You can walk up to the MachuPicchu!

A trip to MachuPicchu is many things, but cheap is not one of them. Train tickets from Cusco can run more than a hundred dollars each, and the entry fees are an additional $50. In between, a round-trip bus trip up and down the 2,000-feet-high slope atop which the Inca ruins are located costs another $19. If you don’t mind a workout, however, you can walk up and down for free. The steep path roughly follows Hiram Bingham’s 1911 route and offers extraordinary views of the Machu Picchu Historical Sanctuary, which looks almost as it did in Bingham’s time. The climb is strenuous and takes about 90 minutes.

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