Explore the Inca Trail

Jacquetta Megarry and Roy Davies

This 2006 edition of our popular guidebook contains everything you need to plan and enjoy hiking a choice of three Inca Trails to Machu Picchu in Peru. Step-by-step sections cover the Classic trail (4-5 days), the longer, more strenuous trek from Mollepata (6-7 days) and the Shortest option (2 days).

Our Inca Trail guidebook includes:

• detailed site plan of Machu Picchu ruins
• detailed description of Machu Picchu, with side-trips and photographs
• background on Inca culture and stonework, Andean wildlife and modern Peru
• advice on planning and preparation, including packing checklist and updated Trail regulations
• medical advice on how to prevent and manage altitude symptoms
• phrasebook in Spanish, Quechua and English
• drop-down map showing three versions of the Inca Trail
• in full colour, with over 75 photographs
• on waterproof paper.

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Co-author Roy Davies has been very interested in the Inca Trail ever since he first walked it in 1989: visit his comprehensive website.