The Way of the Inca was formerly the route that united Cuzco with Machu Picchu, and today is the more famous route of trekking of all the American continent. Although nowadays trains exist and bus that takes directly until the ruins, the best way to live the experience on the Earth Inca is to accede in the same way to her in that it became during centuries. One is trekking of four days with ascents and pronounced reductions, frequent rains and nights of camping with the minimum resources. If it sounds hard, is because he is hard; but the pain compensates bond the effort. Who it crosses the Way of the Inca never forgets it.

Most of the excursions they have like departure point kilometer 88 of the routes of the railroad (locality of Qoriwayrachina), until which it is arrived from Cuzco or Ollantaytambo in only half an hour. There, to two thousand meters on the level of the sea, incia the Way of the Inca, forty kilometers. During the passage a peak altitude of 4200 meters is reached, and finalizes in the City Sagrada de Machu Picchu, to 2400 meters , in the morning of the fourth day. This is the main reason by which he is debilitating, since oxygen is scarce and all hill more for those than is not trained.

Before undertaking the passage, it is necessary to make sure the equipment adapted for three days with his nights in the mountain. A minimum equipment includes a small carp, stock market to sleep, insulating, impermeable long cushion, shoes of trekking, clothes of shelter (the nights are very fresh because of the height), canteen, lantern, minimedicine kit, nonperecedera food for all the terk and tablets waters-treatment for the water, as well as articles of personal hygiene. It is important that this equipment does not add too much weight to the long walk.