
Destination
The high mountain route to Machu Picchu, open without an Inca Trail permit: five days over a 15,190 foot pass to mountain lodges rather than tents.
The case for Salkantay Trek
Salkantay is the wild way in: five days under the glaciers of a 20,500-foot peak, cresting a 15,190-foot pass where the Andes stand close enough to hear the ice, then dropping through cloud forest toward Machu Picchu.
No permit calendar governs the trail, so the dates fit your group, and the nights are spent in mountain lodges rather than tents. Our trips wrap the trek with Cusco and the Sacred Valley on either side.
Our trips
