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Machu Picchu Full Day - Private Tour

Cusco's most-loved private Machu Picchu day trip.

Private tour — just your group 12-15 hours Up to 20 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

A private full-day Machu Picchu tour by private vehicle to Ollantaytambo and train onward, exploring the citadel at your own pace with your own guide.

Explore Machu Picchu at your own pace on a private full-day tour that starts with a private vehicle transfer to Ollantaytambo, followed by a scenic train ride through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes. Your own guide handles the logistics and brings the site's Inca history and engineering to life once you reach the citadel, with time built in to stop for photos along the way.

Highlights

  • Ollantaytambo transfer A private vehicle ride through the Sacred Valley to the Ollantaytambo train station.
  • Scenic train to Aguas Calientes A train journey along the Urubamba River and Inca landscapes.
  • Full Machu Picchu tour A guided exploration of the citadel's temples, terraces, and plazas.
  • Free time to explore Time set aside to wander the site and take photos independently after the guided portion.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Hotel pickup in Cusco. You'll travel by private vehicle to Ollantaytambo, then by train onward to Aguas Calientes and Machu Picchu.

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Ollantaytambo transfer

A private vehicle ride through the Sacred Valley to the Ollantaytambo train station.

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Scenic train to Aguas Calientes

A train journey along the Urubamba River and Inca landscapes.

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Full Machu Picchu tour

A guided exploration of the citadel's temples, terraces, and plazas.

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Free time to explore

Time set aside to wander the site and take photos independently after the guided portion.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 20 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

By private vehicle from your Cusco hotel to Ollantaytambo, where you board the train onward to Aguas Calientes.
It's fully private for your own group — no joining strangers on the tour itself.
Ollantaytambo is a genuine stop worth making, not just a transfer point. It's widely considered the only Peruvian town that still shows Inca urban planning in its original, inhabited form, and the train onward from its station to Aguas Calientes also runs a shorter route than the longer lines that depart closer to Cusco.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

A private full-day Machu Picchu tour by private vehicle to Ollantaytambo and train onward, exploring the citadel at your own pace with your own guide. Explore Machu Picchu at your own pace on a private full-day tour that starts with a private vehicle transfer to Ollantaytambo, followed by a scenic train ride through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes. Your own guide handles the logistics and brings the site's Inca history and engineering to life once you reach the citadel, with time built in to stop for photos along the way.

Voyzo's most-booked Machu Picchu day trip starts a little differently from the others: instead of boarding a train near Cusco, you're driven by private vehicle through the Sacred Valley to Ollantaytambo first. That detour is worth taking on its own terms. Ollantaytambo is widely considered the only town in Peru that still preserves its original Inca urban layout — a strict grid of walled family compounds called canchas, laid out by Pachacuti's planners roughly five centuries ago, with the same stone aqueducts still carrying mountain water through its streets today. Unlike most Inca sites, the town below its fortress was never abandoned, and descendants of its original builders live there still, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the Americas.

From Ollantaytambo's station, the train onward to Aguas Calientes runs a notably shorter route than the longer lines that depart near Cusco directly, following the Urubamba River through dramatic cloud-forest terrain before reaching the base of Machu Picchu mountain.

Machu Picchu itself was built as a royal estate around 1450 under the Inca emperor Pachacuti, and your guide's walk through the citadel typically covers its best-known structures: the Temple of the Sun, associated with solar ceremony and observation; the surrounding plazas and agricultural terraces; and the engineering that let Inca builders farm and inhabit such steep terrain in the first place.

The tour deliberately leaves time at the end for travelers to wander the site independently after the guided portion wraps up — a chance to revisit a favorite viewpoint, take unhurried photos, or simply sit with the scale of the place before the return journey to Cusco.

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