Inca Trail Review: EVERYTHING You need to Know
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- The Inca Trail is an amazing journey that takes you through some of the most beautiful and stunning parts of Peru. If you're planning a trip to Machu Picchu, then you need to watch this video!
In this Inca Trail review, we'll give you everything you need to know about the trail - from the altitude and climate to the trail intensity - so you have the information to make the most of your trip! We will give our thoughts on the food, water, and sleeping accommodations while hiking! If you have any questions, leave a comment in the description below and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Our tour guide was Alpaca Expeditions - here is a link to the tour we booked: www.alpacaexpeditions.com/ink...
DISCLAIMER: Here are some links to some hiking essentials we liked and mentioned in the video! We plan to release full packing guides to help make your trip planning much easier. All of the below links are paid links and as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases:
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For when you have to “go” 💩
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Day Packs 🎒
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If forced to pick we’d go with he REI flash 22 for this hike-it is a bit bigger and has exterior pockets-but you can’t go wrong with either bag:
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Hydration 💦
Your tour provider will supply the boiled water, but you will need to supply the container! We recommend having a water bottle and a 2-3L bladder in your day pack. Garret also feels very strongly that these are some of the best electrolytes out there!
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0:00 Intro
0:28 An Overview of the Inca Trail
1:33 Selecting a Trek & Trekking Company
2:42 When to Hike the Inca Trail
3:16 Preparing for the Altitude, Climate, & Trail Intensity
5:34 Food & Sleeping Accommodations
About Us:
We are Garret and Lauren, two newly weds living in Texas. After getting married in early 2021, we decided to spend the first three years of marriage traveling to 30 new locations before we turn 30 in the summer of 2024! We plan to share our new adventures as well as reflect on some of our past travels through this vlog channel, and hope that you will follow along with us.
Great info and review, thanks for the wonderful tips!
Such a beautiful place, thank you for sharing this wonderful review!☺
Thank you too! Appreciate you watching!!
Thanks for those information. Hope one day I can be there. Amazing !!
We hope you can be there one day too!
This video is SO freaking helpful; especially the information re: the Elevation 🎉. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video and that was useful 😁 - We hope you have a great upcoming trip!! 🇵🇪
Absolutely beautiful💛
Thank you! It’s the best hike we’ve ever done! 🤩
Loads of fantastic tips there 😊 very informative and it looks like an amazing trail. Really great review
It was an amazing hike! Glad you enjoyed the review - thanks for watching 🤠😁
Votre vidéo sur le Chemin des Incas est une vraie source d’inspiration ! 🚶♂️🚶♀️ En tant que randonneur ayant également parcouru ces chemins, chaque paysage me rappelle de bons souvenirs. Merci de nous emmener avec vous dans cette aventure qui résonne avec tant d’émotions. 🏞️
Thanks for the kind words! Glad the video brings back good memories 🙂
Woww I'll keep it this, maybe one day i need, very informative, great adventure, I love this video
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽🤗👍🏾🤩
Thanks for watching! 😍
Great advice, seems like a wonderful hike. Greetings from Canada!
Thanks for watching! It was a wonderful hike!! I’m sure you have many great hikes in Canada-we are a bit lacking in Texas so we travel for them 😅
Great and informative video! I hiked it in September and it was a very rewarding experience.
It really is! Thanks for watching!
Very informative guide! This is one of our bucket list items for sure. Sounds like the tour company DID provide everything. Private potty seems like the way to go.
Thanks for watching! We learned a lot on our trip and are happy to share so everyone else can plan their bucket list trip! The toilet tent is a MUST 😅
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Excellent video. Greetings from Croatia
Thanks for watching!
Awesome view beautiful
Yes it was!! Thanks for watching!
This is the kind of video that i woud save for a future Inca trip. Perfect video. Informative, no bs, straight to the point and good tips. Keeeep it up!
We are glad you found this video helpful! Thank you for watching 😁🙌
Peru 🇵🇪 is definitely a fantastic destination mountains ocean histrionic sites (wow has it all🙌)
Good to know you need a guide on the Inca trail hike 👍
And good advice regarding altitude sickness and fitness levels
Excellent video
Best regards Simon 😊🙏🏼🏔️
Thanks Simon!! We really loved this adventure - appreciate you watching and leaving these kind comments! 😊
@@explorinwithlaurin welcome 🙏🏼 was a great Vlog 🙌
Thank you guys for the info!
Question: what about showering?
hello friend, Inca Trail Review: EVERYTHING You need to Know great video friend
Thanks! 👍
What a awesome hike you did! I love the potty I got one myself😂Enjoyed the video😂
Thank you 😁 the toilet tent saved lived 😅 Thanks for watching & glad you enjoyed!
Wow very nice 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks so much for making this video! Very helpful! One questions; are there parts of this tour where you're super close to the edge of the mountain? I'm fine to hike, but if it's like a cliff edge situation, I get really bad vertigo. Super grateful for the advice. Thanks! Jess :)
HI Jess, there may be a few brief spots you don’t like where the trail is going perpendicular across a steep mountain face, but I don’t recall any true “cliff” edge situations. For the most part there is really lush vegetation on either side of the trail that is absolutely beautiful. There are also some steep steps that you have to go down-on those I would recommend you just go down slow and sideways. The guides are also fantastic and I am sure they will stay with you in case anything triggers your vertigo unexpectedly. This really was the best hike we have ever been on and we hope that you enjoy it too! Safe travels!
Thank you for all the tips! Are you able to share the gear you used to document the hike? I’m headed there soon and a newbie to documenting.
Hello! We used a Go Pro hero 10 Camera in combination with an Iphone. We decided to use a go pro to ensure we could capture footage even when it was raining non stop. We also purchased spare batteries and a portable charger to ensure our camera would be available the entire hike. We hope you enjoy the hike - let us know if you have any questions! Some links to the products we used are below 😁
DISCLAIMER: Here are some links to some hiking essentials we liked and mentioned in the video! All of the Amazon links below are paid links and as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases:
📷 Go Pro Camera: amzn.to/3IPbUs2
🔋Portable charger small: amzn.to/3w4RV2w
🔋Portable Charger (26800mAh with Double-Speed Recharging): amzn.to/3id9dXN
🔋GoPro Camera batteries: amzn.to/3Xw18ws
Hi there, great video and very insightful. I have one question, along the trail, we're there lots of narrow paths - almost too narrow to cross?
No we didn’t think so!
great guide! Thank you! How hard was day 2? Are there a lot of continuous steep uphill bits along the entire route or is it a good mix ?
Thanks for watching! Day 2 is a lot of steep uphill - pretty consistent. But then there is also long bouts of downhill. It is challenging - but definitely doable and so much fun 🤩
Do we need a guide for segment3 trail ? Or the other trails ?
Great video!!
Is there an opportunity to store luggage you don’t want to hike with?
are you bussed back to custco after?
How soon did you get your permit?
Thank you, Dawn!
Yes-our tour operator stored all our luggage for us while we hiked! They picked us up and took the luggage to a storage facility and provided it back to us upon return to Cusco.
You have to take the train from Machu Picchu to Ollantaytambo then the tour operator bussed us to our hotel in Cusco (and gave us the luggage back)
The permits were secured by our tour operator within a couple days of us booking the tour!
Hope this helps! Let us know if you have other questions!
Awesome video, super informative and helpful!
Question- how much is typical to tip the porters? I’m going in a month with Alpaca expeditions as well and I’m still not certain on how many soles I should get before going.
They advise you tip 10-15% of the tour price and divide that between the guide, chef and porters allocating more to the chef and guide. We a bit more than recommended because they took such good care of us!
Have a wonderful trek! It will be one of a lifetime 😃
this looks amazing.. How do you return, is it hike out?
It is a one way hike! Then you take a train back. Lots of logistics go into this but it is worth it!
Thank you for this video! Very informative. Do we really need to go 4 days without shower or do those public bathrooms have a shower? Ik this is a very stupid question but I am trynna mentally prepare myself for my trip in December.
You will have to go without a shower for at least 3 days! There is an option for a shower on the last night but it’s not heated and without power to dry my hair I just skipped it. I was really nervous about it too but you do get hot water every morning and night so that plus wet wipes and dry shampoo and I felt cleaner than expected on day 4!
But you will have a great time! We are excited for you 😃
How much should we tip?
How many porters did your group have, and how was tipping done at the end of the hike? Did you tip each porter individually or as a group?
Hi Ian! We had 10 porters for our group of 4 plus a guide. The tour gives you an envelope to put the tips in for them to distribute but we opted to hand ours out individually on the last night of the trek to thank each on personally for all they had done! The tour companies will give you guidelines on a tipping range based on your tour. However, we thought the range they gave us was a bit low opted to do a little more!
I know that small Bluetooth speakers are not allowed on machu pichu site, but do u know if they are allowed during the hike on the trail?
I don't think they are. But you can enjoy all the beautiful sounds of nature 🤠
We are looking at late November to hike. How far in advance did you book? The rain/ mud has me concerned. Did your boots get very muddy (thinking of the extra weight climbing day 2) . Also how slippery downhill we’re the descents w/ rain? Thanks!!
We booked 3 months out so you should definitely look into booking soon as they do fill up! Luckily, the trail is stone steps/path 80% of the way and there is good irrigation around the path which generally keeps it not so muddy! The downhill is steep but again it’s steps so generally not slippery but we’d still recommend to take it slow! We did this hike late November (over thanksgiving) and except for a few times in the morning we didn’t have to hike in rain too much!
We hope you enjoy the hike! We have other videos on what to pack but if you’re still undecided on if you want to do the trek we have a video on our full experience here: ua-cam.com/video/XKTzGjB3604/v-deo.htmlsi=36S15IRVx6MOku0c
Thanks for the info and responding so quickly! This trip came about quickly so I’m not sure if 1 month training is enough for DWP. Yesterdays hike at 8k had me reconsidering 😂
@@RoseWilson-ru7np it’s not easy, but it’s beautiful the whole way! Constant views and incredible experiences that I can hardly remember my legs burning 😅
Is it hot water you drink during the hike since they boil it in the morning ?
Yes - is initially warm. Although, I believe they boiled it earlier in the morning. It cools off pretty quick as you hike. But it definitely is not ice cold.
Was coffee provided in the morning as well?
Yes!! The had instant coffee at breakfast and would bring that at wake up instead of the tea if requested ☕️
is charging your phone or batteries in an option during the trail?
No it isn’t. We had a portable charger to charge our phone and camera batteries.
A few tips:
- we brought spare camera batteries that lasted the entire trek.
- keeping your phone in airplane mode reduces the battery consumption significantly.
Hope this helps!
@@explorinwithlaurin Thanks !😀
What was name of the tour company u used
Alpaca expeditions! They were wonderful! Hope this helps 🇵🇪 😀
How is heights for someone who is not too comfortable with heights
Not too bad! Maybe a few parts where you’ll want to walk fast but generally okay! We had a couple people in our group that aren’t great with heights and they were all fine! In general it’s more “steep” than “drop off” if that makes sense!
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CAN YOU DO THE INCA TRAIL BY YOURSELF? I MEAN BY NOT HIRING A COMPANY AND BUYING PASSES ON MY OWN .
From my understanding, no. You at least need a tour guide
@@explorinwithlaurin Perfect. Thank you for the response Laurin. I was thinking about Salaktany trek with a guide.
@@TheForthemankind of course, anytime! If you do the Salaktany trek - let us know! I want to do that hike next time 😃
What are the websites to book a trip to machu pichu?
Are you looking to book the Inca trail hike? Or what are you looking for? We booked with a tour operator named alpaca expeditions for the hike! We highly recommend them
@@explorinwithlaurin yeah I would be interested in doing the Inca trail similar to how you guys did it. Im planning on staying in Cusco
@@cesarortiz2081 I recommend looking at alpaca expeditions! That is who we booked through
I want to go but don't like the idea of tour guides or people.
Sometimes we have the same thoughts! They do have private tour options where it’s only your group hiking. We did have a great time with our tour guide. It was a nice level of teaching/ interaction. A lot of time you are hiking alone
I believe there’s an alternate route from the other side and the biggest elevation is around 15 thousand feet