Cusco's most-loved private Machu Picchu day trip.
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.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Cusco. You'll travel by private vehicle to Ollantaytambo, then by train onward to Aguas Calientes and Machu Picchu.
A private vehicle ride through the Sacred Valley to the Ollantaytambo train station.
A train journey along the Urubamba River and Inca landscapes.
A guided exploration of the citadel's temples, terraces, and plazas.
Time set aside to wander the site and take photos independently after the guided portion.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
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.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.