickets. We plan and operate the whole trip, guiding, transport, rail and lodging, around the Machu Picchu access your dates allow. Operated by Highland Adventures since 2006.
7 days
from $1,750 per traveler
9 days
from $2,150 per traveler
9 days · Flagship
from $2,190 per traveler
7 days
from $2,250 per traveler
9 days
from $2,390 per traveler
7 days
from $2,450 per traveler
Research
The research questions, answered by the team that operates the trips.
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.
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.
The permit-limited, ruins-rich Inca Trail or the wilder, higher Salkantay trek: how the two classic routes to Machu Picchu really compare.
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.